Festivals in Focus

List of European Festival Research Programme Workshops

List of European Festival Research Programme Workshops Brussels, May 2004: an informal research gathering at which participants discussed and defined an approach to research for EFRP. Nitra, September 2005, hosted by Divadelna Nitra Festival. Focus: festivals and their impacts. Leicester, March 2006, hosted by De Montfort University. Focus: the local impact of arts festivals with an international agenda. This workshop followed a one-day international conference, ‘Challenges of Growth’, aimed at the British arts festivals sector and supported by Arts Council England. Le Mans, November 2006, hosted by FranceFestivals. Focus: the sustainability of festivals. 122 Barcelona, October 2007, hosted by InterArts and presented in conjunction with the CIRCLE network of cultural policy researchers. Focus: a roundtable discussion on the festival policies of public authorities, one outcome of which was a set of policy recommendations. Helsinki, April 2008, hosted by the City of Helsinki Culture Department. Focus: the urban impact of artistic festivals. Moscow, October 2008, hosted by Big Break, Moscow International Festival of Theatre for Children. Focus: theatre festivals for children. Novi Sad, May 2009, hosted and organised by the Sterijino pozorje, a festival of performances in association with the International Association of Theatre Critics. Focus: international theatre festivals and audience development. Leeds, November 2009, hosted by the UK Centre for Events Management and the Cultural Policy and Planning Unit, Leeds Metropolitan University. Focus: the governance and leadership of arts festivals. 123 Poznań, April 2010, hosted by the Institute of Cultural Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. Focus: artistic festivals with a social and intellectual agenda. Strasbourg, April 2011, hosted by Groupe de Sociologie Politique Européenne, University of Strasbourg. Focus: festivals, municipalities and metropolises. Maribor, October 2011, hosted by Festival Borštnikovo Srečanje. Focus: artistic festivals and continuously operating cultural organisations. ...