The "Jesús Guridi" Conservatoire of Music, Vitoria (Spain) is a centre committed to creating and spreading contemporary music via its educational activities and an ongoing offering of concerts, festivals, meetings, conferences, seminars and master classes. Since its beginnings it has organised numerous activities dedicated to the creation of contemporary music, enjoying the participation of com...

Using empirical data from a questionnaire survey of residents and visitors attending the 1998 San Fermin fiesta in Pamplona, Spain, this article offers a critique of the contemporary construction of festivals as interpretive devices. Informed by the work of Bakhtin, this article makes the case that festivals should be understood as carnivalesque inversions of the everyday, deployed to maintain ...

Film, as an art form playing a vital role and is a powerful tool in documenting, influencing and shaping the society. Films are the collective creation of a large number of separate individuals, each contributing with creative input, unique talents, and technical expertise to the project. Recently, the Malaysian Independent (or “Indie”) filmmakers have made their presence felt by winning awards...

The overall aim of public academic science communication is to engage a non-scientist with a particular field of science and/or research topic, often driven by the expertise of the academic. An e-survey was designed to provide insight into respondent's current and future engagement with science communication activities. Respondents provided a wide range of ideas and concerns as to the 'common p...

This roundtable begins with each festival organizer explaining how the outbreak of current war in Ukraine affected planning and organizing their respective film festivals. The discussion that unfolds conveys organizers stand quite united responses to situation, despite differences geographic proximity ongoing hostilities on ground opportunities available for drafting up alternative scenarios. T...

The Lantern Festival constitutes a specific tradition that originated from long-term evolved culture. Should the festival only consist of large number installations and visitors? This study aims to assess Taiwan (TLF) in terms government procurements between 2016 2020 according classification tender projects. classifications contribute comparison similarities diversities respect major challenge...