A new year, new possibilities.
If you’re as me and like festivals, do yourself a favour and check out these events. I chose the ones I’d like to visit at least once in my life.
January 5 - 26 Sydney Festival, Australia
January 17 - 27 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah
Janurary 25 - February 4 Gothenburg Film Festival, Sweden
February 2 - 5 Carnival in Rio, Brazil
March Turin Chocolate Festival, Italy
March New York Underground Film Festival, New York
March 29 - April 13 National Cherry Blossom Festival, Washington
April 25 - May 4 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
April 25 - 28 Art Chicago
May 14 - 25 Cannes Film Festival, France
May 19 - 25 Sydney Writer’s Festival, Australia
June 5- 8 Chicago Blues Festival
July Stockholm Jazz Festival, Sweden
Oct 30 - Nov 3 Le Festival du Vent, Calvi, Corsica
November Paris Photo, France
For more festivals and events, visit What’s On When.
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Great list of festivals there. Personally I’ve always wanted top go to the Rio Carnival.
Also don’t forget the Exit Festival in Serbia in July. It’s a 4 day music festival set in a fortress overlooking the river Danube. Exit also reecntly won the ‘Best European Festival’ in the Virtual festival Awards. Check out http://www.exitfest.org
January 8th, 2008 at 10:47 am
And also the Carnival of Venice from 25/01/2008 to 05/05/2008
http://www.carnivalofvenice.com/area.asp?id=4&lang=en
January 8th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
rome,
Thanks for mentioning that! I’ve always wanted to travel to Venice, what could be a better time than during the carnival.
January 8th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Nikki,
Thanks for the tips. Exit Festival definitely seems like it’s worth a visit!
January 9th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Hey Erica - quite an inspiring list of events! Thanks so much for posting them - I will certainly also add some to the database of our travel community at trivago as I am confident our visitors would enjoy them also.
Best wishes from Cape Town,
Pierre
January 11th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Pierre,
Thanks. I’m glad you like it.
September 1st, 2008 at 11:27 am
This national day (23 April National Sovereignty and Children’s Day) in Turkey is a unique event. The founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, dedicated April 23 to the children of the country to emphasize that they are the future of the new nation. On April 23, 1920, during the War of Independence, that the Grand National Assembly met in Ankara and laid down the foundations of a new, independent, secular, and modern republic from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire.
September 1st, 2008 at 1:51 pm
@jerry,
Interesting. I didn’t know about this.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Yeah, we’ve added them to ours too.. We’ve got a huge travel community too.
September 17th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Nice List!
It is very helpfull…
November 6th, 2008 at 8:24 am
Wow thats a great list of festivals from around the globe. Well I would also like to add a few interesting and unique festivals from India too..
Greetings