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Funding rules are the most important limitations for whole sector of cultural production, thus the most important source of power over this sector. Non governmental organizations working in the field of culture are very likely to focus mostly on festival organization, because it is the easiest way to achieve sufficient funding for continuous activity. Although this organizations have to adjust their work to 'life cycle' of the festival. Festivals are extremely work consuming, but quite short, which triggers the fact that “out of season”, these organizations do not need to hire many people. Quite small groups of organizers creates a demand for a work of big number of regular workers for a short time. Off course it foster the usage of short time, flexible contracts. Thus festival production process might be treated as the perfect example of the cycle of production of immaterial labor described by Maurizio Lazzarato:  Small "Small  and sometimes very small "productive units" 'productive units'  (often consisting of only one individual) are organized for specific ad hoc projects, and may exist only for the duration of those particular jobs. The cycle of production comes into operation only when it is required by the capitalist; once the job has been done, the cycle dissolves back into the networks and flows that make possible the reproduction and enrichment of its productive capacities. Precariousness, hyperexploitation, mobility, and hierarchy are the most obvious characteristics of metropolitan immaterial labor. Behind the label of the independent "self-employed" 'self-employed'  worker, what we actually find is an intellectual proletarian, but who is recognized as such only by the employers who exploit him or her. her."  (1996: 137)(see also Gorgoń et. all 2013: 19) Funding policy creates also a competitive pressure on festivals' cost efficiency, which means a competitive pressure on price of labor. Both precarious character of 'work' in a cultural sector, especially in festivals production, and its continuous demand for low paid and free labor, are rooted in neoliberal governing at the central, political level.