Sentences with phrase «day festival of»

This weekend the city centre of Melbourne comes alive with a three day festival of sustainability.

There was a bit of a creative lull in the ensuing decades, but for the past two years the Downtown Development Authority (DDA) has been molding the staid landscape among the office buildings while boldly infusing energy into the place with a three - day festival of public art and activities called Dwntwn Art Days.

University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts presents CounterCurrent 2014, a five - day festival of bold new interdisciplinary projects.

The LIC ARTS OPEN is dedicated to fostering and growing the local arts through year round programming and specifically through the nine - day festival of open studios, exhibitions and performances each Spring.

Other select projects include: Artistic Producer for the 4th annual Chicago Home Theater Festival, a 10 - day festival of artistic exchange within neighborhoods that have experienced systemic disinvestment featuring narratives by and about artists of color, women and femmes, migrants and immigrants, LGBTQ artists, and artists with disabilities (2016), and Project Coordinator for Our Miss Brooks: A Centennial Celebration, a national a year - long multidisciplinary celebration on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks (2017).

counterCURRENT is a five - day festival of contemporary art, projects, interventions, journeys, performances, commissions, collaborations, and connections, produced by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.

The Annual Byron Bay Bluesfest is a 5 day festival of music with a great laid back crowd of all ages young and old.

Additionally, this September, T+L will be hosting their second annual Travel + Leisure Global Bazaar in New York City - a three day festival of global cultures, praised for its authenticity.

RANCH JAM — Bring your whole camper or simply some folding chairs and a picnic blanket for this three - day festival of country, rock and blues bands.

Every year thousands of people come to Humboldt County to attend Reggae on the River, a 3 - day festival of performances from the most renowned Reggae artists in the world.

Each year, over Martin Luther King day weekend, a cast of brilliant authors gather with hundreds of book clubbers from across the country in a two - day festival of book discussions and themed book events.

This is the first year the award is run in association with the University of Warwick, which is offering a bespoke 10 - week residency for the award's winner, a day festival of events, and a year - round programme of on campus and digital support for the shortlist.

3 min readOver the last few years, there has been a single high - profile destination for leading thinkers and experts to share their ideas: the TED Conference, a four - day festival of ideas and the arts, devoted to solving the largest problems our society... Continue Reading →

In addition to being awarded money prizes for their schools, all winning team members will receive a trip to London where they will be VIP guests at Make the Future Live, Shell's four - day festival of innovation.

Make the Future Festival: Make the Future is a four day festival of innovation and ideas coming to the Olympic Park in London this Summer.

This annual four - day festival of art and language offers great events for visitors of all ages.

Not only did they pull off a 2 - day festival of their own, but they took over an entire hotel that had everyone in the desert talking.

But the popularity of the CityGames is giving the classic 13.1 - mile event a run for its money and together with the young athletes» events and Great North 5 km have created a two - day festival of athletics that offers something that's unmissable, whatever the travel problems.

Lake Chabot Regional Park in Castro Valley will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Saturday, June 4, with an all - day festival of fun and free activities.

Enter New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, a seven - day festival of speeches, classes, and advising run by business incubator Idea Village.

Not exact matches

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's total value of goods transacted during its Singles» Day shopping festival was 91.2 billion yuan ($ 14.32 billion), the Chinese e-commerce giant said in Beijing on Thursday.

The city's efforts to position itself as a hub of the global high - tech entrepreneurial community will be showcased this week with its five - day Digital Life Design (DLD) festival, driven by the mission to create a network of innovation, digital prospects, science and culture.

Six inches of rain fell in parts of the grounds on the festival's first day, turning pavement into small oceans and grassy fields into mud pits.

«We like to flip assumptions,» Krieger told a crowd in New York on March 11 during the 7 Days of Genius festival.

They presented the idea of a one - day outdoor festival somewhere in New York City — and people were into it.

But attitude alone isn't enough to explain the success of a festival that, with general admission tickets running between $ 100 and $ 135 per day, pulled in well north of $ 13 million this year before concessions.

Singles» Day is the world's largest online retail festival, amassing $ 17.6 billion in sales over the 24 - hour period — far more than America's Cyber Monday's reported sales of $ 3 billion last year.

So far, «Mr. Turner» is the clear hit of the three - day - old festival, with Leigh returning in triumph to the place where he won the Palme d'Or 18 years ago with «Secrets & Lies.»

At least 10 people tried to mail their taxes through the campground post office on the first day of the festival — a reckless choice considering the mail doesn't have a return address and, as Hampton says, the destination isn't always written out carefully considering the senders» level of sobriety.

Every notable musician of the time, from Jimi Hendrix to Janis Joplin, played during the three - day festival.

Forest Park, the grounds that once hosted the 1905 World Fair, will host a music festival featuring Gavin Degraw, The Fray, and The Band Perry; fireworks displays; and air shows over the course of three days.

Next year, Life Is Good expects to throw 23 pumpkin festivals on a single fall day, with the goal of raising more than $ 1 million.

And there's the Clio Cloud Conference, which attracted 1,000 attendees last year to a two - day event: «Sort of like the Burning Man festival of the legal industry,» is how one impressed attendee described it.

The next day, BuzzFeed and Vox Media pulled out of SXSW in response to the cancellations, while media outlets criticized the festival for failing to promote diversity and stand up to harassment.

Three of those killed were part of the security detail at the 10 - day BPM electronic music festival, Pech said.

A number of parties that were unrelated to the festival, but had sought to take advantage of so many DJs in town during the coming days have been canceled, he said.

The promoter, who insisted on speaking anonymously out of concern for his safety, said it was unfortunate that organized crime was hurting the 10 - day BPM festival.

The rest of my time is spent working on launching a beer school series in Toronto and preparing to speak at beer festivals — the latter of which involves coming up with fun ways to talk about beer to people who've been drinking it all day, which is challenging.

Saturday is a busy day for the festival, but that day's nearly constant rain heightened folks» sense of crisis.

The 2010 opening of the sleek TIFF Bell Lightbox marked the festival's transition from an 11 - day event to a year - round hub for cinephiles.

Booked for an extended gig at Walt Disney World following St. Patrick's Day, The Maguires — a family of young sibling musicians renowned on the Irish music festival circuit across the U.S. and Ireland — perform at Disney Springs» Raglan Road Irish pub, through April 2.

A day earlier, a shooting at a music festival in the nearby town of Playa del Carmen left three foreigners and two Mexicans dead.

BEIJING (Reuters)- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's total value of goods transacted during its Singles» Day shopping festival was 91.2 billion yuan ($ 14.32 billion), the Chinese e-commerce giant said in Beijing on Thursday.

Brookside offers residents and tourists a plethora of cultural, dining, and shopping opportunities, along with popular annual festivals such as The Art Fair, The Trolley Run, and the St Patrick's Day Warm - up Parade.

Mr. Lombardo said that a few days before the shooting, the gunman took another set of rooms in a high - rise building near another music festival.

Sadhus and Hindu pilgrims began to gather in Kolkata on their way to the annual Hindu holy festival Gangasagar Mela, where an expected hundred thousand Hindu pilgrims will gather at the Gangasagar to take a dip in the ocean at the confluence of the River Ganges and the Bay of Bengal, on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, a holy day of the Hindu calendar considered to be of great religious significance in Hindu mythology.

and apologies to all the pagans that had their spring fertility festival stolen by the christians with the blatantly copied story from other previous cultures of the death and 3 days later resurrection of their god character.

Some suspect that the churches actually have little reason to recognize this day, that in observing it they acquiesce to a civic and commercial occasion - one more Flag Day in America's civil religion and one more festival of consumption in America's commercialized calendday, that in observing it they acquiesce to a civic and commercial occasion - one more Flag Day in America's civil religion and one more festival of consumption in America's commercialized calendDay in America's civil religion and one more festival of consumption in America's commercialized calendar.

Surely it means something that the mighty Google has celebrated holi, the Hindu festival of color, and Japan's Shichi - go - san prayer day but never Yom Kippur or Good Friday, let alone Ramadan.

Bible prophecy buffs point out that the eclipses happening this year are particularly significant because they all fall exactly on Jewish festivals: the ones in April 2014 and 2015 occur on the first day of Passover and the two in September are both on the first day of The Feast of Tabernacles.