The London jazz festival celebrates a key birthday this year - 2013's festival is its 21st. John Fordham, who's been at the coalface of jazz criticism for as many years, picks his favourite moments from each festival
Gillian Moore: the latest chapter in the Southbank's Rest Is Noise festival looks at how the changing political and social landscape of the 1970s and 80s shaped the era's mood and music
It might resemble an overgrown vegetable, but the world's first inflatable concert hall, designed by Anish Kapoor, pushes the boundaries of instant architecture
Gillian Moore introduces the next segment of The Rest Is Noise Festival, which looks at the composers behind the Iron Curtain from the 1970s and 1980s who turned to religious and spiritual values under the Soviet Regime.
23 Oct 2013:
Homebake is the latest Australian music event to be cancelled in 2013. So what's going on – and where will it leave Australian festival-goers?
If festivals are the new platform, and sites the new venues, what do they offer artists and audiences? Dominic Thomas reports back from a recent symposium
Pamela Hutchinson: This year's edition of the silent film festival featured Welles' previously-thought-lost Too Much Johnson amid a typically irreverent and varied selection