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The Edinburgh International Festival is looking for a new Chair to lead the Board of Trustees18 December 2020An unparalleled celebration of the performing arts, Edinburgh International Festival is an annual meeting point for people of all nations and the world’s leading festival of its kind, presenting a...
30 YEARS OF MITTELFEST15 December 2020[PRESS RELEASE, CIVIDALE DEL FRIULI, 8 JULY 2020] On the threshold of its 30 years - an anniversary that will be celebrated in 2021 - Mittelfest has undertaken a process of development, from...
Welcome to our new EFA members10 December 2020Following the General Assembly organised on 25 November, we would like to welcome 4 new members among our festivals community. We are happy to count them among the EFA Members. International...
EFA Members General Assembly – an evening dedicated to young artists3 December 2020COVID-19 forced everyone to change plans, be flexible and adapt. Last week, on 25 November, the European Festivals Association organised its first online General Assembly, the first one not to take...
The 2020 General Assembly Afternoon Debate1 December 2020Following the formal sessions of the EFA General Assembly (elections, budgets and reports) members spent the afternoon taking the time to discuss their concerns, the effects of the year's shared...
European Theatre Forum 2020: European Performing Arts in Focus9 November 202011-13 NOVEMBER 2020, ONLINE Read now the Dresden Declaration summarising the main points of discussion, commitments and requests of the European Theatre Forum.The “European Theatre Forum 2020:...
Open letters to include culture in recovery plans 3 November 2020110 pan-European cultural networks and associations have signed open letters calling to include arts and culture in the heart of recovery plans. 2 different letters - one addressed to the...
Festivals For Compassion, uniting festivals in Europe and beyond27 October 2020It all started last June when Festivals for Compassion invited different festivals from Europe and beyond to share their interpretation of Thin Air by Calliope Tsoupaki. Since then, the work of the...
New Partners to contribute to EU Project “FestivalFinder.eu (a)Live Now” 20 October 2020Initiated by EFA and after two years of existence, FestivalFinder.eu and its 2300 registered festivals today are embarking on its next phase. “FestivalFinder.eu (a)Live Now” is a new partnership...
EFA members – Autumn Festivals 20208 October 2020Festivals continue to make their way through COVID-19. Everything that has happened this Summer and that will come up now and in the winter are gifts: gifts for the artists that can perform during...
From inside23 September 2020Festival's lif(v)e in Belgrade: ArtLink Festival at the Fortress of Belgrade and in Novi Sad; BITEF Theatre Festival Prologue in front of and inside its theatre; Belgrade Dance Festival ‘re-...
Rest in Peace Frie Leysen22 September 2020Belgian Baronesse Frie Leysen died yesterday, 22 September aged 70. Her remarkable life evolved entirely within the arts sector. She was an internationally known curator and festival director.Frie...
The First Zoom Months17 September 2020Before that Virus reared its ugly and voracious head in March, active communication and interaction between EFA members was an infrequent affair. Some would meet in Ateliers for Young Festival...
IV International On line Art Festival "Grad" 2020 27 August 2020The 4th International On line Art Festival Grad will be held from 7 until 21 of September under the motto "City - my house".Grad will be a ON LINE meeting place for audiences, media and...
MITTELFEST 5 > 13 September 2020: Empathy 25 August 2020[PRESS RELEASE, CIVIDALE DEL FRIULI, 8 JULY 2020] With 25 artistic projects, 10 world/Italian premieres, 3 Mittelforums: the theme of Mittelfest 2020 is Empathy: the vision of a new possible...
Get together around and support Lebanon’s arts and culture sector23 August 2020On 4 August, a massive explosion has devastated the city of Beirut, causing the death of some 150 people and 5000 wounded, destroying thousands of houses and public spaces, among which cultural venues...
EFA members – Festivals happening this Summer 202020 August 2020Festivals have the capacity to re-invent themselves. Many have been working on alternative programmes or new initiatives. Even better, some festivals will take place in front of a real public...
Cistermusica on the road17 August 2020Despite all the uncertainties and the impact of the coronavirus in cultural life, Cistermúsica 2020 went ahead! Maintaining as principal stage the unique monumental environment of the Alcobaça...
Edinburgh International Culture Summit special edition 202012 August 2020The Edinburgh International Culture Summit organises a special edition 2020 online from 22 August! The Summit will focus on three areas of discussion this year: Culture and...
The 2020 George Enescu International Competition reorganised online 10 August 2020[PRESS RELEASE, BUCHAREST, 27 JULY 2020] The 2020 George Enescu International Competition, scheduled to take place between August 29 and September 20, still goes ahead, albeit in a new...
Tribute to Ennio Morricone3 August 2020Ennio Morricone, the great Italian composer, passed away on 6 July 2020 at the age of 91. Morricone was close to EFA and several EFA members for many decades. Considered as one of the greatest and...
The Emilia Romagna Festival celebrates its 20 years29 July 2020From 26 July to 10 September 2020, the Emilia Romagna Festival celebrates 20 years of existence by promoting 36 music events as part of its 20th edition. The concerts will take place in the Italian...
Manifesto "More Culture!, More Europe!"9 July 2020In favour of culture and for the relaunch of the European projectThe pandemic crisis we are suffering and its social and economic consequences have stressed the major role that culture plays in...
Report: COVID-19 survey "Festivals’ needs and commitments"30 June 2020COVID-19 has hit all cultural and creative sectors and within the sector festivals particularly. Because festivals have their own specificities, we have conducted the survey “Festivals’ needs...
Arts Festivals and their stakeholders met EU Commissioner Mariya Gabriel24 June 2020[PRESS RELEASE – BRUSSELS, 23 JUNE 2020] Europe’s Arts Festivals, together with stakeholders from the media, business, technology, philanthropy and cities, presented Mariya Gabriel, EU...
Atelier for Solidarity 22 June 2020The Festival Academy is delighted to announce that 58 participants from 41 countries took part of the Atelier for Solidarity which was organized online from June 14 to June 20, 2020. Find...
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.12 June 2020Press release - June 12 2020© Hank Willis Thomas. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Matthew Lapiska.The Festival Academy launches the Atelier for Solidarity.
Around 80 artists, curators and festival...
Ljubljana Festival 202012 June 2020[Press Release, Ljubljana, 2 June 2020]ANNOUNCING THE
68th LJUBLJANA FESTIVALIn
2020 the Ljubljana Festival reaches its sixty-eighth edition. At last the time has come for art to return to...
Balkans Festivals meeting to start a Balkan Artists Hub8 June 2020ArtLink, Belgrade and the European Festivals Association (EFA), organised the 1st Balkans Festivals Talks, at the pilot ZOOM Meet up, on Thursday, 4 June at 12:00 PM.The idea was to initiate open...
Classical:NEXT - Festival sector meet up, 25 May 2020, 14.00 PM15 May 2020Classical:NEXT has invited the European Festivals Association (EFA) to host a special Festival sector meet up on zoom on 25 May 2020 at 14.00 PM (Brussels time). Register now and join us...
The Bergen International Festival's re-imagined 2020 programme15 May 2020"An extraordinary festival in an extraordinary year."The Bergen International Festival launches a re-imagined programme for 2020.In six weeks time, the team has worked on an online programme to...
BOZAR AT HOME14 May 2020"If you can’t participate to culture, culture will come to you."Since the beginning of the containment, many cultural actors thrived to adapt to this new situation by offering online alternatives to...
Survey: Festivals' needs and commitments24 April 2020The shutdown caused by COVID-19 is having dramatic consequences for all of us. We have created special pages to announce which festivals were cancelled or postponed (initial overview of the festivals...
Romaeuropa, an action for the near future22 April 2020Romaeuropa Fondazione has published a statement on their website yesterday, 21 April 2020. The festival has unveiled its programme as it would normally do, knowing that there is a...
Prague Spring going online20 April 2020The Prague Spring Festival supposed to begin on 7 May until 4 June proposes an alternative format for its 2020 edition. Because of the COVID-19 crisis and the social distancing measures, the festival...- Connecting the festivals community online: sharing needs and commitments2 April 2020On Wednesday 1 April 2020 the festivals community came together online. For EFA it was the first experiment of this kind and we believe that it was a successful one. More than 70 people from 25...
Rest in Peace Maestro Krzysztof Penderecki 30 March 2020Maestro Krzysztof Penderecki has died at the age of 86 this 29 March 2020. The European Festivals Association is sending its most sincere condolences to Madam Elzbieta Penderecka, the entire family...
COVID-19 - Expressing our solidarity towards the festivals20 March 2020The coronavirus is hitting the arts ferociously with many festivals, concerts and events cancelled or postponed (see this page for an initial overview of our members). Theaters, museums and other...
Arts Festivals Summit 2020 postponed!19 March 2020Instead: a Culture Summit for Hope from 23-25 November 2020The impact of coronavirus and decisions taken by the Irish and more EU governments forced us to postpone this year’s Arts Festivals Summit...
COVID-19: overview of our members' festivals18 March 2020We always say: “In Europe, the arts are just a festival away...”, and encourage
audiences to discover you, them: the arts in our festivals. Now we had to press ‘pause’;
before we will have to...
Sharing Nomsa Mazwai's Travel Report on Digital (R)Evolution 202017 March 2020As our main idea is to share different experiences and
reflections, today we are happy to share Nomsa Mazwai’s “Travel report” on the
Pilot edition of the Digital (R)Evolution: Communication and...
“The Show Must Go On” Iranian Online Festival Created to Show the Resilience of Festivals17 March 2020"Sharifzadeh, whose first name means sky, is a theatre agent, producer and festival organizer. With an academic background in creative writing and puppet theater, at the age of 24, he co-founded the...
HOT NEWS: Arts Festivals Summit, 27-29 April 2020 Galway/Ireland27 February 2020Discover the first topics and speakers
at our Summit to get you in the heart of festival making. Galway 2020
also offers a vibrant artistic and cultural programme. ...
Festivals managers based in the Netherlands: apply now for the Düsseldorf and Kampala Ateliers 2020!26 February 2020Festivals managers based in the Netherlands: apply now for the
Düsseldorf and Kampala Ateliers 2020!The Festival Academy is delighted to announce that Dutch Performing Arts and The Festival Academy (...
Terras sem Sombra: get to know the Alentejo19 February 2020In 2020, the 16th edition of Terras sem Sombra will be held on weekends, from 18 January to 12 July, travelling through 13 municipalities of the Alentejo region and featuring the Czech Republic as its...
Activities 2020: save the dates18 February 2020We have prepared a list of activities not to be missed in 2020 for you. We have categorised them as activities related to: networking, training or policy. Take your agenda and save the dates. ...
Al Bustan International Festival 18 February 2020Since the Al Bustan International Festival was founded in 1994, it has established a unique and unprecedented tradition of a music season in winter in Lebanon. Each year the festival is...
NEW Atelier for Arts and Production Managers Elefsina – Beirut17 February 2020The Festival Academy is thrilled to announce a tailor made
Atelier for Arts and Production Managers in partnership with Drosos Foundation,
Eleusis 2021, Zoukak Theatre Company Beirut and Artlink. The...
Winter International Arts Festival in Sochi starting next week7 February 2020The 13th
edition of the Winter International Arts Festival in Sochi (WIAFS) is starting next
week on 12 February until 23 February 2020. Get ready for 10 days of music with
incredible concerts and...
We are delighted to share Hitomi Matsumoto's thoughts on Atelier Valletta 20194 February 2020One of the main aims of The Festival Academy is to create spaces of exchange and reflection and this is why we are delighted to share Hitomi Matsumoto's reflections on the Atelier Valletta, which took...
The pilot edition of "Digital (R)Evolution: A Communication & New Technologies Training" was closed on Saturday 25 January28 January 2020The programme of the pilot
edition of "Digital (R)Evolution: A Communication & New Technologies
Training was closed on Saturday 25 January with inspiring participants’ presentations
of toolkits...
SAVE THE DATES: ARTS FESTIVALS SUMMIT 2020, 27-29 APRIL IN GALWAY/IRELAND 24 January 2020THE 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...
The International Sarajevo Festival “Sarajevo Winter” is almost there24 January 2020The motto of this 36th edition running from February 7th
until March 21st 2020 is “Time for you-pick up art”.
The activities will take place in various venues of the city. Among
the activities...
Yesterday 22 January 2020 the Pilot edition of Digital (R)Evolution kicked off in Antwerp, Belgium23 January 2020Yesterday 22 January 2020 the pilot edition of Digital
(R)Evolution kicked off in Antwerp, Belgium. This is a new training programme
on digital tools and new technologies organized in partnership with...
Meet the mentors, guest speakers and participants of the Pilot edition Digital (R) Evolution: A Communication & New Technologies Training21 January 2020In one day the Pilot edition Digital (R) Evolution: A Communication & New Technologies Training will kick off in Antwerp (BE) from
22-25 January 2020, organised in partnership
with deSingel...
The Festival Academy receives a grant from the Open Society Foundations to support its activities for 2020-202220 January 2020The Festival Academy is very pleased to announce support from
the Open Society Foundations in the next three years for its
ambitious goal to build bridges between different fields of actions, being...
New year, new projects: introducing Digital (R)evolution Communication and New Technologies Training17 January 2020New year, new projects: introducing Digital (R)evolution
Communication and New Technologies Training, the new training format of The
Festival AcademyThe Festival Academy welcomes the new decade with...
