Festivals

The combustible art of Burning Man

At the Burning Man festival in Nevada, you can do anything as long as it’s fantastic – and can be built and burnt in a week. Steve Double, a photographer and veteran burner, takes his camera for the first time

Middle-aged, but not middle-of-the-road

The BBC Radio 6 Music Festival is a hit with the John Peel generation

Bamako bounces back

At a music festival in Bamako, Malians found that one way to fight fundamentalism is through music

Powerful women rule in Carthage

This year, the highlights of Africa’s longest-running film festival were the strong female leads

Mr Poots reinvents Manchester

What can art do for a city? Manchester is finding out