The Urban Impact of Artistic Festivals - Helsinki, 11-12 April 2008
(2008 02 24 23:16)
The European Festival Research Project (EFRP) is an international, interdisciplinary consortium whose goal is to research the multidude of festivals today and its its consequences. Thus EFRP aims to develop a considerable amount of research papers, studies, publications and debates so as to provide tentative conclusions, trends, forecasts and recommendations for festival operators, public authorities as subsidy givers and potential sponsors.
EFRP opens call for applications for comparative and longitudinal research and exploration of specific issues and topics, not presentations of specific festivals as such. Interested researchers should submit a 100-150 word summary of their presentation to Dr Dragan Klaic (Leiden University), Chair of the EFRP by February 25. .
The topics in focus are the following:
- varying concepts of urban festivals, their formulae, content and spin offs
capacity of artistic festivals to include, engage and mobilize residents and their groups and associations, help them develop social capital and make them co-creators of cultural policies and cultural production
public attention that is thanks to the festivals focused on specific neighborhoods and public debates initiated on the sensitive issues of urban development
strengthening of intercultural and intergenerational dialogue among residents and the development of new audiences
strategies of conversion, renovation and recycling of dysfunctional and abandoned spaces and sites through cultural production and programming and site-specific events
- economic boost given by the festivals to specific neighbourhoods
cooperative engagement of existing cultural institutions within the festival concept and program
To find more about the project visit this site.
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