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CNN
An Afrofuturist group says it reversed its decision to charge white people more for tickets to its Detroit festival than black and brown people because they received threats, an artist dropped out and a ticketing website threatened to unpublish their event.
The Eventbrite page for "AfroFuture Fest," hosted by Afrofuture Youth, advertised an "Early Bird POC Ticket" for $10 — with POC meaning "people of color" — and an "Early Bird NONPOC Ticket" for $20. The group defined "NONPOC" as white people.
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Scotsman
Hearing from some of the world's best-selling authors may have been beyond reach for those festival goers operating on a shoestring budget in the past – but not any more.
People attending this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival will be asked to pay only what they can afford for some events as organizers try to open the showcase up to those on tight budgets.
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NPR
The northern Spanish city of Pamplona this weekend opened its famous running of the bulls festival, a nine-day traditional event that draws thousands of spectators who come to watch people dodge bulls bolting down tight streets.
The festival makes Pamplona's population of nearly 200,000 residents jump to about a million visitors, and is considered one of Spain's biggest tourist attractions.
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Woodstock 50’s organizers recieved some more bad news yesterday (July 9), when the town of Vernon, New York, denied the application for the anniversary festival to take place at local venue Vernon Downs.
The Poughkeepsie Journal, Variety and Syracuse.com all report that last night at Vernon’s town meeting, townspeople were concerned about hosting the festival. Their concerns ranged from the potential for vandalism in the to the lack of planning details in Woodstock 50's permit application.
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NPR
The U.S. Women's National Team is celebrating their World Cup championship with a ticker tape parade in New York City. Throngs of fans packed Manhattan's famed "Canyon of Heroes" to greet the squad led by Megan Rapinoe.
"This group is so resilient, is so tough, has such a sense of humor — is just so bad-ass," Rapinoe said as she praised her teammates.
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Roskilde via Business Wire via Yahoo
This year, Northern Europe's biggest music festival, Roskilde, not only welcomes performers like Bob Dylan, MØ, Wu Tang Clan, and The Cure, but also SmartFlower Solar, the world's first all-in-one solar energy system, as part of Carlsberg and Roskilde Festival's new five-year partnership focused on more sustainable festival experiences.
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The Orange County Register
Security experts say Disneyland followed established safety protocols during a vicious family brawl that broke out in the Toontown area of the Anaheim theme park over the Fourth of July weekend.
The response by Disneyland security to the Toontown fight was "really fast," said Michael Downing of Oak View Group, a Los Angeles-based firm that provides security for large sports and entertainment venues.
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Fashion United
Britons are expected to spend a total of 1.2 billion pounds at pop-up stalls this summer, with the average festival-goer shelling out 67 pounds a day on fashion, food, merchandise and testing out experiences on-site.
According to new research by Barclays, 37 percent of festival-goers now favour shopping on-site compared to online or on the high street, while 31 percent consider events to be a better place to find new trends. Just under half (45 percent) also prefer the unusual product offering often found when browsing pop-ups.
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Scotsman
August is just around the corner and Edinburgh, the world's leading festival city, will once again reach its pinnacle with six festivals vying for our attention. We'll see the city's population swell and it will seem as though every nook and cranny has been turned into a venue space. The excitement for visitors is clear to see. But have you ever considered what the experience can be like for disabled visitors?
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The Washington Post
President Trump's overhauled Fourth of July celebration cost the D.C. government about $1.7 million, an amount that — combined with police expenses for demonstrations through the weekend — has bankrupted a special fund used to protect the nation's capital from terrorist threats and provide security at events such as rallies and state funerals.
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Next City
At Lollapalooza, concertgoers are greeted with a huge digital sign telling its fans "You make Lolla great! Look out for each other!" The message, from the anti-sexual harassment campaign Our Music Our Body, went up in 2018 and urges attendees to alert staff if they've felt threatened or harassed at the event.
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Toronto.com via The Star
The need to provide policing at street festivals and other large-scale public events has organizers concerned about escalating costs and the competence of private security to supplement paid officer numbers.
The mayor's executive committee was scheduled to debate a report at a meeting July 4 on what the city can do to ensure that neighbourhood street festivals, which pay tens of thousands for security costs alone, can remain viable.
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Now Toronto
Journey Cannabis & Music Festival has been cancelled after the City of Vaughan passed a restrictive bylaw prohibiting virtually all pot smoking within the city. In a cancellation notice on the event's website, organizers claim the legislation was "designed to remove [the festival] from the summer calendar."
Vaughan passed the bylaw in May, intended "to largely prohibit the smoking of recreational cannabis in public places," which laid out broad restrictions against smoking cannabis in any public place unless it was for medical purposes.
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Insider
The Swiss Air Force's aerobatic jet team conducted an elaborate fly-by over the wrong town on Saturday, after getting confused about where they were.
Six red and white F-5E Tiger II jets were due to swoop over the town of Langenbruck to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of former resident Oskar Bider, a Swiss aviation pioneer who was the first person to cross the Alps by plane.
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