May 2019
Venice Biennale 2019 (La Biennale di Venezia)
From May to November, the Venice Biennale (la Biennale di Venezia in its original Italian, and in English also called the Venice Biennial) is one of the world’s most prestigious cultural happenings, famous for displaying new trends and launching the international careers of many an artist and architect. For every new edition, the management of the Venice Biennale select top curators from all over the world to organise the Biennale's pioneering art exhibitions. The first Venice Biennale was held in…
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Setouchi Triennale 2019, Japan
Every three years the Setouchi Triennale, one of Japan’s biggest festivals of modern art, takes place in the south-west of the country. Come spring this exceptional celebration...
Find out more »August 2019
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019
One of the largest arts festivals in the world, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival takes place in the Scottish capital from 2 to 26 August, 2019. Marking its 72nd anniversary, this year sees some 3,841 shows performed in the world’s oldest fringe festival, that runs alongside the Edinburgh Festival 2019. Expect theatre, cabaret, musicals, circus, comedy, dance, spoken words and more than 700 free performances (as well as 404 pay-as-you-like shows), with just over 2,000 premieres, as the world takes to…
Find out more »Edinburgh Festival (Edinburgh International Festival)
Featuring 2,600 artists from 40 countries, the Edinburgh Festival, or Edinburgh International Festival, kicks off on 2 August, 2019. This year’s...
Find out more »Panama 500 : 500 Years of Panama City
In 1519, Panama City was founded by the Spanish Conquistador Pedro Arias de Avila. This year the city is celebrating its anniversary with Panama 500...
Find out more »The Women-only Colorado Classic, USA, 2019
If you know your sports and are into cycling, the Women-only Colorado Classic is the only stand-alone professional women’s road race in the western hemisphere. With its four stages it provides a great way to get to know the state of Colorado. It begins in Steamboat Springs, with its geothermal waters and beautiful mountain views. The second day is at Avon, in the heart of the Eagle River Valley. Golden, once a gold rush settlement, is now almost a suburb…
Find out more »A Taste of Donegal 2019, Ireland
Billed as the biggest food festival in North West Ireland, A Taste of Donegal will feature more than 130 food exhibitors from across Ireland and the UK, as well as beer and wine tasting, live music and a spectacular fireworks display over beautiful Donegal Bay, this August. Now in its 11th year, the festival has grown from humble beginnings to become a mainstay of the food festival circuit, blessed with its backdrop of the Blue Stack Mountains and with the…
Find out more »Notting Hill Carnival, London 2019
The iconic Notting Hill Carnival returns bigger and better this year over the August bank holiday weekend as usual. Starting with the Panorama event on the Saturday, Sunday is family day, and the main parade brings the carnival to a grand climax on August Bank Holiday Monday. The Notting Hill Carnival is Europe’s largest free street festival and a culinary spectacular. As one of the best things to do in London in August it is a vital date in the diary…
Find out more »Brussels Beer Festival: BXL Beer Fest 2019
At the Brussels beer festival “BXL Beer Fest”, over 60 independent brewers from a dozen countries show off their artisanal beers. With strictly no room for industrial products at the two-day festival in August, this is where quality and high standard beers flow to you straight from the brewers. With the emergence of craft beers over the past decade, perhaps it’s surprising that the Belgian capital and beer city of Brussels did not have a specific international craft beer festival…
Find out more »Eugene O’Neill Festival, Danville, California
Each autumn the town of Danville in Tri-Valley, California hosts the Eugene O’Neill Festival to celebrate the works of America’s premier playwright and Nobel prize winner...
Find out more »Burning Man, The Black Rock Desert, Nevada, 2019
So, you’ve been to some music festivals and now want to go to Burning Man? Throw away all your previous perceptions as this is considered an ‘event’, rather than a festival, with an intriguing philosophy behind it. At the opening of Cory Doctorow’s dystopian novel, Homeland, the protagonist, Marcus Yallow is giving away cold-brewed coffee and partying at Burning Man when he receives crucial, hacked information on an increasingly autocratic and corrupt US government. The action comes on quickly and…
Find out more »Moab Music Festival 2019, Utah
Each September, the Moab Music Festival brings an array of the world’s finest musicians to Utah for a series of traditional, chamber and jazz concerts set against the most amazing backdrop – the red rocks of Moab. Music ranges from contemporary and old chamber music to Latin jazz and traditional music from all corners of the globe. History of the Moab Music Festival The festival was founded in 1992 when to New York-based musicians, Michael Barrett and Leslie Tomkins, decided…
Find out more »Venice International Film Festival 2019
The Venice International Film Festival, officially called Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica, is the world’s oldest film festival. Every year you can indulge here in the best...
Find out more »Freedom Festival Hull 2019, Yorkshire
Held in late August, the Freedom Festival Hull is the flagship event in the UK City of Culture’s festival calendar. Celebrating the life of Hull’s most famous son, William Wilberforce, the festival holds its 12th anniversary in 2019, which also marks the 260th of the anti-slavery campaigner’s birth. In response to its growing success and international repute, organisers have now stretched the Freedom Festival to five days. The city will abound with dance, street theatre and acrobatics, as well as music,…
Find out more »Lindisfarne Festival, 2019, Northumberland, UK
Ocean Colour Scene, Goldie, Pete Doherty and the Puta Madres, and Lidisfarne are amongst the acts performing at the Lindisfarne Festival 2019 held at Beal Farm Northumberland from 29 August to 1 September. Overlooking the majestic Holy Island, the Northumberland music festival showcases music, comedy and the creative arts. Building on from the success of last year's event, this year will see comedy, firewalking, street art and street food, creative workshops, holistic therapies, yoga and meditation, and even a conspiracy…
Find out more »Meatopia 2019, London, and Meatopia Dublin
Meat lovers should head to London’s Tobacco Dock from 30 August to 1 September for Meatopia, the celebration of sustainable, quality meat, alternatively take the trip to Dublin for the Guinness X Meatopia in July. Founded by Josh Ozersky in the States, Meatopia was brought to the UK by Richard H Turner. Now turned seven, the festival uses ethically-sourced meat, cooked over ethically-sourced wood and charcoal by top chefs. If you wish to read its manifesto, you will find it…
Find out more »Waddesdon Manor Chilli Fest 2019, Buckinghamshire
The Waddesdon Manor Chilli Fest promises to be the hottest event of the summer. The manor house built for the Baron de Rothschild in the 1870s to entertain guests and exhibit his works of art, will be turned into a chilli festival for one weekend in late August. Some of the country's most loved independent suppliers will descend upon the 19th Century manor house for a weekend of spicy feasting with artisan producers, live music, and fun for the family,…
Find out more »Taste of Sonoma 2019, California
Sonoma County is one of California’s finest wine regions. Noted for the quality of its wines, especially chardonnay and pinot noir, and a 45-minute from San Francisco, the region has 425 wineries, from small family-run places to large household names. Many of these appear at the Taste of Sonoma held at the end of August each year. What is described by the local tourism department as “the wine event of the year”, the Taste of Sonoma features some of the…
Find out more »September 2019
Onam Festival 2019, Kerala, India
During the days of the Onam Festival, the biggest and most spectacular festival of Kerala, the entire Indian state goes on a spree of celebrations, music and dance performances, elaborate banquets, flower carpets, rowing competitions, and many other happenings. Usually taking place during August – September, this ancient Hindu event is also called the Festival of Harvest when nature is in full bloom and festivities are in the air everywhere. The Onam Festival is the most significant harvest festival…
Find out more »Ganesh Chaturthi Festival 2019, India
The spectacular Hindu Ganesh Chaturthi festival in September is an 11-day affair of colourful festivities, involving singing, dancing and theatre honouring the birth of the elephant-headed deity. The start of the festival sees huge, colourful statues of Lord Ganesha – one of the best-known deities in the Hindu pantheon and worshipped for bringing good fortune and removing obstacles – installed on elaborately decorated public podiums. In Mumbai – formerly known as Bombay – this is the biggest street party of…
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