The participants represented a broad diversity of cultural and professional backgrounds – from students in arts management, to young managers working for large established organisations, to emerging curators running their own innovative international festivals. They all shared the desire to implement excellent artistic festivals.

Gathering an enormous variety of creative minds

Festival managers coming from all over the world who are interested in different aspects of festival management participate. The keynote/webinar up-skills and informs them about the state of play of the world today and offers a time out to reflect critically on the role of festivals in today’s world, infused by people of different backgrounds and perspectives who can challenge and provoke our thinking or the way we do things. 

We are delighted to announce that 41 participants from 25 countries in all continents have participated in this Keynote/Webinar. Please find the participant list here.