Organisers’ corner
For organisers: how a festival gets into the directory
How the directory is built, what we check, and how to reach the editors about a listing.
2 min readThe Beachfests journal
Coasts, seasons and the people who run festivals by the sea. Written from the same data as the directory.
The 16 festivals actually held on the beach
Many festivals say “beach”; 16 of our 1,076 are really on the sand. The list, and how we decided.
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Film festivals by the sea: where the screens meet the shore
440 of our 1,076 festivals are about cinema. Here is where they cluster and why.
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The busiest month for seaside festivals is not July
Of 1,076 festivals by the sea, only 280 publish a month. Here is what the dated ones say about the season.
2 min readWhat the journal is for
The Beachfests journal is written from the same data as the directory: 1,076 festivals held by the sea, 16 of them on the beach itself, in 76 countries. Its 4 articles look at what the figures show: when the festivals happen, which coasts have the most, what a film or music festival changes when the sea is next door, and how organisers can get listed.
Sections
The journal is divided into 4 sections: Coasts & seasons, Film & arts by the sea, Music & beach life and Organisers’ corner. Use the filters at the top of the page to read one section at a time. Each article is dated, and its figures match the directory at the time of writing; the page of sources and method says where every number comes from.
From the journal to a festival
When an article makes you curious about a place, open the list of countries, check the months on the tide calendar, or look at the festivals held on the beach. Beachfests is an independent, unofficial directory: it does not sell tickets, it does not rank festivals, and every listing links to the festival’s own website for dates and programme.