July 2008
The festival Business
When you’re in the festival business sometimes its difficult to see the bigger picture. It’s such a seasonal and intense job whether you’re a small festival overseeing and thinking about pretty much everything or you work for a large festival and are totally immerged in what you or your department do. Its only when you step out and experience it as an insider yet an outsider that you can really take stock of the bigger picture.
Everyone’s positions within a structure are as important as his or her neighbour and one cannot stand with out the other. People can be dispensable but positions aren’t. Such as, a festival doesn’t run with out the venues but venues don’t run with out the performers, the performers loose out on an opportunity without both, the audience see nothing without all three. Do they work in harmony? Sometimes…
If you work for a festival then you’re on the ground dealing with grass routes issues all the time…
