The EURO-FESTIVAL project is a study of artistic festivals as sites of trans-national identification and democratic debate.

Festivals are an important expression of aesthetic public culture:

• Festivals are spaces and times of concentrated debate and social effervescence. In recent times, moreover, these debates are about issues of representativity (gender, ethnic, age-groups), hence relevant about what constitutes access to creativity.
• Festivals are particularly interesting examples of those sites in society where the performance dimension of culture is emphasized.
• Finally, festivals are about hybridization, cross-fertilization and mutual borrowing, hence particularly good examples of the ways in which local cultures get expressed using other cultures.

The present Website www.euro-festival.org will inform you about the project’s activities and research in addition to providing fascinating insight into festival culture and creativity.

	Workshop: Creativity Culture and Democracy in Art Festivals November 25 -26, 2010; Bologna, Italy Registration available now
Project funded under the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities