The governmental Ministry of Education also sponsors a number of festivals and musical special events, both for the benefit of all students and the enrichment of the musically-gifted among them.

The band, the road crew and their families all lived together in a Norfolk commune, and undertook numerous benefit concerts and free festivals, playing extended free-form jams, making them a well known UK live act.

Several new hotels and businesses have been added to the " Crossroads of America " near 7th & Wabash and outdoor events and festivals are area attractions nearly every weekend during the summer months.

The group performed at a number of festivals including Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival, Fuji Rock Festival and others.

She has performed and recorded with SugarBeat and Geode at 50-plus venues, including the Banff Centre, the National Library, the Kingston Fringe Jazz Festival, Rasputin's, the Blue Skies Music Festival, the Ottawa Folk Festival, the Elora Music Festival, Artscape, WordBeat, Morningside, Go, the National Arts Center Fourth Stage, and the Ottawa International Writers Festival, and has read and performed at festivals and venues in France and Italy.

The Town Centre also benefits from one of Europe ’ s largest free open air festivals, the Stockton International Riverside Festival ( SIRF ), incorporating the ' Stockton Weekender ', which takes over the town once a year.

Quebec has a number of classical music festivals, such as the Festival de Lanaudière, Festival Orford chamber music festival held at the Orford Art Centre, and where the ensemble the Orford String Quartet was first formed.

The orchestra regularly plays at prestigious venues and festivals in the United Kingdom and around the world, including London's Wigmore Hall, Barbican Arts Centre, the BBC Proms, and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.

He appeared with the band at venues and festivals nationally and internationally, including The Ponderosa Stomp, London's Barbican Performing Arts Centre, and Lincoln Center's Midsummer Nights Swing Series.

In 2006 and 2007, Chinese Arts Centre organised VITAL-two international Chinese live art festivals providing a platform for performance and discussion of this hybrid contemporary art form.

During the Mosque's construction, on Fridays and Muslim festivals, the Pakistan Centre opposite and the car park was used as a temporary prayer space whilst the building was being completed.

The Sixteen tour throughout Europe, Japan, Australia and the Americas and have given regular performances at major concert halls and festivals worldwide, including the Barbican Centre in London, the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Sydney Opera House, Tokyo Opera City and the Vienna Musikverein.

Frazin's music is for the most part recognizably tonal, and is characterized by an expressive style that often develops and repeats distinctive small motifs, Frazin's works have been performed throughout the US, Canada, France, and Russia, including festivals at Aspen, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Gamper Contemporary Music Festival, Yellow Barn Summer Music Festival, the Janus 21 Ensemble Summer Series, the Composers ' Forum of New York, the Society of Composers National Conference, and elsewhere.

He has taught ( 13 summers ) at the Banff Centre for the Arts ( Canada ), Bremen Trumpet Days ( Germany ), Rafael Méndez Brass Institute ( 18 summers ), and dozens of music festivals.

The English Concert continues to appear at the major London venues, including the Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall and South Bank Centre, as well as touring internationally and playing at major music festivals.

She has received a Varuna Writers ' Centre Fellowship, a grant from Queensland Arts and has performed at festivals in Australia, Canada and the United States.

Besides the many music and arts festivals the region has a legacy of dramatic and musical instruction in its high schools and through the Comox Valley Youth Music Centre ( CYMC ), which draws students from around the world.

The Puppy Collective were also variously active participants in events and situations of the period-including a Sid Vicious Memorial March in 1979, the Wapping Autonomy Centre in 1981 / 2, Centro Iberico Anarchist Centre 1982, the 1982 Stonehenge to Greenham Peace Convoy and the 1983 Stop the City protest and the 1982 / 3 / 4 Stonehenge Free festivals.

There is also a weekend market, and the Centre is the site of many festivals and special events.

In Banff, the Banff Centre for the Arts is the key element that allows in a very small town, the capacity for a short film festival with an emphasis on animation ; arts and crafts festivals, facilities for a large number of artisans who have rejuvenated a formerly isolated rural community into a global arts centre.

Each year in the 2nd week of May one of the largest gay pride festivals in Europe is held in the Yumbo Centre and throughout the resort.

The festivals main venue is Bergen Cinema's Magnus Barefoot Cinema Centre, with additional screenings taking place at the local art film theatre at Georgernes Verft and at the student cinema at Kvarteret.

Outside the main scene of the Brazilian Popular Music festivals, the sambists founded the Bienal do Samba in the late 1960s, and it became the space for the big names of the genre and followers.

In the 1980s, Art-Cloche ( from " clochard ", i. e. tramp – founded by Jean Starck and Nicolas Pawlowski ) promoted " artistic occupation ", organising festivals and creating a fake museum.

It is one of the world's most prestigious film festivals and is part of the Venice Biennale, for over a century one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the world ( founded in 1895 ).

In 1976 Derek Bailey founded and curated Company Week, the first of an annual series of improvised music festivals in which Bailey programmed performances by ad hoc ensembles of musicians who in many cases had never played with each other before.

The festivals were founded by English socialist composer Rutland Boughton and his librettist Lawrence Buckley.

The Fundación Valparaíso ( Valparaíso Foundation ), founded by the North American poet Todd Temkin, has executed major neighborhood redevelopment projects ; has improved the city ’ s tourist infrastructure ; and administers the city's jazz, ethnic music, and opera festivals ; among other projects.

Deller was an influential figure in the renaissance of early music: an early proponent of original instrument performance and one of the first to bring this form to the popular consciousness through his broadcasts on the BBC, he also founded the Stour Music Festival in 1962, one of the first and most important early music festivals in the world.

Barère felt that nationalism was founded by immeasurable emotions that could only be awakened by participating in national activities such as public events, festivals, and through education.

The Harrises organized concerts, adjudicated at festivals, and in 1959 founded the International String Congress.

The Christian festivals of Christmas and Easter are national public holidays in the UK, and Christian organisations, such as the Salvation Army founded by William Booth, play an important role for their charitable work.

Tulip festivals are held in many cities around the United States of America that were founded or largely inhabited by Dutch settlers.

The Faculty of International Relations ( founded in 1986 ) being perhaps closest to the original liberal foundation principles of 1923, as all students are required to learn one of nine Asian languages ( Chinese, Korean, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Persian, Thai, Indonesian, Vietnamese ) for at least two of their four years of undergraduate study, in addition to one year of English, and most students participate in school festivals celebrating Asian language and culture, such as Asia Week, and the Asian Language Speech Contest.

Composers like Hans George Naegeli and festivals like the Fête des Vignerons helped establish a classical music tradition, and the Swiss Musicians Association was founded in 1900.

One of the largest and most prestigious English folk festivals at Cambridge was founded in 1965 and attracts about 10, 000 people.

Music festivals in Moldova include The Faces of Friends, held in the town of Cahul ; this festival was founded in 1996.

Also, a Livonian language choir was founded and Livonian song festivals were held along the entire Livonian Coast.

transmediale was founded in 1988 as VideoFilmFest, a side-project of the Berlin Berlinale ’ s International Forum of New Cinema with the intention to offer a platform to electronic media productions not accepted at traditional film festivals such as the Berlinale.

After his first large-scale exhibition-performances in Houston in the late 1980s ( Description of a Landscape, Invisible Cities ), he founded an ensemble, AlienNation Co .. which has toured internationally and presented work at festivals, theatres, cultural centers and conferences.

ETP Fest or ETP Festival is one of the biggest rock music festivals in South Korea founded by rock singer Seo Taiji.

" Pan-Celtic music festivals were established, notably the Festival Interceltique de Lorient founded in 1971, which has occurred annually since.

In 1965, embracing the idea of the writer Radoy Ralin, he founded Jazz Focus ‘ 65, with which he toured actively till 1970, achieving great success for the Bulgarian jazz and winning prizes at the international jazz festivals in Montreux, Prague and Sofia.

She founded the Chicago Cultural Center and Friends of the Park, and was responsible for the establishment of the renowned Gallery 37 program, which gathered Chicago youths to a vacant block in downtown Chicago to make art ; she also created the Taste of Chicago festival, the Chicago Blues Festival, the Chicago Gospel Festival, citywide neighborhood festivals, and the Chicago Holiday Sharing It Program.

Scotland is host to two interceltic music festivals – the Scottish Arts Council funded Celtic Connections, Glasgow, and the Hebridean Celtic Festival, Stornoway – that were founded in the mid 1990s.

In 1993, students of his digital movie making classes at the UCLA Lab for New Media founded the Post-Cinematic Society which organized some of the first digital movie festivals based on his ideas about new media, such as database cinema.