What you can learn from the European Festival Conference #6
This report summarizes the key takeaways and learning from YOUROPE’s sixth European Festival Conference (EFC). The biannual conference is open to everyone interested in all matters festival, whether they are YOUROPE members or not. This time, the traveling conference found its venue at Ecorkhotel in Évora, Portugal, about an hour outside of Lisbon.
In this report you will learn:
- How to navigate the future of festivals by treating the festival as a headliner and promoting its positive effect on tourism
- Creative ways to create more revenue
- How the climate in Europe will develop
- How festivals can better prepare for extreme weather events
- Why economic impact studies matter for festivals
- About the results of economic impact studies by Boom Festival (PT) & Rock in Rio Lisbon
- Why show stop procedures matter
- How Sziget (HU), Øyafestivalen (NO) and Boom Festival handled recent cancellation attempt on their festivals
- Why populist and autocratic regimes target festivals and culture in general
- How ARTmania (RO), EXIT Festival (RS), and Periferias festivals (ES) have dealt with political pressure in their countries and on their events
- Thinking outside the box: how a winemaker’s passion transformed an entire valley
- What to consider when looking for insurance for your festival
- About the results of the EFC debate Club on AI and its role at festivals
- How sustainability measures can be both ecological and economical with good practices from Valley of Arts (HU) and Boom Festival
- What you can do against the illegal resale of your festival tickets
- Why we all stick to the festival industry, despite its crazy demands
The EFC was possible thanks to funding by the EU that YOUROPE received through its network project “3F Future-Fit Festivals.” When the EFC took place, the European festival association had 138 member festivals and associated organizations from 31 countries. The EFC was visited by 80 delegates from over 20 countries and was thus sold out.
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