Edinburgh's Hogmanay: 'Big Bang' on 1 January 2013 #blogmanay
One element of Edinburgh's Hogmanay festival is often a piece of street theatre designed to capture the audience's imagination, provide a spectacle and some encourage some re-imagining of the city as a cultural, creative space. Some of Edinburgh's...
Top 10 places for New Year's Eve traditions (courtesy of The Guardian)
via guardian.co.uk For those who like to see a town or city animated through the careful application of a planned event or two here are a few new year's eve celebrations to keep an eye on. Some have been handed down from one generation to the next...
Edinburgh Festivals' far-reaching impact revealed
video platform video management video solutions video player via festivalsedinburgh.com Edinburgh has the best evaluated festivals: yesterday saw the publication of a major impact assessment report on Edinburgh's twelve main festivals (those who m...
Got red hair? Head to Roodharigen in Breda!
Breda clearly has the best festival in the world for anyone interested in red hair. From the simple premise that not many people in the Netherlands have red hair comes an event to celebrate the lucky few. The website is http://www.roodharigen.nl/ ...
SXSW 2011: The internet is over | The Guardian
via guardian.co.uk This article (click the guardian.co.uk link above) was punted my way by Bob (legendary friend from school days of yore, you remember Bob?). It's an optimistic view of our online future, principally seen from the user's perspecti...
The Guardian Hacks SXSW
via guardian.co.uk The Guardian has the best conference-festival-hack-day-event, it's due this time next week. The conference-festival is South by South West, the hack-day is a way to bring people together to make stuff for following SXSW, and the...
Click for curtain-up: technology and theatre | Culture | The Guardian
via guardian.co.uk Theatre has the best technology? A quick post from a Guardian article looking at technology-in-theatre, as fostered by a 'Pervasive Media Studio' project in Bristol. The analogy is with the use of surround sound in the movies: i...
Internet Week Europe - November 2010
via internetweekeurope.com London has the best festivals, yes? Internet Week Europe is born of a similar event in New York, attracting some fantastic contributors, audiences and media coverage. Of course, in my world there's every chance that thes...
VIP Art Fair
via vipartfair.com The internet has the best festivals - arty ones at that. Should you click on the vipartfair.com link above you'll get to the 'VIP Art Fair', which from one angle looks like a shop window for artworks. There's more to it though, ...
Nuit Blanche: older, not any wiser
via thestar.com Toronto has the best festivals. Perhaps. This article discusses 'Nuit Blanche', which brings a million folk out onto the streets for an all night series of art events and what have you. It's hard to see from the article whether thi...