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Aarhus Festival in Aarhus
Aarhus Festival has run every year since 1965, packing roughly 1,000 events spanning music, theatre, visual art, architecture, food and dance into ten days across venues throughout the city each late summer. Rather than a single stage or genre, it uses the whole of Aarhus as its venue, making it more of a city-wide cultural sampler than a conventional festival.
Aarhus Festival began as an experiment in 1964, a plan to activate the city's cultural institutions and associations that ran its first edition in 1965 and has not stopped since, growing into one of Northern Europe's largest city-wide cultural events with roughly 1,000 events packed into ten days each late summer.