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Cairo feels the beat at contemporary arts festival

Contemporary dance, theatre, music, film and literature – it’s all come to Cairo for the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival. The festival is billed

20/04/2016

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Flashy cars take over Dubai for Gulf Car Festival

More than 300 custom-made cars were on display at the latest edition of the“Gulf Car Festival in Dubai”:http://carculture.ae/gulf-car-festival-2016/

19/04/2016

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Budapest holds its third international theatre festival

22 performances from 13 countries

18/04/2016

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Thailand celebrates the Songkran water festival

Colorfully painted elephants spray onlookers with water, kicking off this year’s Songkran festival in Thailand’s ancient Ayutthaya Province.

12/04/2016

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Tallinn festival celebrates fusion of music from around the world

Founded in 2009, Tallinn Music Week has grown into one of northern Europe's biggest indoor festivals.

05/04/2016

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Portugal's best cartoons celebrated

Portugal's annual event dedicated to some of its best cartoonists has a woman as the guest of honour for the first time - award winning Belgian artist Cécile Bertrand.

21/03/2016

India

India marks arrival of spring with Holi festival

India’s spring celebration of colours – the Holi festival – is a time for powder to fill the air and for many to indulge. It is celebrated

18/03/2016

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The 'Not New Now' art biennial in Marrakech

‘Not New Now’ is the theme of the art biennial in Marrakesh. Curator, Palestinian Reem Fadda, has taken the event back to its North African origins

16/03/2016

India

Angry Indian elephant runs riot at Kerala temple festival

An elephant ran amok causing chaos for hours during a festival in India’s southern Kerala state. It’s unclear why the animal went berserk and started

01/03/2016

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Shopping carts, selfie sticks and a changing earth - contemporary art in Jeddah

Jeddah's annual contemporary art festival - called 21, 39, from the city's latitude and longitude - this year has the theme environmental change under the title 'Earth and Ever After'.

24/02/2016

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Pavlova tribute highlight of Sochi Winter Festival

Sochi Winter Arts Festival is paying tribute to iconic ballerina Anna Pavlova, the Russian prima ballerina and choreographer whose company, founded in 1911, was the first to tour ballet around the wor

18/02/2016

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Carnival comes to a close

Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival season drew to a close in the early hours of Sunday with this year’s final event, a spectacular parade by Carnival

15/02/2016

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Lanterns of Love

In celebration of Valentine’s Day, hundreds of couples came together in the Pingxi district of New Taipei City on Sunday (February 14) evening to

15/02/2016

Germany

'24 Weeks' abortion drama is screened in Berlin

'24 Weeks' - a movie for lovers of German cinema at the Berlin film festival, but where are all the other German films in the competition and why so few female film directors?

15/02/2016

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Tribute to Saint Agatha of Sicily

The three-day feast of Saint Agatha, patron saint of Catania in Sicily, concluded on Saturday (6 February). Pilgrims and tourists from all over the

07/02/2016

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Tighter security at Women's Carnival in Germany

​Tens of thousands of people have been out celebrating ​women’s carnival in Germany. This footage, from Cologne, comes just over a month since

05/02/2016

Cinema

Sir Ian McKellen takes to a bus for "Shakespeare on Film"

Sir Ian McKellen is set for a new role. The British actor who has tackled Shakespeare’s works on stage and screen is to be a bus tour guide for the

27/01/2016

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Children celebrate Spanish Tamborrada festival

Thousands of people gathered for the annual Tamborrada drum festival in the northern Spanish city of San Sebastian. During the 24-hour event

22/01/2016

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Ethiopia celebrates baptism of Jesus

Thousands take part in Epiphany festival or Timket in Ethiopia to celebrate the baptism of Jesus according to the ancient Orthodox calendar.

21/01/2016

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French comics festival marred by sexist row

Just weeks before it’s due to get underway, France’s prestigious Angoulême comics festival is up in arms. The reason? Out of the 30 graphic

07/01/2016