Festivals

On my radar: Nell Zink’s cultural highlights

The Germany-based American novelist on being cheered up by a gulag memoir, the best Wagner around and how to encourage a nightingale into your garden

Killian Fox

05, Apr, 2025 @2:00 PM

Tasmania’s Dark Mofo is back with a bang – and a car crash: festival announces 2025 program

After a year off, the often controversial art festival returns in 2025, having signed a new three-year funding deal with the state government

Sian Cain

03, Apr, 2025 @11:00 PM

Boulder, Colorado, to be new home for the Sundance film festival

The festival, started by Robert Redford in 1978, will move from its previous home in Park City, Utah, for 2027

Benjamin Lee

27, Mar, 2025 @5:58 PM

A way for politicians to share out the freebies | Brief letters

Brief letters: Perks for charities | Arne Slot | Birthdays column | Pelvic-floor exercises | Pogonophilia

27, Mar, 2025 @5:46 PM

‘We can talk through our art’: the Malian festival uniting the Sahel’s people

In a region fractured by jihadists and coups, Ségou’Art shows ‘we share our culture, even if politics divides us’

Aida Grovestins in Ségou, Mali

27, Mar, 2025 @7:00 AM

UK publishing less accessible to Black authors now than before 2020, industry names say

Ahead of the Black British book festival, literary figures say the number of books being published by Black writers has ‘plummeted’

Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent

26, Mar, 2025 @5:06 PM

The Sex Pistols rock London with first gig at 100 Club in 50 years

Band members were joined on stage by former Gallows frontman Frank Carter as stars and fans welcomed their return

Daniel Lavelle

22, Mar, 2025 @11:52 AM

Video game music has arrived on the festival circuit – and it’s only going to get bigger

‘It is impossible to ignore video game music now,’ says Tommy Pearson, founder and artistic director of the inaugural London Soundtrack festival

Dom Peppiatt

21, Mar, 2025 @3:54 PM

‘A monumental moment’: world’s leading photography festival puts Australia in focus

Exclusive: Les Rencontres d’Arles will this year spotlight First Nations and non-Indigenous Australian artists in a major exhibition opening in July in France

Kelly Burke

21, Mar, 2025 @2:00 PM

‘Our show fits in a duffel bag’: clowning duo Xhloe and Natasha on scoring a triple fringe whammy

They came out of the blue and electrified Edinburgh with absurdist takes on Americana. Now the US pair are doing all three hits back to back – and dreaming of not having to share a room

Chris Wiegand

18, Mar, 2025 @4:08 PM

Missed out on Glasto? Here’s 30 major festivals you can still book now

From whomping dub soundsystems and clattering thrash metal to comedy, jazz and kids’ entertainment, this year’s UK festivals have something for everyone – and you’ve still got time to get in on the alfresco action

Huw Baines, Michael Cragg, Ammar Kalia, Kate Solomon & Jenessa Williams

15, Mar, 2025 @11:55 AM

The rise of Hot Dub Time Machine: ‘No matter how good a DJ is, you’re still pretending to be a musician’

Tom Lowndes was a sound designer on McLeod’s Daughters before reinventing himself as a ‘time-travelling DJ’ who fast became a global festival phenomenon

Walter Marsh

14, Mar, 2025 @2:00 PM