The phrase "a time when festivals" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific period characterized by the occurrence of festivals or celebrations.
Example: "Summer is a time when festivals bring communities together to celebrate culture and tradition."
Alternatives: "a season of festivals" or "a period of celebrations".
She was taken on to write about design – it was a time when Festival-of-Britain modernism had finally made its way on to the high street with the opening of Habitat (in 1964) and other design shops, but found herself interviewing not only Alvar Aalto in Helsinki but David Hockney, John Lennon and Betty Friedan.
Now, at a time when festival-anointed directors have been hired for mega-budget reboots — including Gareth Edwards for "Godzilla" and Trevorrow for "Jurassic Park" — many wonder if Eubank will parlay his indie bona fides into full-blown Hollywood player-dom.
In a time when music festivals, radio-station concerts and package tours all seem to depend on the same small subset of bands to fill their seats, the lineup of the Unlimited Sunshine Tour seems like a joke at first glance.
At a time when big festivals in the UK such as the Big Chill, Oxegen and Sonisphere have been cancelled, the relatively new Rewind Festival - established in 2009 at Henley - is enjoying a roaring trade in 1980s nostalgia.
"It felt right to go at a time when the festival still feels very relevant and exciting, and I just thought, if the right thing comes along, ten years seems like a good time to leave.
The festival's early interest in television — at a time when most film festivals still regarded it as a lesser art form — showed remarkable foresight.
For better or worse Cannes seems more than ever a model of stability, at a time when other major European festivals are working through regime changes — and perhaps finding opportunities for renewal.
The Berkshire Fringe has quickly become a respected fixture on the landscape here, drawing praise from local newspaper theater critics and respect for its grit at a time when some established fringe festivals have ceased to exist because of financial concerns, the most prominent demise being the Seattle Fringe's in 2004.
At a time when much of the festival is either engaging in a massive karaoke session with Adele or getting ready for a big Saturday night, his spare electronic sounds feel just a little too refined, never quite impelled to break out into something truly euphoric.
Who could resist, particularly at a time when the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival (ditch the apostrophe when calling up that category in Dance on Disc) is celebrating its 70th anniversary with exhibitions, talks and symposiums at three spaces around Manhattan?
