The News Review:
- Geetha wins Goteberg film festival award
- Buskaid show sets high standard for festival entertainment
- 23rd Fajr Intl. Music Festival kicks off in Tehran
- Yanam getting decked up for festival
- Woodford goes Arti Arti
- Great River Shakespeare Festival.(Shakesperean plays)(Theater review)
- Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s The Wars of the Roses.(Theater…
Geetha wins Goteberg film festival award
Hindu – Dec 22, 2007
Geetha has been awarded the film fund instituted by the Goteberg International Film Festival (GIFF) to work on her first feature film. Geetha’s name was selected from over 100 applications received at the Swedish festival with legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman who passed away recently as honorary president.
Buskaid show sets high standard for festival entertainment
stuff.co.nz – Dec 22, 2007
It was a perfect night for the huge crowd to enjoy the first night of entertainment during the two-month festival. The young musicians who come from the impoverished South African township wowed the audience on The Hatchery Lawn. The group – 70 performers aged 14 to 27 – combine classical music played on violin cello viola and bass with African dance singing and drum beats. They travel the world performing and earlier in the week had played at the TSB Showplace.
23rd Fajr Intl. Music Festival kicks off in Tehran
Tehran Times – Dec 22, 2007
Music Festival kicks off in Tehran Tehran Times Art Desk TEHRAN — The 23rd Fajr International Music Festival commenced on Friday in Tehran. verall eighty-eight groups are participating in the national competition international and non-competition sections of the gala. Forty-two groups are competing in the national section 23 from Tehran and 19 from other cities. n the first evening of the festival the music band ?Pars? conducted by Naser Nazar performed at the Vahdat Hall and ?Payam-e Honar? conducted by Behrang Kufgar and the Bahman rchestra conducted by Mehdi Gholami performed at the Rudaki Hall. The bands ?Ava-ye Fakhteh? ?Shur? ?Boomerang? and ?Derakhshesh? also participated on the first night along with the Tehran Philharmonic rchestra and a pop music band conducted by Khashayar Etemadi. The Vahdat Hall will be hosting female music groups on the second night of the festivities and these will include ?Parirokh? conducted by Pari Zanganeh and ?Avaz-e Melal? conducted by Nasrin Nasehi and Shahla Milani.
Yanam getting decked up for festival
Hindu – Dec 22, 2007
It is an annual event which brings people of different hues and cultures together organised by the Tourism Department of Government of Pondicherry at GMC Balayogi Grounds. Tourism Minister Malladi Krishna Rao is supervising the arrangements for the cultural extravaganza which is aimed at promoting Yanam one of the earliest Colonial settlements in India as a tourist destination. In addition to regular items on the agenda songs competition will be held on January 6 and a dance competition the next day. Glamour touch Several actors of the Tollywood are being roped in to give a glamour touch to the three-day festival. Yanam is one of the three administrative regions of the Union Territory of Pondicherry.
Woodford goes Arti Arti
NEWS.com.au – Dec 22, 2007
article-tools –> Tonya Turner December 21 2007 11:00pm ANYNE who has been to the Woodford Folk Festival especially in the past few years will noticed that it no longer conforms to stereotypes. The car park is not lined with Kombi vans; the hairstyles of patrons aren’t dominated by dreadlocks; and that the chai tent is but one of dozens of places you can kick back and relax. These are stereotypes festival director Bill Hauritz is well and truly tired of. It’s not that he has anything against hippies whatever that means these days it’s that it doesn’t represent the diversity of the people and the demographics that attend the six-day event. "We have CEs of corporations who come to the festival who say they’d love to sponsor us but the public image out there is that we’re a bunch of hippies" Hauritz says. "People confuse hippies with just dressing down. People don’t wear their tiaras when they go camping so at the end of six days there’s some daggy-looking characters there’s no doubt about that.
Great River Shakespeare Festival.(Shakesperean plays)(Theater review)
Free with registration – Shakespeare Bulletin – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 22, 2007
(Shakesperean plays)(Theater review) –>CPYRIGHT 2007 Johns Hopkins University Press Richard III Presented by the Great River Shakespeare Festival at The Performing Arts Center at Winona State University Winona Minnesota. June 24-July 24 2005. Directed by Alec Wild. Costumes by Rosemary Ingham.
Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s The Wars of the Roses.(Theater…
Free with registration – Shakespeare Bulletin – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 22, 2007
(Theater review) –>CPYRIGHT 2007 Johns Hopkins University Press Henry VI Part A Presented by the Alabama Shakespeare Festival at the ctagon Stage Montgomery Alabama. February 23-May 17 2007. Directed by Diana Van Fossen Composed by James Conely and rchestrated by Thorn Jenkins. Scene Designs by Paul Wonsek. Costumes by Beth Novak.