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.

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

There is a whole host of fabulous events happening at next week's Fashion Festival in Auckland.

Following the success of last year's show, Fashion Festival now lasts an entire week.

Robert Redford says he is planning to launch a four-day version of the Sundance Film Festival in London.

Carnaval de Noumea - the Noumea Carnival - is a major festival held in the New Caledonian capital every April.

There's a lot more choice when it comes to quenching your beer thirst these days.

In Auckland, we're in the middle of an Arts Festival. All over town there are actors, musicians, dancers and pornographic puppets doing their artistic business at myriad venues.

Named by Rolling Stone magazine as one of 50 moments that changed the history of rock and roll.

Catherine Smith looks at the best free and family shows on offer during the two major arts festivals showcasing Auckland City this month.

Auckland's fine weekend weather brought record crowds to the city's lantern festivals, organisers say.

Auckland's set for a creative feast, says Ann Newbery.

We round up some of the events taking place today and tomorrow.

The Auckland Lantern Festival is celebrating a "full cycle" with the Year of the Rabbit when it opens for the 12th time at Albert Park tonight.

One of the biggest film festivals in the world started with a red carpet première of US blockbuster True Grit on Thursday in Berlin. Celebrities, star-crazed fans and journalists with silly questions, packed the German capital.

At the end of the 19th century, Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild built Waddeson Manor in the style of a 16th century French chateau.

World music worked hard for its place in the sun, says pioneer Simon Emerson. By Paula Yeoman.