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Name
of the organization or artist |
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The
Festival Academy |
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Email |
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Address |
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Sainctelettesquare
17, 1000 Brussels |
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Country |
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Belgium |
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Website
URL |
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Missions
and objectives |
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The
Festival Academy believes festivals are bridging platforms with a direct link
to people and civil society structures. We believe a critical reflection
between artists, arts and cultural managers worldwide and cross-sectoral
stakeholders can bring about positive change, informed awareness, ideas and
proposals for actions through personal human relations and based on knowing,
respecting and tolerating different value and belief systems. We are a
growing global community of 1000+ festival managers from 100+ countries
today. |
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Main
Activities |
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We
offer various training formats and peer to peer exchange on festival management
to emerging, dynamic and passionate festival makers worldwide coming from all
art disciplines and from very diverse geographical, cultural and social
backgrounds. There are numerous leadership and capacity
building programmes but few starting from the artistic focus of a festival,
and with a global dimension and vision of this project, and more especially,
the cultural dimension of the challenges facing the world. The project
continues building and empowering a global network of festival managers and a
conversation which does not stay amongst ourselves but between and beyond the
world of festivals and different fields of action. It generates awareness
about festivals and their role in society today, their capacity to be
vehicles for social change, social cohesion, strengthening human rights
values and global diversity, with the aim to create a more open and tolerant
society. |