This conference report presents an overview of the Long Live Arts Conference, which took place in May 2016 at The Hague,Netherlands.

Over 450 participants from 15 countries and five continents attended the conference, which is the Dutch contribution to the European programme Long Live Arts. This initiative raises awareness of older people and cultural participation among both policy makers and policy executors.

The report includes summaries of the peer-to-peer meetings and of the keynote speeches on the opening day of the conference. Hedy D’Ancona, ambassador of the Dutch initiative Lang Leve Kunst (Long Live Arts), acted as chair.