Making Festivals Happen

Wed Feb 19 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC+00:00

CodeBase | Edinburgh

Creative Edinburgh
Publisher/HostCreative Edinburgh
Making Festivals Happen
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Join us to discuss how festivals are made, as we focus on community engagement, with speakers from across the Edinburgh Festivals.
About this Event

What are the roles that Edinburgh Festivals offer and how can the local creative community engage with them?


Creative Edinburgh has partnered with Festivals Edinburgh to build connections between the creative community and the festivals in the City. This is the fifth event in the partnership series of Making Festivals Happen and will focus on four different types of key roles: Marketing and Communications, Production, Industry Facing roles and public-facing roles.

This event will highlight what opportunities are coming up at various festivals in 2025 when to apply and what else you need to know as a creative practitioner looking for your next festival project.

The event is designed to particularly benefit early career individuals and may also be of interest to mid-level career practitioners. Please let us know how you identify when registering for this event.


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Running Order 

This event will include presentations from a selection of Festivals Edinburgh’s member festivals.

Representatives from the following festival teams will be available to answer your questions:


  • TBC [Production and Technical]
  • Sarah Dodd, [Industry Facing]
  • Hugo Mintz, [Marketing and Communications]
  • TBC [Public Facing]


18:00 - Welcome and Introduction from Creative Edinburgh and Festivals Edinburgh

18:15 - Festivals Presentations

19:00 - Focused Q&A with festival representatives 

19:30 - Informal networking

20:00 - Round up, thank yous & event end

The discussion will be recorded (excluding the Q&A) and posted on the Creative Edinburgh and Festivals Edinburgh website. Only the facilitator and speakers will be included in the recording.

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Photographs will be taken during the event for future promotional purposes. If you prefer not to appear in any images, please let us know upon arrival, and we will ensure your preferences are respected.

Access information

There will be a BSL interpreter available during the event.

If you have any other access requirements, please let us know during registration or get in touch with us directly at [email protected], and we will do our very best to help.

We can offer a small bursary to help with caring costs, please inquire to find out more by contacting [email protected].


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About Creative Edinburgh

Creative Edinburgh is a registered Scottish Charity (SC052838) committed to helping creatives thrive. Through events, career support and advocacy, we bring together and help grow the city’s creative community, providing a space for creation, collaboration and connection at every stage of your career. Creative Edinburgh is supported by Creative Scotland as one of the Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs).

To become a member of Creative Edinburgh, click here.

About Festivals Edinburgh

Festivals Edinburgh is a strategic umbrella organisation focused on over-arching areas of mutual interest. Its sole focus is to maintain and develop the value of the Festivals’ and the Festival City’s leading position locally and globally, via major collaborative projects and strategic initiatives.

Our member festivals are: Edinburgh Science Festival, Edinburgh International Children’s Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Scottish International Storytelling Festival and Edinburgh’s Hogmanay

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CodeBase, 37a Castle Terrace, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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