In summer, Japan drops its reserve to party, finds Rob McFarland.

Josie McNaught gives a local's guide to Venice, where New Zealand art is on display at the world’s greatest exhibition.

New Zealand feature film The Orator (O Le Tulafale) has been selected to premiere in competition in the Orizzonti (New Horizons) section of the 68th Venice International Film Festival.

A weekend in Hawkes Bay was timed well for the food and wine festival, writes Catherine Smith.

More than 170,000 people turned up at this year's Glastonbury Music Festival to see hundreds of acts including BB King, U2 and Wu-Tang Clan.

New Zealand musicians have secured a special place on the programme for the City of London Festival.

Festival-goers in gumboots, raincoats and their best party attire braved mud and rain for Glastonbury 2011.

The annual Medellín Flowers Festival sees Colombia's "City of Eternal Spring" bedecked with colourful blooms.

Billed as the largest cultural festival of its kind in North America, Toronto's Caribana Festival is an exciting celebration of Caribbean music and culture.

Advice on visiting Disneyland's theme parks in Asia and which currency to travel with in India.

U2 bassist Adam Clayton says he is looking forward to seeing Elbow perform at Glastonbury.

The peaceful Town of 1770 bursts into life every May for the Captain Cook 1770 Festival.

Ireland's National Heritage Council protects and enhances the nation's built, natural and cultural heritage, so the activities on offer during National Heritage Week are incredibly diverse.

South Australia's Copper Coast was once home to thousands of Cornish miners and this heritage is remembered during Kernewek Lowender.

Political satire on floats is probably not what you'd expect in this town on the Tuscan coast, writes John Watson.

India, Iran, Canada and Kenya are just some of the countries represented at the Rainforest World Music Festival, which takes place in the heart of the lush Borneo jungle.

Established in 1947, the Holland Festival is a trendsetting international performing arts festival.

Images from the Holi Festival of colour, during which Hindu devotees light bonfires, dance, and throw coloured powder and water at each other.

It's the flags you see first. WOMAD, held annually at Taranaki's beautiful Brooklands Park, is littered with them.