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Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe is moving forward towards 2019-2020.

Respected festival representatives from across Europe gathered in Brussels on 18 September for the Arts Festivals Salon and announcement of the 2017 EFFE Awards.

The General Manager of Tbilisi's International Theatre Festival agrees that there are probably easier places in Europe to run such an event.

The Five Churches of the festival title is a misnomer; there are actually four churches of different denominations (Serbian Orthodox, Catholic, Calvinist and Evangelical) and a Jewish synagogue - the Hungarian word 'templom' is more accurate.

At first sight one might wonder whether the Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) is a festival at all – or even about architecture.

Ravenna is such an iconic place, and has been since the latter days of the Roman Empire, that it is surprising that it did not have a festival until twenty-eight years ago.

For most of the last five hundred years Sines has been best known as the birthplace of the explorer Vasco da Gama, the first European to find his way to India by sailing round the Cape of Good Hope.

It is rare for a theme to come first and then have a festival started to develop it. That is the case, though, with Gender Bender.

Asalto International Festival of Public Art began a dozen years ago with a group of young graphic artists who used to “do some 'vandalism' in the streets,” but who were more ambitious for their art and surroundings.

The EFFE jury said, “in a country with no tradition of contemporary culture... Gogolfest has a huge impact on Ukrainian society."