With this Festival Visit, The Festival Academy is building up on the relations with Spain and continuing the partnership with dFERIA - Performing Arts Fair, following the joint production of the 23rd edition of the Atelier for Young Festival Managers in San Sebastian 2025. 

dFERIA, the Performing Arts Fair of Donostia / San Sebastián, is an unmissable event and a clear national reference point for professionals in the performing arts. Promoted in 1988 by the San Sebastian City Council and Donostia Kultura, the San Sebastian Fair is firmly committed to artistic quality in the selection and exhibition of the theatre and dance shows presented.

dFERIA, which is associated with the Coordinadora de Artes Escénicas del Estado (COFAE), is a contemporary, innovative, committed, varied and innovative Fair that continues to strengthen its Latin American and European markets. At the same time, it is an extraordinary meeting platform for different agents in the sector, which promotes multiple possibilities for the exchange of experiences and artistic contracts. With the aim of dynamising the performing arts market, mediating and interrelating its agents and providing novelty and innovation, it generates, directly or indirectly, an important volume of business.

Each edition of dFERIA revolves around a thematic axis that becomes the backbone of the exhibition and parallel activities.

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