Tunis Events
Carthage International Festival, Jul-Aug, the country's largest cultural festival with music, dance, theatre and art in the Roman amphitheatre of Carthage (website: www.festival-carthage.com.tn)
Kharja Festival, Sidi Bou Said, Jul-Aug, Sufi brotherhoods gather for a procession up to the shrine of the local Muslim saint after whom the village is named
Festival d'Epervier (Falconry Festival), Jul, four days of falconry demonstrations, live music and a big market. Sparrow hawks are captured during their spring migration, trained and released again after the festival. El-Haouaria, Cap Bon (two hours by bus from Tunis)
Hammamet International Festival, Jul-Aug, a wide variety of international performances of music and theatre, Hammamet (one hour by train from Tunis)
Tabarka has several excellent music festivals during the summer: Jazz Festival (second week of Jul; website: www.tabarkajazz.com); World Music Festival (mid-Aug); Latino Festival (third week of Aug) and the superb Rai Festival (end of Aug).
(three hours by bus from Tunis)
Tunis Medina Festival, Oct-Nov, great concerts during Ramadan evenings
Carthage International Film Festival, Oct, every other year (held even-numbered years in Carthage, and other years in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso), a prestigious film festival that attracts a few Hollywood names, but the focus is on African and Arab films
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Kharja Festival, Sidi Bou Said, Jul-Aug, Sufi brotherhoods gather for a procession up to the shrine of the local Muslim saint after whom the village is named
Festival d'Epervier (Falconry Festival), Jul, four days of falconry demonstrations, live music and a big market. Sparrow hawks are captured during their spring migration, trained and released again after the festival. El-Haouaria, Cap Bon (two hours by bus from Tunis)
Hammamet International Festival, Jul-Aug, a wide variety of international performances of music and theatre, Hammamet (one hour by train from Tunis)
Tabarka has several excellent music festivals during the summer: Jazz Festival (second week of Jul; website: www.tabarkajazz.com); World Music Festival (mid-Aug); Latino Festival (third week of Aug) and the superb Rai Festival (end of Aug).
(three hours by bus from Tunis)
Tunis Medina Festival, Oct-Nov, great concerts during Ramadan evenings
Carthage International Film Festival, Oct, every other year (held even-numbered years in Carthage, and other years in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso), a prestigious film festival that attracts a few Hollywood names, but the focus is on African and Arab films
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