ANTI Festival awarded EFFE Festivals Label and new Creative Europe project EX(S)PORTS

ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival has been selected to receive the EFFE Label (Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe). ANTI is now a part of the EFFE festival community, facilitated by the European Festivals Association, which consists of festivals that stand for artistic quality and have a significant impact on local, national and international contexts.

ANTI Festival received the following feedback from the international EFFE jury:

”An artistically ambitious, experimental festival of contemporary, site-specific art. The festival has a strong motive to strengthen its international significance.”

ANTI Festival is happy to announce that EX(S)PORTS #2 project has received support from the European Commission’s Creative Europe Programme. ANTI is a key partner in the two-year international collaboration, which concentrates on building bridges between art and  sport, something ANTI has a long-standing interest in – the festival’s 2015 edition was presented in collaboration with Kuopio marathon.

By combining art and sport, the project aims to develop new perspectives and possibilities for artistic projects and to develop and extend audiences for the work and the network’s partner organisations. Project partners will co-produce multidisciplinary art projects, arrange artist residencies and engage different communities and sports organisations in the partner’s host cities.