This months guest is Jan Lankisch. We discuss the challenges and the spirit with which he curates the Weekend Festival for the past 14 years. https://www.weekendfest.de/Parallel to curating a festival, he runs a record label and produces records. Jan provides insight into the communal nature of the festival and how actually booking artists you love created long lasting friendships and led to releasing and producing records.https://www.weekendrecords.de/You can read more about Jan Lankisch's work as an artistic director and designer on his website.https://idomanythings.com/about/The study about festivals made by initiative music, miz and livekomm mentioned can be found in german here:https://www.initiative-musik.de/studien/#FestivalstudieRecorded at River Studios Cologne by Nick BenoyFilmed and Directed by Jorgos Katsimitsoulias