It was also the opening film for the Environmental Film Festival in Washington,D.C., which we reported on last month.

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The festival was started fifteen years ago in the parking lot of a store that sold alcoholic beverages.

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of the official festival. In nineteen fifty-eight, the performers formed a Fringe Society to organize their event and provide tickets and programs.

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For example, organizers of the Street Scene festival in San Diego,California, cancelled this year's event because of poor ticket sales last year.

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The movie was released in nineteen eighty-seven and became the first Palestinian film to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival in France.

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Grammy award-winning singer Sarah McLachlan and a few others created the traveling music festival in nineteen ninety-seven.

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But in March, producer George Wein announced that the company that sponsored the festival was no longer able to because of the recession.

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They included Coachella in California, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and Bonnaroo in Tennessee.

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Jing in Canada commented on our recent story about the Environmental Film Festival here in Washington.

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The Environmental Film Festival in Washington,D.C., has been bringing movies to America's capital for seventeen years.

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Today we visit the Arabesque festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington,D.C.

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The festival started as a way for musicians in Austin to reach out to larger audiences.

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In nineteen forty-seven, eight theater groups showed up uninvited to the first Edinburgh International Festival.

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The festival later expanded to include the parade and a big game in college football.

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In addition to his work with the Modern Jazz Quartet, John Lewis worked for many years as musical director of the Monterey Jazz Festival in California.

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The Environmental Film Festival in Washington plays an important role in helping increase understanding about a subject that is important for people all over the world.

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Mizz Picoult talked to visitors at the festival about studying creative writing in college.

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A local group created the Tournament of Roses festival in Pasadena in eighteen ninety.

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Several movies at the festival examined trash in different parts of the world.

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The Midsummer Mozart Festival is July sixteenth to the twenty-sixth in San Francisco,California.

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Many writers at the festival specialize in historical and political events.

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Others, like the Capital Fringe Festival in Washington,D.C., are relatively new.

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These can all be found at the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago,Illinois.

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