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EFFEA Stories: a journey through the residencies that explored how culture's spheres and evolutions shape our approaches to nature, and vice versa. From community relationship with food and traditions to Land Art, led-light mycelia and installations, let's give the floor to these intricate natural and artistic evolutions.

We are delighted to announce that festivals can apply for the brand new EFFE Label 2026-2027. The EFFE Label is Europe’s quality stamp for remarkable arts festivals showing their engagement in the field of the arts, community involvement and international openness.

EFFEA Stories: a journey through the residencies that explored connections through movement, diving into patterns of bodily movement through geographical and social spaces. From choreography to improvisation, staged or collaborative experiences, among performers or stretching the performative sphere embracing the audience - let the dances begin, embodying their stories.

EFFEA Stories: a journey through the relationships we weave with people, places, and senses of belonging - exploring how we relate through disruption, displacement, reconnection, and reimagination.

In this spirit, we highlight five Stories from the European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists - EFFEA’s residency programme

The fourth European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists - EFFEA call for festivals to support emerging artists is open. EFFEA empowers festivals to collaborate across borders and join forces in supporting artists at the stage of expanding their international careers. Submit your residency proposal by 3 November 2025.

Visual arts and graphics bring to life stories, streets, and stones, enriching what they touch with colourful movement, changing the surroundings and giving new perspectives. Check here some festivals that this summer and early autumn focus on visual arts, animating screens, walls and streets, giving new eyes and new ways of looking at them.

The soundscapes around us are a continuous evolution of melodies and dissonances, clasping new tendencies and branching in different directions in relation to the present currents. Find here festivals that explore the ongoing evolution of music, and its relationship with new technologies.

Whether embraced by forests or nestled on the steep heights of rocky cliffs, the echoes of festivals blend with the soundscape of the natural surroundings and the communities hosting them. Discover our selection of festivals happening across valleys and mountains, sprouting from small villages dotting their slopes.

FestivalFinder.eu is not only showing your festival to audiences, it is also a platform to find new partner festivals with a bunch of new developments and features. All arts festivals are invited to register: Time for you to create your new festival's edition and to boost your collaborations!

What is the state of art festivals in France, Czechia, and the UK? What challenges do festivals face across Europe? Discover some insights outlined in the session Festivals Facts and Figures: Research presentations.

Get ready for the new call of the European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists - EFFEA. Applications for EFFEA Call #4 for festivals to support emerging artists will open on 1 September 2025 and will supporting 50 residencies in 2026.

As spaces of connection, exchange and creative thinking, festivals and cultural networks address the multifaceted circumstances of our times - whether it is geopolitical hostilities, climate change, technological shifts, or growing inequalities.