The Festival Cities of Edinburgh and Adelaide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Festival Cities of Edinburgh and Adelaide write by Sarah Thomasson. This book was released on 2022-08-20. The Festival Cities of Edinburgh and Adelaide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Festival Cities of Edinburgh and Adelaide examines how these cities’ world-famous arts events have shaped and been shaped by their long-term interaction with their urban environments. While the Edinburgh International Festival and Adelaide Festival are long-established, prestigious events that champion artistic excellence, they are also accompanied by the two largest open-access fringe festivals in the world. It is this simultaneous staging of multiple events within Edinburgh’s Summer Festivals and Adelaide’s Mad March that generates the visibility and festive atmosphere popularly associated with both places. Drawing on perspectives from theatre studies and cultural geography, this book interrogates how the Festival City, as a place myth, has developed in the very different local contexts of Edinburgh and Adelaide, and how it is challenged by groups competing for the right to use and define public space. Each chapter examines a recent performative event in which festival debates and controversies spilled out beyond the festival space to activate the public sphere by intersecting with broader concerns and audiences. This book forges an interdisciplinary, comparative framework for festival studies to interrogate how festivals are embedded in the social and political fabric of cities and to assess the cultural impact of the festivalisation phenomenon.
Producing the Festival City
Producing the Festival City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Producing the Festival City write by Sarah Thomasson. This book was released on 2015. Producing the Festival City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Festivals and the City
Festivals and the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Festivals and the City write by Andrew Smith. This book was released on 2022-08-23. Festivals and the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores how festivals and events affect urban places and public spaces, with a particular focus on their role in fostering inclusion. The ‘festivalisation’ of culture, politics and space in cities is often regarded as problematic, but this book examines the positive and negative ways that festivals affect cities by examining festive spaces as contested spaces. The book focuses on Western European cities, a particularly interesting context given the social and cultural pressures associated with high levels of in-migration and concerns over the commercialisation and privatisation of public spaces. The key themes of this book are the quest for more inclusive urban spaces and the contested geographies of festival spaces and places. Festivals are often used by municipal authorities to break down symbolic barriers that restrict who uses public spaces and what those spaces are used for. However, the rise of commercial festivals and ticketed events means that they are also responsible for imposing physical and financial obstacles that reduce the accessibility of city parks, streets and squares. Alongside addressing the contested effects of urban festivals on the character and inclusivity of public spaces, the book addresses more general themes including the role of festivals in culture-led regeneration. Several chapters analyse festivals and events as economic development tools, and the book also covers contested representations of festival cities and the ways related images and stories are used in place marketing. A range of cases from Western Europe are used to explore these issues, including chapters on some of the world’s most significant and contested festival cities: Venice, Edinburgh, London and Barcelona. The book covers a wide range of festivals, including those dedicated to music and the arts, but also events celebrating particular histories, identities and pastimes. A series of fascinating cases are discussed - from the Venice Biennale and Dublin Festival of History, to Rotterdam’s music festivals and craft beer festivals in Manchester. The diverse and innovative qualities of the book are also evident in the range of urban spaces covered: obvious examples of public spaces – such as parks, streets, squares and piazzas – are addressed, but the book includes chapters on enclosed public spaces (e.g., libraries) and urban blue spaces (waterways) too. This reflects the interpretation of public spaces as socio-material entities: they are produced informally through their use (including for festivals and events), as well as through their formal design and management.
International Theatre Festivals and Twenty-First-Century Interculturalism
International Theatre Festivals and Twenty-First-Century Interculturalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook International Theatre Festivals and Twenty-First-Century Interculturalism write by Ric Knowles. This book was released on 2021-12-16. International Theatre Festivals and Twenty-First-Century Interculturalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A far-reaching examination of how international theatre festivals shape 21st-century intercultural negotiation and exchange.
Exploring the Social Impacts of Events
Exploring the Social Impacts of Events - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploring the Social Impacts of Events write by Greg Richards. This book was released on 2013. Exploring the Social Impacts of Events available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Social impacts are increasingly used as one of the main justifications for staging and funding events, and yet there is very little empirical evidence on the extent to which these impacts are realised by different kinds of events or in different settings. This volume explores the different social aspects of events, looking in particular at the role of events in developing social capital, social cohesion and participation in local communities.
