Dido

Date: February 7-8.

Location: The Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, London N1 9NL.

Description: Dido - aka "that girl who sings the nice bit on the Eminem song" - returns to her Islington roots for two nights at the Scala.

Contact: 020-7833 2022.

Website: www.whatsonwhen.com/themes/music.jml

Berlin Film Festival

Date: February 7-18

Location: Central Berlin, Germany.

Description: Germany's biggest movie event and one of the biggest film festivals in the world features 16 world premieres including Jean-Jacques Annaud's Stalingrad drama Enemy at the Gates, starring Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz and Bob Hoskins. Plus some excellent retrospectives.

E-mail: info@berlinale.de

Website: www.whatsonwhen.com/themes/film.jml

Bob Marley Day

Date: February 17-19, 23-25.

Location: San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco.

Description: Travelling reggae festival, this year featuring Bunny Wailer, Toots and the Maytals, Chaka Demus and Pliers, Shaggy and other luminaries.

Contact: +1 213 480 3232.

Website: www.whatsonwhen.com/themes/music.jml

Sydney Mardi Gras

Date: February 9 - March 3.

Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Description: The biggest gay and lesbian extravaganza in the world features music, plays, art, theatre and parties culminating in the world-famous parade on March 3 and a final-night party with 20,000 ravers.

Contact: +61 (0) 2 9557 4332.

E-mail: reception@mardigras.com.au

Website: www.whatsonwhen.com/themes/gay.jml

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