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Harrogate International Festivals (HIF) is Yorkshire's longest running arts festival and a registered charity that delivers world-class festivals and events supported by a year-round programme of high quality arts and cultural activities for young people and communities across the north of England. Internationally renowned〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Emma Johnson to headline Harrogate International Festival’s Sunday Series )〕 festivals under the over-arching umbrella of Harrogate International Festivals include the Harrogate Festival, Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate International Spring Series, Raworths Harrogate Literature Festival, Harrogate History Festival and a programme of outreach and new programmes under the banner of HIF+ including the Spiegeltent and Children’s Festival programmes. HIF also runs a broad programme of community outreach under the HIF+ programme including literacy, music and arts programmes for young people and communities with least access to the arts due to rural isolation, geographical location or social exclusion. To see past brochures visit: http://issuu.com/harrogatefest ==History== The Harrogate International Festival was set up in response to local demand to re-establish the quality of event that people had been used to between the wars in the town’s spa heyday. In 1966, with the help of composer Benjamin Britten and singer Peter Pears of Aldeburgh Festival fame, and financial support from Harrogate Borough Council and the Arts Council of England, Clive Wilson launched the Festival and became its first Director. In artistic terms the Festival has changed radically from its origins in the late sixties. However, it remains true to its roots in presenting the “best of breed” in all it promotes. Its watchword is quality. The Festival dates (originally in mid-August) were chosen as they had to fit into the town’s conference & exhibition calendar (the summer gap after Gift Fair and before Carpet Fair). In its early days the Festival featured music, literature, drama, visual arts and science. However, over the following decades music came to the fore, making up around 90% of the programme. In 1984 following a national Arts Council strategy review entitled “The Glory in the Garden” funding was withdrawn from all festivals north of Cheltenham. Up to that point Harrogate had received a guarantee against loss of £38,000, the biggest Arts Council grant of any festival in England. The loss of the grant demanded a more populist approach to programming in order to build ticket revenue and to enable the major scaling up of corporate sponsorship. In 1991 it was recognised that a broadening of the artistic programme was needed to extend the audience reach - geographically and the under 55s - as well as by genre and to increase sponsorship, trust funding and box office revenue, in order for the Festival to grow. An incremental expansion of the performing arts programming commenced initially with jazz, contemporary dance and classical ballet, World Music and literature. The Festival also reflected the zeitgeist of stand-up comedy and was in the vanguard of the UK street theatre movement. However, through all this we ensured that we maintained our vital, core classical audience. Over the last 12 months the Festivals have delivered over 300 distinct events and attracted over 90,000 people to its portfolio of activities. Alongside box office sales they rely on sponsorship, grants and charitable giving to secure our international profile and position at Harrogate International Festival’s cultural core. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harrogate International Festivals」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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