EFFE Festival Label - 6 days to go!
Last week Wednesday, December 3rd, 3500 users had registered on the webiste: EFFE.eu. 533 festivals in 28 European countries had submitted their applications. Among these 65 festivals were French, 26 Finnish and 21 Swedish. But between 60 and 100 Swedish festivals (users) had registered. That shows the possibility to reach 50 festivals in Sweden.
Not all the users are festivals that will finally be able to apply. Many have created an account to inform themselves about EFFE and spread the word. But it is rather likely that around 1000 European festivals have applied by midnight Monday, December 15th.
Expect that around 500 festivals will sit with their application this week and the coming weekend. Do not wait until the last minute. APPLY NOW!
The deadline is midnight Monday 15 December 2014.
We wanted to know more about why festivals are applying, so we asked for their motivation in the application. Have a look at some of the various festivals’ motivations below.
Festival Ljubjlana, Slovenia: “EFFE is a great opportunity for new international networks and collaborations, communication of the program and work of different European festivals and also a platform for innovations and creating trends in contemporary culture. EFFE can stress the importance of the culture for the European identity and future.”
Festival d'Automne à Paris, France: “Festival d'Automne in Paris applies for the EFFE Festival Label because of its involvement in the building of a European artistic culture since 1972.”
Edinburgh International Festival, United Kingdom: “The Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) aims to be the most exciting, innovative and accessible Festival of the performing arts in the world. EIF has an artistic commitment, is involved in its local community and has a European and global outlook and reputation. By obtaining the EFFE Label we feel that these attributes will be further promoted ensuring greater international understanding of what we do, helping our peers and the public to be better informed.”
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, France: “The Festival d'Aix-en-Provence is convinced that opera is a European art form by excellence and aims at developing European cooperation throughout the training of young artists, co-productions, creations and touring.”
SPIELART, Germany: “SPIELART has initiated and is engaged in a lot of European network programs and has successfully launched a lot of applications at the EU. As its programming culture corresponds to the criteria of the EFFE label, we see the opportunity to publish this engagement and promote its values and models of good practice on a wider range.”
Holland Festival, The Netherlands: “The Holland Festival was founded to help stimulate cultural exchange and interaction between the Netherlands and its surrounding countries. To this day the festival presents international performing arts in the Netherlands, and aims to offer its audience a quality they cannot experience elsewhere. The Holland Festival collaborates with many European and international partners to commission, create and present international artists, artworks and unique collaborations all over Europe.”