All posts belonging to the Festivals tag can be found in the list below.
More than a quarter of UK festivals over 5,000 capacity have now been cancelled due to a lack of Government-backed insurance, new research has discovered. The Association of Independent Festivals ...
Tags: AIF, Festivals, insurance, UKMore than 100 independent venues, promoters, and festivals in Los Angeles have formed a coalition to push state and local lawmakers to provide funding for those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Tags: Festivals, LAIVC, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Independent Venue CoalitionNevada’s Burning Man Festival and 2000trees Festival in the UK are the two latest events to cancel their 2021 editions over ongoing uncertainty due to COVID-19. Organisers of the annual counter-...
Tags: 2000trees, Burning Man, FestivalsElectric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas has postponed the upcoming festival to later in the year after a change in the Clark County’s COVID-19 event reopening plan. Under the new rules, 60 per cent of...
Tags: EDC Las Vegas, Festivals, Insomniac EventBoomtown Fair has become the latest UK festival to succumb to the pressures of planning a major event without COVID-19 specific cancellation insurance. Organisers of the festival announced today (...
Tags: Boomtown Fair, Cancelled, Festivals, insuranceAn updated guide for UK festival organisers has been published to support the planning of events in 2021. The new interim briefing, which builds upon planning considerations published last year on...
Tags: Covid-19, Events Research Programme, Festivals, Purple GuideFyre Festival has reached a $2m settlement with 277 ticketholders of the ill-fated 2017 event. The US Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York has approved the class action settlement...
Tags: Festivals, Fyre Festival, Lawsuit, LegalThe UK live events industry has demanded an urgent government timetable for an insurance scheme to support the 2021 summer of festivals. Industry leaders and speakers from the insurance industries...
Tags: Events, Festivals, Let Live ThriveMiami’s Ultra Music Festival has been sued for allegedly denying ticketholders refunds for the 2020 cancelled event. Gabriella Petroka, who filed the lawsuit on March 31 after paying a total of ...
Tags: Festivals, Lawsuit, Legal, Refunds, Ultra Music FestivalSome 2,700 cultural and heritage organisations in the UK are to share £400m in grants and loans to support the sector recover and reopen after COVID-19.The latest tranche of money from the £1.57bn ...
Tags: Culture Recovery Fund, Festivals, Glastonbury, Museums, Reopening, Theatre, UK
