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Culture for Societies: Communication - Government Issues

How to deal with an increasing western-focused world?

The present world, dominated by high-speed information, easy access to knowledge and powerful cross-fertilisation of cultures, could on one hand ideally favour social and cultural integration by putting in contact different cultures, but on the other hand the shared feeling…

Broader Perspectives - The editorials of Tafter Journal

Eventful Cities: the relationship between city development and cultural events

In recent years slogans such as ‘festival city’ or ‘city of festivals’ have become common elements of the brand image of many cities. But why have events become so popular? What are the benefits of being ‘eventful’? What is the…

Culture for territorial development

Festivals and place. Isola delle Storie book festival and genius loci

The research investigates the relationship between festivals and place, looking at their genius loci and economic, social and cultural benefits produced. The issues were applied to Isola delle Storie, a book festival strongly rooted in its land and characters. The…

Managing Culture for creating impacts

How African cultural festivals are using innovative methods to attract new audiences, fund and host sustainable festivals

This paper will focus on trends within the management of African cultural festivals, particularly on aspects of attracting new audiences primarily through social media, new approaches to funding such as using crowd funding and original models of social and environmental…

Broader Perspectives - The editorials of Tafter Journal

Culture and development at a crossroads

The two articles featured in this issue of Tafter Journal by Mazuba Kapambwe and Johannis Tsoumas may inspire some further reflections on the difficult, ‘liquid’ relation between place, ideology and politics, which is so present in almost any debate on…

Calls for papers

Call For Papers on “Festivals: audience, funding and sustainability”. Deadline extended to 31 March 2014

Tafter Journal and LOOP Studies/University of Barcelona invite paper submissions which offer new and challenging research on trends within the management of cultural festivals. Get Involved! We welcome participants willing to share their research and experiences!

Creating Culture

The undervalued of potential of the peripathetic feature of festivals. A look at the FISahara Film Festival

In relation to the practice of deterritorilisaton, The FISahara film festival, coming to its 6th edition, is one of the most atypical activist film festivals, which takes place in a refugee camp in the middle of the Algerian desert, where…

After

Where do we belong? Festivals conquer the urban texture

This reflection comes to my mind when looking at the social and cultural current phenomenon such as the recent proliferation of film festivals around the world. I consider this phenomenon as an expression of the changing nature of the audience…