Why join FEST?

FEST is a vibrant European network that brings together storytellers, festivals and organisations from across the continent. With members representing diverse cultures, traditions and languages, our community celebrates the richness of storytelling and strengthens its role as a professional performing art.

BECOME A FEST MEMBER

FEST is a place where you can build expertise on European storytelling, share skills and ideas, network with other storytelling groups, initiate cross-cultural collaborations, and receive European storytelling information.

Being a FEST Member is…

Being part of a professional international network,

Participating in conferences, symposia, fora or other meetings,

Raising issues and questions or specific interests to your organisation,

Exchanging and sharing knowledge with colleagues

Working together to ensure a sustainable and professional environment for oral storytelling,

Being represented in and partnered with other European associations and networks

Membership Criteria

Full FEST Members contribute to the future of FEST: they get to vote on how FEST will be run, contribute to the agenda of the annual meeting, amendments to our practice, etc.

FEST Members receive open calls for storytellers, experts and ambassadors at events all over Europe.

Full FEST Members can nominate and vote on the locations of upcoming conferences and members of the Executive Committee; they vitally contribute to Conference Programming.

FEST members will get a personal members page on the new FEST website with several possibilities: Personal information page, share activities on the website and social media, access and share research, possibility to share information in the online FEST newsletter,…

FEST Members get priority at the Conference Hotel and Conference places; they pay a reduced price for the conference.

Full Membership

European storytelling organisations with legal status (min. 2 years running and representing min. 2 associates).
Festival organizers (3+ years running) whose programme consist of +70% storytelling activities.
Educational entities and governmental institutions with storytelling as a core activity.

Associate Membership

Non-European storytelling organisations with legal status
Storytelling organisations (European of non-European) with legal status, less than 2 years running.
Educational entities and governmental institutions without storytelling as a core activity.
Independent storytellers, museums, corporate for-profit entities, students (-30 age)