Fierce Festival 2007 and Google Calendar This year's Fierce Festival begins in Birmingham next weekend, although tomorrow morning should hopefully see the Sky Orchestra providing a spectacular precursor.



During last year's Liverpool Biennial, I experimented with using Google Maps to provide an alternative presentation format to tradition listings. Since then, I've started using Google Calendar as my online diary and thought that I'd put the Fierce Festival listings into this format.

The listings were all taken from the excellent official festival website, where the listings are provided in a nice and accessible linear format (I wouldn't have even bothered trying if I had to fight my way through some of the database solutions you see implemented on many cultural listings websites..).

Importing the listings into Google Calendar allows me to see all the one-off events (I didn't include exhibitions that repeat over several days) in my own diary format. Anyone can view the calendar online here (I don't like the default layout, it's too cluttered, but I can't see how to change that), but it is most useful for anyone who already uses Google Calendar, with the ability to import either the whole calendar or one-off events into your own diary.

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