Tag: Carnivals and Festivals
Tony tops Turin Film Festival
Tony Manero, an unlikely drama about a serial killer obsessed with John Travolta's character from Saturday Night Fever, was awarded the best film prize at the 26th Turin Film Festival.[MORE]
Festival crackdown: 51 drug arrests
New South Wales Police arrested 51 people on drugs charges at yesterday's Global Gathering music festival in Sydney's Moore Park.[MORE]
Watts film to open Berlin fest
The International, an action thriller starring Oz actress Naomi Watts, to kick-off Berlinale.[MORE]
Live Earth India concert cancelled
Live Earth India, a concert scheduled for December 7 in Mumbai, has been cancelled due to the terrorist attacks in the city.[MORE]
Aussie A-listers to be honoured at G'day USA fest
Australian A-listers Baz Luhrmann, Eric Bana, Rachel Griffiths and tennis legend Rod Laver will be honoured at next month's annual G'day USA: Australia Week festival, organisers say.[MORE]
Giant city ferris wheel for Adelaide
A 46-metre ferris wheel will operate in Victoria Square in Adelaide next year during the Fringe Festival and V8 Supercar race. [MORE]
Covers off Ten Days festival
The official guide for next year's Ten Days on the Island arts festival has been launched in Hobart. [MORE]
Goa stakes claim to be 'Cannes of the East'
Goa's Chief Minister wants to rebrand India's most prestigious film festival along the lines of Cannes in southern France, but the pledge has set him on a collision course with organisers.[MORE]
De Niro to launch Doha film fest
Robert De Niro signed an agreement in Qatar on Sunday (local time) to launch a Doha international film festival linked to the Tribeca festival he founded in New York after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.[MORE]
Schoolies flock to Gold Coast celebrations
Schoolies festivities officially start today on the Gold Coast.[MORE]
Taste stallholders on notice over pay
Stallholders at this year's Taste of Tasmania in Hobart have been warned to pay their workers properly.[MORE]
Aussie film to open Sundance
Australian Oscar winner Adam Elliot's new claymation feature film to open Sundance.[MORE]
Council rejects Speldour festival move criticism
The Byron Shire Council denies claims that it has ignored its own planning rules by moving the Splendour in the Grass music festival to a new inland site at Yelgun in northern New South Wales.[MORE]
Taste festival launched
The Hobart City Council says it's been assured one of the state's most popular tourist attractions, the Taste Festival, will continue at its current site.[MORE]
Appeal lodged against Splendour festival
Conservationists have lodged an appeal in the New South Wales Land and Environment Court to try to stop the Splendour in the Grass music festival being moved from Byron Bay to a new inland site on the far north coast.[MORE]
Womadelaide line-up 'more diverse than ever'
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Artists from more countries than ever will perform at next year's Womadelaide music festival.[MORE]
Japanese film takes top honours at Argentine festival
Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda's film Still Walking has won best picture honours at Argentina's Mar del Plata International Film Festival.[MORE]
Marrakesh film fest honours Weaver, Yeoh
Hollywood stars Sigourney Weaver and Michelle Yeoh will be honoured at this year's Marrakesh International Film Festival which starts today.[MORE]
Swinton to head Berlin Film Festival jury
Oscar-winning Scottish actress Tilda Swinton will lead the international jury at the 59th Berlin Film Festival, organisers said.[MORE]
Beers put to the taste test in Hobart
Rain has done little to deter hundreds of beer lovers from tempting their pallet at today's Hobart Beerfest.[MORE]
Festival celebrates Australia's bush culture
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The Gundaroo Bush Festival boasts billycart races, pie fights and dog high-jumping.[MORE]
Blanchett, Triffids get top billing at Perth festival
Cate Blanchett, The Triffids and a group of melodramatic mannequins will descend on the 2009 Perth International Arts Festival.[MORE]
Sydney Festival line-up unveiled
Musicians Nick Cave and Grace Jones lead line-up for the 2009 Sydney Festival.[MORE]
LA plans festival during Ring cycle
Los Angeles will stage a city-wide cultural festival involving museums, theatres and movies to coincide with Los Angeles Opera's plans to stage the ambitious four opera Ring Cycle by Richard Wagner in 2010.[MORE]
Country music festival sparks record ticket sales
The organisers of next year's country music festival in Tamworth, in north-west New South Wales, say a record number of tickets were sold during October.[MORE]
