News: Culture

OzAsia Festival secures Creative Australia inaugural Asia Pacific Arts Award

Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival, Australia’s leading contemporary arts festival engaging with Asia, has secured a Creative Australia Asia Pacific Arts Award at the…

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Apr 25, 2024 Arts / Culture / Events /

 
 

World Leisure Day to explore digital horizons

Aiming to reinforce leisure as a social right and its importance in daily life, as well as to expand and promote leisure globally while recognising that barriers still exist for many…

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Apr 12, 2024 Culture / Education / Parks / Recreation / Tourism /

 
 

Meliá Chiang Mai resort launches social enterprise to improve lives of Thai communities

Meliá Chiang Mai has unveiled a social enterprise that promotes talented Thai designers, artists and craftsmen to ultimately help communities in need and preserve Thai culture.…

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Mar 12, 2024 Arts / Culture / Hospitality / Tourism /

 
 

Patrick Johnson awarded 2023 IOC Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Champions Award for Oceania

Dual Olympian and Culture and Sport Advisor Patrick Johnson secured the 2023 IOC Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Champions Award for Oceania. The award, announced in Lausanne last…

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Mar 11, 2024 Culture / Sport /

 
 

Tokyo light and sound experience makes it into Guinness World Records

Tokyo’s latest attraction to brighten the nightlife ‘TOKYO Night & Light’ – has gone down in the Guinness World Records™ as the ‘largest…

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Mar 7, 2024 Arts / Culture / Entertainment / Technology /

 
 

Hiroshima Peace Museum attracts record number of visitors in 2023 fiscal year

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum located in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, in central Hiroshima, Japan, has already reached a record 1,760,252 visitors with still just over a month to go…

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Feb 28, 2024 Arts / Culture / Education / Tourism /

 
 

ATTA reveals key trends and issues shaping adventure tourism in 2024

Taking account of issues as diverse as sustainability, overtourism, climate change, artificial intelligence and regional conflict, the Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) has released…

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Feb 16, 2024 Culture / Environment / Tourism / Wellness /

 
 

International esports exhibition match in Darwin to blend culture and entertainment

With support from Northern Territory Major Events Company, Darwin will host some of the best Tekken players from the Philippines and Australia when they compete in an esports exhibition…

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Feb 14, 2024 Culture / Entertainment / Events / Sport / Technology /

 
 

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