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

“南非未来节日：新冠肺炎时代的可能性”是由伦敦国王学院（英国）和罗德大学（南非）开发的一个国际合作项目。该项目旨在调查2019冠状病毒病对南非艺术节的影响，建立一个新的知识库和协作网络，使艺术节能够在充满挑战的时期生存下来，并在未来蓬勃发展。为此，该项目正在与该国一些最重要的节日合作，并将寻求建立一个广泛而包容的利益相关者网络。该项目汇集了一个跨学科的研究团队，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，并涉及广泛的研究参与者，包括节日组织者，创意制作人和节日观众。我们将与艺术节组织者和创意制作人进行定性访谈和焦点小组讨论。将通过在线调查收集节日观众的定量数据，探索他们的文化消费和参与模式（疫情爆发前后）。最后，一项社区参与计画将会展开，名为“来自未来的信件、影像与图片”，以收集各持份者的创意贡献，畅想未来南非节庆的面貌。该项目旨在初步了解Covid-19如何影响南非的艺术节，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法。

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.