ABSTRACT
Attending festivals as a family can foster bonding, belonging, and happiness, and has the potential to enhance the family’s quality of life (QOL) over time (Jepson & Stadler 2017). Time and space, money, rest, and health and happiness have been identified as frame conditions for QOL (Stadler & Jepson 2017), which – if positive – can improve a family’s ability to attend festivals. In order to enhance a family’s QOL through festival attendance festival programmes need to be tailored to families’ specific needs and expectations. For example, they need to be safe, affordable, and offer activities that contain dimensions of ‘play’ that can be interpreted as meaningful to all members of the family.
