All this has happened in joyous defiance of the accepted way of launching an arts festival, which always involves thickets of bureaucracy. It’s not enough to rely on intuition and inspiration, as this one has. There has to be a feasibility study, followed up by a business plan, two things surely tailor-made to stifle the breath of Apollo. Without these, the institutions that exist to help the arts will hesitate. They’ll listen politely to your enthusiastic spiel, and they may even be sympathetic. But that may not be enough to make them open their cheque-books. They’ll have their own agenda, their boxes that have to be ticked. You need to show you’re appealing to more than just people who share your odd tastes. You need to show you’ve got your sums right, and that the venue has the right number of fire exits, and the right insurance, and is easily accessible to every social and ethnic group.