Festival Jungle - Policy Desert? Festival Policies of Public Authorities in Europe

CIRCLE,
08 October 2007, Spain

Cultural Information and Research Centres Liaison in Europe (CIRCLE) and the European Festival Research Project (EFRP), together with Interarts have conducted an international research project devoted in general terms to the issue of festivals and public authorities’ approaches to them. The project aims to make a significant contribution to the process of creating a consistent and rational information base on the subject. In order to achieve this, CIRCLE joined forces with EFRP and to carry out, in cooperation with Interarts, a research project entitled 'Festival Policies of Public Authorities in Europe'. The project was realised between May and October 2007.
Thanks to the engagement of cooperative experts from all over Europe, the report is able to indicate the situation in Europe in relation to publicly funded international artistic festivals, all tiers of public authority attitudes, policy and schemes of activity in relation to festivals. The report is divided into two parts. The first consists of:

  • introduction with definitions and an overall description of data sources;
  • presentation of publicly supported, international, artistic festivals in the selected European countries;
  • a multi-aspect presentation of public support to festivals showing the motives for public involvement, organisational schemes, financial schemes and the level of public involvement in supporting festivals;
  • a comparative presentation of case studies;
  • an attempt at assessment of existing policies for festivals; AND
  • recommendations and conclusions.

The second part of the report is a country by country presentation of the national reports delivered by the 20 national experts. It has to be noted that the national profiles have not been edited and are presented in their original formats as submitted.

http://www.circle-network.jaaz.pl/doc/File/Festival_policies_draft_14.10.07.pdf