1. Creative and Media: Level 2 Higher Diploma Unit 6: Festival
Level 2 Higher Diploma Creative and MediaUnit 1: Scene
6.1.3 Funding
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Find out how the festivals you are investigating are funded.
You could begin by looking for evidence of business sponsorship and/or public funding
(from arts organisations or local authorities) in the promotional materials.
Name of festival Funding from public sources Business sponsorship
Lady Fest ten People could donate online They have partnership with
on there site to fund them or other companies. Such as
contact them if they do want London Rollergirls and funny
to fund them. women.
It is a traditional festival They have no business
where they pay for them self sponsorship to fund them as
Chinese new to celebrate there new year this is a traditional Chinese
year with there friends and family. celebration.
They sell tickets to people
who are interesting in coming
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will go to there funding.
Compare and contrast the findings for the festivals in terms of funding, programme content, target
audience and artistic policy.
In what ways are they similar? How do they differ? These festivals are not similar to our festivals as
some of them have business sponsorship and some of them don’t as it is a religious celebration. This is
different to our festival because we got funded for our festival.
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2. Unit 1: Scene Creative and Media: Level 2 Higher Diploma
Unit 1: Scene
Diploma Level 2 Information Technology
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