Firefly Festival Cancels 2020 Edition Due to Coronavirus

Burning Man has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The June installment of the biannual dance-centric pool party Splash House has been canceled due to the coronavirus.

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The Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity on Friday said its 2020 edition was canceled after previously postponing it until October due to the coronavirus pandemic. The next edition of the festival will run June 21-25, 2021.

The Monte-Carlo Television Festival has become the latest event to cancel this year in light of the coronavirus crisis.

Scotland's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the large summer event for stand-up comedy and other stage productions, is the latest victim of the new coronavirus pandemic. Organizers on Wednesday said the August tradition, which is considered the world's largest arts festival, was being called off along with Edinburgh's other August festivals, including its book fest, the Edinburgh International Festival and the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

The events were set to take place this August

The 2020 Isle of Wight Festival has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The 2020 Isle of Wight Festival has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Add one more film festival to the growing list of events canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Provincetown International Film Festival on Monday confirmed that it will not be moving forward with plans for this year's edition, which was scheduled to run June 17-21.

The 2020 Banff World Media Festival, set to run June 14-17 in the Canadian Rockies, has been canceled amid the coronavirus pandemic. “Canceling the festival after 41 years of success was not a decision that we took lightly, but it was the right thing to do for festival delegates, speakers and staff,” Randy Lennox, president of Bell Media and chair of the Banff board of directors, said Monday in a statement.

The 2020 edition of the Cannes Film Festival has been postponed by the organizers owing to the Coronavirus crisis which has gripped almost every country in the world. Speculations were already rife about the prestigious film festival getting canceled in the wake of COVID 19 scare due to the fear of infection and now the reports have turned out to be true. The mega event was originally scheduled to be held from May 12 to May 23, 2020, in France.

We all knew this was coming. As the world shuts down because of Coronavirus and large gatherings are banned, in order to slow the pandemic, the Cannes Film Festival was an inevitable casualty. It was a matter of when it would be postponed, not if. Well, that news has finally come down, pushing the fest from its initial plan to be held in the middle of May. It was just a matter of time until this happened, though it’s obviously still a bummer.

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Glastonbury Festival 2020 has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

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