Deadline: June 30, 2017
The Festival Academy (initiative of the European Festivals Association –
EFA), calls for applications for the Atelier for Young Festival Managers in
Johannesburg, South Africa to take place in Johannesburg from March 23 to 29, 2018.
The Festival Academy, in partnership with the Market Theatre Foundation
and the University of Witwatersrand’s School of Arts, will present the Atelier.
45 participants will be selected for the 7-day training programme during which
they will discuss artistic festival management with ten renowned festival
directors. Young festival managers from all over the world are invited to apply
until 30 June 2017.
Don’t miss the opportunity and apply if you are
-an early career festival manager
-want to broaden your programming skills
-want be inspired by experienced leaders·
-want to join a new network of future festival leaders
The Atelier for Young Festival Managers is an intense 7-day training
programme addressed at emerging artistic festival directors or those who have
ambitions to get involved in programming or in related departments within a
festival. It is about sharing experiences and passing on knowledge to the next
generation of festival makers: knowledge about programming a festival, while
focusing on the very essence of art festivals – the arts and the artist.
45 young festival managers from all over the world will be selected to
participate in the Atelier. Around 10 distinguished festival directors will
attend, each for at least two full days, and work together with participants
throughout the 7 days. For more information visit https://www.thefestivalacademy.eu/en/alumni-network/
Participants will have the chance to compare their views with colleagues
from various cultural and professional contexts and backgrounds and analyse
them in view of the local context of Johannesburg and South Africa. What about
the relationship between traditional and contemporary art? To what extend does
this reflect in festival management concepts? To what extent do political,
social and technological developments have an influence on artistic programming?
How to reach (out to) the community where the festival takes place? How to
develop a sustainable context for festivals, artists and audience? What are the
festivals’ responsibilities towards environmental issues? What are the
similarities and differences to other contexts?
“I find this to be a space to leave aside the differences and identify
all that we share. As many of us echoed, a focus on what is similar within our
contexts, within our processes of work, how we feel and our belief, gives us
the valuable opportunity to open our minds, leave behind stereotypes and biases
we have collected unconsciously over the years, to read and listen to each
other and find ourselves in a position to transform through generosity.”
Virkein Dhar, participant of the Atelier Chiang Mai 2016
Participants of the 12th edition will become part of this unique global
network of young festival makers that counts 450 alumni from 67 countries to
date, after 11 Ateliers for Young Festival Managers since 2006 in Görlitz,
Varna, Singapore, Izmir, Ljubljana, Edinburgh, Poznan, Beirut, Gwangju,
Budapest and Chiang Mai and two editions of the Festival Production Management
Training (2016 and 2017).
Application deadline is June 30. To submit your Application Form visit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfXKcC3Rrv62WVn-3rjs3d9Wb7J5TDY_NDreRlv3TeThLZOpg/viewform?c=0&w=1
For selection criteria, selection/application procedure, course fee etc.
check the Atelier for Young Festival Managers Johannesburg 2018 website at
www.TheFestivalAcademy.eu
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