STREET ARTISTS IN EUROPE - Fondazione Fitzcarraldo

Street Artists in Europe
Poland: Ministry of culture, local and regional authorities, upon production of an invitation.
England and Wales: Foreign and Commonwealth Office Board of trade, British Council.
Ireland: Culture Ireland.
Italy: Ministry of Culture.
Belgium: Commissariat Général aux Relations Internationales (CGRI).
Germany: (rarely) Goethe Institute.
Slovenia: Slovene Ministry of Culture. They can also apply for support from the Ministers
reserve.
France: CulturesFrance (formerly AFAA) Institut Francais.
Spain: Basque and Catalan Governments, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Instituto
Cervantes (very occasionally).
In view of the contradictory information (and lack of knowledge by many respondents), I think
this area should be researched more extensively; as a way of encouraging foreign touring.
4. Challenges concerned with international touring
4.1. Lack of information and knowledge
Lack of information is a major reason for artists not making more steps to get themselves into
other countries and is also a problem for many programmers.
Artists:
Many artists are poorly resourced and cannot or do not provide glossy high quality publicity to
mail to festivals.
"But more often the publicity helps to get us the booking after they have already seen or heard
about us from somewhere else. We rarely get a booking just by sending out publicity randomly."
Yet others claim:
“Web site and mail outs are very important"
"We have just mailed out to European festivals and are getting a good response".
Artists feel they do not know enough about other European festivals. They learn most by talking
to each other and festival directors. Some say they really enjoy large festivals where there are
artist resting and eating facilities, so they can meet performers from different countries. Some
good friendships have been made. Several artists feel that they are alone in not knowing what to
do. The degree of isolation felt by some is very disturbing. Much effort needs to be put into
generating artist participation in national networks.
Programmers:
Some programmers also suffer from lack of information:
"We have very few contacts with any companies apart from French."
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