Thursday, August 30, 2007
Edinburgh Festival Directors Call for More Funding
Whatsonstage.com: "As festival month draws to a close in Edinburgh, the directors of the five main festivals – the International Festival’s Jonathan Mills and the Fringe’s Jon Morgan, both of whom were new to their jobs this year, as well the chiefs of the books and film events and the Military Tattoo – assembled for a rare joint appearance yesterday to lobby for greater public spending in support of the annual events."
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Holding festival in summer is often connected with the tourism. In Europe, there are a lot of festivals in summer, and some of them are worldwide well-known. Therefore, “festival business” is very competitive during this period of time. The audience’s concern about going to festival sometimes is not only festival itself but also the neighborhood. Being a festival audience, I’d be more interested in European continental festival in the condition of low budget for vacation. In Europe, it is easy to go around by train, by bus and by car. Edinburgh might need to reconsider its policy of holding festival in terms of budget, geographic factor, the scope and amount of production etc., particularly in the time of Euro and English pound is appreciating.
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