The meanwhile ten members of the festival alliance founded in 2019 are united by their culturally sophisticated booking, their strong roots in the region, and their commitment to participation, sustainability, and political and cultural education, which is primarily based on the civic engagement of young people from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

The festivals joined in the alliance see themselves as temporary socio-cultural centers in rural areas. At the same time, the festival organizers are committed to their regions far beyond the event period itself and are firmly anchored there. They curate internationally competitive programs, develop young talent and often provide the basic cultural services in site. Particularly in very rural regions, they make an important contribution to creating equal living conditions and strengthening the population’s identification with their place of residence, the cohesion in the region. All this makes them, individually and collectively, an important economic and tourist factor in our federal state, which shapes the development of the region to a great extent.