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Elżbieta Penderecka has died at the age of 78 this 31 October 2025. The European Festivals Association is sending its most sincere condolences to the entire family, friends, and the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival team. 

As a reaction to raising authoritarianism, representatives from the cultural sector joined forces to defend artistic freedom in the EU, opening the pathway to an European Artistic Freedom Act proposal.

Your guide to our EFA Member festivals running in these last two months of the year.

The capital of Slovenia welcomes autumn with the talent of young, prize-winning musicians and warms winter with the melodies of the finest musicians from Slovenia and abroad.

The Atelier Aqaba & Amman for Young Festival Managers by The Festival Academy forged new connections, inspired friendships, and reminded festival makers of their shared responsibility in a rapidly changing world.

Your guide to our EFA Member festivals running this month. 

Together with around 30 cross-border European cultural networks, EFA helped shape a collective vision for the future of cultural policies that has just been published by Culture Action Europe.

For many, September is synonymous with the reawakening of the artistic season. As festivals prepare ahead or reflect on recent successes, EFA offers new opportunities to reconnect and engage.

For its 2025 edition, our EFA Member Culturescapes and partner festivals in Africa and Europe are creating a discussion space to rethink and reimagine power, representation, and collaboration within and between festivals on the two continents.

From 4 till 6 September 2025, our EFA Member I Suoni delle Dolomiti had the pleasure of welcoming three representatives of EFA to visit their festival taking place from 27 August till 4 October amid the Trentino Dolomites.

A beautiful story about the power of the network: from a meeting in Edinburgh to a collaboration between Dnipro and Rotterdam that will unfold soon, from 18 to 21 September in Rotterdam.

The 4th EFFEA call for festivals to support emerging artists is open. EFFEA empowers festivals to collaborate across borders and join forces in supporting artists at the stage of expanding their international careers. Submit your residency proposal by 3 November 2025.