A FESTIVAL AWARE OF ITS RESPONSIBILITIES

SOCIALLY AND ENVIRONMENTALLY

Striving for eco-responsibility since its very creation in 2016, Bordeaux Open Air can now (proudly) call itself a zéro waste festival - implying that no waste is produced by the organisation nor by its external providers. 
As a public event, the festival progresses year after year regarding the reduction of its global impact and raising public awareness.  
Anything used is re-usable and/or compostable and sourced from local entrepreneurship.  
It is now up to the public, whose progress is also noticeable year after year, to take into account its impact and keep growing in consciousness in order to actively participate in building an event that generates no waste. 
Our environmental impact report

A FESTIVAL AWARE OF ITS RESPONSIBILITIES

SOCIALLY AND ENVIRONMENTALLY

Striving for eco-responsibility since its very creation in 2016, Bordeaux Open Air can now (proudly) call itself a zéro waste festival - implying that no waste is produced by the organisation nor by its external providers. 
As a public event, the festival progresses year after year regarding the reduction of its global impact and raising public awareness. 
 
Anything used is re-usable and/or compostable and sourced from local entrepreneurship. 
 
It is now up to the public, whose progress is also noticeable year after year, to take into account its impact and keep growing in consciousness in order to actively participate in building an event that generates no waste.
Our environmental impact report
BORDEAUX OPEN AIR COMMITS TO
- Through digital media
- Limiting paper diffusion by preferring word of mouth and digital resonance
- Communicating with transparency  
- Respecting the venue and leaving it as it was
- Notifying neighbors and users of the parks 
- Respecting laws and regulations on sound levels
- Setting up risk reducing and prevention mesures
- Producing day-time events
- Using public lighting and power grid when possible 
- Reducing the use of water and energy 
- Ban unnecessary packagings
- Installing sufficient containers for waste selection and recycling  
- Installing visible and accessible ashtrays
- Raise the public's awareness and recover the waste produced 
- Incentives to use public transport
- Incentives to use bikes and soft transports
- Use of Bluecubs (shared electric cars) for artist transportation 
- Facilitating the access to parks and venues for people with reduced mobility
- Facilitating social and generational interactions
- Proposing a free event
- Proposing educational activities
- Proposing awakening and stimulating activities based on music 
- Safe or easily securable
- Close proximity for the public
- Accessible with public transportation
- With a technically matching eco-system
- Informing users on good practices
- Communicating on commitments made
- Preferring local providers and partners
- Creating an eco-responsible charter with our food and beverages partners
- In just quantities
- Re-usable
- Local sourcing
- Recycled or eco-conceived materials 
Engagement Festival Bordeaux Open Air Drastic On Plastic Charte

DRASTIC ON PLASTIC

Inspired by our british neighbours, the french collective R2D2 initiated the Drastic On Plastic initiative in France. The result : 60 festivals - with Bordeaux Open Air among the list - committed to ban single use plastic from their event in 3 years.

A nation-wide action carried by regional institutions to share knowledge, advices and concrete actions to drastically reduce the environmental impact of our events. Officially launched at the BIS (International Biennial of culture & scenery professionals) in Nantes on january 22nd, 60 festivals signed the convention and committed to ban single use plastics.  
After having initiated our zero-waste transition in 2019, signing this convention was for us the occasion to consolidate our commitments and to - hopefully - become a model for more cultural actors across France !
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SPECIAL OPERATIONS & SOLIDARITY
Bordeaux Open Air putting markets to music

Putting markets into music

Decided to offer joyful and social bonding moments despite these troubling times for our cultural life, Bordeaux Open Air’s team sailed across the city to put our local markets to music ! From june to mid-august 2020, their DJs brought their soothing selection between the city's fresh products stalls.
Playful & eco-friendly DJing masterclass for kids

A Playfull & eco-friendly DJing masterclass for kids

As part of our participatory budget for our New-York invitational in August and alongside the Solar Sound System, we offered a DJing masterclass to kids from a recreational center. Icing on the cake : turntables and monitors were powered by solar energy & electricity generating bikes
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Happening : Bordeaux Open Air x Müca Ozer

Happening : Bordeaux Open Air x Müca Ozer

On 4th of september and without notice, we’ve settled on the place Pey-Berland alongside Müca Ozer to invite all-ages-passersby to discover computer assisted music. This joyful operation resulted in creating the very first collaborative track of electronic music - and made by children - on one of the most emblematic places of the city.

Bordeaux Open Air x Wanted Café : Sunday Lunch

Partnered up with Wanted Café, Bordeaux Open Air curates a series of electronic brunches prior to its events at the square Dom Bedos. A great opportunity to meet people around electronic music and charities, at the heart of the Capucins neighbourhood.

Pride Walk

United in its desire to use electronic music as a leverage in bringing people together, Bordeaux Open Air's team is more than happy to take part in the Pride Walk, raising high and bright the colourful flag of a free and liberated party, open to all.
Bordeaux Open Air Paysages 2017

Bordeaux Open Air x Paysages Bordeaux 2017

Dressing Antony Gormley's statues in Bordeaux Open Air shirts was our way of partnering up with the Bordeaux Paysage Cultural season of 2017. The T-shirts were conceived in accordance with our values regarding the environment (100% bio cotton) ; produced by a local Bordeaux business.
Avant match BOAxUBB

Electronic pre-game UBB x BOA

As we share common values and carry the same love for the territory we belong to, we decided to collaborate and contribute to the development of our mutual publics.
Bordeaux Open Air Atelier MAO EHPAD

Computer assisted music in Long Term Senior Care

An initiation to computer-assisted music in partnership with Müca Ozër, a local artist. A true meeting point for an intergenerational exchange, this activity format allowed for a genuine illustration of our values in sharing knowledge.
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