Arts Festivals and the City

Quinn, Bernadette

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“…As it has been observed in relation to this kind of festivities [Quinn, 2005;…], during this weekend people are both producers (they make the kites, dress the colours of their respective districts etc.) and spectators.…”

Section: The Kite Festivalmentioning

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“…Building upon recent suggestions in the literature (Quinn, 2005;) I conceptualize events as potentially both inward forces, capable of "making community", and outward forces, being touristic attractions and enhancing place recognizability. Every event can thus be positioned along a continuum from "inward force" to "outward force", where the "ideal" situation is when the two aspects result perfectly balanced.…”

Section: Events Between Marketing and Human Sciencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Producing and consuming the painter Raphael's birthplace

Giovanardi

2011

Journal of Place Management and Development

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It is possible to contact the author at: m.giovanardi@le.ac.uk This paper has been published as: Giovanardi, M. (2011). Producing and consuming the painter Raphael's birthplace. Journal of Place Management and Development, 4(1), 53-66.Purpose -This article draws on Johnson's "Circle of Culture" to develop a cultural approach for studying place-marketing internal audience. My research project on the small Italian Renaissance city of Urbino explores how a number of marketing events dedicated to the painter Raphael, who was born there, have been produced and then received among different urban populations (dwellers, commuters, students etc.). The second part of the article conceptualizes events as both "inward" and "outward" forces and compares the Raphaellian Events with some of Urbino's traditional festivities.Design/methods/approach -This is a qualitative study that applies discourse analysis to media texts, official documents and forty-two in-depth interviews held with both local officials and internal place consumers.Findings -The inquiry reveals a predominance of discourses in support of the events: civic pride, identification, economic benefits. What is more striking is that some participants not only appreciated the marketing events but "went beyond" by producing discourses in support of a more intensive exploitation of Urbino's cultural and heritage resources. Research limitations/implications-Quantitative research is recommended to generalize evidence stemming from my ethnographic inquiry and to measure "the magnitude" of the different discourses produced by the people.Originality/value -This article contributes to overcoming the materialist perspective which underpins a consistent part of literature by showing a new (counter)example of the "nonoppositional voices" of place-marketing. Moreover, it sheds more light on how "tertiary communication" takes place and how it can be properly investigated.

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Section: The Kite Festivalmentioning

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Section: Events Between Marketing and Human Sciencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Producing and consuming the painter Raphael's birthplace

Giovanardi

2011

Journal of Place Management and Development

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“…Moreover, it was indicated that many firms have been bought by foreign firms and decisions are taken by headquarters abroad, who are less involved and interested in local development in Rotterdam. 6 The participation of firms from the region has also become more uncertain, and the way participants join differs often per year depending on market dynamics and the performance of firms. It was explained in the interviews that the opportunity costs for the use of equipment during the event are high 7 , and many markets of firms in the port are highly dynamic, making long term, or even medium term planning of the event difficult.…”

Section: Participants and Business Valuementioning

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Annual City Festivals as Tools for Sustainable Competitiveness: The World Port Days Rotterdam

Tuijl

Berg

2016

Economies

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Many cities organize annual local festivals for the positive effects on urban development, although success is far from straightforward. This article reviews a case study of the World Port Days in Rotterdam in order to demonstrate how annual city festivals can contribute to sustainable competitiveness, despite limitations as well. We show how this maritime event-that is jointly organized by the business community, the Port Authority and the City Government-offers benefits for citizens as well as for firms. Our empirical results unveil that the business value of the event includes generation of societal support, image improvement, labor market development and networking, while the value for society refers to education, leisure and to a certain degree to social inclusion. The direct value of the event for business in terms of sales and recruitment is limited, while the long-term effects of educational function deserve further attention. Finally, we provide policy lessons that, when properly contextualized, other cities may help to use annual local festivals as tools for sustainable competitiveness.

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“…Literary events will continue to educate, and to inform and create discussion, and utilize new urban professionals. increasingly notable for their role in this economic development process (Gibson et al 2010;Quinn 2005aQuinn , 2005b and in alleviating and redirecting some of the potential for the urban familiarity. Moreover, rarely requiring permanent structures they have little or no repercussions on real estate.…”

Section: The Changing Roles Of Cultural Professionals and Institutionsmentioning

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Signals and Signposts of the Future: Literary Festival Consumption in 2050

Robertson¹,

Yeoman²

2014

Tourism Recreation Research

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This conceptual paper uses a scenario planning process to facilitate possible futures for literary festivals, a form of festival tourism that has grown rapidly in the developed and developing countries of the world in the early decades of the 21 st Century and which continues to grow towards 2050. The paper addresses this in the context of two significant cities, Shanghai -a megacity in China, and Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria, Australia. The paper offers two scenarios for literary festivals, one drawn from science fiction and the other from a process of prognosis. The aim of this work is to contribute to research in festival tourism studies by exploring the signposts and signals that may confer the future role, form and function of literature and the format and activity of literary festivals and literary festival tourism in a changing world. Utilizing Signals and Signposts, the work contributes to the body of work which seeks strategic responses to rapid change, rapid urbanization and possible zones of uncertainty that may await literary festivals and associated tourism and community activity in the future. Keywords

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Arts Festivals and the City

Cited by 254 publications

References 41 publications

Producing and consuming the painter Raphael's birthplace

Producing and consuming the painter Raphael's birthplace

Annual City Festivals as Tools for Sustainable Competitiveness: The World Port Days Rotterdam

Signals and Signposts of the Future: Literary Festival Consumption in 2050

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