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The White Nights Festival is an annual summer festival in St. Petersburg dedicated to the phenomenon of midnight twilight due to its location near the Arctic Circle: Every year, from about April 22 to August 21, the night sky only reaches twilight and never reaches complete darkness. The festival includes concerts by musicians and performers of ...
The White Nights are all-night arts festivals held in many cities in the summer. The original festival is the White Nights Festival held in Saint Petersburg , Russia . The white nights is the name given in areas of high latitude to the weeks around the summer solstice in June during which sunsets are late, sunrises are early and darkness is ...
The Scarlet Sails (Russian: Алые паруса) is a celebration in St. Petersburg, Russia, the most massive and famous public event during the White Nights Festival every summer. Description [ edit ]
The expanded White Nights Festival has included pop culture (e.g. the Rolling Stones in the open air at Palace Square) in 2007 and high culture events ("Stars of the White Nights Festival" at the Mariinsky Theatre under Valery Gergiev) every year since 1993.
White Nights is a 1985 American musical drama film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren and Isabella Rossellini. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was choreographed by Twyla Tharp .
White night, White Night, or White Nights may refer to: White night (astronomy), a night in which it never gets completely dark, at high latitudes outside the Arctic and Antarctic Circles; White Night festivals, all-night arts festivals held in many cities worldwide in the summer; White Nights Festival, an annual arts festival in St. Petersburg ...
Tickets go on sale Friday for the 2024 Neon Nights country music fest at Clay's Resort. Performers include Brad Paisley, ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
The White Nights Marathon was first held in 1990 during the White Nights Festival in Leningrad, Russia. Initially, the marathon was conceived as a night marathon—the runners started at 11 p.m. and finished the following morning. [5] In recent years though, the race has started at 8 a.m. Sunday morning. [3] No race has been held since 2020.