The overall goal of this project is to examine the community within the Texas Renaissance Festival of Plantersville, Texas and how the social arrangements and identities created in and manipulated by this community go beyond standard existing social conditions in modern society. I intend to investigate the use of performance as a tool for the negotiation of festival space and community building. Performance is not simply a product of the culture born here in the festival space. Instead, it is an agent of that culture in that it marks the boundary between the real and unreal, the festival and the everyday. Why are individuals drawn to the festival lifestyle? How does the structure of this community go beyond the surface sense of solidarity found in many other performance groups? What role does performance play in the cohesion of the festival community? I will explore these questions by looking at aspects of gender roles, language play, and the multivocality of performance through ethnographic study and applying concepts such as space negotiation, counter-publics, and ideas of performance, ritual and play to the nature of the renaissance festival community.

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This diploma thesis is oriented on cultural tourism. The main point of the paper is festival Mezi ploty. First chapter is focused on incoming and domestic tourism of the Czech Republic. It analyzes its potential and results. Second chapter deals with Prague 8, it describes a tourism facilities supply and the most important attractions. The festival itself is presented in the third chapter. There was a research carried out within the thesis and its results are shown in the fourth chapter. Based on the outcome, conclusions and recommendations are offered at the end of the paper.

Diploma thesis deals with international student festivals in the Visegrad Group. The thesis describes higher education systems in Visegrad countries and explores in detail higher education students' theatre festivals. The main aim of the thesis is to find out whether the cooperation of higher education students from the field of theatre acting in Visegrad countries is sufficient, to analyze the support system for their cultural activities and suggest a suitable solution. To achieve the main objective of the paper the survey method and the method of semi-structured dialogue were used.

Actor / La presente memoria tiene por objeto dejar constancia de una serie de testimonios en torno al origen, la creación y la consolidación en el tiempo del Festival de Dramaturgia y Puesta en Escena Víctor Jara, que se lleva a cabo anualmente en el Departamento de Teatro de la Universidad de Chile. De esta forma podremos construir un relato en torno esta pequeña pero importante historia en la formación de teatristas de nuestro país. La presente memoria está dividida históricamente en tres periodos. Un primer periodo (1999-2003) de organización, mucha incertidumbre y hambre por los desafíos que significa la creación del festival. Un segundo periodo (2004-2008) de consolidación del mismo, marcado no obstante, por la retirada de los “maestros”, y la desesperanza generacional frente a un contexto político bastante ambiguo. Y finalmente, un tercer periodo (2009-2013) marcado por la fuerte presencia de los dramaturgos y un contexto de movilizaciones y descontento estudiantil que finalmente llega a los escenarios. De este modo realizamos un paneo por entre los temas que más interesan a los jóvenes creadores que participaron en estos periodos en el festival: los fantasmas de 17 años de dictadura, la emergencia de una conciencia crítica en torno a la llamada “transición democrática”, el problema de la educación, el movimiento estudiantil, y así mismo la aparición de nuevos relatos, subjetividades, y formas de exponer la propia identidad, que permiten ampliar el corpus de imaginarios que componen el variopinto paisaje de relatos que han pasado por el festival.

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Vi har i denna uppsats undersökt och diskuterat olika teorier kring volontärledarskap och hurledare når framgång med volontärer inom festivalbranschen. Genom detta har vi samlat endjupare förståelse kring hur ledare inom festivalbranschen i fråga om att motivera volontärer.Syftet med studien var att undersöka samt få en djupare förståelse kring ledarskap inomfestivalbranschen, hur de gör i fråga om att motivera volontärerna. Vi ville även få fram vilketslags ledarskap som tillämpas. För att nå vårt syfte, granskade vi dessa problem kvalitativtgenom semistrukturerade intervjuer. Det genomfördes sammanlagt fjorton intervjuer, varavåtta med volontärer och sex med volontärsledare, där alla respondenter som intervjuades varinom kultur- och musikfestivaler.I den teoretiska referensramen använde vi teorier om ledarskap: transaktionell, transformativ,karismatisk och McGregors teorier om X och Y. Vi använde även motivationsteoriernaMcClellands behovsteori samt Maslows behovshierarki. Dessa teorier tillsammans medinsamlingen av empirin utgjorde grunden för tolkning av slutsatsen.Studien resulterade i att vi funnit faktorer som motiverar festivalvolontärer: känna socialainteraktioner, personlig utveckling, att fylla sitt CV eller arbetslivserfarenhet samt att skapaett kontaktnät. En idealisk ledare bör vara engagerad, lyhörd, ha en stor tillit för volontärernaoch ge möjlighet till dem att utforma och framställa sina arbetsuppgifter men samtidigt ha enbestämd karaktär för att undvika en alltför slapp arbetsmiljö. / We have in this thesis investigated and discussed various theories of volunteer leadership andhow leaders succeed with volunteers in the festival industry. Through this, we have gathered adeeper understanding of how leaders in the festival industry are motivating volunteers. Thepurpose of the study was to investigate and gain a deeper understanding of leadership in thefestival industry and how volunteers are being motivated. We also wanted to research the kindof leadership that is applied and how effective it is. To achieve our ambition, we examinedthese problems in a qualitative method through semi-structured interviews. An amount of totalsixteen interviews, eight of the volunteers and six of volunteer leaders, were carried out,where all respondents interviewed were within cultural and music festivals.In the theoretical framework, we used theories of leadership: transactional, transformative,charismatic and McGregor's theories of X and Y. We also used the motivation theories ofMcClelland's theory of needs and Maslow's hierarchy of needs. These theories along with thecollection of empirical data were the basis for the interpretation of the conclusion.The conclusion of the study resulted in the finding of factors that motivate festival volunteers:to feel social interactions, personal development, to fill their resume or work experience andalso to create a network of contacts. An ideal leader should be committed, responsive, havegreat trust to the volunteers and allow them to shape and produce their job assignments but atthe same time have a determined character to avoid an overly casual work environment.

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<p>The purpose of this study is to explore how attending a blues music festival can influence an attendees image of the destination, the image of the festival and their intention to return. Predicting attendee behavior intentions have been a constant focus of academics and festival organizers. It has been shown that the festival environment (venue and facilities) are influential, that positive interactions with festival staff and vendors affect attendee satisfaction and depending on the study the aspect surrounding the musical performance can influence future behavior. This study has incorporated an area previously found to be important to attendee satisfaction but so far has not been studied with the other aspects of how a festival performs. This study investigated the influence of those four factors (venue, services, core product and safety) on attendees’ perception of their satisfaction with the festival and the subsequent influence on their image of the destination and festival. </p>