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What actually happens when you apply to street festivals — written from the applying side.
2026-08-26
When Street Festivals Actually Book
A festival in September may have closed its programme the previous November. Here is the real booking calendar of the European street arts circuit, and why January is usually two months too late.
2026-08-26
What Festival Programmers Read First
Aufgetischt takes 40 acts from 700 applications. Linz takes 100 from 1,200. Here is what survives that filter, based on what organisers actually say.
2026-08-26
How to Route a European Festival Season
Festivals cluster. Three dates in Carinthia inside a fortnight, four on one Sardinian island, six across Canada in July. Routing is worth more than applying to everything.