Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe (EFFE) kicks off EFFE 2019-2020

06 Sep 2018

The EFFE International Jury is gathering at BOZAR Centre of Fine Arts in Brussels on 7-8 September, together with the EFFE Hubs to define the final criteria and the competitive process of this European scheme for festivals preparing for Creative Europe 2021-2027. Launch of EFFE 2019-2020 will be in November 2018.

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1129 festivals received the European recognition for arts festivals in the pilot phase of EFFE. A new online search tool for audiences worldwide is added to the programme: The Festival Finder will go online in the beginning of November 2018. All arts festivals from 43 countries are invited to add their festival to this one and only European arts festivals search engine reaching out to international audiences, artists, travellers, academics, journalists, bloggers, policy makers,...

EFA President Jan Briers is excited about the finalisation of the Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe scheme and is looking forward to further develop EFFE as a useful instrument for festivals and audiences.

The EFFE International Jury chaired by Sir Jonathan Mills will select the most innovative festivals in certain categories for the EFFE Awards. The complete EFFE International Jury includes:

  1. Sir Jonathan Mills – president of the jury Director of the Edinburgh International Culture Summit
  2. Mrs. Tamar Brüggemann Co-director of the Wonderfeel festival Netherlands
  3. Mr. George Delnon (new jury member) Artistic director of the Hamburg State Opera
  4. Mr. Peter Florence Founder and director of the Hay Festival group, UK
  5. Mrs. Fairouz Nishanova (new jury member) Director of the Aga Khan Music Initiative in Geneva
  6. Mr. Keng Sen Ong Festival Director of the Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA)
  7. Mr. Haris Pasovic Director of the Mittelfest and director of East West Centre Sarajevo
  8. Mr. Pawel Potoroczyn CEO of University SWPS in Warsaw, Poland
  9. Mrs. Ruta Pruseviciene (new jury member) Executive Director of Vilnius Festival and General Director of the National Philharmonic Society of Lithuania
  10. Mr. Renato Quaglia General Manager of the FOQUS Foundation and Project Manager of the Friuli Future Forum
  11. Mrs. Virve Sutinen (new jury member) Artistic director of Tanz im August Berlin

More information about the International Jury and Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe can be found here.

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