Innibos - Letters from the Future: Management Team

Background & Overview

• Thank you for taking part in our research project!   We are grateful to have your involvement in imagining the future of the  Innibos festival, by creating    a 'Letter from the Future'.   
  

• This activity is part of  a  research project called  Future Festivals South Africa: Possibilities for the Age of Covid-19, and it has two aims:
  

1. To provide a  creative way to understand    how people involved in Innibos have experienced the pandemic, and how they anticipate it will affect the festival in the next few years.
2.  To provide an opportunity for people involved in  Innibos to creatively imagine new possibilities for the festival in the future.

The letters are an important part of our data set for this research project. The findings will be published in project reports and journal articles.  You can read more about the research and ethical consideration  of the project, in this information sheet.  The Future Festivals South Africa project will also use these letters as the basis for collaboratively developing ideas – alongside our festival partners – for practical steps that could be taken to enable South African festivals to survive and thrive.

​How To Create Your Letter

• Imagine that it is now the year 2030, and you have just  helped to organise the Innibos festival.    Please write a letter from 2030 back to yourself in 2021, explaining what your experience of the festival was like.    For example, beginning like this: 
  

You can download all of these guidelines in a  handy PDF file here below:

Innibos management team participant brief letters from the future
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Dear X,
 
The year is 2030 and you have just helped to organise Innibos. A lot has changed since you   helped to organise the festival in 2021! Let me explain how the festival works nowadays, ten years after Covid-19 turned everything upside down..

• In your letter,    you may wish to respond to some of the eight questions below. These questions are prompts to consider (you don’t have to answer them all!).

Please feel free to write your letter in any way that you would like to, allowing your imagination of the 2030 Innibos to develop in perhaps unexpected directions. These eight questions are meant to spark your imagination, not to constrain it.

1. How has Innibos changed in the years since the pandemic began? And in what ways is the festival the same as before Covid? 
   
2. Where is Innibos? Is it in the same location as before the pandemic? 
   
3.  Who is your audience? Has the audience changed, in terms of who the people are / the demographics? 
4. Has the business model changed? How is the festival financed?
5.  Imagine yourself  organising Innibos in 2030: how has the process changed? Do you have to consider  new performance formats? Do you work with new festival partners in new ways?
   
6. What is the role of Innibos? Has it changed since the start of the pandemic?
   
7.  What have you learnt about the value of Innibos? Is the festival important? Why is it important? Who is it important to? 
   
8.  Overall, have things changed for the better? Have things changed for the worse? Both?

 
Please feel free to make the letter  as creative as you would like to!   

Remember that

• Your letter can be as short or as long as you like! 
• Alternatively, you are welcome to make an audio recording of your 'letter' , speaking back to yourself from the  festival in 2030.  

Next Steps

• Once your contribution is  ready for submission, please  click on the  take part link here below
  
• We will provide further information on your participation and the ethics of the research  project before inviting you to upload your file
  

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• If you have any questions about the ‘Letters from the Future’ activity, or about the project overall, please contact us via the form at the bottom of this page or email  us at futurefestivalssouthafrica@gmail.com
  

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