‘Eye-to-Eye’ is the European Festivals Association’s (EFA) Festival Quarterly. It assembles a variety of voices that speak about our society, the state of the arts and reasons why the arts exist, concepts, and moments in contemporary life. It includes articles EFA commissions and material we ask editors to provide. It reflects EFA’s journey to broaden our conversations and dig into the habitat of festivals, taking us well beyond the process of festival making.
Eye-to-Eye is published every 3 months.
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The European Festivals Association (EFA) is a trusted alliance of festival makers representing:
- 80 EFA members; strong and long standing festivals coming from different countries in Europe and beyond,
- More than 2.250 festivals in 45 countries registered on FestivalFinder.eu, among which 823 festivals received the EFFE Label 2019-2020 – these numbers are growing daily,
- 700 alumni of The Festival Academy who have followed one or several training programmes,
- 40 cities contributing and participating in the Festival Cities Initiative.
Members • Andrey Sakharov International Art Festivals • Abu Dhabi Festival • Al Bustan Festival • Ankara International Music Festival • Aspendos International Opera & Ballet Festival • Audi Sommerkonzerte • BBC Proms • Berliner Festspiele • Bergen International Festival • Bodrum Music Festival • BOZAR Festival • Bratislava Music Festival • Budapest Spring Festival • Cistermúsica – Alcobaça Music Festival • Conrad Festival • Culturescapes • Dubrovnik Summer Festival • Edinburgh International Festival • Estoril Lisbon Festival • European Festival of Performing Arts Timisoara – New Romanian Drama Festival • Festival della Valle d’Itria • Festival Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino • Førde Traditional and World music Festival • Festival Castell de Peralada • Festival Deltebre Dansa • Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico de Mérida • Festival of Contemporary Art GogolFest • Kharkov Assemblies • Klarafestival (Flanders Festival International) • Flanders Festival Ghent (Flanders Festival International) • George Enescu International Festival and Competition • International Antalya Piano Festival • International Festival Wratislavia Cantans • International Izmir Festival • Israel Festival • Les Festivals de Wallonie • Leoš Janáček International Music Festival • Ljubljana Festival • Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival • Macerata Opera Festival • Malta International Arts Festival • Mersin International Music Festival • MITO SettembreMusica Festival • Mittelfest • Mosel Musikfestival • Music Biennale Zagreb • Music Festival in Belém – Dias da Musica • Nasimi Festival. Poetry, Arts, Spirituality • Ohrid Summer Festival • Prague Spring International Music Festival • Ravenna Festival • Romaeuropa Festival • Semana de Música Religiosa • Winter International Arts Festival Sochi • SoNoRo Festival • südtirol festival merano . meran • Terras sem Sombra • The International Festival of Arts Named after P.I. Tchaikovsky • Usedom Music Festival • Valley of the Arts • Varna Summer International Music Festival • Vilnius Festival • Welcome to The Village • Yerevan Perspectives International Music Festival • Association of Irish Festival Events (AOIFE) • Bulgarian Festivals Association • Czech Association of Music Festivals • Federation of Music Festivals in Flanders • Finland Festivals • France Festivals • Italia Festival • Musik i Syd • Rotterdam Festivals • Serbian Festivals Association • Sicheslav Festival Association “ArtEthnoFest” • Spanish Association of Classical Music Festivals • Sweden Festivals • European Early Music Network (EEMN/REMA)
Honorary Members • Darko Brlek • Frans De Ruiter • Gavin Henderson • Massimo Mercelli • José Louis Ocejo • Piñeiro Nagy
Board Members • Jan Briers (President) • Paul Dujardin (Vice-President) • Hermann Schnitzer (Vice-President) • Colm Croffy • Sophie Detremmerie • Piñeiro Nagy • Francesco Maria Perrotta • Ruta Prusevičienė • Filiz Sarper • Jovanka Višekruna Janković
Publication date: September 2020
Direction of the E-Magazine: Kathrin Deventer
Editing coordination: Audrey Brisack
Photographs cover: Tanz im August – HAU Hebbel am Ufer, 2017 © Dajana Lothert
Texts: Melanie Burge, Alicja Gescinska, Ayoko Mensah, Simon Mundy, Tomáš Sedláček, Aleš Šteger
Contributing Editor: Simon Mundy
Website: Maks vzw
Graphic design: Quasi and Studio Grid
Translation of the article of Aleš Šteger: Ellen Van den Bausch
Publisher: European Festivals Association
With the continuous support of: Gert Naessens, Inge Ceustermans, Rebecca Chambarlhac-Gerbi
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