Sundance Festival Celebrates 25 Years of Independent Film
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- Sundance Festival Celebrates 25 Years of Independent Film
- Pizarro: San Jose Jazz Festival struggling as top sponsors pull back
- Festival hopes to increase draw this year
- China’s train strain
Sundance Festival Celebrates 25 Years of Independent Film
Voice of America
Redford says festival attendance in the first year was just 150 people. Today the festival is averaging 65000 attendees each year. “I didn’t imagine it would have quite the impact that it’s had.
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Pizarro: San Jose Jazz Festival struggling as top sponsors pull back
San Jose Mercury News USA
Comcast which had been the festival’s title sponsor completed its 10-year commitment to the event last year. The communications company is returning as a sponsor this year but is providing only a fraction of the cash it used to give. And Southwest Airlines which had been the second-tier “presenting” sponsor has pulled out entirely meaning the festival is losing cash and free airline tickets it used to bring in artists. “Between the two major sponsors San Jose Jazz is facing a potential $300000 shortfall of revenue” San Jose Jazz Executive Director Geoff Roach told me.
Festival hopes to increase draw this year
ABC12.com MI
And while the carvings aren’t new a miniature golf course is. To play golf there is a $3 charge but many of the other activities are free. Story continues below Advertisement digGetAd(”Rectangle”); ne of the festival’s organizers expects those "freebies" to help Snowfest attendance to grow from 150000 visitors last year to 200000 this year. He says the bitterly cold weather last week should help as well. "I think people are just itching to get out and do something" said Zehnder’s Snowfest co-chairman John Shelton. "I think cabin fever’s a little bit higher on the barometer than it has been in previous years so I think people want to get out and enjoy some quality family time. " Checking out the ice and snow carvings are the main draw but there are many other activities including chicken bowling a children’s play area fireworks and a hot air balloon extravaganza.
China’s train strain
Xinhua China
How could they all be gone in the blink of an eye?” Cheng wonders. Normally tickets become available four days before departure for regular trains and 10 days for high-speed trains. During the Spring Festival peak train tickets fall short of the high demand of those returning home for the most important family holiday in China. “How could tickets have been sold out that soon?” Cheng asks. “It was just a few minutes after the tickets became available how could they all be gone in a blink of the eye?” In the run-up to every Spring Festival buying train tickets becomes extremely difficult. Travelers wait for hours even days in freezing temperatures to buy tickets. nce aboard the overcrowded carriages they may have to sit in aisles.
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