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Montreux Jazz Festival

2 August 2010

The Montreux Jazz festival is a celebration of music in beautiful mountain surroundings with eclectic acts, good food and an atmosphere more focused on bonhomie than going bananas. Monocle's culture editor Robert Bound…

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Festival season

25 May 2023

Model-making in Rome, South Korea’s craft revolution and why good architecture should be a universal right.

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Festive dioramas

22 December 2015

Christmas window displays in New York’s department stores date back to the 1870s and the 2015 season may see the most lavish designs yet. Decadent dressings have become an attraction in their own right in and around shops…

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Paleo Festival

12 August 2011

The summer festival season is in full swing, and the Paleo Festival, held outside Geneva in the sleepy town of Nyon, offers an alternative to some of its grubbier European siblings. With the mountains on one side and the…

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Doha Tribeca Film Festival

30 November 2012

Political revolutions and their aftermath are fertile conditions for filmmakers. Monocle took a front-row seat at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival, to witness the cinema of change emerging in the Arab region.

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Sundance Film Festival

28 February 2011

Monocle attends the Sundance Film Festival to ask whether you still need a screening to break the box office.

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Folk’s festival

13 August 2018

Drinks brand Capi has an HQ that’s more than it seems: it’s a place of work and play where unloved office furniture has made way for quality design pieces and works of art inspire all the brands under its roof.

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Arles Photography Festival

17 July 2012

What Cannes is to film and Venice is to architecture - Arles is to photography. Our Monocle film crew headed down to the South of France for the opening week of Les Rencontres d'Arles - the world's leading photography…

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Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam

5 November 2013

Cityscapes surround us and inspire us. Architecture speaks to our eyes and our minds. Monocle heads to Rotterdam's own Architecture Film Festival, to investigate the complex alchemy between real and invisible cities.

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Winter warmers

16 November 2017

Christmas markets are a regular fixture of the festive season – but in Mitteleuropa they’re also big business.

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Sunday Brunch - The Festival of Ideas

2 September 2018

We meet some of the greatest minds from art, architecture and music. Plus: we analyse Chinese comedy, look at how a song changed advertising and head to a new avocado bar in London.

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Monocle on Culture - Hay Festival

6 June 2016

This year’s Hay Festival of literature, which takes place in the beautiful town of Hay-on-Wye on the Welsh border, has just wrapped up. We take a look at the festival’s international ambitions and its influence on book…

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Monocle on Culture - At the Edinburgh Festival

13 August 2012

We chat to comedian James Mullinger at Edinburgh festival and we also meet the festival’s director. Plus a visit to LA’s Sonos Studio acoustic gallery.

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Cinema paradiso

15 March 2016

With its central-European soul and Italian accent, this Adriatic port could easily have an identity crisis. Trieste, however, is used to occupying the space between one culture and another, as its unique film festival…

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Berlin film scene

22 February 2013

The Berlin International Film Festival is one of the most influential showcases in the world and part of Germany’s rich cinema tradition. Join Monocle for a look at the city’s relationship with filmmaking.

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The Cinema Show - Feeling festive

6 December 2017

Grab yourself a glühwein as we get into the festive spirit with our favourite picks of the season. Tara Judah recalls some of her seasonal films, we touch down at the Rome Film Festival and embark on a tour of Alfred Hit…