Festival Republic planning to host 10,000-capacity camping pilot event next month

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Peter Caranicas Deputy Editor“Pari,” the story of an Iranian mother’s search for her missing son in Athens, directed by Siamak Etemadi, an Iranian who lives in Greece, won the top feature film prize at the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, an annual showcase for Greek cinema that wrapped its fifteenth edition on May 30.“Parontes,” under its English title “Being Present,” a penetrating look at the COVID-19 crisis in Greece (pictured above), directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos, took home LAGFF’s

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Download Festival organisers have confirmed that it will make a small-scale return next month for a three-day camping pilot as part of ongoing research into the safe return of live music.Organisers say that “moshing is allowed” when 10,000 fans descend on Donington Park from June 18-20.Tickets will go on sale here from Tuesday (June 1) for all existing Download ticketholders.

Fleabag is set to stream on Amazon Prime Video next month.Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s one-woman show, which she performed at Wyndham’s Theatre in the West End, provided the origins for the hit BBC series which ran for two seasons.Four of the National Theatre’s highest-profile recorded stage shows will stream on Amazon from June 11, including Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller and Ian McKellen On Stage.Martin Backlund, head of content, UK, Ireland and

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Glastonbury will be back in 2021. The music festival, which cancelled its traditional June event last year and this year due to Covid, is looking to hold a one-off, one-day event in September at which up to 50,000 people will be allowed to attend.

Although tensions continue to run high between them, Prince Harry and Prince William’s Princess Diana tribute is still scheduled according to plan. As per Page Six, the Duke of Sussex “absolutely” plans to join his brother in the U.K. soon for the event—which means it’s also only a matter of time before he will have to “face his family” again following his latest comments about them.

Bon Jovi have announced that their Encore Nights concert will arrive in cinemas across the UK next month.The show, which was previously broadcast at 300 drive-in venues across North America, will now be screened for fans across the UK on June 10.Commenting on the show, Encore Nights CEO Walter Kinzie said: “Our Encore Nights series was dreamt up and kicked off last year to provide fans across North America a fun and safe new way to watch their favorite acts perform amid the pandemic.“Little did

After some awful weather this May, things are set to brighten up as Britain is predicted to be hit by a three-week-long heatwave next month.The country is forecast to enjoy 16 consecutive days of sun in June to welcome the summer just in time for festival season. Weather experts predict the heatwave to hit between June 15 and July 1 when Boris Johnson is expected to announce an end to Covid-19 restrictions.

Netflix, Sky Team For Writing Fellowship Netflix and Sky have joined forces with Sex Education writer Bisha K Ali to launch a UK screenwriting fellowship for people from under-represented backgrounds. The scheme offers up to six successful applicants the chance to join a year-long program, during which they will receive £22,568 ($32,000) to write a spec script for an original idea, as well take on a placement in a Sky or Netflix writers’ room.

coronavirus-related cancellations, meaning that festivals face huge financial losses and risk bankruptcy if they have to cancel last-minute.So far, over a quarter of UK festivals over 5,000 capacity have been cancelled this summer due to a lack of insurance.During a DCMSC committee meeting yesterday (May 13), Conservative MP Heather Wheeler asked Dowden for an update on whether or not the government would be offering insurance to festivals.In his response, Dowden said the UK was “well on track”

Manori Ravindran International EditorThe London Indian Film Festival is back in cinemas this summer after an all-virtual effort in 2020.In a challenging year for India and South Asia, the Bagri Foundation-run London festival and sister events in Birmingham and Manchester will premiere new indie films from the Indian subcontinent and diaspora, running from June 17-July 4.

announced it would be moving from its former location back in January, saying a new New York location would be revealed later in the year.It was previously located in an enormous, 10,000-square-foot warehouse space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and contained both a record store and concert venue. The store opened in 2013 as an offshoot of the UK chain.As the New York Times reports, the store’s new Rockefeller Center location is 2,100-square-foot, and previously housed a shoe store.

Slowthai has announced details of his new one-day festival, Happyland.The event, billed in full as ‘Happyland – The Happiest Place in the Universe’ where “the policy is simple: No Smile, No Entry”, is set to take place at Northampton Cricket Ground on September 25.Happyland’s line-up has been curated by Slowthai himself, with each act “representing a different facet of the UK music scene in 2021”.Slowthai will headline the inaugural edition of Happyland, with sets from IDLES, Beabadoobee, Easy

Glastonbury Festival site in cinemas this month.The festival is broadcasting performances by Coldplay, Damon Albarn, HAIM, Wolf Alice and more on the weekend of May 22 and May 23 in place of the event, which was cancelled for the second year running owing to the coronavirus crisis.More than 350 UK cinemas will air the live sets in partnership with event cinema specialists Trafalgar Releasing on May 22, ScreenDaily reports.Other acts playing Glastonbury’s ‘Live From Worthy Farm’ event are Idles,

Aldi is helping the nation celebrate ‘Junemas’ by bringing back its popular Specially Selected Mini Mince Pies. The summer Christmas celebration takes place on June 25 and research released by the supermarket giant shows that a whopping half of Brits (47%) are planning to celebrate the occasion with friends and family.