EFA Members in EFFEA - Generation 3
The European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists (EFFEA) enables the creation of new artistic platforms for emerging artists by bringing together international festivals and supporting their international breakthrough.
Eight EFA Members were involved in EFFEA Generation 3 as Leading and Partner festivals, playing a pivotal role in providing a creative space for artistic residencies and make the emerging artists of their choice benefit from their rich network and expertise.
Festival Castell De Peralada & Oude Muziek Utrecht
Breaking the fourth wall is a new Early Music concert format to connect directly with the audience and put them at the centre of the performance. In the residency, the artists of Cantoria ensemble explored new ways of conveying historical and spiritual music to any audience regardless of age, belief, or background: a new dramaturgy and a new liturgy to reach more people in a more meaningful way, turning the audience's experience from listening to living it first hand.
Het TheaterFestival Vlaanderen
SCENE CHANGE residency returns for the third time, this time during the Here & Now Showcase in Edinburgh, HTF in Antwerp and NTF in Amsterdam. The group of artists engaged with performances, reflected on them from their personal perspectives, discussed their artistic practices and connected with fellow creatives and arts professionals, sharing their critical observations and questions with the public through a reflective podcast.
AMUZ - Flanders Festival Antwerp
The young female vocal ensemble Contre le Temps focuses on mediaeval vocal repertoire, both religious music and secular. Their residency gave them the opportunity to dig into the repertoire while being coached by expert Sabine Lutzenbergen. The results were performed at AMUZ (Flanders Festival Antwerp) and at the Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival.
Music Biennale Zagreb & Kotor International Festival
In Nature Amplified, the NAE collective explores the alienation of a contemporary man from nature, as the average person nowadays lives without a sense of the broader natural processes on which they depend. The five experimental artists used a co-creative artistic approach spanning music, visual arts and new media, in partnership with the emerging Festival of New Sound and renowned festivals Music Biennale Zagreb and KotorArt.
Holland Festival
52 BLUE is the result of long research on migrations, refugees, dreamers, utopians, soundscapes, loneliness, and inadequacy. Artist Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti compares the life of whales to his own experience as a person on the autism spectrum: 52 hertz is the frequency of a sound made by a specific whale that lives alone in the ocean, so high that no other whales can be around. What does this have to do with loneliness? How can human bodies see more, feel more intensely, and think differently?
Spring Performing Arts Festival
Fotini Stamatelopoulou's residency Near Misses led to the creation of a performance and sound work emerging from a set of ceremonials linked to protective objects (ex-votos) and protective clothing. The physical acts - relating to life and death, identity and sexuality - radiate through a sense of persistence, rage and calm.
The European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists - EFFEA is an initiative of EFA, co-funded by the European Union, implemented in partnership with 14 EFFE Hubs:
Croatian Composers Society (Croatia), Culture Matters (Czechia), PLMF Arts Management (Estonia), France Festivals (France), Festival Friends (Germany), Stichting Caucasus Foundation (Georgia), Summa Artium Kultúra Támogató Nonprofit Kft. (Hungary), Association of Irish Festival Events (Ireland), ItaliaFestival (Italy), ARC Research and Consultancy Ltd. (Malta), Asociația Centrul Cultural Clujean (Romania), ArtLink (Serbia), Sweden Festivals (Sweden), and Development Centre "Democracy through Culture" (Ukraine).