When; Thursday 28 september kl. 13.30-16.30
Plcae; Konsert & Kongress
Also; Invigning av Uppsala Internationella Gitarrfestival kl. 18.30
Target group; Sweden Festivals members, festival managers och promoters.
Included; Travel support, dinner, fika, ticket to opening consert and accomodation.
Put the dates in your Calander and register here. Latest 2 May.
We are deeply affected by what is happening now in Ukraine and would like to express solidarity to cultural organisations, artists and all people in the region on behalf of all EFA members worldwide.
Europe is a common home for all its citizens and people. The twentieth-century of unprecedented horrific wars and suffering is behind us. Hopes and dreams are alive of people who want to create peace, freedom, and security. There is no justification for war. We are all losers when peace and freedom are threatened. Let's raise our voices in defence of Peace.
The members of the European Festivals Association (EFA), the festivals community and their stakeholders came together in Galway for the Arts Festivals Summit from 22 to 24 November 2021, in person and online.During the General Assembly meeting, EFA members voted in ten new festivals to join the association and elected the new board of directors.
Thanks to support from The Swedish Arts Council we can strengthen our work to support art festivals Sweden. We are initiating a plan to promote our member festivals in the restart after the pandemic. For this, we have received money from the Cultural Council, which creates conditions for activities and to engage a business manager for six month.
"A letter means so much," it is said, and we at Sweden Festivals can only agree.
In a letter about cultural festivals in general and the Uppsala International Guitar Festival in particular, Sweden's Minister of Culture Amanda Lind writes.
"A world without art and culture would be a meager place. So empty, desolate and sterile. It is culture that creates the vitality and dynamic that characterizes our human coexistence. Let me put it bluntly: it is culture that makes us human!
And what is a better form of culture than our festivals?
Drakamöllan, an old skåne farm on Österlen in Skåne, also a venue for an annual opera festival, is in the process of creating a meeting place and a platform for researchers and scientists from all over the Nordic region and all disciplines, from technology to the humanities, to artists, cultural workers , journalists and social debates. Drakamöllan - Nordic Forum for Culture and Science invites you to apply for scholarships for a stay at Drakamöllan February 10, 2019 - February 23, 2019.
The EFFE International Jury was gathering in Brussels on 7-8 September, together with the EFFE Hubs, to define the final criteria and the competitive process of this European scheme for festivals preparing for Creative Europe 2021-2027. In total 1129 festivals have received the European recognition for arts festivals in the pilot phase of EFFE. A new online search tool for audiences worldwide is added to the programme: The Festival Finder went online in the middle of November 2018.
