European Festivals Association

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• 2008 European Year of Intercultural Dialogue
• Arts Festivals Declaration is a charta launched
  and promoted by EFA

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• Declaration launched on
• 8 January 2008 in Ljubljana
• 25 festivals and officials from 17 European
  countries signed the Arts Festivals
• Declaration and committed to its objectives and
  obligations

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• No 2 Tallinn, 2 February 2008
• 13 national festivals associations and cultural
  networks signed on behalf of more than 600
  festivals in Europe and beyond!

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• No 3 Oslo, 3 March 2008
• First signing ceremony organised by a national
  festivals association!

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• No 4 Antalya, 22 April 2008
• All EFA members signed as well as AAPAF and PANSA

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• No 5 Brezice, 4 July 2008
• No 6 Ghent, 15 September 2008
• No 7 Liverpool, 23 October 2008
• No 8 Stockholm, 15 November 2008
• No 9 Ubeda, 28 January 2009
• 1269 signatories

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• 19 November 2008, Paris
• 20 festivals from Europe and beyond officialy
  committed to future engagement were awarded for
  their efforts

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• Open Call to sign up and present projects
• has been launched in July 2008 and will be
• open still in 2009!

All kinds of arts and culture festivals across
Europe and beyond are invited to sign the
Declaration and to engage in promoting and
implementing its aims and objectives.
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• Signing Festivals present projects
• and are given visibility

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• More than 100 press articles (just on the launch
  event)
• in Italy, Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands,
  Norway, Great Britain,
• Macedonia, Slovenia, Asia (AAPAF) online
  coverage EU website, EFA
• website, print, radio, TV

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• EFA Declaration website
• Number of visits 5.472

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• EU website on
• Intercultural
• Dialogue
• 700.000 visits
• and more than
• 4,5 million
• pages viewed

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• Monthly FestFlash
• sent to 1123 contacts
• EFA members, EU,
• National associations
• and networks,
• Africa and Asia,
• Access to Culture platform,
• CCP,
• other signatories
• or interested

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• Arts Festivals Declaration on Intercultural
  Dialogue on the web
• Total number of Google research results 1140
  results in English, 133 results in French, 886
  results in Italian, 31 results in German, 120
  results in Spanish, etc.
• EU website, EU Presidency website, Festivals
  websites, Associations website,
  Governmental/ministry websites
• Online newspapers

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• EFA BOOKS 4
• on Intercultural Dialogue
• With contributions from
• Odile Quintin, Director General
• Festival dAvignon
• Bergen International Festival
• Berliner Festspiele
• Festival Internacional de Música y Danza de
  Granada
• Israel Festival
• Sarajevo Winter
• Due to be published March/April 2009
• sent to 1120 recipients

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• The initiative has a sustainable impact on
  festivals as they officially committed to future
  engagement for intercultural dialogue by
  supporting the Epilogue

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• High-level partnership with the EU/European
  Commission in the preparation, run-up, throughout
  and in the follow-up of the Year