International Festivals and Policy in light of COVID-19
Perspectives from the Festival Cities Network on the impacts of COVID-19 on international festivals and policy, a webinar.
Sector: Festivals
Neverthere @ Surge Festival
Neverthere is hosting a space within Surge Festival 2020 for experimental new digital projects. A window providing audiences with a glimpse of live performance, across the world, are innovating during this extraordinary time.
Ingegnarsi
“Ingegnarsi” event wanted to react to the covid 19 situation and to provide an alternative and resilient way to celebrate this important moment for the city by organising a 4-day on line event that has reached over 5.000 people.
Yourope
Yourope was founded in 1998, and has evolved into the most important Association of European Festivals. Besides discussing trade topics and sharing best practices with its 90 festivals and associated members, Yourope has founded dedicated groups dealing with health & safety (YES Group), green operations (GO Group) and marketing & communication (EMAC Group). The overall aim of the association is to collaborate, share experiences and to pinpoint areas that would benefit from a joint approach.
ESNS (Eurosonic Noorderslag)
ESNS (Eurosonic Noorderslag) is Europe’s main conference and showcase festival, focusing on European music. The exchange of European music is one of its main goals. ESNS is a non-profit, European artist only, 100% showcase festival and music conference. Selling out each year ESNS attracts over 4.000 professional delegates, including 400 international festivals, and showcases around 350 European artists for over 40.000 visitors total.
European Music Exporters Exchange (EMME)
EMEE is a non-profit association made up of 24 national and regional Music Export offices from all over Europe, with its registered office based in Brussels. We pull together a mix of public and private funding to support European musicians, music companies and music professionals in their export strategies. EMEE’s mission is to strengthen the European Music Sector by encouraging musical diversity, visibility, and supporting mobility in and outside Europe through the exchange of information and expertise from the members as well as project initiatives between members and/or other music industry organisations.
Tallinn Music Week (TMW)
Held each spring in Tallinn, Estonia since 2009, Tallinn Music Week is one of the most acclaimed new music and city culture festivals and key networking events for music and creative industry professionals across Europe. TMW’s core is an international new music festival and Creative Impact conference. The 3-day music festival presents brave new multi-genre acts from all over Europe and beyond in Tallinn’s best concert venues. The 2-day conference looks into the impact of arts as an engine for the economy while offering both inspiration and practical activities to music professionals, artists, entrepreneurs and policymakers from different areas. The festival’s side events cover art, design, public talks and various urban space activities.
FIM Recommendations for a safe return to work of orchestra musicians
The covid-19 outbreak has led governments to close all live performance venues and prohibit open-air concerts as soon as their countries were hit by the
Survey- Internationalisation of music diversity in times of COVID-19
A survey in order to come up with alternatives for the internationalisation of music diversity during the health crisis.
Neverthere
A virtual festival of digital performance and a supportive space for artists & organisations to research how their practice can be delivered online.
Art Will Save Us
An archive of contemporary art in times of crisis. Live – performances by contemporary artists.
PriFest – Prishtina International Film Festival 12th edition
The event will be hold in a modified way to fit the Covid 19 situation, but will still try to support the audience and filmmakers.
From Giffoni to Europe
A webinar where 9 giffoners set to talk to the european commissioner Mariya Gabriel, a unique opportunity to talk about their future and some topics for the youth: culture, innovation, education.
Pearle calls upon a joint and proportionate approach of European ministers of Culture when reopening cultural activities with a live audience in context of Covid19 exit strategies
On May 13th, Pearle*-Live Performance Europe, sent an open letter to European ministers of Culture and Commissioner of Culture Gabriel, ahead of the Council meeting on May 19th.
Sensorium Festival Weekly Newsletter
Sensorium is a digital arts & culture festival and platform building a thoughtful and foresightful society.
XXI Cerveira International Art Biennial
The Cerveira International Art Biennial takes place in Vila Nova de Ceveira (North of Portugal), it is one of the most outstanding festivals of visual arts and is an important event for the national and international artistic culture.
Open call for application ATELIER for Solidarity – re-imagine our future together/ COVID-19
The Festival Academy calls for applications for an online Atelier.
Alumni of The Festival Academy are invited to apply by 20 May 2020!
A Confined Place – Open call
“A Confined Place” -carried out within the Creative Europe “A-Place” project- is a programme of activities to strengthen the sense of place in the times of confinement.
Advocacy Approached from Europe – Amplify Music 2020 Conference
A conference looking from a data perspective on the different experiences for music venues and clubs in Europe.
Live DMA COVID-19 Resource for the Live Music Sector
Live DMA documents the COVID-19 crisis and supplies resources for the European live music sector. overviews of the situation in various European countries, best practice
ADE Green Livecast – an online discussion forum
As more countries are banning large gatherings throughout the summer, it could very well mean that 2020 will go down in history as the year
European Festivals Association (EFA)
The European Festivals Association (EFA) unites distinguished music, dance, theatre and multidisciplinary arts festivals from Europe and beyond since 1952.
Live DMA
Live DMA is a European non-governmental network working to support and to promote the conditions of the live music sector.
Pearle – Live Performance Europe
Created in 1991, Pearle * – Live Performance Europe is the ‘Performing Arts Employers Association League Europe’, the European Federation of Music and Live Performance Organisations. Pearle * represents through its members more than 10,000 managers or theaters, concert venues, theater production companies, orchestras, operas, ballet and dance companies, festivals, promoters and other professional organisations in the performing arts in Europe.
