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Alkantara festival brings cream of performance arts to Lisbon

The world of performance arts comes to the Portuguese capital Lisbon for the annual Alkantara festival.

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A panoramic view of European photography

The theme of PhotoEspaña this year is a plural Europe.

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Istanbul hosts International Theatre Festival

Some of the finest theatre companies and dance groups from Turkey and around the world are gathered in Istanbul for the International Theatre…

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Germans celebrate diversity at Carnival of Cultures

Berliners braved the cold to toast cultural diversity at one of Germany’s biggest summer carnivals. Hundreds of thousands of people turned out for

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Rock meets sand in the desert

It’s being billed as a once in a lifetime opportunity…. To see some of rock music’s biggest icons all in one place taking part in a three day

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Azeri city of of Sheki is cultural capital of Turkic world

Sheki in northern Azerbaijan lies on the ancient Silk Route. The city has been named ‘cultural capital of the Turkic world’ in 2016, and as such is

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Sochi festival shows how the body can be a canvas

Body artists and tattoo enthusiasts show off their work at Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi.

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Sitgimgut, the Jindo art of cleansing the soul of the dead

The sitgimgut ceremony is a shamanist ritual for cleansing a dead person’s soul that comes from Jindo, a tiny island off the coast of South Korea

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Cairo feels the beat at contemporary arts festival

Contemporary dance, theatre, music, film and literature – it’s all come to Cairo for the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival. The festival is billed

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Flashy cars take over Dubai for Gulf Car Festival

More than 300 custom-made cars were on display at the latest edition of the“Gulf Car Festival in Dubai”:http://carculture.ae/gulf-car-festival-2016/

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Budapest holds its third international theatre festival

22 performances from 13 countries

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Thailand celebrates the Songkran water festival

Colorfully painted elephants spray onlookers with water, kicking off this year’s Songkran festival in Thailand’s ancient Ayutthaya Province.

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Tallinn festival celebrates fusion of music from around the world

Founded in 2009, Tallinn Music Week has grown into one of northern Europe's biggest indoor festivals.

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Portugal's best cartoons celebrated

Portugal's annual event dedicated to some of its best cartoonists has a woman as the guest of honour for the first time - award winning Belgian artist Cécile Bertrand.

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India marks arrival of spring with Holi festival

India’s spring celebration of colours – the Holi festival – is a time for powder to fill the air and for many to indulge. It is celebrated

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The 'Not New Now' art biennial in Marrakech

‘Not New Now’ is the theme of the art biennial in Marrakesh. Curator, Palestinian Reem Fadda, has taken the event back to its North African origins

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Angry Indian elephant runs riot at Kerala temple festival

An elephant ran amok causing chaos for hours during a festival in India’s southern Kerala state. It’s unclear why the animal went berserk and started

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Shopping carts, selfie sticks and a changing earth - contemporary art in Jeddah

Jeddah's annual contemporary art festival - called 21, 39, from the city's latitude and longitude - this year has the theme environmental change under the title 'Earth and Ever After'.

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Pavlova tribute highlight of Sochi Winter Festival

Sochi Winter Arts Festival is paying tribute to iconic ballerina Anna Pavlova, the Russian prima ballerina and choreographer whose company, founded in 1911, was the first to tour ballet around the wor

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Carnival comes to a close

Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival season drew to a close in the early hours of Sunday with this year’s final event, a spectacular parade by Carnival