Goldblatt University

This is a research report for the British Arts Festivals Association (BAFA) from 2000, subtitled “The shape of Arts Festivals in the UK.”

On their website you can download the 2008 version of this report, which I have not yet read but will. I hope that it provides more analysis than the 2000 report, which presents excellent statistics which have been thoroughly checked and qualified. The report, however, does little to present the significance of these statistics and what they might mean for the festival industry.

They would do good by checking out Theatre Facts, annually presented by the American team Theatre Communications Group. Theatre Facts tells you directly where the business is at and backs it up with the statistics.