The TOOLKITS SERIES Caring for Artists and Technical Crew
Focuses on providing programming models in which festival managers can learn and get insights for working on the care and well-being of artists and technical crew.
What is a festival? A festival offers the opportunity to subvert the norm, allowing us to exist for a moment “outside the everyday”. A celebration in an abnormal setting. While festivals are shaped—perhaps even defined—by their context (audience, budget, community, genre, history, location, mission, relationships, values, etc.), they are realised through curatorial work.
This toolkit is primarily concerned with secular festivals, i.e., open to the public, focused on showcasing and celebrating art and/or culture. Within this subsect, however, there are multiple different approaches to programming and curation—and multiple different challenges to each approach. This toolkit is for anyone interested in these diverse approaches and the challenges associated with each. We hope to inspire new ways of thinking, offer moments of reflection, and help tackle complex issues.
The toolkit provides the reader with a set of issues and relevant examples that can guide future festivals. The first part compiles relevant information about the topic and their respective links and sources for additional information. The second part gathers best practices and examples related to the topic of this toolkit which can serve as inspirational guides for festival-makers worldwide.