Support for festivals promoting creation in Occitan and Catalan languages

The Region wishes to support festivals that play an important role in promoting creation in Occitan and Catalan languages. Festivals thus enable the dissemination of works and cultural democratization to a wide audience, particularly through the cultural action they can develop. They also play an important role in economic, tourism, and territorial development and attractiveness.

Selection criteria:

Aid is primarily intended for festivals that have been in existence for at least one year. The selection of the application and the amount of Regional aid are conditional on the analysis of all the following criteria by the advisory committee.

Programming:

• Quality programming (professional shows, choices allowing the emergence of an artistic line)
• Artistic diversity, uniqueness, and innovation of the programming
• Programming, in particular, of professional regional artistic teams

Dissemination (audience policy...)

• Accessibility and actions aimed at widening audiences, particularly disadvantaged audiences;
• Actions outside the festival period, throughout the year, favoring the development of seasons…