You have to admire the audaciousness of Geoff Edgers, whose new travel series, "Edge of America," samples odd festivals, competitions and such.
The American Recorder Society, with nearly 100 chapters around the country (including the Westchester guild), has raised the instrument's profile since 1939 with concerts, festivals, competitions and publications.
Athens was a city of numerous festivals, competitions, and celebrations, including the Panathenaea which attracted visitors to the city from throughout the Mediterranean.
In East Nusa Tenggara a range of activities involving school children and young people are already underway, including art competitions, cultural festivals, competitions and sporting events designed to promote handwashing amongst the provinces' youngest citizens.
The Just So Festival competition is open to residents of the UK aged 18 and over.
It was performed in place of the satyr play that usually ended the series of three tragedies that were produced for festival competition.
With first prize a pair of weekend tickets to the Latitude festival, competition was fierce as the best student brains around the country did battle.
In a gesture both artistic and political, the Berlin International Film Festival competition jury awarded three major awards to the Iranian Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (A Separation).
The prize this week is a £100 free bet with those lovely people at Paddy Power, who also backed our Cheltenham Festival competition.
It was certainly exceptional for an American film, the first ever submitted for the festival competition by HBO, to be acknowledged in such a way.
Barbera, born in 1950, served as Venice artistic director between 1998 and 2002 and was also a member of the Cannes film festival competition jury in 2010.
