In collaboration with the 17th-annual St. Louis African Arts Festival in Forest Park, the Saint Louis Art Museum announces a variety of programs celebrating its collection of African art. For more information, please call 314.721.0072 or visit www.slam.org.

This year Music in the Round celebrates its 25th May Festival by giving a series of concerts based on a selection of the Festivals held over the past quarter of a century.

Theatre Ontario is pleased to announce the productions that will be participating in Theatre Ontario Festival 2008 in North Bay.

For its annual summer festival of contemporary opera, music and theatre, the Almeida Theatre will present a programme which includes the London premiere of An Ocean of Rain, a specially commissioned opera by Yannis Kyriakides and Daniel Danis, the European premiere of Adam Rapp’s Nocturne and British African Theatre Company Tiata Fahodzi’s first week long residency at the Almeida.

The second annual University of Glasgow Science Festival gets underway this week.

Altering the landscape of the summer classical music scene, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's critically acclaimed, cutting-edge music festival 8 Days in June returns to the Max M. Fisher Music Center, June 13 through 21, 2008. The second annual festival will explore the theme "The Power of Change."

Cherry Blossom Parade invites you to attend one of Washington's most exciting traditions - the Parade of the National Cherry Blossom Festival®. The Parade steps off at 10:00 AM and marches along historic Constitution Avenue between 7th and 17th Streets, NW.

Sibling rivalry has never been so funny. Named Best Australian Act at the 2007 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Lawrence Leung Learns to Breakdance is one man's hip-shattering quest for coolness. Sleeping in a bunk bed until the age of 24, it's fair to say Lawrence Leung has never been cool.

The 4th Annual NEW CREATIONS FESTIVAL will celebrate the centennial of Olivier Messiaen (1908-92) by presenting several of the vibrant French composer's most demanding, grand-scale orchestral works alongside world and Canadian premières by living composers who continue to be inspired by Messiaen's work. The festival will run from April 9 to 17, 2008.

As science organizations and funding bodies put ever more emphasis on outreach to foster public understanding both of the results and the wider relevance of science, recent years have seen the creation of a number of new science festivals.

The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television & Radio) today announced the dates of the 2008 Urban Visionaries Youth Film Festival: April 10 and 11. The festival—which marks its 11th anniversary this year—showcases fiction, documentary, and experimental videos created by young filmmakers that explore issues effecting young people today.

Capital Yachts (www.CapitalYacht.com) will launch its first fireworks cruise during the Cherry Blossom festival on April 5, 2008.