Change-Makers: the transformative power of festival

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Description

The Arts Council in partnership with the MA Festive Arts (University of Limerick) presented Change Makers conference on the 14th of February 2020, the first national gathering of festival makers and festival stakeholders in Ireland to map, measure and gather intelligence about arts festivals and better understand their scope and impact in civic society.

The event brought together professional and voluntary festival creators, artists, funding agencies, policy makers and academics that have a vested interest in this domain to: evaluate current practices, network, assess the contribution of the festival sector's contribution to the cultural life of contemporary Ireland and support festival capacity building.

Festival maker, Jude Kelly CBE, Founder of the Women of the World festival (WOW), former director of the Southbank Centre and theatre creator delivered the keynote address along with both international and Irish festival practitioners.

The conference was the first of its kind to be hosted by the Arts Council and was developed as a response to Festival Policy commitments and objectives arising from the Arts Council's Strategy, Making Great Art Work 2016-2025.
Period13 Feb 202014 Feb 2020
Event typeConference
LocationLimerick, IrelandShow on map
Degree of RecognitionNational

Keywords

  • Festivals
  • Cultural Policy
  • Arts Management