Speakers, reports & presentations - Arts Festivals Summit 2024
Find all the reports and presentations from the sessions of EFA's Arts Festivals Summit 2024 from 12 to 15 May on Usedom (Germany), hosted by the Usedom Music Festival.
Speakers
- Lech Wałęsa: Former President of Poland and Nobel Prize for Peace
- Kateryna Botanova: Cultural critic & co-curator of Culturescapes
- Jelle Dierickx: Director of the Festival of Flanders Mechelen/Kempen
- Ceyda Berk-Söderblom: Founder & Artistic Director at MiklagårdArts
- Nicolas Bertrand: Manager and independent consultant
- Tamar Brüggemann: Director of Wonderfeel
- Jurriaan Cooiman: Director of Culturescapes
- Eric Corijn: Cultural philosopher, social scientist, professor
- Peter Florence: Initiator of the European Festivals Forest
- Mirna Gott: International communication and projects at Music Biennale Zagreb
- Nele Hertling: Director of the Performing Arts section of the Academy of Arts Berlin
- Péter Inkei: Cultural consultant
- Mikko Laamanen: Research Professor on Technology and Sustainability at Oslo Metropolitan University
- Mahir Namur: Cultural Manager, Existential Coach & Psychological Counselor
- Natália Oszkó-Jakab: Head of the Arts for Rural Development Foundation
- Haris Pašović: Director of Sarajevo Fest and Chair of the EFFEA Jury
- Milica Popovic: Project Manager at Cultural Centre "Nikola Djurkovic" Kotor
- Donika Rudi Berishaj: EFFEA Project Coordinator
- Rarița Zbranca: Programme Director of Cluj Cultural Centre
Keynotes
You can dive back in the keynotes of the Arts Festivals Summit Usedom by reading them in our e-magazine "Eye-to-Eye, The Festival Quarterly":
- Jelle Dierickx, Director of the Festival of Flanders Mechelen/Kempen: 'Don't hear up: Frau Luna’s Deep Listening'
- Lech Wałęsa, Nobel Prize winner: 'Visions for Europe'
- Kateryna Botanova, Cultural critic & co-curator of Culturescapes: 'A few observations on care, awareness, and connecting time we spent together with the war in sight'
Denis de Rougemont Labs
Monday, 13 May 2024 | 11.00-15.00
The ‘Denis de Rougemont Laboratories’ aimed to understand where the arts can make a powerful contribution to our quality of life, and think about a organisational /sectorial / political way to make a next ‘move up’ on the living conditions scale. These Labs took the form of a series of parallel working sessions on 10 topics steered by an ‘expert’, providing space for in-depth reflection and joint thinking for 3 hours, to share personal experiences and systemic discussions. You can read the document summarising the findings of each group here and find more detailed notes on each topic here.
Festivals & Sustainability Workshop: The Green Euro: Net Zero, Cash Positve
Tuesday, 14 May 2024 | 10.30-12.00
This session highlighted 10 ways to green your festival and to make money. A brainstorm and workshop about best practice that really, provenly, excitingly works. It was facilitated by Peter Florence and Tamar Brüggemann, the initiators from the European Festivals Forest with the contribution of Mikko Laamanen as expert witness.
The Festival Academy invites: The First Supper
Tuesday, 14 May 2024 | 9.00-10.15
This hybrid performance-installation-roundtable-discussion-dinner-party facilitated dialogue through the gathering of human beings with common interests: festivals, culture and art, and their role in our societies for social change.
Festival Cities and Regions Workshop
Tuesday, 14 May 2024 | 9.00-12.00
This workshop aimed to offer a platform for exchanges and knowledge gathering around the relation between festivals and their cities, inviting festivals and cities alike to take the floor and get into dialogue with each other. The conversations from practice to policy to proposals were hosted by Peter Inkei (Budapest Observatory) and conceptualised and facilitated by Nicolas Bertrand and Nele Hertling from A Soul for Europe.
Care Share workshop on arts and well-being
Tuesday, 14 May 2024 | 9.00-12.00
The Care Share workshop openly explored how we can gain back energy from the work we do and how we can re-engage with joy and purpose in our work after periods of exhaustion. This workshop was conceptualised and facilitated by Rarița Zbranca (Director at Cluj Cultural Centre and co-founder of Fabrica de Pensule) and Mahir Namur (Existential Coach, Lecturer & Trainer, Project Manager).