Yourope Takes a Stand against discrimination
With the Take a Stand campaign, the European festival association Yourope has asked its members to make a commitment to supporting tolerance and diversity
News By IQ | 1 February 2017
Yourope has announced the launch of ‘Take a Stand’, an initiative aimed at encouraging festival promoters to foster values of “social togetherness, understanding and tolerance for all cultures, genders, races, religions, sexual orientations, colours and origins”.
“After trying to convince the European Commission of the importance of festivals as cultural meeting points for years, but receiving nothing concrete in return,” the European festival association says it “decided to take matters into its own hands” at its first members’ meeting of…
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