Jazz à Vienne’s commitments

The major impact of events on the scale of Jazz à Vienne must be carefully considered:

The festival has a social impact by placing cultural projects within the reach of as many people possible
It has an economic impact through job creation and other direct and indirect benefits
It has an environmental impact due to emissions from transport and waste, as well as noise.

Jazz à Vienne has set itself the goal to better manage its local impact by maximising its positive economic and social legacy while minimising its negative consequences.

In September 2021, the festival gained ISO 20121 certification ('Event sustainability management systems') for its sustainability policy. This is testament to its strong commitment to organisation-wide sustainability. Achieving this highest international standard in sustainability is evidence of management practices that are sustainable in environmental, economic and social terms. Annual audits ensure constant progress.

The teams behind the festival have leveraged the ISO 20121 'Event sustainability management systems' standard to set out plans that respond to Jazz à Vienne's key focus points over the coming years:

Social responsibility for a Jazz à Vienne festival that is open to all: Artistic transmission / Cultural outreach / Accessibility.
Economic responsibility — A festival that promotes the region in which it is embedded: Local embeddedness / Local promotion / Employment and labour market access / Local supply chains.
Environmental responsibility — A festival that works to reduce its footprint: Audience transportation / Energy management / Waste management.

This methodology is an incentive to work harder and provides a framework to do so in an organised, appropriate and legible manner. The entire Jazz à Vienne team has its mind on the future and is convinced that this approach is a way forward that will open new, exciting horizons for an ever more sustainable festival.

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Jazz à Vienne est, bien plus qu'un événement musical, un véritable moteur de cohésion et d'innovation culturelle. Animé par une volonté d’ouverture et de transmission artistique, le festival se distingue par ses projets inclusifs, pédagogiques et solidaires. En fédérant des publics de tous âges et de tous horizons, il affirme son rôle de service public et sa capacité à transformer la musique en un vecteur de partage et d’émancipation à travers différentes actions mises en place.

A festival that brings people together

Jazz à Vienne is a festival that brings people together and provides support for projects that aim to reach out to others, for others. It performs this public service through the transmission of the arts and culture.

Details

Jazz à Vienne's national ReZZo springboard places the next generation of jazz artists in the spotlight. The winning group receives comprehensive artistic support from the festival for a year. 167 participants. Find out more
Every year, over 8,000 primary school pupils from across the region attend the Young Audience's original concert at the Théâtre Antique thanks to a partnership with the Délégation Académique aux Arts et la Culture de Grenoble (Grenoble Academic Arts and Culture Delegation), the Vienne Condrieu Agglomération and the City of Vienne.
Numerous pedagogical opportunities via courses and workshops open to all ages and abilities. Every course includes a live performance so that participants can experience being on-stage with professional equipment and support. In partnership with Vienne's Music and Dance Conservatory. Find out more
Free concerts and Jazz for Kids workshops for children aged 4–14 at Cybèle for a family-friendly festival thanks to partnerships with local bookshops, games libraries and museums. Over 1,500 children benefitted in 2023. Find out more
Jazz à Vienne is linked to the Impulse! project led by the Rural Music Centres (Centres Musicaux Ruraux). Throughout the year, pupils at 6 schools across the region are invited to work on an original music project alongside a musician. The result of this collaboration between 6 schools (100 pupils) is a live performance on-stage at Cybèle.

Winning the ReZZo Jazz à Vienne springboard competition definitely boosted my profile within the French jazz scene

Armel Dupas
winner of the 2013 ReZZo springboard

The Young Audience's original concert that marks the beginning of Jazz à Vienne every year is, in my mind, an essential part of what all great music festivals should be nowadays. I would argue that a key aspect of artists' role is to introduce society's youngest to music and live performance and to help them develop their taste. It's a way of promoting new experiences; being open to the world's cultural diversity opens up new horizons

Florent Briqué
Musical Director of the Animals Afro-Carnaval, Jazz à Vienne's original Young Audience's concert in 2021.

To interact, collaborate, find your voice, have your say and be heard. This is the beauty of JAZZ - to participate and contribute to the collective process of music-making in a context that simultaneously encourages and celebrates individual expression and creative self-realization.

Hans Schuman
artistic director and professor for the JazzUp internship at Jazz à Vienne

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Workshops

The city of Vienne will be sporting Jazz à Vienne's colours. The festival will be dressing Vienne's streets with ephemeral art pieces crafted at workshops led by the Maison du Festival in partnership with Vienne's communal centres for social service, the AFIPH's medical and social services, the children, youth, adults and senior citizens at the social centres, the children at extracurricular activity venues, the pupils at the Lycée Agrotec, and festival volunteers. All the pieces are made from upcycled materials provided by project partners. Every year, 550 people take part in the various projects. Find out more

Solidarité

Jazz à Vienne's pricing structure has been designed with everyone in mind; 75% of events are free.

In partnership with Vienne's MJC (community youth club and arts centre), the Caravan’Jazz will be roaming the communes within the surrounding urban area to offer free concerts in nearby villages to residents unable to travel into Vienne.

Staff at a sheltered workshop will be working at the organising teams' canteen and maintaining the festival's offices.

The Jazz à Vienne festival has been organising arts workshops at the Saint-Quentin-Fallavier penitentiary for over 5 years.

The CCAS (Communal Centre for Social Service) seeks to offer community support and to promote integration. Naturally, the commune's ARCHE (centre for the socially isolated) and Carrousels (senior citizen centre) have being working in partnership with Jazz à Vienne in recent years with the aim of promoting all residents' involvement in a shared project so as to foster ties and personal development. Workshops at the ARCHE are especially effective at improving integration and the development of social ties. Participants feel a strong connection to the project and derive satisfaction from their involvement. Several now attend the workshops autonomously. The workshops at each Carrousel provide relief from isolation and an opportunity for friendly exchange. Learning new techniques strengthens senior citizens' memory and fine motor skills, while meeting new people reduces isolation. Involvement in a project of such a scale within Vienne is a source of pride for all participants.

Sylvie MALLEA, Social Activity Project Manager, Vienne's Communal Centre for Social Service

The festival strives to be a welcoming and comfortable space for all.

Nos actions

A dedicated team of volunteers and specialist equipment for festivalgoers with disabilities. Find out more Find out more
Creative workshops in partnership with the Isère Family Association for People with Disabilities (AFIPH)
The festival has also partnered with Flous Furieux — a unique photography collective whose members are namely people with disabilities and people experiencing psychological suffering and social difficulties — to build a new vision of society and encourage cultural agency. Members of the collective will be joining the team as the festival's official photographers.
Partnership with the ITHAC Association's workshops. ITHAC is a value-driven sheltered workshop working to offer sustainable employment to people with disabilities. The workshops at this truly social and inclusive business will be making the t-shirts worn by the festival's seasonal workers and front-of-house teams. The t-shirts are made from organic cotton and sewn in the Somme department (n°80). The dying and printing are performed in Roanne (department n°42), and the tailoring is done in Riorges (42). 100% made in France!

At Flous, we've been doing photography for quite a while. But it was Jazz à Vienne that made us realise that we were actually photographers. By welcoming us as equals. As partners. By judging our work by its own merit and not based on who we are. It's in this incredibly inclusive space that we have been able to become our best selves

Gregory Rubinstein, Les Flous Furieux.

The Jazz à Vienne teams first asked us to take part in the city decoration workshops in 2023. This was a real source of pride for our workers, a way for them to invest their skills in a truly inclusive project. When we received another invitation for this year, we jumped at the chance. Working to make the city prettier for the biggest jazz festival obviously gives you a sense of purpose and it's also a form of recognition of their skills. That's true inclusion

Denis Jeune, Hub Director. Établissement et Service d'Aide par le Travail (Centre and Service for Support through Employment) / AFIPH bassin nord Isère et Isère Rhodanienne.

We are proud of being one of Jazz à Vienne's partners. The values we share — social values, through our commitment to people with disabilities; environmental values, through our efforts to carefully consider our supply chains and shorten them as much as possible; and economic values, through our prioritisation of local economic actors — bring us together. We are delighted to be able to contribute, at our own scale, to this iconic regional cultural event.

Laetitia CORGER, ITHAC Riorges, Léo de Roanne.

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Jazz à Vienne s'engage à valoriser le territoire de la région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes à travers une politique d’achats responsables et une mise en lumière des savoir-faire locaux. Ce choix s'inscrit dans une démarche éthique et environnementale visant à privilégier les circuits courts, la saisonnalité et les collaborations durables avec des acteurs locaux.
En associant agriculteurs, artisans, restaurateurs et institutions locales, le festival fait bien plus que proposer des produits de qualité : il contribue au développement économique et culturel du territoire. Chaque édition mobilise une centaine de prestataires, génère des retombées économiques significatives et soutient des initiatives responsables.

From its outset, Jazz à Vienne has drawn on the region's driving forces. Its status as a Public Establishment (EPIC) and its place within the Communauté d'Agglomération strengthen this role and make it somewhat incumbent upon the festival to embed its activity within local networks.

Offering festivalgoers quality products sourced from within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region is a way to sustainably fulfil our mission to highlight the area's strengths and craftsmanship.
Jazz à Vienne has established a sustainable purchasing policy with 3 key goals:

The prioritisation of suppliers that have strong ethical, social responsibility and environmental standards
The festival's enrichment via the craftsmanship of innovative and dynamic suppliers
The strengthening of regional development via the prioritisation, to every possible extent, of local providers and suppliers and the promotion of short supply chains and seasonal produce.

Our work

Bar and restaurant supplies are sourced directly by the festival's teams so as to achieve higher management and supervision standards.
Local expertise is identified through the Isère's Chamber of Agriculture and the agricultural mission of the Vienne Condrieu Agglomération Economic Agency.
Only locally supplied products that are in-season and available via short supply chains are used at the festival's bars and restaurants. Find out more

Jazz à Vienne's sustainable approach is about offering festivalgoers quality products, but that's not all. Sourcing products via short supply chains promotes our local farmers and highlights their expertise. As the agriculture project manager, it's always a pleasure to build bridges between producers and teams at the festival, as well as to discover and try the 'Chefs' glass jar dishes' at Cybèle made from locally sourced products!

Delphine FAURE, Agriculture Project Manager, Vienne Condrieu Agglomération Economic Agency

Through its extensive local and international network, the festival is fully engaged in promoting the region in which it is embedded.
With direct and indirect contributions to the local economy worth around 17 million euros, over 650 payslips are issued for workers on permanent contracts, fixed-term contracts, seasonal contracts, interns, artists and technicians. Jazz à Vienne fully contributes to the region's economic development.

Our work

The furniture at Cybèle is made by students at the Lycée Professionnel Galilée in Vienne. The access badge lanyards are produced at Pont Evêque by BEAL, the world leader in climbing rope. The furniture in the Business Area has been provided by Sellerie du Pilat in Vienne (certified Entreprise du patrimoine vivant (Living Heritage Business)) and the sorters were made by the Emmaüs community.
Regional restaurateurs, including the students at Vienne's Lycée Hôtelier, have been entrusted with the recipes for the glass-jar dishes (plats du jour) sold at Cybèle
Jazz à Vienne works with around 100 suppliers and providers indispensable to the festival's operations
A special Jazz à Vienne Michelin Green Guide for a richer touristic experience of Vienne and its surrounding area

Working for Jazz à Vienne has been an inspiring and rewarding experience. We are greatly impressed by their commitment to sustainability, their support for young businesses and their focus on partnerships that positively impact the community.
It has been such a great pleasure to take part in this initiative, which demonstrates a real desire to create a sustainable and dynamic ecosystem, in which everyone can contribute in their own way to the preservation of our environment and the development of our region.

Audrey ABRIAL, Co-Director of CUBDO Water fountains.

When the festival organisers invited us to work together on the Chefs' glass jars at Cybèle for the event alongside other chefs from across the region, we jumped at the opportunity. The festival's reputation, its desire to promote local stakeholders, such as the region's restaurants and producers, as well as local techniques, are fully in line with Robin's mission through its hospitality school. For us, this partnership has the benefit of putting our hospitality school, our courses and even perhaps tomorrow's greats more clearly on the map. Each in our own way, we are helping to put the spotlight on budding talents.

David LEGOIS, Cuisine teacher, Institution Robin, Lycée Hôtelier.

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Jazz à Vienne s'engage pleinement dans une démarche écologique et responsable intégrant des pratiques durables à tous les niveaux de son organisation. Chaque année, ce sont plus de 200 000 festivaliers, près de 400 collaborateurs et des dizaines de tonnes de ressources gérées avec soin pour minimiser l’impact environnemental du festival.

En collaborant avec des acteurs locaux et en innovant constamment, Jazz à Vienne vise à transformer ses défis logistiques en opportunités pour promouvoir une culture éco-responsable. Une ambition qui allie musique, partage et respect de l’environnement dans une dynamique au service du territoire et de ses habitants.

Every year, over 200,000 people attend the festival and around 400 people work on it behind the scenes. Over slightly more than a fortnight, dozens of tonnes of waste are collected by Vienne Condrieu Agglomération's teams and delivered to the region's recycling centres, where as much as possible is made from it. Waste is a key issue on which Jazz à Vienne is working alongside all the relevant actors.

Redefining our practices

Waste production is an important criterion that we consider as part of our purchasing and supply policy.
Overhaul of our recycling hub distribution plans; hub reduction; deployment of more practical recycling containers that are more visible and made from recycled materials; new recycling guidelines.
Improvement and refining of our flow and operational area monitoring methodology.
Creation of perennial and reusable signage.

Reduction

Plastic water bottle distribution swapped for water fountains for festivalgoers and team members
Glass mineral water bottles in the business and artists' areas swapped for Aqua Vienna water jugs from the City of Vienne's network.
A selection of regional drinks (beers, lemonades, iced tea) served from reusable stainless-steel casks
Introduction of a range of returnable wine bottles to promote the reuse of glass
Priority given to loose supplies in dressing rooms
Food containers and packaging swapped for single pieces of compostable baking paper for all products on sale
Reusable, returnable cups without any markings to promote their return to bar staff. Throughout the rest of the year, these cups will be used across other events within the conurbation.
Chefs' dishes at Cybèle served in reusable glass jars and washable stainless-steel cutlery
Recyclable pots and spoons for artisanal ice-cream swapped for edible containers and spoons
Perennial artist and staff member access badge lanyards made from scraps of climbing rope

A valuable resource

Our aim is to constantly make ever better use of all waste to prevent as much as possible of it from being incinerated and contributing to landfill. The festival's biodegradable waste is converted into compost at a family-run business 20 km from the festival so as to ensure it enriches the soil of agricultural land. The festival is also working to use its waste to produce gas for the bus network used by festivalgoers.

The edition's chartered signposts will be reused to make deck chairs.
Cigarette butts will be collected, treated and used to produce insulating sheets for the construction sector.
Serviettes and food wrappers are fully compostable.

For those involved in the circular economy, such as the TRI Rhône-Alpes Emmaüs Movement cooperative, eco-design is a powerful means of recruiting new contributors for meaningful projects that generate value and positive reputations. Through its upcycling, reuse, repair, eco-design and innovation initiatives, TRI Rhône-Alpes and its Manufacturing Laboratory is opening up to new markets and concretely responding to ever-stronger demand for environmentally sustainable products. Alongside our Jazz à Vienne and Agrométha partners and thanks also to CITEO, TRI Rhône-Alpes aims to promote its approach and raise awareness among regional stakeholders around eco-design. We are committed to nurturing our partnership and continuing to innovate together to reduce environmental impacts.

Gabriel JOBIN, General Director - Coopérative TRI Rhône-Alpes

Audience, artist and organiser transportation is a central issue for festivals and accounts for 80% of their carbon impact, mainly due to the use of vehicles with combustion engines.

Our audience surveys show that 60% of those attending the festival arrived by car.

Public transportation needs to be attractive and Jazz à Vienne must be at the forefront of promoting and implementing new solutions so as to fully contribute to the design of more comprehensive plans at the regional scale.

Our role is to identify obstacles and promote changing habits that rely on alternatives to individual car use. Our goal is to work towards a festival that is ever more accessible via transportation methods that are increasingly environmentally sustainable and suited to individuals' needs.

Park & Ride expansion

In order to make your arrival at the festival's venues easier and as a way of reducing emissions from vehicles in the city centre, Jazz à Vienne is providing free Park & Ride services around Vienne, with bus links both before and after concerts at the Théâtre Antique. These are free to concert ticketholders.

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Take the train if you are based in Lyon

Taking the train is the easiest and fastest way to travel between Lyon and Vienne. We work hand-in-hand throughout the year with teams across the region and SNCF Voyageurs to provide festivalgoers with straightforward train links and preferential rates.

Preparation for a survey of festivalgoers' transportation preferences

Preparation for a survey of festivalgoers' transportation preferences.

So as to better understand festivalgoers' preferences and behaviour and adjust its offering, the festival conducts yearly transportation surveys.

The festival works hard to offer attendees transport options that are most suited to their place of departure.

Organiser and artist transportation

With regard to transportation for artists, the aim is to promote travel by train to Vienne station. That is why Jazz à Vienne is working to raise awareness among festival artists by promoting train travel as much as possible.

Our work

Encouraging public transport use via attractive ticket offerings, such as the unlimited TER train + concert combo, which is valid throughout the festival for individuals who need to travel in several times (e.g., volunteers, seasonal workers and journalists)
Expanding the emission-less transport of goods within the festival
Electric and hybrid vehicles provided by our auto provider for artists' transfer needs
Expansion of cycle parking facilities across the festival's venues to encourage the use of bicycles for the 'last kilometre'
Awareness raising policy targeted at managers and artists so that they prioritise train travel to and from Vienne for the festival

Jazz à Vienne’s commitments