Events, Festivals and Exhibitions
The Japan Penis Festival is arguably the country’s most amusing event when tens of thousands of revellers roam the streets of Kawasaki in April to pay tribute to fertility in an age-old ritual
Songkran, or Thailand's water festival, is an occasion of great fun especially in the major cities such as Bangkok and Chiang Mai. The Songkran Festival 2024 plans to be even bigger than usual...
From April to November, the Venice Biennale (la Biennale di Venezia in its original Italian, and in English also called the Venice Biennial) is one of the world’s most prestigious cultural happenings, famous
The 56th Festival Vallenato or Festival de la Leyanda Vallenata will be held in Valledupar, a regional capital in the north east of Colombia from 30 April to 4 May 2024. Vallenato is country music...
Get ready to shimmy under a rainbow of ribbons and sway to infectious beats! The Maypole Festival (Festival del Palo de Mayo) in Bluefields, Nicaragua, bursts onto the scene on
The Jack in the Green Festival takes place in the Sussex coastal town of Hastings – 1066 and all that – traditionally over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend. A festival steeped in English folklore
A traditional religious parade Romerias de Mayo has added modern touches, with artists from Mexico, Canada, France and, of course, Cuba. A week of colourful parades and a range of
The Malvern Spring Show or RHS Malvern Spring Festival will once more be held at Worcestershire's Three Counties Showground in May. The four-day celebration of everything horticultural is held in
Home-made rockets roaring into the skies, dirty humour, cross-dressing parades, mud fests and lots of rice wine – the centuries-old Rocket Festival Thailand, or Bun Bang Fai, held in May
The Bridlington Kite Festival close to the popular Yorkshire coastal resort is held in May 2024. There will be a wide array of kites in various different colours and designs over the two days
The Chelsea Flower Show, the world's most famous horticultural show, returns from 21 to 25 May, 2024. The History of the Chelsea Flower Show Queen Mary at the RHS Chelsea
Regarded as the biggest light, music and ideas festival in the South, Vivid Sydney will light up the city's opera house and surrounding harbour area from 24 May to 15
Held in the village of Brockworth in Gloucestershire, the Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake is normally held on the Spring Bank Holiday Monday each year. What started off as
One of the most spectacular and colourful festivals in Venezuela, the Dancing Devils of Yare dates back to 1749, and in 2022 it will be held on 8 June. Every Corpus Christi - the date that celebrates...
The Barbados Crop Over Festival, or Barbados Carnival, is an annual event held each summer in the Caribbean island. The festival is spread over three months, concluding with the Grand
The immensely popular Phi Ta Khon Festival – also known as the Ghost Festival – is the best reason to visit Loei, a Thai province rarely frequented by international tourists. This three-day event
This June will see the 32nd Annual Parade the Circle as well as the Circle Village at the Wade Oval Cleveland. The festival starts the summer in the Circle season.
The Broadstairs Dickens Festival is celebrating its 87th anniversary in 2024. The three-day festival held in June in the coastal Kent town celebrates the work of the greatest Victorian novelist,
If sheep shearing is your thing then the village of Khot in Syunik, Armenia is the place to head for in June. There the Sheep Shearing Festival sees the local people of Vayoc, Dzor and Syunik keeping alive
The Juneteenth Music Festival is a celebration of African American culture held in the Five Points neighbourhood of Denver, Colorado on 15 and 16 June, 2024. The Juneteenth Parade which
