Bristol Harbour Festival awards Richmond Event Management four-year contract

UK: Bristol City Council has awarded Richmond Event Management (REM) the contract to organise the annual Bristol Harbour Festival until 2021. Following a competitive tender process REM has been awarded the contract, valued in...

Founder and CEO of Julie’s Bicycle honoured as Campaigner of the Year at Women...

UK: Alison Tickell, founder and CEO of Julie’s Bicycle, has been honoured as Campaigner of the Year at the Music Week Women in Music Awards 2016. The Campaigner award was presented to Tickell at...


The Ticket Factory says industry must clean up its act or risk losing consumer...

UK: This week saw The Culture, Media and Sport Committee meet for a one-off evidence session into ticket touts and the problem of using software to harvest tickets from primary sellers' online sites and...

EXIT Festival leads winning campaign for Novi Sad to become European Capital City of...

SERBIA: EXIT Foundation was in charge of the winning campaign for the city of Novi Sad, where EXIT Festival takes place, to be the European Capital of Culture in 2021. EXIT has been held...

LD Travis Shirley lights main stage of Electric Forest Festival

USA: The annual Electric Forest Festival featured jam band and EDM music across five stages at the Double JJ Ranch in Michigan from June 23 – 26, as well as a wide array of...

Gigantic launches partnership with Twickets

UK: National ticket agency Gigantic has become one of the biggest operators in the UK to team up with Twickets as its official ticket resale partner. Now live, the new service is integrated into...

Liverpool Sound City prepares for 10th anniversary in 2017

UK: The UK Festival Award-winning Sound City – the nation's largest metropolitan festival – will celebrate its landmark 10th birthday from May 27 - 28 2017, with what organisers promise to be the biggest...

We Are FSTVL adds camping, announces line-up for fifth anniversary

UK: We Are FSTVL has revealed the first details for its fifth edition, taking place from May 26 – 28. New for 2017, We Are will be introducing camping to the FSTVL, enlisting the...

Northern Festivals Network commissioned for two disability–led pieces of art

UK: The Northern Festivals Network – a consortium of festivals committed to raising the quality of arts available to families at Greenfield festivals – has teamed up with Unlimited, an organisation that believes disabled...

Powerful Thinking launches Industry Green Survey; results to be revealed at UK Festival Conference

UK: Powerful Thinking has launched the Industry Green Survey 2016, helping to track industry progress and shape support for all festivals to move towards more sustainable practices. Those surveyed are entered into a raffle...