Festival Participants Research Articles

Psychoactive substance use and drug checking practices among participants at electronic dance music events in Ukraine

Purpose To the best of the authors’ knowledge, no study has previously examined the use of psychoactive substances (PASs) at electronic dance music (EDM) events in Ukraine. Addressing this gap in the research literature, this study aims to: describe the recreational drug scene associated with Ukrainian EDM culture; identify clusters of EDM participants who use PAS, based on their drug use patterns; and assess the uptake of drug checking and investigate associations between drug checking and subsequent drug-related behaviour. Design/methodology/approach A series of cross-sectional surveys were conducted in 2021 (N = 1,307) among EDM festival participants in Ukraine. The authors performed cluster analysis to identify distinct profiles of PAS users. Trends in drug checking were analysed based on cross-sectional surveys conducted at one recurring festival in 2018 (N = 99), 2019 (N = 195) and 2021 (N = 237). Findings The substances most often used at EDM events were 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (37%), amphetamine (16%), lysergic acid diethylamide (11%) and cocaine (9%). Between 2018 and 2021, the proportion of participants who reported to have ever tested their drugs has increased from 2% to 26% (p < 0.001). Unexpected or inconclusive test results led to a significantly lower chances of drug consumption (p = 0.003). The authors identified three distinct clusters of PAS users among the EDM festival attendees in Ukraine. Originality/value This study will inform the development of harm reduction interventions tailored to various subgroups of recreational PAS users taking into account gender-specific patterns of use suggested by the authors’ cluster analysis. Increased availability of drug checking is crucial to reduce the risks of drug-related harm associated with the consumption of mis-sold, mislabeled and/or adulterated substances.

Osun Worshipers in Osogbo: An Analysis of the Factors Influencing Participations of the Osun Festival in Southwestern Nigeria

This study investigates the factors influencing the Osun festival participation in southwestern Nigeria. Primary data was collected through questionnaire administration on members of the host communities. Secondary data on the number of buildings were obtained from the high-resolution satellite imagery and maps sourced from the Cooperative Information Network (COPINE) of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA). A systematic sampling procedure was adopted to select 3% of the estimated 10,913 buildings within the designated zones in Osogbo based on the degree of homogeneity of the inhabitants. In this case, 327 respondents were sampled in Osogbo. Data collected were analyzed using Mean Index (MI) and Factor analysis (Principal component analysis). Findings revealed that 45 out of the 49 variables subjected to factor analysis contributed to explaining 79.8% variation of factors influencing participation in the Osun festival. They are categorized under four factors: Sociodemographic, Psychosocial, Basic Facilities/Amenities, and Environmental /Mobility Factors. 

A street music festival: Informal learning perspectives

Community music forges relationships and interactions between people and the location they live. Previous research into community music and learning demonstrate that these social interactions can in turn lead to informal life-long learning. This article reports on learning perspectives of festival participants and organizers, of the HONK! Oz Street Music Festival. The data revealed that many participants noted an increase in their understanding and ability to improvise, play tunes in genres outside of their previous experience and play their instruments more freely due to the nature of mobile street music. Specifically, they talked about how the pre-festival workshops, which were an innovative feature of these festivals, helped them to meet and interact with other musicians at the festival and helped them to improve their understanding of how to play street music.

Could similar clusters have different perceptions? Motivation segmenting of local food festival

ABSTRACT This study aims to contribute to the academic and practitioner festival tourism literatures by suggesting the segmentation of the festival participants’ motivations and perceived destination service quality. To meet the study's aims exploratory factor analysis, cluster analysis, and variance analysis were used on 301 surveys from Alaçatı Herb Festival, Turkey. As a result of cluster analysis, four clusters emerged. These clusters are named as follows, multi-purpose seekers, social escape seekers, cultural escape seekers, and apathetic attendees. Significant differences emerged in clusters’ motivation and perceived destination service quality. The inclusion of participants’ motivation segmentation and destination service quality perception in this study adds to the festival tourism literature. When these two variables were examined together, it was discovered that different groups with comparable goals (social escape seekers and cultural escape seekers) rate destination service features differently.

From Urban Consumption to Production: Rethinking the Role of Festivals in Urban Development Through Co-Creation

Festivals infuse art and culture into the physical transformation of public spaces to support economic development, social capital, and urban vibrancy. Although these impacts align with urban planning, these projects typically engage actors outside the field such as community organisations, businesses, and artists, reflecting cultural and creative economies, where different values, motivations, and practices are continually negotiated through processes of co-creation. However, institutional planning practices have not yet effectively engaged with cultural production processes to maximise the social, cultural, and economic impacts of arts-led development. To explore this potential, this research uses participatory, co-productive methodologies to analyse the Bristol Light Festival, a collaborative partnership between business interests, city staff, and creative producers. The article begins with a discussion of the often contradictory role festivals play in urban development, followed by a discussion of creative and cultural ecologies and an overview of the co-creation process. Drawing on festival participant survey and interview data, the article discusses how the festival generated new forms of belonging in the city and other impacts that are often invisible within dominant arts-led development strategies. The article concludes with a discussion of findings relating cultural ecologies and co-creation to urban planning practice.

체험형 지역축제 선택속성, 감정반응, 행동의도간의 구조적 관계

This study sought to investigate the structural relationship between the selection attributes, emotional reactions, and behavioral intentions of a series of experiential local festivals as social distancing was completely lifted in April this year after the spread of COVID-19. To this end, a survey was conducted on 350 participants and visitors who participated in the marathon festival held in Jeju City in June to obtain the following results. First, it was found that the selection attribute of experiential local festivals had a positive effect on emotional response. Second, it was found that the selection attribute of experiential local festivals had a positive effect on behavioral intention. Third, it was found that the emotional response of local festival participants had a positive effect on behavioral intention.

Equine arteritis virus seroprevalence and risk factors in horses in the inner Aegean and Central Anatolia regions of Turkey

Equine viral arteritis (EVA) is one of the most important respiratory and reproductive diseases of horses. This study aimed to investigate the seroprevalence of equine arteritis virus (EAV) infection and risk factors associated with seropositivity in clinically normal horses (n=262) in the inner Aegean region and Central Anatolia region of Turkey. This cross-sectional study was conducted by collecting sera samples (n = 262) from ambling horses raised in small family-type enterprises (n=65) during the months of February 2014 and February 2017. Epidemiological data were obtained from animal owners during blood sampling. An indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit was used to detect specific antibodies against EAV in sera samples. Potential risk factors were determined by univariate logistic regression analysis. According to the test results, 8.40% (95% CI:5.61-12.39) seropositivity was detected in horses. While seropositivity rates by age were 2.47% in animals under 4 years of age, they were determined to be 11.05% in animals aged over 4 years (p=0.02). There was a statistically significant correlation between age, participation in races and festivals, precautions taken against rodents and insects at enterprises and EAV infection seropositivity (p<0.05). The findings obtained from this study are important in terms of informing breeders about the presence of this infection, taking infection-related biosecurity measures, and fighting the disease.

The determinants of festival participants' event loyalty: a focus on millennial participants

PurposeThis study aims to determine how different event quality dimensions (i.e. information availability, program content, food, staff service, merchandises, ticketing, facility and convenience) individually affect the satisfaction of millennial festival participants, and how their satisfaction subsequently influence their behavioral intention.Design/methodology/approachThe research hypotheses were tested with a sample of 272 millennial participants attending the Borneo Jazz Festival held in Miri, Sarawak.FindingsThe results indicated that program content and facility are crucial predictors of millennial participants' level of satisfaction with the event. Furthermore, the level of satisfaction would, in turn, affect their intention to revisit the event and spread positive word-of-mouth.Research limitations/implicationsThe results are expected to assist festival planners in managing and designing festivals that can appeal to millennials who make up a significant percentage of tourism market.Originality/valueThe study adds to the knowledge of how music festival environment can yield loyalty amongst millennial festival participants in Sarawak, an Eastern state of Malaysia on the island of Borneo.

STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEISURE PARTICIPATION, VALUE AND MOOD REGULATION OF FESTIVAL PARTICIPANTS

BackgroundNowadays, we are in an era of national leisure. Festival is not only a cultural exchange activity, but also a way of public leisure. Festival participants usually have a strong curiosity about where the festival is held. They usually hope to let them know the lifestyle of a region through festivals like local residents. The theme of this study is the interactive relationship between participants' leisure participation, leisure value and their emotional regulation.Research Objects and MethodsBased on theoretical analysis, expert consultation and reference to the research of others, this study uses the self-made Richter five scale to investigate the leisure participation and leisure value of festival participants through the combination of online survey and on-site survey And three potential emotional variables and their relationships. Respondents are limited to those who have participated in festival activities. Finally, 420 valid questionnaires were collected and processed by statistical analysis software SPSS 26. 0 and Amos. Through reliability and validity test, goodness of fit test, structural model analysis and scale correction analysis, the final model path coefficient is obtained. Then, IPDE is a three-level score: 0 normal, l prominent, 2 in line with the diagnostic criteria and morbid. How long can a behavior last be considered as a personality trait? There is no unified view in the world. IPDE stipulates at least 5 years. ICD-10 requires at least 3 items for each type of diagnosis, while DSM-IIIR requires 4-5 items, and the score of at least one item is 2 points. If the positive score is more than 10 (one score is also required to be 2), but it does not meet any kind of network cognitive impairment, it will be diagnosed as other types of personality. No matter what kind of diagnostic system, it requires at least one item that meets the diagnostic criteria, and the behavior described has appeared before the age of 25. Who has developed a set of software for IPDE. As long as the score of each item is entered, the result can be obtained.ResultsThe empirical study found that the subjects were mainly behavioral participation. Participating in festival activities has good psychological, cultural and social values. Leisure participation has a more significant impact on leisure value, followed by leisure value on psychological well-being, followed by leisure participation on psychological well-being, but the three groups have reached a significant level and interact with each other, indicating the leisure participation, leisure value and mental health of festival participants. Leisure value is an intermediary variable. After the change of leisure participation, the impact on emotion is more significant.ConclusionsParticipants' leisure participation in festival activities is the basis for realizing value and creating happiness. People can choose some brand festivals and well-known festivals according to their time, energy and hobbies, actively participate and enrich their life experience. Improve the quality of your life. The deficiency of this study is that the representativeness of the sample needs to be further optimized. This study will help festival organizers summarize their successful experience and shortcomings, constantly explore new operation ideas, improve and promote their own operation mode, give full play to their respective advantages, mobilize the enthusiasm of the masses, and then design various forms of activities. The content adapts to the local environment and serves cultural exchanges.AcknowledgementsSupported by a project grant from key scientific research project of higher education institutions in Henan Province (soft science) (Grant No.22B630034).

The value of the serious leisure perspective in understanding cultural capital embodiment in festival settings

Festivals have been conceptualised as serious leisure activities as well as arenas for cultural capital acquisition and embodiment. However, there is still theoretical confusion surrounding the process of cultural embodiment, especially in leisure practices. This article suggests that the serious leisure perspective, in combination with cultural capital ideas, offers a means of deepening understanding of how cultural capital can be embodied in festival settings. To make its arguments, the article draws on qualitative data collected at two long-established literary festivals, one in Ireland and one in Italy. Observations and interviews with festival participants were used to develop an understanding of participants’ cultural capital embodiment. The article suggests that the serious leisure perspective is a valuable theory to throw light on three elements of cultural embodiment at festivals: (1) body; (2) pre-existing cultural resources; (3) time. Interlinking serious leisure with cultural capital leads to an in-depth analysis of how culture is embodied during festivals. This article demonstrates the value of using serious leisure and the embodied state of cultural capital ideas in tandem to further understand cultural embodiment in festivals. The study concludes by suggesting potential future studies and areas of research.

Analysing the Impact of Participation in Community Activities (Festivals) on Mental Health

Social capital is vital for community activities, such as those pertaining to area management activities. Furthermore, festivals and the existence of temples and shrines are crucial for enhancing social capital in Japan. Among all of the area management activities in Japan, festivals are typically held at shrines, which allow attendees to pray for their health and well-being. In this paper, we investigate the impact of participating in festivals and traditional events on mental health. We conduct a nationwide questionnaire survey in Japan and use ordered logit techniques to analyse the impact of participation in festivals and traditional events on mental health. It is found that community activities related to festivals and traditional events normalise mental health. The dependent variable (i.e., the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K6)), is negative and statistically significant, which denote that participation in community activities can stabilise mental health. Since landscape maintenance activities, such as cleaning, are not statistically significant, it would be effective to merge such activities with festivals and other community-based efforts. It is also important to consider how residents could be motivated to participate in community activities when ties with neighbours become weaker.

From media events to my events: Chinese mediated festivals in the digital era1

Much has been written about how digital technologies transformed contemporary festivals, yet the festival participants’ perceptions and experiences are less examined. Understanding mediated festivals as events of intertwined mediation processes, this paper explores the perception and practices of mediated festivals in contemporary China. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 13 Chinese young people to understand their motivations and experiences of festival participation. The paper finds that emerging mediated festivals provide a space for individuals to explore their interests. Further, mediated festivals are perceived as a liberating force for young people through choice-making and self-presentation in convivial and hybrid festival environments. Developing Dayan and Katz’s conception of ‘media events’, we argue that contemporary Chinese mediated festivals can be understood as ‘my events’ through hybrid and networked self-representations. Our study contributes to understanding the Chinese mediated festivals, emphasizing how networked individuals (re)negotiate the festival production.

Together, a Beautiful and Sustainable Future Begins Today

A century after its founding by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, the Bauhaus design movement is being reclaimed and reframed as an experimental lab of our collective future on a shared planet. The New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative calls on all of us to imagine and build together a beautiful, sustainable, and inclusive world. Now an official partner of NEB, Leonardo/ISAST celebrates this creative, interdisciplinary initiative as a global movement to connect the European Green Deal and planetary climate adaptation to living spaces and lived experiences beyond geopolitical borders and disciplinary boundaries. The NEB both reflects and reinforces Leonardo’s commitment to foster positive transformation at the nexus of art, science, and technology in pursuit of a more vibrant, just, and regenerative world. As articulated by the European Union, the NEB recognizes three inseparable values: Sustainability: from climate goals, to circularity, zero pollution, and biodiversity; in harmony with nature, the environment, the planetBeauty: aesthetic quality of experience and style, inspired by art and culture, enriching beyond functionalityInclusion: from valuing diversity, to securing accessibility and affordability; encouraging a dialogue across cultures, disciplines, genders, and agesThese values correspond to Leonardo/ISAST’s priorities for a world that is more vibrant (beautiful), just (inclusive), and regenerative (sustainable). Leonardo’s vision is to activate creativity that pushes the boundaries of today and unleashes the possibilities of tomorrow. This vision guides our leadership and participation in festivals, fellowships, residencies, scholarship, and the pages of this issue of Leonardo.With this triad of vibrant-beautiful, just-inclusive, and regenerative-sustainable values in mind, a small group met amidst the Covid 19 pandemic (June 2021) to identify key contributions that SciArt practitioners could make to the NEB. Believing that the strong participation of artists and scientists, along with colleagues from design and engineering, is vital for NEB to realize its vision, the group recognized valuable competencies and practices generated by art and science collaborations, including: Years of Experience: working at the interstices of knowledge, in-between cultures, trans-lingually, transdisciplinarily, outside the habitual, and especially engaging with citizens to build communities; integrating artists and creatives in scientific institutions, enterprises, and integrating the artistic into the non-artistic worlds/structures; translating, developing new languages, of exploring interstices, of defining new territories, of bridging estranged disciplines and creating improbable connectionsContent Expertise: bridging over knowledge gaps (creating culture!) through intriguing works that can exemplify scientific principles, simple phenomena, or a startling recombination of science and art. While kindling curiosity, these works create novel forms of engagement and education as a potent tool against populism, harbingers of a totally different yet more vital pedagogy of the future; developing innovative solutions and products, ranging from an impressive variety of bioart experiments to a host of surprising illustrations of intertwined scientific/artistic/societal realitiesExemplars & Examples: work carried out at the interface of ways of knowing/emotion/research/engagement/accessibility. At the crossroads of art, culture, social inclusion, science and technology, these works push the boundaries and explore new territory, always combining and recombining various disciplines/methodologies/practices. The novel ways of engaging with reality and with the public are the result of (an as yet uncharted) methodology capable of devising new means of engagement on the basis of the project itself. These projects directly tackle societal issues (e.g. Sustainable Development Goals), drawing on the engagement and knowledge of crowds. In these circumstances, the combination of science and art can become the midwife for public engagement.Reimagining and co-creating a vibrant, just, regenerative world, or in the words of New Bauhaus, a “beautiful, inclusive, sustainable future,” begins with art and science, with all of us together, here and now.

How Nudging Inspires Sustainable Behavior among Event Attendees: A Qualitative Analysis of Selected Music Festivals

This research answers the question of which nudges can be created to subtly influence event attendees in such a way that they contribute to the implementation of a green event. Using the qualitative content analysis according to Mayring, three music festivals were analyzed in detail with regard to their measures for ecological sustainability. All available online resources—in particular, the websites of the music festivals, blog entries, online newspaper articles and, also, observations during several personal visits—were used as sources of the qualitative data. A key result was the development of a model for nudges that can generally be used and implemented for events. The goals, the nudges developed and the possible measures with regard to ecological sustainability are defined in the areas of transport, garbage, electricity, gastronomy, sanitation and compensation of emissions. The more music festival participants already behave in an ecologically sustainable manner, the more others will join them. This can be exploited by using social nudges that consciously inspire group social dynamics. In order to be able to use nudging sensibly, organizers have to internalize that they act as decision-makers, which entails a great ethical and moral responsibility. Even inconspicuous nudges can be very effective.

Co-creation of experiences at dark tourism festivals

This work-in-progress paper presents a novel area of thanatourism research, dark tourism festivals. These alternative festivals are located at the lighter end of the thanatourism spectrum, focusing on fun, culture and entertainment. This paper focuses in particular on the co-creation of festival experience at dark tourism festivals. Preliminary findings are presented, predominantly based on data gathered at the Whitby Goth Weekend, which will later be supplemented by research at other dark tourism festivals. Preliminary findings indicate that aspects such as emotional involvement, authenticity, performance and embodiment are important elements during the co-creation process. Embodied performances during which participants engage in creative practices, such as dressing up in elaborate costumes whilst having their photographs taken, enable them to escape from the routines of their day-to-day lives. Initial findings also indicate links between the festival experience and the concept of liminality. Also, participants engage in meaningful social bonds and essentially take ownership of the festival experience. Whilst engaging in these activities, participants become part of the co-creation of a performance. Festival spaces are specifically managed to enable co-creation, whereby festival participants form part of a sharing economy and actively co-create the festival experience together with the organisers, who enable this process by providing a safe and inclusive festival space.

Defining Conjunto Quantitatively: Classical and Modernist Styles in a Texas-Mexican Genre

Defining <i>Conjunto</i> Quantitatively: Classical and Modernist Styles in a Texas-Mexican Genre

관광객의 축제체험과 지역브랜드인지도, 지역애호도와 농산물 구매의도의 구조적 관계: 함평 나비축제 및 국화축제 참여자를 중심으로

The purpose of this study was to analyze the structural influence of tourists" festival experience on local brand awareness and local loyalty, and purchase intention of agricultural products. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, an online survey was conducted with visitors to the Hampyeong Butterfly Festival and Chrysanthemum Festival in 2018 and 2019. Using structural equation modeling, study results show that individuals’ festival experience had an effect on their local brand awareness and local loyalty, the local loyalty influenced the purchase intention of agricultural products, and the local brand awareness affected the purchase intention of the local agricultural products through the local loyalty. Study implications are as follows. First, in order to increase local brand awareness and local loyalty, it is necessary to reinforce the distinctive elements of the festival experience. Second, festival programs recognized as a unique brand asset can help visitors forma positive image of the region. Third, the experiential marketing strategy of local agricultural products through local festivals can be effectively used to build trust with visitors for local agricultural products. It is meaningful in revealing that individuals’ participation in local festivals is beneficial to the purchase intentions of agricultural products.

Continuation of Festivals and Community Resilience during COVID‐19: The Case of Nagahama Hikiyama Festival in Shiga Prefecture, Japan

The COVID‐19 pandemic has severely affected the way of life of communities in Japan. This study examines the pandemic's impact by focusing on a popular activity in Japanese townships: participation in traditional festivals with roots dating back to before the Edo period. These festivals display the social customs of each community and their prosperity from the past to the present. Residents participating in local festivals gain a deep understanding of their personal importance within the community. However, many communities were forced to cancel their festivals in 2020 because of the pandemic. In 2021, many communities attempted to reinstate their traditional festivals, and some of them resumed the festivities with infection control measures in place. This case study examines how people resumed festivals in their communities and the conditions needed for them to reengage with their traditions. Focusing on the Nagahama Hikiyama Festival in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, we demonstrate the resilience of traditional communities in Japan. This study analyzes the reasons for and process of reviving and subsequently implementing traditional festivals and clarifies the positive factors contributing to the resumption of festivals in local communities. It examines the sources of resilience that have been cultivated in these communities and explains how their social capital bridges the gaps between local governments, schools, and broadcasters.

The formation of the theater spectator subculture in the cultural space of a provincial town

In order to determine the specifics and nature of the formation of the subculture of the theater spectator in Yakutsk, the history of relations between the theater and the spectator is considered. Variants of a strategy for the formation of a subculture of theatergoers in the youth environment of a provincial city (students of colleges and universities as the "backbone" of the audience) are proposed. The specifics of the subject of the study led to the use of interdisciplinary, sociocultural and cultural approaches, which made it possible to integrate the methods of cultural studies, sociology, art history, folklore and pedagogy. The culturological approach made it possible to determine the nature of changes in the cultural space. The synchronic method provided an opportunity to analyze in a slice mode and identify three stages in the formation of the subculture of the theatrical spectator. The dynamics of the formation of the subculture of theatergoers in Yakutsk in 1960-2020s is considered in detail. This is the time when the theater was formed as an organic institution of modern Yakut culture, but not something artificially introduced into the national culture. An indirect criterion base is determined, indicating the growth of the theater audience's competence: a change in the repertoire, problems, directing styles, participation in theater competitions and festivals, touring policy, pricing. Convergence of different types of cultural "consumption" is proposed: hybrid forms of work in cooperation with museums, philharmonic society, libraries; organization of creative meetings, excursions to rehearsals, pre-premiere screenings, charity events, etc. The regional specificity of the communication "theater - spectator" influences the formation of both moral and aesthetic views of the spectator; influences the national consciousness of the people, contributes to the strengthening of spiritual guidelines.

The Influence of Attending Festivals With Children on Family Quality of Life, Subjective Well-being, and Event Experience

Participants attending a festival(s) with children is a family activity that influences family relationships. This study examines the relationship between attending status (e.g., with or without children), event experience, subjective well-being, and family quality of life (FQOL). A total of 585 festival participants' data analyzed by structural equation modeling (SEM) revealed that participants attending with children have a higher level of subjective well-being and FQOL compared to those without children. Participants attending with children have a higher level of cognitive engagement and experience novelty in festivals compared to those without children. Event experience results in a significant positive relationship with subjective well-being. This study expands current event literature in terms of FQOL and provides a practical guideline to event organizers to better understand the significance of festivals.