Vivid Sydney - Largest festival of lights, music and ideas in the Southern Hemisphere
Date: 27 May – 13 June 2011.
Vivid Sydney is a major celebration of Sydney’s creative Circular Quay, The Rocks and Sydney Opera House. From giant light sculptures of floating jellyfish and erupting fire installations in Sydney Harbour, to exclusive international music performances and the stunning 3D illumination of the Sydney Opera House sails.
Ignatius Jones, Executive Producer, Vivid Sydney said, “Vivid Sydney will illuminate the city with creativity and inspiration in ways we have never seen before. We are working with our best and brightest talents in the creative industries, and inviting international creative minds to Sydney to show off what they can do, to swap ideas and most importantly reach out to, the public and electrify us with their creations”.
“At Vivid Sydney, creativity changes everything. There is nothing more thrilling than seeing the Sydney Opera House transformed into a canvas of bright colours and breathtaking images - one of the world’s most famous buildings singing and dancing in a way that few great monuments ever could,” he said.
An astounding line-up of local and international artists, including Bat for Lashes, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, The Avalanches, Cut Copy, Horse Meat Disco and The Crystal Ark. Legendary jazzman, the ‘Saxophone Colossus’ Sonny Rollins will celebrate his 80th birthday on the Sydney Opera House stage, and renowned British act Spiritualized will perform their magnum opus ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space’ – in its entirety with full choir and orchestra. Vivid Sydney’s pop-up bar, The Sony Lounge, will be set up in the Western Foyers of Sydney Opera House with an ever-changing menu of DJs and a daily radio program on Triple J presented by Belgian brothers 2mManyDjs.
Vivid Sydney will include over 40 stunning light art installations from local and international artists in a free outdoor exhibition where children are encouraged to climb on interactive sculptures and aspiring photographers can put their night camera settings to the test.
The full Vivid Sydney program and images are available at :
http://vividsydney.com
http://vividsydney.com/media/image-library
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5th Kota Kinabalu Jazz Festival 2011
At Sabah, Malaysia
Kota Kinabalu Jazz Festival is an annual fund raising jazz extravaganza organized by the Rotary Club of Kota Kinabalu (RCKK) with the support of the Society of Performing Arts Kota Kinabalu Sabah (SPArKS). Staged in the picturesque Nature Resort City of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, the jazz festival brings together a musical melting pot of talents from around the world. KKJF 2011 will be held on the 17th & 18th of June 2011 (Friday & Saturday)
KKJF recorded a crowd of over 2,000 people during the 2 night performance in year 2010. The fifth installation of this musical festival promises to be another ground breaking experience with a great line up of local and international artistes. This fund raising event will support various community projects in Sabah. Money raised from the Kota Kinabalu Jazz Festival is used to fund deserving community projects by the Rotary Club Kota Kinabalu – The Clean Water Projects. Some of the rural communities benefited from such initiative includes Kg Sonition, Kg Timbou & Kg Bimbolon, all in interior Sabah.
One of the striking differences about KK Jazz Festival is its line up of artists, which includes international names and highly talented local bands and singers. Acknowledging the immense talent of the people from the Land below the Wind, KKJF serves as a stage in showcasing our local artists. The artists performing this year are AgungBeat, ASEANA Percussion Unit, Benny Lackner Trio, Juzzie Smith, Lucky Octavian, Momain Blues, Spice of Tones, WVC TRiO + 1, Z Yan.
Apart from promoting KK as a tourism destination internationally, the festival has also successfully raised public awareness of the local community towards such popular music genre. With a series of pre-event fringe festival and workshops, the festival is an excellent platform for learning and interaction between the local music enthusiasts and the international artists.
The KK Jazz Festival is now a signature event in the Sabah’s annual calendar of events, and is also a key component of the Kota Kinabalu Arts Festival.
Date: 17 June 2011 - 18 June 2011
Venue: Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
Website: www.tourism.gov.my, www.malaysiajao.com, www.kkjazzfest.com
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Draupadi Sandhya
Date: 20th AUGUST,6.00p.m.
Venue: SANTIPUR, Nadia (West Bengal)
Rewaj a group of group of classical music presents Draupadi Sandhya.Young talents will be performing on the event. SRINJOY will play with the legendary tablaplayer USTAD SABIR KHAN’S YOUNGER SON ASIF KHAN and Prasanta RoyON STAGE. It’s the first time that the two talented students of two maestros will meet together. Young Talent Sandip Bhatacharya, Mukesh Kumar Dash and Sandip Sen will also be performing.
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The World Copyright Summit 2011
Date: June 7-8, 2011
Venue: The Square, Brussels, Belgium
Web: www.copyrightsummit.com
Join the world's premier event for all stakeholders involved in the future of the creative industries: Third edition of the World Copyright Summit, on 7-8 June 2011 in Brussels, organised by CISAC, the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers.
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Cinema Today ASIA
The 5th edition of Cinema Today The only kind of its exhibition for the Complete Cinema, Television & Entertainment industry is scheduled for 29, 30 & 31 July 2011 at Chennai Trade Centre, CHENNAI. With the ardent support of the film industry related associations, exhibitors & trade visitors, the show has grown in strength with each passing year to become one of the top events of its kind in the industry. The Expo is a unique business, networking, partnership building and marketing proposition which will throw light on impact of latest technology.
India is the largest film producing country & the second fastest growing economy in the world. Opportunities in India in film, television, radio and new media (technologies like 3D, IPTV, Ultra-HD) are growing. The Indian media and entertainment industry is going through a metamorphosis due to the digitization of content and delivery platforms. With experts predicting that India would emerge the least affected among the countries of the world from the current economic crisis and the sheer size of the market in India make it the place to watch out for in the days to come.
Link: www.cinematoday.in
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Karaoke World Championships
August 08th & 10th, 2011, Killarney Ireland
The sixteenth edition of the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), the world's leading conference and club festival for electronic music, will take place from the 19th to the 22nd of October 2011. The organisers expect that the four day event will, as in 2010, attract more than 110,000 festival attendees and 2,500 conference delegates from over 60 countries.
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Amsterdam Dance Event announces 2011 dates
Date : 19th - 22nd, October 2011
The sixteenth edition of the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), the world's leading conference and club festival for electronic music, will take place from the 19th to the 22nd of October 2011. The organisers expect that the four day event will, as in 2010, attract more than 110,000 festival attendees and 2,500 conference delegates from over 60 countries.
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Metallica Live In India
Dates to be announced (tentatively Dec 11)
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