I recently came across a message from a showcase festival boasting about the number of ‘professionals’ in attendance. The issue is that this particular event operates in a highly niche field where genuine professionals are scarce. Instead, it’s oversaturated with

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I just got an invitation to showcase the festival on Facebook, I won’t attend. In this case, there are four much bigger ones with important people out there, so I’m not interested in hanging around a bunch of local people who pretend

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