This edition shows how EFA has been a platform for dialogue since its inception; a place to meet, to listen, and to speak about the responsibility and possibilities of art and culture. EFA wants to facilitate conversations that have the constructive energy to create an effective intellectual and artistic capacity to look at the world’s challenges in a nuanced way: the Eye-to-Eye Magazine is a contribution to this endevour.

Enjoy the reading.

• Laura Nsengiyumva - The day when I (almost) melted (your father) - The challenges of the Working Group on Decolonisation
• Maxim Shalygin - Whispers from nowhere
• Haris Pašović - To Dream Or Not To Dream?
• Alexandra Dementieva - New technology used in art is just a tool but very powerful
• Yusuf Mahmoud - Festivals and contemporary discourses - How do festivals respond, embrace, react against contemporary themes?
• Frans de Ruiter - My first day…
  

We are in visionary company in this winter edition of our Eye-to-Eye magazine: 6 powerful women and gentlemen are pointing at pertinent issues of the arts and of festival life from the outside: as artists, as scientists, as politicians.

We are ready: Let’s make the best from the new year all together.

• Amanda Lind - Lessons from a recent experience of being Minister of Culture
• Els Dietvorst - This is what you came for. Art as a meeting place for connection, desire, exchange and transformation.
• Bartosz Szydłowski - The cultural revolution is underway
• Sergey Smbatyan - Classical music in Armenia
• Gundega Laiviņa - Attention as a form of ethics
• Ana Carla Fonseca - Territory-brand Jequitinhonha Valley – increasing the perceived value of a development process from the grassroots
  

This edition of the e-magazine bears witness to serious work done: from reflections on Schubert’s work to festivals’ role in society, philanthropists’ responsibilities and finally the importance of bringing a range of narratives from different parts of the world to audiences.

Dive into their prose. Enjoy their insights.

• Colm Croffy - The Gaelic Festival Odyssey
• Sofia Djama - The 3 Women from Kabul - From Kabul to Algiers, the fantasy of the West
  
• Oriol Aguilà - Culture and Arts post pandemia - It is time for philanthropy
• Meet Zsuzsanna Szálka, a Hungarian international cultural manager
• Michel Dalberto - Schubert, an appreciation
• Nele Hertling - The role of festivals and artists
  

The third edition of Eye-to-Eye, The Festival Quarterly, is giving a voice only to artists: artists and their view and vision of the moment, the challenges they are dealing with, and the very individual story they share with us.

We wish you a nice read and a blossoming Spring full of cultural and artistic activities.

• Kristina Borg - An entry from my {non-existent} daily journal - #TakeTwo
• Jo Strømgren - Eternally owned is but what’s lost!
• Sukina Pilgrim - The Potential in The Great Pause
• Jorge Andrade & José Capela - Selling our souls to the devil
• Ada Mukhina - Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into the Future
• Frans de Ruiter - The Dutch National Campaign for the Arts: Kunsten’92

We start this decade with the second edition of Eye-to-Eye, The Festival Quarterly. This Winter issue of Eye-to-Eye presents 7 texts of authors sharing their thoughts about their cities, countries and the world, about ethics and aesthetics... but especially about the role that art and culture play in our societies. All are convinced that access to culture is a fundamental right and advocate for more cross-sectoral collaboration to integrate the arts in various sectors such as health, urban planning, etc. 

May Eye-to-Eye carry on their voices and resonate with them over the 10 next years.

• Jonathan Mills - Reimagining vibrant cities
• Ana Maria Rossi - A Postcard from Belgrade
• Robert Piaskowski - Voice from Krakow
• Romeo Castellucci - Laudation for Frie Leysen 
  + Frie Leysen (1950-2020) - Acceptance Speech at the award ceremony of the Erasmus Prize 2014
• Natalie Hennedige - How do you solve a problem like a very complex protagonist?
• Mahir Namur - Global Challenges, Cultural Visions

The Summer edition Eye-to-Eye, The Festival Quarterly offers you a good read of 6 authors who dig into one or another story, perspective, phenomenon or reflection related to our times we are living. 

Enjoy the read, and the end of a special festival Summer 2020!

• Aleš Šteger - Mirror reflections in an apartment window theatre 
• Ayoko Mensah - Afropolitan festivals: a challenge
• Alicja Gescinska - On Music, Morality and Krzysztof Penderecki
• Tomáš Sedláček - Advantages of disadvantages, or don’t let the quarantine slip through your fingers
• Melanie Burge - The pandemic’s immediate impact on performing arts in Australia
• Simon Mundy - Mediterranean Blues