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Following the Christchurch terror attack, this weekend's Auckland's Pasifika Festival has been cancelled due to a stretched police force.
The event was set to take place at Western Springs Stadium on March 23 and 24. Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development's general manager Steve Armitage confirmed the cancellation in a statement to media.
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CNN
It's the bold image of India most often seen in ad campaigns, films and music videos: People coming together from all walks of life to sing, dance and splash their friends and family with colored powder and water.
Brands such as Sony and Canon have used the vibrant festival to showcase their products. British Airways recently joined in the fun with cabin crew members celebrating in cities across India.
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Rolling Stone
Jay-Z, the Killers, Chance the Rapper, Black Keys, Robert Plant, Halsey and Miley Cyrus are among the artists booked for Woodstock 50 as organizers revealed the Watkins Glen, New York festival's full lineup.
Dead and Company, John Fogerty, Santana, John Sebastian, Country Joe Mcdonald, Canned Heat and Hot Tuna – all acts that took part in the 1969 festival – are all on the lineup for the festival, which takes place August 16th through 18th, the 50th anniversary of the original Woodstock.
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The Verge
Last Saturday night, for the first time in my four years of attending SXSW, I thought I was going to die. I crossed the road at the pedestrian crosswalk next to the Austin Convention Center, and four people — each traveling approximately 15 miles per hour on electric scooters — darted around me.
Not only did I not see or hear them coming — the mostly silent scooters have lights that automatically activate at night, but they can still be hard to spot in the dark — but I also had no idea what the best course of action was.
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The South African
MTN took the lead in dropping its sponsorship of the Afrikaans is Groot festival amid a public outcry as a result of Steve Hofmeyr being included as a headliner for the show.
Afrikaans is Groot is an annual show with this year's featured acts including Karlien van Jaarsveld, Bok van Blerk, Bobby van Jaarsveld, Elvis Blue among others on the bill.
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KHON-TV
A new proposal in the city council would limit the number of parades and activities that require street closures, and add requirements to the events held.
Council member Michael Formby who introduced the bill says many members of the Waikiki community have reached out to him on the issue.
"Anytime you shut down Kalakaua avenue you impact the traffic. You impact the operations of all the businesses along Kalakaua. You impact the residents. I mean it across the board impacts people and their quality of life," said Formby, who represents Waikiki.
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Courier Journal
For most of the country, spring means the arrival of flowers and warmer weather, but for Louisvillians, spring means so much more. It signals the arrival of locals' favorite time of year: The Derby Festival season! Now's the time to start marking your calendar with all the amazing events the Derby Festival is offering this year.
Of course, you can't forget your Pegasus Pin. Don't have yours yet? Don't worry! The one-of-a-kind 2019 Pegasus Pins are now available at more than 1,000 local retailers.
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Rolling Stone
There will always be the peace, the love and the music, but the legacy of any large music festival will also always include a heap of trash. For 50 years, oceans of waste have washed over fields from Bethel, New York to Indio, California to Somerset, England. And though this garbage isn't the worst driver of climate change, it's only in the past few decades that festival organizers have committed to keeping things cleaner.
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Boise State Public Radio
Each March for the last eight years, Treefort Music Fest has taken over downtown Boise, Idaho. The five-day festival starts Wednesday, and will feature headliners Vince Staples, Liz Phair and Toro y Moi alongside hundreds of other musical acts.
If you've lived in Boise during those last eight years, you've probably heard about the festival's humble beginnings. But how is the festival doing as a business, and what have the founders learned since 2012?
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Chicago Tribune
Due to concerns about cost, the Aurora Puerto Rican Heritage Festival will be scaled back from two days to one day this summer, and the usual parade will not be held.
Aurora Puerto Rican Cultural Council officials announced the changes this week for the festival to be held July 27 at RiverEdge Park in Aurora, Illinois.
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Insurance Business
Fyre Fest. The infamous festival that spawned a thousand memes, and left the world obsessed from the influencer promo video start, to the documentary film finish.
For those not in the know, Fyre as it became known, was the brainchild of U.S. entrepreneur Billy McFarland. The man behind a number of failed projects managed to meet rapper J Rule, and the two decided they wanted to start a luxury music festival.
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Esquire
Life is funny sometimes — one day you're peddling a music festival built on dreams and the disposable income of rich kids' parents and the next, you're $26 million in debt and fielding cash offers from Hulu to talk about your own demise in jail. Whatta world! And since the drama of the Fyre Festival is seemingly never-ending, Vulture reported this week that you can even own a piece of a the catastrophe for yourself.
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WXDE-FM
Delaware lawmakers are suggesting a law to specifically allow certain fireworks in Delaware for a particular religious celebration. Diwali is a 5-day festival of lights, celebrated by millions of Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains across the world. On the third day of this festival it is tradition to light fireworks.
According to Wikipedia; Diwali symbolizes the spiritual "victory of light over darkness, good over evil and knowledge over ignorance." Light is a metaphor for knowledge and consciousness.
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ABC News
A Hobart alderman says the time has come for the council to ditch the Taste of Tasmania festival in favour of affordable housing and other core issues. Damon Thomas was part of a unanimous vote at Monday's meeting to cut funding to the state's premier summer festival, but said council ownership should end. The council has approved a three-year funding deal, with a reduced commitment for each of the years.
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Shreveport Times
An organizer of a Shreveport crawfish and music festival decided not to take any city money as part of an agreement offered by the City Council. Matt Snyder, organizer of Crawfest, said he was so frustrated by a convoluted administrative process that he decided to reject the city's offer to sponsor his event.
Crawfest, a March 22 through 23 event at Betty Virginia Park, is a festival held in the South Highlands neighborhood. The festival is free to the public and features local and regional bands, family activities, food and drinks.
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East Oregonian
A highly divided Pendleton City Council was set to march forward on a parade fee ordinance until the discovery of a council rule forced them to halt.
With the council tied 4-4 at a meeting Tuesday, Mayor John Turner cast the first tie-breaking vote of his two-year tenure to pass an ordinance that would charge parade fees with a few notable exceptions.
But the council also deadlocked on a follow-up vote to codify the fee amount into a resolution, prompting Turner to ask City Attorney Nancy Kerns if he could break a tie on a vote for a resolution.
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Al-Monitor
"[Chaharshanbeh Soori] not only lacks a religious basis, it also brings about harm and misdeed. It is advised that [the rituals] be refrained from." That's the text of a fatwa published by the official website of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in response to a religious query about Chaharshanbeh Soori, the ancient Iranian Festival of Fire held on the eve of the last Wednesday before Nowruz, the start of the Iranian New Year. The festival is largely marked with bonfires set up in alleyways and streets nationwide with people gathering around to jump over the flames and celebrate the arrival of spring.
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The Local Spain
As this year's Las Fallas celebration comes to an end, Clare Speak talks to those who make the festival happen about why in Valencia the party is never really over.
On the morning of March 20,Valencia's city centre is almost deserted. For the first time in weeks, there are no deafening explosions and there's no smell of gunpowder in the air.
Now the streets are perfectly clean and eerily quiet. The square outside the Central Market, which until last night was an open-air disco, is silent. It's hard to imagine the crowds and chaotic scenes here just a few hours ago.
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Summit Daily
The skies over Summit County, Colorado, will look a little less colorful this year as residents and visitors gather to celebrate Independence Day.
The town of Frisco announced on Monday that they will be cancelling the annual Fourth of July fireworks display over Dillon Reservoir in an attempt to both increase public safety and mitigate wildfire risks, and avoid headaches related to increased traffic as well as parking and crowd management concerns.
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EventBase
One of Scotland's leading events academics is set to publish his career memoir, which includes an anecdote about once hosting an event for Donald Trump.
Prof. Joe Goldblatt, former executive director of the International Centre for the Study of Planned Events and a professor at Queen Margaret University, will release The True Joy of Life, his professional and personal memoir, next month.
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