The Guardian view on the Edinburgh fringe: it's no joke " festivals need investment | Editorial
The UK's world-class arts festivals are in crisis. They need proper support in order to survive and flourish At a press conference for the Sarajevo film festival in the early 1990s, its founder, the Bosnian director Haris PaÅ¡ović, was asked why he set up such a festival during the war. His reply, he told the Los Angeles Times, was: "Why the war during the film festival?" Sarajevo under siege is an extreme exam…