Cultural festival: from lockdown to a new beginning? The Covid-19 impact on the 2020 summer events

Oliviero Ponte di Pino and Giulia Alonzo

Economia della Cultura, 2020, issue 2, 253-257

Abstract: In February-March 2020, Covid-19 stopped all cultural events, untilmid-June 2020, when indoor and outdoor venues could resume their activity,albeit with many restrictions, from environmental sanitation measuresto social distancing for the audience and the artists. It was a great economic,organizational and aesthetic challenge. Curators had the choice to moveonline, to cancel the 2020 edition or to postpone their events in the Fall-Winter. Using a database of more than 1000 Italian festival in differentfields (visual arts, cinema, music, performing arts, books and culture), theessay examines the impact of Covid-19 on cultural festivals, and the differentstrategies used by programmers.

Keywords: festival; culture; cultural events; Covid-19; lockdown; onlife (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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