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Poland's largest international literary event, Conrad Festival, this year chooses 'realities' as its theme and focuses on contemporary literature.

Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival is bringing chamber music concerts during July in the idyllic setting of the lake and unbelievable northern lights.

Afropolitan looks each year to a different pair of African arts practitioners already operating in Brussels who are familiar to the diaspora audience.

BBC Proms, the 125 years old famous classical music festival, keeps bringing new composers and maintains its quality & wide audience.

Karina Canellakis becomes the first woman to conduct the First Night.

Every year Highfest brings together Europe's most daring programmes of contemporary dance and radical performances in Yerevan.

Somewhere in Europe a festival is underway. Every day brings a crisis. Somehow the big people in charge only ever arrive at the end. Only the two young interns, Sofie and Carlo, stand between triumph and disaster.

For a week in May Prague is host to the sights and sounds of Roma culture. An event that started small 21 years ago has become, it claims, Europe's largest gathering of the Roma arts in all their vibrancy, both traditional and contemporary.

Somewhere in Europe a festival is underway. Every day brings a crisis. Somehow the big people in charge only ever arrive at the end. Only the two young interns, Sofie and Carlo, stand between triumph and disaster.

Welcome to The Village (WTTV) is 'an invitation – to spend time, reflect, contribute and have a seat at the table,' says Sjoerd Bootsma, who describes himself as 'Artistic leader'.

Varna Summer International Music Festival runs all through the hot season and has been doing so since 1926, long before Salzburg and Edinburgh began their operations, started by the composers Pantcho Vladiguerov and Dobri Hristov.

Somewhere in Europe a festival is underway. Every day brings a crisis. Somehow the big people in charge only ever arrive at the end. Only the two young interns, Sofie and Carlo, stand between triumph and disaster.

Ireland is now a country where many languages are spoken but most in the privacy of homes, not in public. The Mother Tongues Festival tackles that monolingual public space by offering a high quality artistic programme. 'Maybe we are saying these are not foreign languages – it's the way Ireland is now,' says Festival Producer Francesca la Morgia, 'More and more families live in bilingual or trilingual households.'