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World travelers looking for the perfect place to explore a vibrant city in stunning splendor and beauty will find it all at a Dubai beach resort.  The journey begins here in luxurious accommodations, with all the amenities even the most well-seasoned tourist has come to expect, plus a few more gracious touches of elegance.  Centered in the heart of a perfect hideaway, travelers are free to explore the city at their leisure.

There is so much to see, in this cultural landscape that is constantly shifting and surprising as old world charm meets new world developments.  The artistic life of Dubai is growing by leaps and bounds, with exciting new festivals in film and music.  One festival not to overlook is the Dubai Festival for Youth Theatre.  Chairman of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority, H.H. Sheikh Majed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the patron of this 10-day festival, which highlights some of the most innovative and traditional theatre for young audiences in the region.  Performed in Arabic, these plays highlight the talents of local performers and playwrights, and is a way of entering into the world’s artistic and cultural heritage, set right in the heart of Dubai.  It is also an opportunity for new performers to test out their acting capabilities, with the aim of investigating the possibilities of theatre as a career choice, so the festival offers something for audiences as well as for the young participants.

Not merely a wonderful event for the whole family, the Dubai Festival for Youth Theatre is a way of opening the rich cultural heritage of performing arts in the UAE to the next generation of theatre artists.  The plays draw on social issues and folkloric narratives to speak to local audiences along with those across the entire region.  The intensive selection process insures that the best talents find their way to the limelight, to introduce the local work to the international community based on high standards of work.  At the end of the festival each year, there is an awards ceremony to pay honor to the best actors, writers, and stage artists, and give the festival a healthy competition.  This stimulates interest in the arts locally, and helps to inspire young artists to participate in the long and continuing cultural narratives.

Number one in world-class luxury, Perth hotels are an adventure in style and hospitality.  Getting away from it all has never been easier, and never more rewarding.  The landscape opens up like the city here, constantly unrolling, vast, and fascinating.  Your stay will be made easier here, when the pleasure of the hideaway is equal to the pleasure of finding yourself among wonderful new friends.

One place to certainly meet like-minded, or high-minded individuals is at Perth’s internationally-acclaimed Revelation Film Festival.  Now in its twelfth year, this film festival has always prided itself on favoring ideas over films.  The sensibility is very marked in favoring the underground and the indie, and is indeed well on its way toward developing one of the most interesting film festivals in the world.  With short films, documentaries, features, animation and experimental works, there is something for everyone here, even though the organizers insist that the festival is not trying to be all things to all people.  With such a remarkably uncompromising vision, this is an extremely important cultural event.  Nurturing local filmmakers as well as tapping into some of the more significant international trends, the emphasis here is on the art of film in practice.  Discussions of film theory accompany the screenings, and there are also tangential events around the festival to showcase interesting experiments in visual arts and culture.

The Perth International Film Festival is also very keenly-geared toward youth culture and pop culture.  Some of last year’s entries focused on underground figures like Hunter S. Thompson and William S. Burroughs.  Underground in its origin as well, with the first festival taking place in a basement, the festival has grown incrementally each year, making it a rising success, and a force to be reckoned with in the film industry.  This is a festival where alternative visions and voices can find a place to be seen, heard, and discussed by some of the most cutting-edge filmmakers and critics from around the globe, and securing Perth as a vital place in the world’s art-making marketplace.

Chennai is known of the land of priests and temples.  The religious traditions are reflected each year in the month of December.  The season’s music is underway at this time, and is one of the best times for a visit and a stay at one of the five star hotels.  Chennai  is a city with very rich cultural heritage.  The dancers of the city perform on the streets and in the various auditoriums, depicted stories of their culture, or just simply performing recitals.  Dancers renown the country often stop in Chennai to give master classes and lectures to all those interested in this form of expression.  Many international companies tour here as well, as with the world of dance, there is no need to speak the same language.  The language is just the dance, and all dancers can ’speak’ it.

Evenings out on the town are filled with dance and music as well.  Chennai has become a hot spot for trendy nightclubs and discotheques.  The city is become quite distinguished as the best cultural location in India.  Many clubs offer pop music to trance and techno as well.  And as the bars remain open until the wee hours, it is possible to just dance the night away, literally.  For those not so inclined for such a party, the theater in the city is spectacular.  There are some theaters that produce plays performed in English, as well as Tamil.  And the music concerts are varied, from street performers, to the Music Academy’s  finest students, there is always a show happening somewhere around this city. 

Festivals  are quite common, honoring and celebrating religious events, to the positions of the planets, to the agriculture of the land.  While this is a very cosmopolitan and progressive city, just about all of the festivals are religious ceremonies to a certain extent.  Thanks are given to bountiful crops, to the birth of children, and celebrations of the seasons passing.  In all, there is really no bad time to chose to visit, as something incredible and culturally is happening during each week of every year.