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Keep an eye on your health while at a summer festival - you don’t want falling ill to be the headline event
Festival experiences go way beyond the star-studded lineups.
South Africa’s National Arts Festival’s economic impact on its host city, Makhanda, is estimated to be US$4.5 million a year. But it also makes an impact on a social and an artistic level.
Expanding the circulation of our comedic content and continuing to invest in the production of stand-up specials — which is relatively low cost — could hugely boost the careers of Canadian comedians.
Cancellations of Australian music festivals, such as the abrupt end to Pitch Music Festival due to extreme heat, have become all too familiar.
Groovin’ the Moo is the latest in a long line of Australian music festivals to be cancelled. It is the new normal in our age of ‘deep uncertainty’.
Assimilation no doubt played a role in making Hanukkah the commercialized holiday it is today. But other factors shaped the modern festival, too, a scholar of Jewish studies and gender explains.
This year’s Burning Man Festival in Nevada has been washed out and 70,000 attendees are stuck in the mud.
Women not free to enjoy festivals in the same way as men.
People assume event organizers have their best interests at heart, but just like many businesses, organizers often operate on a tight budget and sometimes corners get cut creating disastrous results.
Every year, tens of thousands travel to art events throughout Tasmania. These unique festival landscapes change the way we experience the world – and ourselves.
Despite the name, Children’s Day is usually considered as a festival of boys.
We can emerge from the pandemic a culturally stronger and more forward-looking and resilient country than before if we support the culture sector and digitalization.
Eating codlings and electing bean kings were all part of the medieval Christmas and New Year festivities.
Fireworks can be frightening to pets: here’s how to help them stay calm and happy.
A great ambience requires cooperation and planning according to new research.
Festivals in Ghana are evolving as tourist attractions.
As the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaration of a pandemic approaches, it might be time to consider how our modern age wants to remember this plague.
A decadent New Year’s Eve bash held in the throes of the pandemic is a symptom of a larger problem in the gay community.
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