A new year, new possibilities.
If you’re as me and like festivals, do yourself a favor and check out these events. I chose the ones I would 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.
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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
And also the Carnival of Venice from 25/01/2008 to 05/05/2008
http://www.carnivalofvenice.com/area.asp?id=4&lang=en
rome,
Thanks for mentioning that! I’ve always wanted to travel to Venice, what could be a better time than during the carnival.
Nikki,
Thanks for the tips. Exit Festival definitely seems like it’s worth a visit!
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
Pierre,
Thanks. I’m glad you like it.
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.
@jerry,
Interesting. I didn’t know about this.
Yeah, we’ve added them to ours too.. We’ve got a huge travel community too.
Nice List!
It is very helpfull…
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