“Go Green, Festivals!” stories online

06 Feb 2024

The “Go Green, Festivals!” stories are online. We have collected more than 30 stories that you can find here.

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Environmental sustainability has taken centre stage on the agenda of festivals: in the logistics, programming, educational activities, and many other levels. Festivals are in prime position to raise awareness and concern for our natural environment among their team members, partners, and audiences. We are all aware that festivals play a role in the challenge of our environment, regardless of how complex it may be.

Through the campaign “Go Green, Festivals”, we want to amplify festivals' knowledge, experiences, and efforts by collecting remarkable stories, insights, and lessons learned from endeavours in tackling sustainability challenges.

The call for stories was open from 18 September to 15 November 2023. Thanks to the ones we gathered, we can now highlight what festivals are doing to learn from each other and create awareness about the role of arts and culture in addressing societal issues.

Here are the festivals that took part in this initiative:

• Alt Shift / Shift Slow (Austria)

• BallArte Festival (Spain)

• Earthink Festival (Italy)

• Festivalito Into this Wood (Belgium)

• Galway International Arts Festival (Ireland)

• Gaudeamus Festival (Netherlands)

• Granada Improfest (Spain)

• i-Fest International Film Festival (Italy)

• International Festival Wratislavia Cantans (Poland)

• Malomfesztivál / Windmill Festival (Serbia)

• Medieval Festival of Rhodes (Greece)

• Meidän Festivaali (Finland)

• Music Biennale Zagreb (Croatia)

• ‘nTramenti (Italy)

• Off The Beaten Path (Bulgaria)

• Photopolis Agrinio Photo Festival (Greece)

• Piccolo Opera Festival (Slovenia)

• POLIS Teatro Festival (Italy)

• Porta Ferrada (Spain)

• Rock for People (Czechia)

• RZM Festival (Spain)

• STROOM Festival (Belgium)

• Survival Art Review / Art Transparent (Poland)

• Tbilisi International Animation Festival / AnimaLab (Georgia)

• Thessalian Poetry Festival (Greece)

• Tradidanças - Folk, Dance, Music & Nature Festival (Portgual)

• Valley of Arts Festival (Hungary)

• Varna Summer International Music Festival (Bulgaria)

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