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AFP via Saudi Gazette
Beyonce and Jay-Z will lead an A-list lineup to mark 100 years since Nelson Mandela's birth in a Johannesburg festival by the Global Citizen movement to eradicate poverty.
The Dec. 2 event, which will be internationally broadcast, will celebrate the late anti-apartheid icon and draw a number of leaders in an attempt to throw a spotlight on fledgling efforts to eradicate the world's worst poverty, Global Citizen announced Monday.
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Austin American-Statesman
The 2018 South by Southwest festivals had a $350.6 million impact on Austin's economy, according to a new report released Monday.
That's an increase of just less than 1 percent compared to 2017, when the total was $348.6 million.
The Austin City Limits Music Festival, by comparison, had an estimated impact of $255 million on Austin's economy in 2017, according to a report commissioned by the producer of the event, C3 Presents.
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The Canadian Press via City News
The Montreal International Jazz Festival has cancelled the remaining presentations of a show that has been criticized because it features a white woman singing songs composed by black slaves.
The festival said Wednesday it was apologizing to anyone who was hurt by the decision to put on the shows.
"Since the beginning of SLAV performances, the festival team has been shaken and strongly affected by all comments received," it said in a statement.
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Independent
Christian Prudhomme has been the race director of the Tour de France since 2007, overseeing a period of great change and expansion as the Tour spread to new parts of the world and touched new cycling fans.
At the start of the 105th edition of this famous old race, we ask the man in charge of one of the biggest sporting spectacles on the planet how it comes together, what a day in his life entails and how you balance preserving great traditions with attracting new faces to the sport.
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The Economic Times
The classical festival to honor Saint Fermin is organized every year from July 6-14. The running of the bulls is held during the nine-day festival of Sanfermines in Pamplona. They are also traditionally held in other places such as towns and villages across Spain, Portugal, in some cities in Mexico, and southern France during the summer.
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Reuters via Business Insider
Officials in the Spanish city of Pamplona are seeking to reassure women that its annual bull-running festival this week is safe to attend after the assault of a young woman at the 2016 event sparked protests for tougher punishment of sex crimes. The festival, a raucous, alcohol-fueled event where mostly men volunteer to be chased by bulls down narrow streets, begins on Friday. Suggestions of a boycott have circulated on social media as anger persists over the 2016 attack carried out by five men who called themselves the "Wolf Pack."
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The Jerusalem Post
The artistic director of a music festival in the west German city of Bochum is facing growing pressure to resign because of her intense defense of a boycott campaign targeting the Jewish state.
Stefanie Carp, the director of the music and cultural festival Ruhrtriennale, told a cultural committee on Thursday in the parliament of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where Bochum is located, that the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) campaign against Israel is not antisemitic but merely fights for the "right of Palestine to exist," according to a Friday report on the website of the WDR news outlet.
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The Irish Times
While watching a festival performance last summer, Jessica's enjoyment of the event came to an abrupt stop, when the actions of a male performer made her deeply uncomfortable. "[He] stood in front of me and started thrusting his crotch at me; I don't mean in the crowd or behind a barrier, I mean stood directly in front of me and made eye contact. I am a survivor of rape, and I completely froze."
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CBC News
As Montreal's Just for Laughs festival prepares to kick off Wednesday, the company has released a new anti-harassment policy for employees and addressed the sexual misconduct scandal that forced Gilbert Rozon to walk away from the festival he founded. In a statement Monday, the newly restructured company said it supports "those who courageously came forward,'' declaring: "harassment of any type is unacceptable and has no place in our company, our industry or society as a whole.''
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IQ Index
Chin Okeke – one of the men behind arguably the most important of Africa's new breed of music festivals – has spoken of the growing appetite for live music in the last major frontier for the international concert business.
Eclipse Live co-founder Okeke, who established Gidi Culture Festival in Lagos, Nigeria, in 2014, has seen great success with what he calls a festival created "for Africa," by Africans – but which is also increasingly attracting both patrons and performers from further afield, reflecting broader changes in the African market.
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Forbes
The worldwide whiskey boom has produced a parallel boom in whisky related tourism and whiskey themed shows. Travel Scotland estimated that Scotch whiskey distillers will receive approximately 2 million visitors in 2018, up about 10 percent from the previous year.
The comparable figure in Kentucky, alone, was 1.3 million visitors in 2017. While Kentucky, the Kentucky Bourbon Trail and the American Whiskey Trail is home to many of America's iconic and historic whiskey distillers, there are now more than 1,500 working distilleries in the U.S., virtually all of them smaller craft distilleries.
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Panama City News Herald
Tourism officials on Tuesday approved a $2.4 million special events budget for Fiscal Year 2019 at a combined Tourist Development Council and Convention and Visitors Bureau meeting.
The total $2,455,000 special events budget came in $45,000 higher than 2018 because of requested increases from some event organizers.
"Most of the event right holders need to secure entertainment and begin their planning and budgets for the 2019 event season," said Catie Feeney, Visit Panama City Beach public relations manager. "It is important for them to know what amount of funding will be available to them from the TDC."
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New Haven Register
The city will look at changing its procedure on charging event organizers to get better reimbursements on overtime services of police and fire during festivals, parades and other public events.
Alder Gerald Antunes, D-12, submitted an order to the Board of Alders calling for a review by a committee and public hearing on the city's policy that event organizers reimburse the city for the cost of services by departments, such as police, fire and parks and recreation.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Pokémon Go Fest 2018 returns to Chicago on July 14 and 15. It's the second annual gathering for fans of the popular app-based augmented reality game, based this year in Lincoln Park. Last year's inaugural Pokémon Go Fest, which took place in Grant Park, was by many accounts "disastrous" — riddled with logistical issues and technical glitches which ultimately resulted in a class-action lawsuit brought by festival attendees.
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One Green Planet
British audience members are making some positive changes this festival season to keep energy levels high and feel and experience more. Seven in ten festival goers will be participating in a digital detox by staying away from social media so that they can fully be present during the performance.
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City News
A total of 34 cars were damaged after a grass fire broke out at the Lavender Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake on Sunday.
According to Niagara-on-the-Lake Fire Chief Rob Grimwood the fire started just before 4 p.m. in a hay field which was being used by organizers of the festival as an overflow parking lot. Grimwood says they had previously advised organizers not to use the field due to the dry conditions of the grass.
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CBC News
Tucked away behind the main stage at the Cavendish Beach Music Festival is a group of volunteers working on an obvious by-product of the four day event. They are sorting through the bags of garbage to pull out cans, bottles and recycled materials.
"We see quite a bit of things and it is not always pretty, so it is a dirty job but like they say, somebody has got to do it and we have chosen to do it," said Jennifer Bulger, team manager of the under-16 girls eastern softball team on P.E.I.
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