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Newport Folk Festival and JVC Jazz Festival Newport Team Up with OurStage.com to Select Performing Artists

PRNewswire/ -- OurStage (http://www.OurStage.com), a music discovery destination providing professional opportunities for up-and-coming talent, has partnered with Festival Network's Newport Folk Festival and JVC Jazz Festival Newport to help identify best emerging artists for the 2008 line-ups. Six top-ranked artists from OurStage.com have been selected to play opening slots at the nationally acclaimed festivals.

Newport Folk Festival and JVC Jazz Festival Newport Team Up with OurStage.com to Select Performing Artists

BOSTON, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- OurStage (http://www.OurStage.com), a music discovery destination providing professional opportunities for up-and-coming talent, has partnered with Festival Network's Newport Folk Festival and JVC Jazz Festival Newport to help identify best emerging artists for the 2008 line-ups. Six top-ranked artists from OurStage.com have been selected to play opening slots at the nationally acclaimed festivals.

Newport Folk Festival and JVC Jazz Festival Newport Team Up with OurStage.com to Select Performing Artists

Newport Folk Festival and JVC Jazz Festival Newport Team Up with OurStage.com to Select Performing Artists

JVC Kicks Off World's Largest International Personal Video Festival

WAYNE, N.J., June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The world's largest international video festival kicks off today, as the JVC Tokyo Video Festival, TVF2009, begins accepting contest submissions from professional and amateur filmmakers worldwide. In its 31st year, the JVC Tokyo Video Festival is the largest international personal video festival, open to filmmakers of all ages and skill sets. Last year, a record 2,010 entrants participated in the festival, including 750 from Japan and 1,260 from 53 countries and regions worldwide. Approximately 50,000 video entries from 100 countries and regions have been submitted since the first festival in 1978. One Video Grand Prize winner will receive 500,000 yen in prize money, a JVC Everio hard disk camcorder and a round-trip to Japan for the award ceremony (one person).

Blogs: Monstra, A Monster of a Festival Part One

MONSTRA, Lisbon Animated Film Festival (May 8 -18 in Portugal) is indeed a monster of a festival. For 11 days the festival brought together the cream of United Kingdom animators for a salute to British Animation along with quality competition programs. The British segment included workshops and retrospectives honoring Paul Bush, Phil Malloy, the Brothers Quay, Vera Neubauer and many other artists.

Host Country For 12th Arts Festival To Be Selected

The Council of Pacific Arts, which oversees the promotion of culture in the Pacific including preparations for the Festival of Pacific Arts, is meeting at the 10th Festival in American Samoa to select the host country for the 12th festival in 2016.

The 10th Annual Pageant of the Masters Gala Benefit at the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts Returns for a Festive Celebration of

WHO & WHAT: The Festival of Arts - California's Premier Fine Art Exhibition presents the 10th Annual Pageant of the Masters Gala Benefit. This exclusive, highly anticipated, one-night event, will offer guests a private viewing of the Festival's fine art exhibition, music, dancing, silent auction, and a performance of this summer's extremely popular Pageant of the Masters, entitled "All the World's a Stage." The event is sold-out, attending will be approximately 2,600 guests. Neil Patrick Harris, Golden Globe- and Emmy-nominated actor, will host the Festival of Arts and Pageant of the Masters 10th Annual Gala benefit on August 23rd. He currently stars as Barney on the CBS comedy series HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, which has garnered him rave reviews.

Solomon Islands prepares early for 11th Festival of Pacific Arts

Robert Au, head of Solomon Islands delegation at the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts. (Contributed Photo) PAGO PAGO, American Samoa-Solomon Islands representatives at the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts in American Samoa say they have already begun preparations to host the 11th edition of the festival.

American Samoa: CNMI, FSM drop out of Arts Festival

PAGOPAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA ---- The number of delegates attending the 10th Festival of the Pacific Arts continues to decline as two more countries will not attend the festival which officially opens today, festival official says.

Video Games Live at the London Games Festival 2008

Video Games Live, the biggest live performance in video games, is back with its 2008 show. Following last year’s smash hit sell-out, the London Games Festival is delighted to announce that there will be two performances at the Royal Festival Hall on 24th October at 4pm and 8pm. The event will launch this year’s festival celebrating all the excitement and variety of the gaming industry.

Video Games Live at the London Games Festival 2008

Video Games Live, the biggest live performance in video games, is back with its 2008 show. Following last year’s smash hit sell-out, the London Games Festival is delighted to announce that there will be two performances at the Royal Festival Hall on 24th October at 4pm and 8pm. The event will launch this year’s festival celebrating all the excitement and variety of the gaming industry.

Video Games Live at the London Games Festival 2008

Video Games Live, the biggest live performance in video games, is back with its 2008 show. Following last year's smash hit sell-out, the London Games Festival is delighted to announce that there will be two performances at the Royal Festival Hall on 24th October at 4pm and 8pm. The event will launch this year's festival celebrating all the excitement and variety of the gaming industry.

Astronaut Sally Ride Invites Girls to Explore Hands-on Science at Science Festival at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

s first woman in space, will touch down at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs next month to inspire local girls to dig into hands-on science at the Sally Ride Science Festival. The festival, which is open to the public, runs from 11 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. on Sat., Sept. 13. Ride, the festival

JVC Kicks Off World's Largest International Personal Video Festival

PRNewswire/ -- The world's largest international video festival kicks off today, as the Click here for JVC professional products!');" onMouseOut="setTimeout('hideLayer()',500);" class=hotlink2>JVC

Pacific Arts Festival in American Samoa in full swing.

The 10th Festival of Pacific Arts is now in full swing, with tattoo artists and carvers amongst the first to show at the festival village.

1st Meandros Festival In Aegean Hosts Stone Sculpture Festival

AYDIN - The 1st Meandros festival being held in Didim town of the Aegean province of Aydin is hosting an international symposium on stone sculpture.

Rain keeps several artists from performing at Areia Grande festival

The second day of the Areia Grande festival, which began on Friday, July 25, dampened the expectations of those who had made their way to Pedra Badejo for the occasion, as a result of the rain that flooded the stage and made it impossible for Vadú and Ferro Gaita, two of the evening’s most anxiously awaited acts, to perform. Pop singer Gilyto was also unable to finish his concert as a result of the downpour.

Orlando Bloom, Vanessa Hudgens, Laurent Cantet

The complete lineup for the 46th New York Film Festival has been announced. The festival, to run from Sept. 26 to Oct. 12, will highlight American and French productions. "The Class," directed by Laurent Cantet , is the opening-night film. "Changeling," a movie by Clint Eastwood starring Angelina Jolie as a single mother, will make its North American debut when it opens as the centerpiece of the festival. Darren Aronofsky's "Wrestler," which features Mickey Rourke , is the closing-night selection. In addition to "The Class," three other French films will be screened, as well as a newly restored print of "Lola Montès" by Max Ophüls , which will be featured as the spotlight retrospective. Other highlights include works by festival alumni like Wong Kar-wai , Mike Leigh and Steven Soderbergh .

Suburbs beckon B.C. arts lovers

Vancouverites can be forgiven for feeling a little bit smug about the breadth of cultural festivities taking over their streets this season, what with Festival Vancouver, the Vancouver Early Music Festival, the Vancouver International Fringe Festival, and the Powell Street Festival, among others, all set to reel in the crowds.

Artists to celebrate Arts Festival

Update: 5:05PM Close too 2000 artists from 22 Pacific Island countries and territories will celebrate the official opening of the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts tomorrow in Pago Pago, American Samoa.

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