In May, the citizens of La Ceiba, on the Honduran coast, paint the town red during the Gran Carnaval Internacional. Held annually since 1917, the event initially focused on San Isidro (Saint Ididore the Laborer), but has expanded to include usual raucous
Launched in 2005, the Gallery Weekend for contemporary art ranks among the city’s cultural highlights. On the last weekend of April, over forty selected galleries invite curators, collectors and art lovers from around the world to their premises, where
Paris Photo Los Angeles, the inaugural American edition of the renowned Paris fair, was held at no other place than the world-famous Paramount Pictures Studio in Hollywood. Collectors, museum professionals and celebrities such as Eli Broad, Michael and Ei
Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble…God-fearing souls build giant bonfires to ward off the witches who fill the night skies of Sweden’s chief seaport on Walpurgis Night. This pagan festival marking the end of winter harks back to the Vikings, who built f
Dubbed the 'festival of all festivals', the annual Thrissur Pooram is a spectacular event that attracts revellers from miles around. The event dates back to the reign of Sakthan Thampuran (1775-1790) and was a means for the two main geographical regions o
“The times they are a-changing”, and so are the rhythms of jazz. For over a decade England’s stylish Regency spa town turned music centre has throbbed to the beat of the Cheltenham Jazz Festival. The Victorian Everyman Theatre and the Pittville Pump
It may be up-and-coming, but the Tahiti Pearl Regatta has already been dubbed the most important regatta of the South Pacific. In existence since 2004, the four-day race is a mix of friendly competition and professional rivalry. Organizers hold an online
Formerly known as COMDEX, the leading business technology event Interop, aims to bring the world’s top technology buyers and sellers together via keynote panels, technology conferences and tutorials. Taking place at the Mandalay Bay Convention Centre, t
Like Salzburg’s posthumous hero-worship of Mozart, the mediaeval market town’s Shakespeare Festival makes the most of its most famous son. William Shakespeare’s birthday – patriotically assumed by some to be St George’s Day – is recalled each
In 1997, the venerable contemporary art fair Art Actuel was re-tooled and reborn as Art Brussels. Since then, it has steadily gained in importance as one of Europe’s biggest and best trade fairs for new art. Some 120 galleries from 20 nations present th
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