Uniting festivals across Europe
The European Festivals Association (EFA) connects festivals and festival makers in an interactive and ever-inclusive network at the service of the arts and artists, ready to engage with the alliance of stakeholders surrounding festivals today.
Festivals
104 festivals from 40 countries working across borders in music, dance, theatre, visual arts, circus, film, literature, and more, form the core of the Association and all its initiatives.
Collective Festival Associations and Affiliates
National associations of festivals and colleague networks in different artistic disciplines worldwide connect their local and international communities and topics to EFA through joint membership.
Festival Cities and Regions
Today, 33 festival cities and regions extend the conversation around festivals and exchange local practices and policies related to festival life with colleagues from all over Europe.
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Arts Festivals Summit 2026
The Arts Festivals Summit is EFA's annual rendez-vous gathering festival representatives, policymakers, and partners for a 4-day in-person exchange about the arts and their role in society, hosted this year by Theatre City Budva.
EFA at Classical:NEXT 2026
EFA is hosting the ‘Networking Session’ and Thomas Hummel from Usedom Music Festival will speak about "Sustaining International Collaboration in the Arts" on EFA's behalf on Friday, 10 April 2026, at Classical:NEXT in Budapest, Hungary
A Soul for Europe - Jean Monnet House Meeting 2026
On the theme “Belonging Europe - Identity as Practice", this meeting serves as a working platform to shape the results, and recommendations for the Berlin Conference 2026.
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EFA Monthly Digest May 2026
Each month Simon Mundy highlights what is happening across the European Festivals Association (EFA)’s network, offering a glimpse of the many ways our community is active across Europe and beyond. Check out the May edition.
The return of care: a living culture takes hold
The concept of care is experiencing a powerful renaissance within festival culture, transforming public gatherings into spaces of connection, healing, and shared responsibility. Mahir Namur highlights some important points from the Festivals Care! Working Group and other EU projects.
Capacity building through connection: My experience at the Chemnitz Atelier 2025
Katriona Grixti, Programming & Productions Officer at Festivals Malta, shares her experience of this 7-day Atelier in one of the European Capitals of Culture.
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