Sentence examples for centrepiece event from inspiring English sources

According to an announcement by the Film Society Lincoln Centre (FSLC), who organise the festival, the film will screen on 9 October as its Centrepiece event.

Billing itself as "modern, urban, celebratory and knowing", the festival promises to be a centrepiece event for London Live, the sister station of the Evening Standard, following its launch in March.

Although no race in the ancient Greek Olympics was longer than 4,800 metres (3 miles), the marathon was the centrepiece event at the first modern Olympics, in part because of the legend of Pheidippides, who was said to have collapsed and died after running from Marathon to Athens with news of the Greek victory over the Persians at the Battle of Marathon in 490 bc.

The centrepiece event of Londonderry's year as UK City of Culture - the Return of Colmcille pageant - is under way.

However, strongman Leopold Aleksander - who was part of the Le Haggis show, a centrepiece event which ran throughout the Big Burns Supper - has encountered similar problems.

The 30-hour show was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and is the centrepiece event for Derry's year as the UK's City of Culture.

The construction of the replicas will be the centrepiece of events for world heritage week, planned for April with a theme of replication and reconstruction.

To my astonishment, The Absence of War - Hare's play about Labour's fourth successive election defeat - was the urgent centrepiece of the event.

Alongside artists Damien Hirst and Stella Vine, who have both pledged work for the third annual Spectrum Art auction, Paul McGowan and a team of collaborators will be donating a grim centrepiece for the event, a fundraiser for people with autism and Asperger's syndrome.

The centrepiece of birthday events at London's Royal Festival Hall is The Wondercrump World of Roald Dahl, an inter-active exhibition (10 February to 3 July; 020 7960 4200; southbankcentre.co.uk; £10) which follows the author's life story.

Austrian President Heinz Fischer attended the concert, which was the centrepiece of official events marking the anniversary.