
Asylum Steampunk Festival 2025, Lincoln
The biggest and longest running Steampunk festival globally, the Asylum Steampunk Festival, or Weekend at the Asylum returns to Lincoln in August. The Cathedral Quarter in Lincoln is set to

The biggest and longest running Steampunk festival globally, the Asylum Steampunk Festival, or Weekend at the Asylum returns to Lincoln in August. The Cathedral Quarter in Lincoln is set to

Hosted by Blur bassist Alex James at his Cotswolds farm and now in its 12th year, The Big Feastival is held over three days across the August Bank Holiday, and has become one...

If you have a taste for the pungent, then you will not want to miss the Cleveland Garlic Festival in Ohio this August. Sample garlic fries and garlic ice cream, or enjoy the Top Chef Garlic Grill-off...

Bury St Edmunds’ food festival is returning to the medieval Suffolk market town in August. The Bury St Edmunds Food & Drink Festival 2024 will be held over the August Bank Holiday weekend.

The Madeira Wine Festival, scheduled for 24 August to 14 September this year, is a significant ethnographic and cultural event on the Portuguese island.Coinciding with the grape harvest, it celebrates

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...

Meat lovers should head to London’s Tobacco Dock from 28-31 August for Meatopia, the celebration of sustainable, quality meat. Founded by Josh Ozersky in the States, Meatopia was brought to

Chilli Fest Waddesdon Manor 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

The Pittsburgh Soul Food Festival started in 2019 in order to honour African American Food businesses and entrepreneurs. It is now recognised as one of the best seven festivals in

The largest free jazz festival in the world, the Detroit Jazz Festival has been held over the US Labor Day weekend for more than 40 years. Each year the international jazz festival has upwards

As summer draws to a sultry close, the Florida Keys are preparing to raise a margarita—or perhaps two—in honour of the man who helped put them on the map. Just

Usually held every year on the second Saturday of August, the Nehru Trophy Boat Race sees huge, iconic snake boats engaged in a fierce and colourful contest. It has turned

Santa Rosa de Lima is the patron saint of Peru and was the first canonised saint from the Americas, so she has a key place in the nation’s culture. On el Día de Santa Rosa de Lima Peru...

Bumbershoot Festival has become a mainstay of the Seattle cultural scene for more than five decades. The arts and music festival is held over the United States' Labor Day weekend.

Winti Pré is a celebration of cultural heritage and ancestral spirits. It is sometimes written as Winti Prey and means "Winti preparation" in Sranan Tongo. An annual festival, it honours

The Mammoth Festival of Beers and Bluesapalooza is a mix of many shades of blues music and even more flavours of craft beers and ciders. Music ranges from blues to

If you're planning a visit to Rwanda, one event you won't want to miss is the Kwita Izina gorilla naming ceremony. This annual celebration...

This autumn, the historic pottery heartland of Stoke-on-Trent will once again become a stage for clay in all its forms, as the British Ceramics Biennial 2025 returns from 6 September to

One of the longest surviving medieval rituals in England, the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance has been performed in a village in Staffordshire since 1226. Horn Dance Ritual The folk dance

Now a veteran of the UK food festival circuit, the first Ludlow Food Festival was held in 1995 when members of the local Chamber of Trade and Commerce decided a food festival would be a