Future Festivals South Africa: Possibilities for the Age of Covid-19

未来的节日南非：新冠肺炎时代的可能性是一个由英国伦敦国王学院和南非罗兹大学共同开发的国际合作项目。它旨在调查新冠肺炎对南非艺术节(SA)的影响，建立一个新的知识库和合作网络，使它们能够在这些充满挑战的时代生存下来，并在未来蓬勃发展。在这样做的过程中，该项目正在与该国一些最重要的节日合作，并将寻求发展一个广泛和包容各方的利益攸关方网络。该项目汇集了一个跨学科的研究团队，其中包括文化经济学家、文化政策研究人员和创造性劳动专家。数据收集经过精心设计，以整合混合方法，并涉及包括电影节组织者、创意制作人和电影节观众在内的广泛研究参与者。定性访谈和焦点小组将与电影节组织者和创意制作人进行。将通过在线调查与电影节观众一起收集定量数据，探索他们的文化消费和参与模式(新冠肺炎爆发之前和以来)。最后，将开展一个社区参与项目--来自未来的信件、视频和图片--以收集利益攸关方对南非节日未来几年应该是什么样子的愿景的创造性贡献。该项目旨在让人们对新冠肺炎如何影响南非的艺术节有一个初步的了解，同时也为未来提供新的想法：包括新的商业模式，以及吸引观众和参与的新方式。

Future Festivals South Africa: Possibilities for the Age of Covid-19 is an international collaborative project developed by King's College London (UK) and Rhodes University (South Africa). It aims to investigate the impact of Covid-19 on arts festivals in South Africa (SA), building a new knowledge base - and a collaborative network - to enable them to survive these challenging times, and to thrive in the future. In doing so, the project is partnering with some of the country's most important festivals and will be seeking to develop a broad and inclusive network of stakeholders. The project brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers including cultural economists, cultural policy researchers and creative labour specialists. Data collection has been carefully designed to integrate mixed-methods and to involve a wide range of research participants including festival organisers, creative producers, and festival audiences. Qualitative interviews and focus groups will be conducted with festival organisers and creative producers. Quantitative data will be collected with festivals' audiences, via online surveys, exploring their patterns of cultural consumption and participation (before and since the outbreak of Covid-19). Finally, a community engagement project will be undertaken - Letters, Videos and Pictures from the Future - to gather creative contributions from stakeholders on their vision of what South African festivals should be like in the years ahead. The project aims to provide an initial understanding of the how Covid-19 has affected arts festivals in South Africa, but also to enable new ideas for future: including new business models, and new approaches to audiences and participation.