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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74th Ljubljana Festival: A summer of the arts at the highest level
This Summer, Ljubljana once again becomes the stage for outstanding artistic events and performances with the 74th Ljubljana Festival.
Attending the Edinburgh Summit 2025: Fear, belonging, and the will to continue
Abduljabbar Alsuhili, from Yemen and based in Sweden, shares with us the reasons that brought him to the Arts Festivals Summit 2025 in Edinburgh and his experience.
Survey: Funding cross-border collaborations
Cross‑border collaboration is the lifeblood of the performing arts - but what does its funding look like today, and how should it evolve? We invite you to share your experience in a new sector‑wide survey.
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