According to people's needs, I have interviews and informal chats with people from the institutions, with the representatives of the small, rural and central communities of my town and curate in a way that our people would best connect. Beyond the contents, I try to build up a network of corporates, schools and organizations with whom the festival, which is about performing arts and music especially, can cooperate. This first step defines the length of the festival (it could be 1 or 5 months), the specific contents and places where the programme takes place.

Corporates in my town are following the green wave of getting more environmentally sustainable. The European Union, Italy, my region, and my local institutions themselves are transforming their environmental policies. As a festival, I obtained the green certificate by the foundation "My Climate", compensating all of our carbon footprint. This had a huge impact on our image and communication. I curated the programme locating the different events in 7 parks in and out of my town. This caused huge amazement to people who seemed to play "hunting treasure" and were looking forward to the next event. This also shaped a new target of people who are sensitive to nature and leading a more sustainable life, families, and music fans.

The climate crisis drastically alters our ways of living and consuming. Consequently, it also changes the ways in which we experience and organize cultural projects such as festivals. It does so from multiple angles: Fluctuating weather conditions or changed modes of mobility affect the festivals themselves. Festivals as ephemeral projects can, in turn, have an outsized impact on the environment. Yet, they’re also uniquely positioned to start and change conversations on a local and global scale by injecting impulses into the cultural and political sphere. With this in mind, we aimed to explore the climate crisis as a context. Global warming doesn’t affect everyone similarly and thus deepens already existing economic inequalities. How can international festivals foster a connected arts scene, and thus pay artists from different areas, while reducing travel? What forms of artistic responses to climate change already exist and which ones do we need to create? In a second step, we discussed the specifics of sustainable festival production by engaging with different best practice cases. Different approaches might focus on the behavior of the individual festival attendee or look at the festival as a whole; they might emphasize topics such as renewable energies, waste reduction or green mobility.

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Julie's Bicycle is a pioneering not-for-profit mobilizing the arts and culture to take action on the climate and ecological crisis. Founded by the music industry in 2007 and now working across the arts and culture, JB has partnered with over 2000 organisations in the UK and internationally. Combining cultural and environmental expertise, Julie’s Bicycle focuses on high-impact programmes and policy change to meet the climate crisis head-on.

The first Sziget Festival as organized back in 1993 as a small gathering and has since evolved into one of Europe’s largest music festivals. Each year we strive to bring Szitizens some of the biggest names out there, and host over 1,000 shows across 60 stages, for 6 days straight.

While music is an important part of Sziget, art is also a core element. There are multiple venues including circus, theatre, museum quarter and much more. Artists and performers come from all over the world to display their talents. There are also opportunities for Szitizens and artists to work together in order to create memorable and meaningful artwork.

Sounds of the Forest - We are collecting the sounds of woodlands and forests from all around the world, creating a growing soundmap bringing together aural tones and textures from the world’s woodlands. The sounds form an open source library, to be used by anyone to listen to and create from. Selected artists will be responding to the sounds that are gathered, creating music, audio, artwork or something else incredible, to be presented at Timber Festival.

A Greener Festival is a not-for-profit company, committed to helping events, festivals and venues around the world to become more sustainable and to reduce environmental impacts. As pioneers in event sustainability since the first research in 2005, AGF provide certification, training, expertise, and facilitate the exchange of best practice.

Festival Santander, due to its history, trajectory, present and future, is undoubtedly one of the cultural references of the summer in Santander and a large part of the towns of Cantabria, and it also has an important projection outside the region. It is one of the leading festivals in the summer programme in Spain.