Discipline
Street magic festivals
36 festivals across 13 countries. 33 of them run an open call you can enter directly.
Very few festivals are dedicated to street magic, and the ones that are — St. Wendel, Bamberg, Lisboa Mágica, Magialdia — are small, fiercely contested and mostly booked by people who already know the circuit. The larger opportunity is the street arts festival that programmes magic alongside juggling, clown and acrobatics without advertising the fact. Those are the festivals listed here with magic in their programme.
This is a genre with a specific problem: a magic act reads as a children's entertainer to a programmer who has only ever seen bad ones. The way past that is to present the work as street performance first and magic second — the circle, the build, the crowd, the timing — and let the method be the thing that surprises. Festivals that limit themselves to two magic slots a year, and many do, are choosing between magicians on exactly that distinction.
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36Where these festivals are
Germany · Switzerland · Italy · Austria · Canada · Portugal · United Kingdom · Spain — and 5 more countries.
Other disciplines
Busker festivals · Street circus festivals · Street theatre festivals · Street music festivals