Various festival organizers are canceling their event or changing the date, now that the cabinet has extended the ban on one-day events. Only for one-day festivals with a maximum of 750 visitors are again from August 14th exceptions possible, but according to the industry that helps few people out of the fire.
It is good news for some of the smaller events: they can continue. But the organizers of larger events call it disastrous. The Alliance of Event Builders speaks of a bitter pill and “a new serious disappointment”.
The sector organization is relieved that there is now clarity and respects the cabinet decision. “But after the multi-day festivals with overnight stays last week, many one-day festivals and multi-day festivals without camping are now also removed from the summer calendar.”
‘Ridiculous’
Dance Valley, Festifest, Spoorpark, Hullabaloo and Paradigm, among others, have put a stop to it. Some organizations are aiming for an edition next year, such as the metal festival Dynamo Metalfest in Eindhoven.
“Ridiculous”, the organization calls the cabinet decision to cancel everything above 750 visitors. “Under normal circumstances, we always receive thousands of metalheads and of course many more tickets had already been sold.”
Other festivals continue to hope for another opportunity later this summer. Such as Dance Valley: the planned August 14 for the one-day dance party is no longer possible. It has therefore been decided to suspend the construction of the event for the time being.
It is also a bad day for the companies that rent out festival tents and materials. “We will not make this decision until September 1,” says Martijn van den Broek of Van Ham Tenten.
He is happy that the company still has a number of jobs in Belgium:
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