Myanmar will release almost 25,000 prisoners in an amnesty to mark the traditional New Year, the president’s office has announced. President Win Myint said on Friday that 24,896 people jailed across the country, including 87 foreigners, […]
The Coronavirus crippled the entertainment scene around the planet. From sporting events to concerts to festivals, events scheduled to highlight the spring and summer are delayed or canceled. Their fans are forced to look ahead […]
A parent reading to his son at the Hay literature festival in 2015. Photograph: Keith Morris/Hay fotos/Alamy Stock Photo The future of the Hay literature festival is in doubt following the cancellation of this year’s […]
Parkway Drive performing at Sonic Temple 2019 KEITH KOENIG As one of the largest independent music festival producer in America, Danny Wimmer Presents has 2020 set as its most ambitious festival season yet. The festival […]
A music festival in the Pakistani capital Islamabad had to be halted after hundreds of fake-ticket holders stormed the venue, organisers said. Solis Festival said people had broken through barricades after being denied entry to […]
In the Arctic Circle during the dim days of February, reality becomes a little attenuated. At 10am, it’s still dark, the streetlights colouring the pavements pale orange and making sallow shadows of the trees. When […]
Kenyan conservationists are challenging plans to host a music festival at Hell’s Gate National Park, 100 km outside the capital, Nairobi, on Feb. 14. They say it will negatively impact wildlife in the park, including […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar will give British fans a taste of his new “rock” album when he headlines the BST Hyde Park festival in July. The star will play in London on Sunday, 5 […]
In the downtown Portland home of Pink Martini’s Thomas Lauderdale, a crowd featuring notable Portlanders like Storm Large and former-mayor-now-city-council-candidate Sam Adams gathered Sunday to celebrate a new twist on a legendary Oregon event — Vortex2020. The original […]
The 9th International Children’s Film Festival begins in Kolkata today with the screening of Aizaz Khan directed Hamid. About 250 films from 45 countries will be screened in the week-long festival. According to the official […]