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Richmond International Film Festival – Richmond, Virginia
Beyond The Pines Music Festival
Beyond the Pines is a fun filled festival with music and entertainment for the entire family.
What: Beyond The Pines Festival
Where: The Woodlands, Texas
When: September 10, 2016
From mechanical bull rides and dunking booths to a vast array of food and drinks.
BTP is dedicated to giving back to the community and is partnered with multiple charities including helpingahero.org , D.A.W.G, Pupsquad, and My Person foundation.
Tickets available at www.BTPfest.com
Yoga Festival In Calpe, Spain
The Yoga Festival is a spiritually charged event, celebrating music, yoga, wellness and dance.
What: Yoga Festival
Where: Calpe, Spain
City2Sands Festivals is planning another Yoga, Music culinary and Dance Festival, featuring talented bands from all over the globe, including South Africa, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and Argentina.
Create your own perfect day, with a variety of classes & workshops, including meditation, yoga, music, culinary and dance to choose from.
Loch Shiel Festival
Taking place every year in late April or early May, The Loch Shiel Spring Festival is now established as one of the most interesting and inspiring chamber music festivals in Scotland.
What: Loch Shiel Festival
Where: Glenfinnan and surrounding areas, Highlands of Scotland
When: 20th – 23rd April 2017
Where To Stay: Glenfinnan Hotels
Loch Shiel itself is one of the longest lochs in Scotland, and the Loch Shiel Festival is designed to bring together the communities around the loch by hosting outstanding and unique chamber music performances by leading musicians each year.
The Festival’s relationship with its local area makes it completely unique, making great use of the variety of outstanding venues the area.
Bucharest International JAZZ Competition & Festival
The Bucharest International Jazz Competition and Festival has 100% jazz and more!
Location of Festival: Bucharest, Romania
Places To Stay: Bucharest, Romania
Official Website: www.jazzcompetition.ro
Competition, concerts, jam sessions, jazz workshops… Bucharest International Jazz Competition is ranked among the first 3 jazz competitions in Europe.
It is addressed to bands and vocalists and its mission is to contribute to the acknowledgement of the international jazz values. An entire week dedicated exclusively to jazz. Jazz lovers are invited to discover and to encourage the best musicians of the moment, “crème de la crème” or just reaching the peaks of success, from all around Europe and other continents.
Improvisation, explosive energy and the joy to share music – these are the co-ordinates for the 2017 Bucharest International Jazz Competition.
Open for: instrumentalists and vocalists of all nationalities.
Age limit: Up to 40 years old
Prizes: 7.000 Euro
The First Hermetic International Film Festival
What: The First Hermetic International Film Festival
When: March 2, 2018
Where: Venezia (Venice), Italy – La casa del Cinema, Videoteca Pasinetti, Salizada San Stae, 1990, 30135 Venezia
Where To Stay: Venice Hotels
The FHIFF wants to serve the interests of all those independent productions – both fiction films and documentaries, feature and short lengths, all kind of genre (drama, comedy, sci-fi, fantastic, thriller), narrative as well as experimental and avant-garde, theatrical cinema and video art – that have somehow, in the form or in the content, to do with esotericism and the hermetic “sciences”: from the believer standpoint or rather a critique viewpoint towards the hermetic, occult, esoteric stances, surmises and convictions.
We want to celebrate the Visions: cinematography and Hermetica are both terrifically imaginative visionary cultures!
Furthermore, contemporary esotericism is intimately, and increasingly, connected with popular culture and new media: for this reason, we want to support such a visual fascination, the storylines revolving around neglected knowledges and the frantic search for the divine upon hidden paths of spirituality.
Accepted are productions diffusely or pervasively inspired and influenced by hermetic themes and aesthetics as well as the “proper esoteric” works, which directly and extensively deal with the “realm” of the occult, representing and portraying it.
Austin Film Festival
The Austin Film Festival is gearing up for its 25 year!
Where: Austin, Texas
When: October 26, 2017 – November 2 2017
Where To Stay: Austin Hotels
Known as the “Writers Festival” since its inception 24 years ago, Austin Film Festival recognizes the importance of narrative at the core of filmmaking.
By celebrating the work of storytellers; those committed to crafting intricate worlds, fully-formed characters, and diverse perspectives, AFF bolsters its reputation as a champion for the creator. AFF provides filmmakers with an invaluable platform among industry insiders and film-lovers alike, and have helped launch the careers of countless filmmakers.
Its Narrative, Documentary, and Animated Shorts categories are Academy®-qualifying, and selected filmmakers receive full access to AFF’s world-famous Screenwriters Conference, the largest convergence of screenwriters in the world and a source of inspiration and networking for thousands every year.
Bottom line: Austin Film Festival combs through its submissions for the best stories. AFF prides itself on finding fresh, relevant, and gifted voices from around the world and is a place where new visions and untapped talent can flourish and join a dynamic and welcoming community. It doesn‘t matter where you come from or what you believe; if you have a story to tell, AFF wants to see it.
Oddysia Festival
With beach sessions and boat parties which stretch beyond the sunset each day, The Oddysia Festival will be the perfect place to lose yourself to a soundtrack of house, techno, disco, world music and other underground sounds.
What: Odyssia Festival
Where: Corinthos, Greece
Dates of Festival: 30 August- 5 September
Website: http://www.odyssiafestival.com
Upon the bay of the idyllic fisherman’s village Schinos, lies a secluded, handcrafted beach bar with an 18-year legacy as stunning as it’s surroundings.
Some refer to it as a paradise, while others have called it a musical haven after the likes of Frankie Knuckles and David Morales have graced it’s decks.
Across 7 days and nights we will present to you an array of artists, DJs, producers, selectors and influencers on both land and sea. Crafted by the minds behind Need2Soul, and Cariocas’ House On The Beach, the first Odyssia promises to intimately piece together their favourite electronic collectives in an alluring location only fit for the best.
Todos Tango Festival – Corfu, Greece
Todos Tango Team presents Miguel Angel Zotto and Daiana Guspero in “TODOS TANGO FESTIVAL – CORFU 2016.”
Seven days of Greek summer from the 13th until the 20th of June, filled with events, music, milongas as well as workshops and spectacular shows from Miguel Angel Zotto Y Daiana Guspero. Anibal Lautaro Y Valeria Maside,Pablo Moyano Y Roberta Beccarini and Kostas Nikolaides Y Vassia Thanopoulou.
The festival is hosted by Messonghi Beach Hotel in the beautiful island of Corfu! The island of Corfu in the Ionian sea, is one of the most beautiful islands of Greece filled with exotic beaches, vasty areas of green, great history, traditional buildings and charismatic people who appreciate the arts.
Based on the real traditional Greek hospitality, the organization is making sure that all guests will be embraced and serviced accordingly, meeting the standards of maximum comfort. So, book your place to live the Todos Tango experience under the Greek sun for quality vacations, and leave the rest to us!
For more information, visit http://todostango.com/
The Festival Of The Roses – Lyon, France
The Festival of Roses happens in Lyon, France at the end of May, just in time for La Fête des Mères!
Where: Lyon, France in the Parc de la Tête d’Or and in the various districts of Lyon
When: Last weekend in May, annually
Places To Stay: Lyon Hotels
Lyon, France is blooming! The Festival of the Roses is an attraction at the end of May where visitors can view three renovated rose gardens in the Parc de la Tête d’Or.
The festival also includes a variety of activities and classes including creating floral displays, painting, gardening, a rose themed fashion show, and much more.
The Festival of Roses concludes with a fireworks display that can be viewed by the riverbank.
A complete list of activities can be found here.