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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.

Diaspora festivals pulse with the energy of elsewhere. They are shaped by journeys, by in‑between lives, by voices that echo across time and distance. They gather people not only to celebrate where they come from, but to show how culture adapts, survives and stays loud.

The FestivalFinder.eu Networking Sessions are EFA's new online format for festivals to connect, collaborate, interact, exchange ideas, share knowledge, explore synergies and share best practices.

These festivals are not only about art and performance. They become places to gather, reflect and resist. Through theatre, music, and public dialogue, they open space for quiet acts of courage and collective imagination.

The festival offers inclusive experiences through adapted transport, tactile sound devices, and sign language interpretation, proving that even in high-altitude landscapes, music can be for everyone.

From art and theatre to film, music and literature, a variety of exciting festivals will soon be taking place across Poland, bringing people together and celebrating creativity across borders.

RisorgiMarche is a sustainable open-air festival that combines music, nature and community in the landscapes of central Italy. Created after the 2016 earthquakes, it promotes environmental care and social inclusion through a unique, environmentally responsible format.

FestivalFinder.eu invites festivals from across Europe to update their profiles for 2025. By doing so, festivals can increase their visibility among audiences, artists, journalists, and policymakers, and access valuable opportunities such as the EFFE Label and EFFEA grants.

Lacuna Festivals operate from a non-commercial, anti-capitalist standpoint where the focus is on exchange of knowledge, skills and artists by and for creatives of all backgrounds, abilities and expertise.