18 – 19 November, Bristol Beacon
Please put the dates for this year’s BAFA Conference for Festivals in your diary! We’re looking forward to being at the Bristol Beacon on Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 November, where you can expect sessions on a range of topics including:
- Festivals Mean Business- what does the data tell us about where the sector is going in the future?
- Creating a compelling story for festivals – how to grow advocacy for the sector
- Festivals leadership – identifying the key issues for festival leaders, and what we can learn from the Leaders for Culture Change programme
- Sustainability – sharing learning, best practice and ideas from the urban festivals sustainability network
- Funding festivals – challenges and solutions
- Workshops on equity, diversity and inclusion
Tickets will be on sale soon.
Take a look back at the 2023 conference here.
Sponsorship
BAFA’s annual conference is a great opportunity to meet key contacts across the UK arts and cultural industries, including festival directors and CEOs, artistic programmers and decision makers from a range of events and festival organisations. BAFA members range from the very largest and longest established arts festivals to smaller, voluntarily run organisations and represent an astonishing breadth of activity. As well as festival and event producers, our membership includes university and associated partners. The BAFA conference is a friendly, relatively intimate event, with a good opportunity to meet delegates face-to-face and talk business in a relaxed and welcoming environment.
If you’re interested in sponsoring BAFA’s 2024 conference, we’d love to hear from you. Email us at bafa@artsfestivals.co.uk.
