Festival Directory

A touring exhibition closing its run at the Gustavo Bacarisas Gallery after stops in Margate and London, bringing together 35 artists and more than 65 works inspired by the...

Savonlinna Opera Festival stages performances inside the fifteenth-century Olavinlinna Castle each summer, a tradition begun in 1912 by soprano Aino Ackte and continuously revived...

Festival de Lanaudiere, founded in 1978 by Father Fernand Lindsay, is Canada's largest classical music festival, running roughly five weeks each summer at the open-air Amphitheatre...

Radio Andorra by Cirque du Soleil is a made-for-Andorra residency show staged under a covered big top in central Andorra la Vella each summer. Inspired by the legendary Radio...

AgitÁgueda is an arts and street-animation festival in Águeda best known for the Umbrella Sky Project, thousands of colorful umbrellas suspended above the town's streets each...

Kwaku Summer Festival is a multi-weekend celebration of Amsterdam's Surinamese, Caribbean and West African communities, held each summer at Nelson Mandela Park in the city's...

A roughly two-week mid-to-late-July multidisciplinary arts festival in Galway, founded in 1978, spanning theatre, music, opera, and street spectacle across around thirty venues...

At the close of Kataragama's roughly fifteen-day Esala Perahera, devotees who have fasted, meditated and bathed in the Menik Ganga walk barefoot across a leveled bed of glowing...

Annual Festive Stalls describes the nightly street markets that appear across Bandar Seri Begawan for about two weeks around 15 July, marking the birthday of His Majesty Sultan...

Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival fills the Exchange District each July with unjuried theatre, taking almost any registered act on a first-come or lottery basis rather than curating...

Eleven days each July, the Plaza Theatre in El Paso turns into a cinema time machine, mixing silent films with live musical accompaniment, restored classics, and visiting guests...

Israel Festival, founded in 1961 as the country's oldest and most established performing arts festival, runs annually in Jerusalem across theatre, dance, music and...

Founded in 1991 and running from mid-July into mid-August at the Xihai'an International Beer City site, the Qingdao International Beer Festival draws on the city's genuine brewing...

Tomorrowland is a large-scale electronic music festival in the De Schorre park outside Antwerp, known for rebuilding an elaborately themed mainstage and roughly fifteen distinct...

The OC Fair takes over the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa for 23 days each July and August, blending a working agricultural fair with a full-scale carnival. Visitors...

Catamarca's provincial fair built around the handwoven Catamarcan poncho, running each July since a 1967 decree. Combines artisan weaving pavilions at the Predio Ferial Catamarca...

Gentse Feesten is a ten-day, mostly free street festival that spreads live music, theatre and children's animation across Ghent's historic squares, first held in 1843 and revived...

Northern Ireland's largest Pride builds over more than a week of talks, film screenings and community events toward a city-centre parade through Belfast, followed by stage...

Cheyenne Frontier Days is an outdoor rodeo and Western celebration held annually since 1897 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, billed as the World's Largest Outdoor Rodeo and Western...