About
Sweden Festivals is committed to the development of the festival format and its position in Swedish cultural life and is working to ensure that arts festivals play an evident part in Swedish cultural politics. Sweden Festivals gather and distribute festival knowledge to people in Sweden and abroad while promoting the exchange of ideas between festival organisers through training, workshops and cultural policy meetings The association is a European player who, through the European Festivals Association, has direct contact with 2000 festivals in 40 countries. Sweden Festivals offers a discount on international courses for young festival managers and collaborates with festival organisers in the Nordic and Baltic countries through the NordicBaltic Festival Platform. The association is the Swedish coordinator for the project "Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe", an European label campaign for festivals. And Sweden Festivals continues and expands its collaboration with the Swedish Composers Society and STIM to increase the amount of new Swedish music on festivals.
Essentials
Director
Jan Ove Hafstad
President
Peter Eriksson
Contact
E: peter.eriksson@swedenfestivals.com
T: 0046 8-642 18 12
Dalagatan 34, c/o Eriksson,
S-113 24 Stockholm
http://www.swedenfestivals.com
News
2015 Nordic-Baltic Arts Festival Conference to take place in Stockholm28 October 2015The next conference of the Nordic-Baltic Festival Platform will take place on 29-30 October 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden. The conference aims to bring together managers and artistic directors of...
Nordic-Baltic Festival Conference to take place in Stockholm on 12-13 October 20123 October 2012Swedish Music Festivals has been granted support from the Nordic Culture Fund and Music Development and Heritage Sweden to arrange the second Nordic-Baltic Festival Meeting and a member’s...
Nordic music festivals meet in Reykjavik from 5-7 October 201128 September 2011A conference of music festivals called "Nordic-Baltic Festival Meeting" will take place from 5-7 October in Reykjavik/Iceland at Harpa, Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre. The conference...