THE ANNUAL GATHERING OF 250 FESTIVAL MAKERS

- Galway, the European Capital of Culture 2020, is the most exciting place we can imagine for our three days of work and exchange. Save the dates in your agenda!

Our 3-day Arts Festivals Summit 2020 hosted by the Association of Irish Festivals and Events (AOIFE) is approaching. Registration opens next week on 28 January 2020 on our website, with all flight options and practical information at one sight. 

During our annual rendez-vous, 250 festival makers will come together to share their wisdom, their concerns, their artistic proposals, their reflections and to collect surprising insights and discuss valuable questions. 

This year's motto is “Under continual construction”. We will invite artists, thinkers, writers, philosophers, craftsmen who had and have the time to think and process deeply about our world to speak about the ways they are thinking and doing ‘their thing’. Next to these inspirational presentations inviting us to artists’ and thinkers’ universe of permanent construction and re-construction, we will also have encounters, group conversations, cultural visits, arts... 

You can already have a look at the planning: https://www.efa-aef.eu/en/initiatives/events/arts-festivals-summit-2020-galway/