RECONNECT: Conference for festivals

BAFA are pleased to announce our first in-person conference since 2019, RECONNECT. This conference will be held at The Crown Hotel in Harrogate on Tuesday 16th November from 12pm until Wednesday 17th November at 4pm.

Tickets for the event are now on sale and can be bought here with a full programme to be announce shortly. The conference will cover a wide range of subjects including:

transformed spaces

re-imagined organisations

the changing audience – including an update from Indigo

mental health and festivals

building back better: diverse recruitment, focus on youth

Attitude is Everything: making 2022 the most accessible festival ever

the cutting edge: what is the future of festivals?


If you have never been to Harrogate before, you are really in for a treat – it has fantastic restaurants, shops, green spaces and access to wonderful countryside, as well as a fabulous festival. And Bettys!  We’re hugely looking forward to welcoming you in person to BAFA’s conference and very much hope to pick up the brilliant threads of conversation we had in Rewind, Play, Forward in February.  As ever, if there is anything you would like to discuss or see at conference, please get in touch.  We hope to see you in Yorkshire in November!

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