Available soon: Festivals in Europe! The festival boom throughout Europe araises questions and demands analysis: how are festivals born, how do they develop, how do they balance local interaction and international co-operation, how do they economically, culturally or socially impact on their respective territories? Written by fifteen researchers and culture professionals in the framework of the European Festival Research Project (EFRP)*, initiated by Dragan Klaic, "Festivals in Europe" offers analysis and tells stories by means of words and pictures, from Helsinki to Barcelona and from London to Zagreb. "Festivals in Europe, crossing approaches from Edinburgh to Zagreb" was edited by Anne-Marie Autissier, published in French and is now also available in English. Please, read the announcement of the book launch including further information here and order from now on: contact@culture-europe-international.org . *The European Festival Research Project (EFRP) is an international, interdisciplinary consortium, which is focused on the dynamics of artistic festivals in contemporary life. One of its principal aims is to understand the underlying causes of the current proliferation of festivals and its resource implications and diagnostic perspectives. EFRP focuses on those festivals that are driven by a firm artistic vision, involving international programming and which benefit from substantial support from public authorities. The consortium instigates research papers, studies, trainings, publications and debates and articulates tentative conclusions, trends, forecasts and recommendations for festival operators, public authorities (as subsidy givers) and potential sponsors. All research outcomes are being made accessible in a public depository at the web site of the European Festivals Association (http://www.efa-aef.org/efahome/efrp.cfm). Periodically EFRP organises intensive research workshops on specific topics where the results of research are presented and discussed. Such workshops have taken place in Nitra (2005), Leicester and Le Mans (2006), Barcelona (2007) and Helsinki (2008). Further workshops are being planned for Moscow (autumn 2008) and for 2009 and 2010. An edited book on festival politics, programming, impacts and governance will be produced by the consortium and associated researchers in 2009/10. Contact: Dr DRAGAN KLAIC, EFRP Chair (draganklaic@gmail.com) or CHRISTOPHER MAUGHAM, EFRP Coordinator (ccm@dmu.ac.uk).