BALORE, YOUR SUSTAINABILITY AREA
MEO KALORAMA 2024 will have a sustainable, safe, social area where you can find out about the festival’s commitment to environmental and social causes.
Have you felt or feel threatened, do you need help? Contact our security team, any staff with credentials or request support at the BALORE space.
The BALORE space of MEO KALORAMA festival informs you about...
🟣PURPLE POINT
Dedicated to the prevention, information and attention to situations of harassment and sexist violence.
🌈RAINBOW POINT
Focusing on MEO KALORAMA’s commitment to the LGTB+ community. Information, awareness, visibility of the LGTB+ collective.
🟢GREEN POINT
To inform about environmental measures of the festival.
👩🏽🦽 ACCESSIBILITY and WELFARE POINT
Dedicated to the Festival’s work to improve universal accessibility for everyone to the event and improve the experience.
🧑🏻🤝🧑🏿INCLUSION POINT
Focused on promoting an event committed to the development of the city and the territory. Keeping in mind the groups with the greatest needs and helping to make the work of third sector organizations more visible.
🤝PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS POINT
Where multi-stakeholder projects are promoted for the real advancement of social transformation through culture.
POSITIVE IMPACT: ACTIONS THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Prevention and reporting of situations of harassment and sexist violence
HIGHLIGHTS MEO KALORAMA
- 80% of the public considers MEO KALORAMA an inclusive and diverse festival
- 40% of women in programming
WHAT WE DO
- Training of the MEO KALORAMA team and security to deal with diversity
- Public awareness campaign on equality, diversity and inclusion: signage in the toilets and stage screens
- Campaign against relationship violence, with a phone number to contact in case of a complaint
MEO KALORAMA's commitment to the LGBTIQ+ movement
HIGHLIGHTS MEO KALORAMA
- 80% of the public considers MEO KALORAMA an inclusive and diverse festival
- 100 people trained in welcoming difference
WHAT WE DO
- WC Non-binary
- ABCLGBTQIA+ Campaign in the WC
- Training on welcoming the difference to the security forces
- Questionnaire among the public to assess the diversity of the same and if MEO KALORAMA is a safe event
NEW FOR 2024
PANORAMA Stage, entirely dedicated to dance music and which this year brings several LGBTQ+ artists.
MEO KALORAMA's environmental measures
HIGHLIGHTS MEO KALORAMA 2023:
- 40% less plastic waste than in 2022
- 1 in 10 people from the audience participated
actively in our campaigns
- 7% less diesel consumption than in 2022
- Emissions compensation
- Festival without confetti
- 7,600 meals donated
WHAT WE DO
- Donation of materials at the end of the event
- Donation of all leftover food from the three days of the festival, in partnership with Refood
- Reusable cups
- Installation of 6 drinking fountains and collaboration with EPAL to reduce plastic bottles in the park
- Promotion of good practices to the public through a Quercus campaign
- Sustainable mobility plan
- Calculation of the carbon footprint.
NEW FOR 2024
- Planting of 1000 trees in Bela Vista park
- Transformation of the cups of previous editions into fruit boxes
- Use of HVO, a biofuel that reduces emissions associated with fuel consumption by 80%, in the festival's generators and in the fleet.
Accessibility of MEO KALORAMA
HIGHLIGHTS MEO KALORAMA
- 41 tickets donated to personal assistants
- Most accessible festival award in 2023
WHAT WE DO
- Offer of a ticket to the personal assistant
- Dedicated parking near the main entrance of the enclosure
- Entrance with ramp at the main entrance of the festival
- Accessible entrance to the VIP and other spaces (bars, stands, toilets)
- Adapted and unisex toilets
- Elevated platform with good visibility to the stages
- Spaces in front of the stage next to speakers for deaf people to feel the vibe of the songs
- Team that will provide support and information to people with reduced mobility
NEW FOR 2024
- Wheelchair workshop
- Motorized kit loan
- Accessible shuttle
- Audio description
- Portuguese Sign Language on the MEO and San Miguel stages
Sensory Space
Community Engagement Projects
HIGHLIGHTS MEO KALORAMA
- 282 residents employed in the last editions
- 10 performances by local music artists, plus their bands and guests
- 90% national companies contracted
- More than €4,000 raised for local associations
- 166 tickets donated to local NGO
- 50% discount on tickets for residents to promote access to culture
- Positive impact on the community in the order of more than €160,000.00 in social and environmental projects
WHAT WE DO
- Donation of tickets through to allow access to the culture of people in need
- Pre-event meetings with the community to understand their needs and expectations regarding the festival
- Donating surplus materials to community projects
- Residents employed at the festival
- Local artists perform on stage
- Inclusion of young people with mental disabilities in staff catering
NEW FOR 2024
- Auction of vinyls signed with funds destined for Kriativu: a development organization for local artists in Chelas
- Associations Space: provision of a space dedicated to organizations around the park, to activate and publicize their causes and work at the festival, organized by Chelas é o Sítio
- All invitations offered have a mandatory donation to the Jorge Pina Association, for the purchase of a van to transport young people from Chelas to extracurricular activities
- Fundraising during the sale of tickets for Kriativu
Partnerships and Alliances of MEO KALORAMA
WASTE MANAGEMENT
Lisbon City Council (CML) and ValorSul - waste management
Refood 4 Good - donation of food to local needy families.
EPAL – installation of 6 drinking fountains and bring backpackers to refill the cups.
ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS
Quercus - environmental awareness for festival-goers.
ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS
ANEBE (National Association of Spirits Companies) and the Institute for Addictive Behaviors and Dependencies, I.P. (ICAD, IP- Campaign on Responsible Alcohol Consumption
INCLUSION
APERCIM - inclusion of young people with disabilities in MEO KALORAMA's catering
APPDI (Portuguese Association for Diversity and Inclusion) – training in welcoming difference, questionnaire on public satisfaction
ACCESSIBILITY
Total Mobility – support team, platform and workshop management
Zenith – audio description and Portuguese Sign Language
COMMUNITY
Chelas é o Sítio - curatorship of a space dedicated to local associations at MEO KALORAMA
Kriativu - will receive donations from the public in the purchase of tickets, as well as from the auction of artists' items to apply in the bicycle project for young people in the neighborhood.
Assoc Jorge Pina – will receive donations from guests to buy a van to transport young people who attend extracurricular activities.