Festival Evaluation: Workshop preliminary findings

Millington, Steve ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5143-3074 and Platt, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9063-1110 (2017) Festival Evaluation: Workshop preliminary findings. In: Festival Evaluation, 08 June 2017.

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Abstract

This project aimed to deliver a one-day workshop on Festival Evaluation for place-based community festivals. Small-scale community and arts festivals are significant mechanisms for social and urban renewal, particularly within an age of austerity. There is a perception, however, that festival organisers lack the capacity to capture the impact of their interventions. By bringing together academics, festival organisers, funding bodies, and policy practitioners, the workshop aimed to explore how festival organisers, place managers and the university can work together for mutual benefit, knowledge exchange, evaluation and impact. In addition, the event aimed to explore the potential for establishing cross-faculty links between festival researchers, and the positioning of the university to external stakeholders with the view to building sustainable partnerships.