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.

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

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.

Live At the Islands draws some big music names to support conservation work.

Thousands have been flocking to the Viaduct Harbour this holiday weekend to tuck into seafood ranging from oysters to sea escargots (sea snails).

Despite marking its fifth consecutive year, the 2011 Auckland Seafood Festival has a number of firsts up its sleeve.

Yeasayer are back for Laneway, but don't expect a repeat of an infamous earlier trip, says Paula Yeoman.

All of the action from yesterday's Big Day Out at Auckland's Mount Smart Stadium.

The annual Margaret River Wine Region Festival showcases wares from many of its 100 or more producers.

Crowd control at Gisborne's Rhythm and Vines festival is being improved after boisterous partygoers forced organisers to shut down bus services last night.

Kiwi collective Fat Freddy's Drop has won a spot at one of the biggest music festivals in the United States.