Deadline extended until 30/09: Atelier Amman 2025

The Festival Academy, an initiative of the European Festivals Association (EFA) extends the call for applications for the 24th edition of the Atelier for Young Festival Managers, to take place in Amman in 2025, in partnership with Studio 8 and IDEA – International Dance Encounter Amman and in collaboration with the The National Center for Culture and Arts (NCCA). 

The Atelier will offer the opportunity to up to 20 young festival leaders and curators from Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Yemen and 15 from all over the world to spend 7 days together guided by experienced festival leaders, cultural activists, cross-sector experts and artists in Amman.

The Atelier facilitates a global conversation about today’s challenges and the role that festivals, art and culture can play in these. This seven-day long capacity building programme targets festival curators, regardless of age, gender and nationality, who are interested in exchanging knowledge and experiences between professionals active in the field of festivals and who wish to improve their management skills, learn from renowned experts and exchange ideas and best practices with other participants.

Studio 8 is a non-for-profit company active in the field of dance and performing arts founded by a group of young artists aiming to shape and humanize dance art through innovation, experiment, development, exchange, education, and research.

IDEA – International Dance Encounter Amman, is the bi-annual international multi-disciplinary dance festival organized and curated by Studio 8. IDEA aims to put Jordan in the global dance scene and to create bonds between dance professionals from Jordan and abroad.

To hold a global Atelier in Jordan supports the mission to bring international cultural workers in the Jordan scene and to reflect in depth on which role festivals and art can play in conflict situations and as platforms for freedom of expression and human rights.

We encourage festival makers from Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Yemen to apply. Up to 20 selected applicants will have a reduced participation fee and travel costs covered.

Find out more about the programme, the experts and the application procedures and funding opportunities, and apply before 30/09/2024 here.