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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.

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.