Atelier for Young Festival Managers, Belgium

The Academy for Young Festival Managers - a project of the European Festival Association - brought together 33 festival managers from 25 different countries across 6 continents in Kortrijk, Belgium.  The Academy was hosted by the NEXT Festival which is a cross-border festival, with events in Lille, France and Kortrijk, Belgium.  The excellent group of mentors was drawn from Brazil, Singapore, South Africa, Austria, Hong Kong and Australia, and I was privileged to help devise the programme and facilitate the event, my fifth (after Johannesburg March 2018, Gothenburg August 2018, Greece January 2019 and Malta May 2019).