Robert Baird
BAM! Baird Artists Management Consulting, Alliston
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Session Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 from 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location: Hennepin Ballroom North
Session Title: Challenges and Strategies for Festivals Coping with a Whole New World
Session Description: The post-Covid world presents ongoing and new challenges for festivals. This presentation will delineate those challenges which impact festivals today and suggest some strategies to cope with them. Dealing with falling attendance, new demographics and changing patron expectations, festivals will discover new coping mechanisms.
3 Expected Learning Outcomes for Attendees
- An understanding of how the world has changed post-Covid
- An understanding of how festivals need to respond to those changes
- Take-aways for coping with these changes for festival survival
