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From school plays to movie sets, puppetry is one of the oldest Art disciplines, still thriving across cultures worldwide and continuing to bring people together. Check out some upcoming Puppetry Festivals taking place in the upcoming months.

Ballet and opera have captivated artists and audiences for centuries, continually renewed through new creations and fresh interpretations of classic works. Festivals around the world reflect this vitality, offering opportunities to experience the expressive power and creativity of these art forms today.

With colourful confetti in the sky and the rhythmic sounds of drums and samba, the Carnival season has just begun. We’re sharing five upcoming Carnival festivals to keep the festivities going!

If you have seen the movie "Hamnet" and it left you wanting to explore more of Shakespeare’s world, we invite you to discover a selection of upcoming Shakespeare-themed festivals taking place in the next few months.

Still deciding how to spend Valentine’s Day? Here are some festivals taking place on 14 February, with concerts, dance performances, theatre, workshops and more.

Winter season has just begun! Now it’s the time to celebrate winter magic and snowy days. And what better way to do it than heading outdoors and discovering all the winter festivals!

The results of EFFEA Call #4 are now out: 50 residencies will be supported by the third round of the European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists (EFFEA), an initiative of the European Festivals Association (EFA).

Next to its musical, art, children, and culinary goals, Into the Great Wide Open aims to become a fully circular and climate-positive festival, and using this organisational transition to accelerate the larger transitions towards a more sustainable world.

Each lived process is marked by rites of passage or events that disrupt them with shifts and innovations. These festivals explore different passages, challenging and reinventing them as a new year approaches.

Playful, twisted, emerging and re-emerging perspectives get centre stage, whether hanging from a circus thread, echoing sounds through cities, or backed by decades of history. Here you can find the festivals that highlight emerging artists and their performative perspectives.

New films, new techniques, and stories to be told: film festivals are places where young talents, industry professionals and audiences meet to look at realities through different eyes and lenses. From South UK to Poland, Greece and France, here are some film festivals highlighting independent, young filmmakers as the year reaches its wrap.

As daylight dims down and winter fades its colours with puffs of cold winds, theatres open their doors and their stage lights. Cherishing community gathering around a stage or unusual places and supporting artistic research, here we collect theatre festivals running until the final curtain call of the year.