Festivaler på Sørlandet

Finland, one of the partner countries in the FESTIVALS project with Agderforskning, has seen various festivals, especially since 1960s, by a variety of people, groups and organizations. Some of these festivals have grown and developed from local and regional events to national and large, partly international, events. Finland Festivals, which is a collaboration forum for the most important cultural events in Finland, runs almost 100 member festivals, representing concert and vocal music, chamber music, jazz, folk music and culture, rock and pop music, dance, theatre, literature, visual art and combinations of these.

Taloustutkimus, an independent market research house, gathers data on the leading festivals, including the 26 leading Finnish summer festivals, while the Finland Festival organization contributes greatly to the culture and tourism sector. It also focuses on representing the collective interests of the festivals in marketing, public relations, regular information gathering, research and training. Despite this, academic research into festivals in Finland is still limited to individual researchers rather than bigger research groups and specific areas of concentration.

University Consortium of Pori (UCPori) is a networked multidisciplinary environment across institutions in the West-Coast of Finland, including: Turku School of Economics, Tampere University of Technology, University of Art and Design Helsinki, University of Turku and University of Tampere.   This multidisciplinary University Consortium gives an excellent environment for festivals research and has recently applied for ESF (European Social Fund) funding related to festivals and festival research. The focus will be on regional and national development and the modeling of a festival format. (See also United Kingdom)

For more information see the other FESTIVAL partner countries:

• Croatia
• Norway
• Sweden
• United Kingdom

Photo: Roskilde Festive | Photograph by: Thorbjørn Hansen/RockPhoto

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