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- Shanghai Int´l Art Festival closes
- Frankel loads up for Hollywood’s turf festival – Horse Racing
- Kiarostami’s films screened at Kolkata festival
- NLSIU’s ‘Act ne’ theatre festival gets under way
- Impressive start to Women’s Sports Festival
- Assad Brothers in Guitar Festival

Shanghai Int´l Art Festival closes
央è§åé – Nov 21, 2007
It was popular with a total audience of 450 thousand. That’s double last year’s audience with average seating at each performance at 92 per cent. The Shanghai International Arts Festival ran for a month. write(“”); if(pagenum>1){ if(isNews){ if(pageno>1){ document.

Frankel loads up for Hollywood’s turf festival – Horse Racing
ESPN – Nov 21, 2007
– Bobby Frankel won the Breeders’ Cup Distaff with Ginger Punch last month but was not at Monmouth Park and took little joy out of the day because the Hall of Fame trainer was back home in California caring for his ill dog Happy who is suffering from cancer. Happy’s health while far from ideal is better owing to an improved appetite Frankel said following a couple of rounds of chemotherapy. So perhaps Frankel will be able to better enjoy his next attempts at winning Grade 1 races because he has several good shots during this weekend’s turf festival at Hollywood Park. Frankel will send out Proudinsky and Silent Name in the $400000 Citation Handicap on Friday and Precious Kitten and possibly Citronnade in the $500000 Matriarch Stakes going one mile on Sunday. “Precious Kitten is definitely running” Frankel said.

Kiarostami’s films screened at Kolkata festival
Tehran Times – Nov 21, 2007
Kiarostami?s credits ?Close up? ?And the Life Goes on? and ?Ten? were featured alongside films by the celebrated French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard in the Great Master Category of the gala. Tahmineh Milani?s ?Cease Fire? and ?ffside? directed by Jafar Panahi also participated in the festival. —-Majid Derakhshani?s band to tour DenmarkTEHRAN — The Mah music band led by Iranian veteran tar virtuoso Majid Derakhshani will be performing concerts in several Danish cities from December 1 until December 10. They will tour Copenhagen dense and Aarhus giving their first series of concerts.

NLSIU’s ‘Act ne’ theatre festival gets under way
Hindu – Nov 21, 2007
The 15-member team of performers from the University of Engineering and Technology Lahore will arrive in Bangalore on Tuesday before their Wednesday’s debut on the Indian stage. As the curtains went up on the festival on Monday noted danseuse Mallika Sarabhai was there to give the students a tip or two about why arts and theatre had to be linked to the contemporary real world. “In Indian culture the arts were never entertainment. It always was an educative one.

Impressive start to Women’s Sports Festival
Hindu – Nov 21, 2007
Kavitha Vice-Captain of Indian Kabaddi Women’s Team carrying the lympic Torch in Madurai on Tuesday. MADURAI: The 33rd National Women’s Sports Festival – group II got off to a colourful start at the Race Course Stadium here on Tuesday. The district administrations and Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu have organised the festival. Thenmozhi presided.

Assad Brothers in Guitar Festival
NEWS.com.au – Nov 21, 2007
The two guitarists Sergio and dair Assad grew up infused with all the rhythms of Rio. Skip to:Search BoxSection NavigationNetwork NavigationContentView the Sitemapndm.

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