February 8: San Francisco — Chinese New Year Parade. A 288-foot Golden Dragon stomps the streets as the Year of the Rat scurries in.
February 21-March. 7: Jerez de la Frontera, Spain — Jerez Flamenco Festival. Theaters and bars reverberate with passionate flamenco music and Spanish dance.
February 25: New Orleans — Mardi Gras. The Crescent City sounds its final toot on Fat Tuesday.
March 19-21: Hong Kong — Art Basel Hong Kong. More than 200 galleries display East-West historical and cutting-edge works.
March 21: Rena to Lillehammer, Norway — Birkebeinerrennet. Historic cross-country ski race concludes in former host city of the Winter Olympics.
March 21-May. 10: Lisse, Netherlands — Keukenhof. Some 7 million tulips, daffodils and other bulbs flash their color with the arrival of spring.
April 4: Elmira, Ontario — Elmira Maple Syrup Festival. With pancakes, music and pony rides for the kids, this is a festival that sticks with you.
April 22: Worldwide — Earth Day 2020. “Climate Action” is the all-encompassing theme on the golden anniversary of this very green observance.
April 23-25: Albuquerque, New Mexico — Gathering of Nations. “North America’s Biggest Powwow” celebrates Native American heritage with dance, music and crafts.
April 23-26: Charleston, South Carolina — Charleston Race Week. Three hundred keelboats take to the water for this three-day regatta.
May 9-16: The Hague — Invictus Games. Wounded warriors compete in 10 sports, from archery to wheelchair rugby.
May 12, 14, 16: Rotterdam, Netherlands — Eurovision Song Contest. Performers from over 40 countries sing for the bling at 65th vocal blowout.
May 21-24: Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2020
May 16-Oct. 4: Oberammergau, Germany — Oberammergau 2020. Passion play performed entirely by locals runs but once every 10 years.
June 12-July. 12: 12 cities across Europe — Euro 2020. Brexit or no Brexit, this soccer tournament with massive worldwide audiences opens in Rome and closes in London.
July 4: Bristol, Rhode Island — Bristol Fourth of July Celebration. Nation’s oldest July Fourth event sounds the trumpets in “America’s most patriotic town.”
July 17-Aug. 4: Cooktown, Australia — Cooktown Expo 2020. Celebration of the arrival of iconic explorer James Cook 250 years ago includes a rock music festival.
July 24-Aug. 9: Tokyo — Games of the XXXII Olympiad. Summer Olympics adds new twists with medals in baseball/softball, karate, sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding.
August 1-8: Tregaron, Wales — National Eisteddfod of Wales. Ceredigion County showcases all things Welsh, including CymanfaGanu, a sacred music festival.
August 13-23: Edmonton, Alberta — Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival. Cutting-edge performers fill 50 venues in the theaters and alleys of the Canadian city’s historic district.
August 14-Sept. 6: Utrecht, Netherlands, to Madrid — VueltaaEspana. Top athletes tackle the 75th running of one of the three Grand Tours of world cycling.
September 11-20: Bath, England — Jane Austen Festival. Fans don silks and satins at scores of Regency costumed events.
September 19-Oct. 4: Munich, Germany — Oktoberfest. Tents are pitched and beer barrels tapped for “the largest folk festival in the world.”
September 22-27: Haven, Wisconsin — Ryder Cup. American and European golf teams clash at Whistling Straits.
October 9-17: Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia — Celtic Colours International Festival. Fiddlers, bagpipers, clog dancers and Gaelic singers join in “an island-wide ceilidh.”
October 9-18: Stockholm — Stockholm Jazz Festival. Swedish swing in 60 venues with emphasis on improvisational and world music.
October 17: Fayetteville, West Virginia — Bridge Day. Three hundred BASE jumpers take the plunge from the 876-foot New River Gorge Bridge.
November 6-15: Kailua-Kona, Hawaii — Kona Coffee Cultural Festival. The 50th annual coffee-bean bash on Hawaii’s biggest island has its perks, including seed-to-cup farm tours.
November 28-Dec. 6: Guadalajara, Mexico — Guadalajara International Book Fair. 2,280 publishers from 47 countries make this Latin America’s largest page-turner.
December 7: Milan, Italy — Opening Night of La Scala. See and be seen as the famed 1778 opera house raises the curtain.
December 12: San Jose, California — Beethoven Birthday Bash 2020. The party honors “the greatest orchestral composer of all time” on his 250th.
December 14: Chile and Argentina — Total Solar Eclipse. Moon blocks sun across a 56-mile-wide band of Earth in this astronomical showstopper.
2019
November 11-27: UAE (Dubai, Abu Dhabi), Jordan, Turkey, and Oman
November 11-13: 13th Global Citizenship Conference, London
November 2: Day Of The Dead, Mexico
October 27: Diwali, India
October 11: The Nobel Peace Prize Awarded
September 20-November 2: Rugby World Cup 2019, Japan
September 22-October 7: Oktoberfest, Germany
September 16-October 2: Bora Bora, French Polynesian Islands
September 17-23: Milan Fashion Week
September 13-17: London Fashion Week
September 5-13: New York Fashion Week
September 9-11: The Mosaic Gala Against Human Slavery, an event focused on preventing human slavery and human trafficking. Learn more at https://www.humanslavery.com/
September 1-8: US open tennis tournament
June 6-8: St. Petersburg international economic forum. Russia
May 14-25: Cannes film festival.
May 23-26: Monaco Grand Prix
March 4-17: Indian Wells tennis tournament. Palm Springs, Ca.
February 24: Academy Awards after-parties. Los Angeles
February 6: Amfar gala New York. Cipriani Wall Street. In conjunction with New York Fashion week.
2018
December 10-17: Mevlana Whirling Dervishes in Konya, Turkey
November 23: Loy Krathong and Yi Peng in Chiang Mai, Thailand
September 22 – October 7: Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany
August 3–27: The Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland
June 24: Inti Raymi in Cuzco, Peru
May 30 – June 3: Distortion in Copenhagen, Denmark
May 27: 2018 Monaco Grand Prix
May 8-19: 2018 Cannes Film Festival
April 27: King’s Day in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
March 3-11: The Lantern Festival in Taiwan
February 9–13: 300th birthday celebrations in New Orleans, US
February 8-16: 2018 New York Fashion Week
January 27 – February 13: Carnevale di Venezia in Venice, Italy
2017
September 28-30: Monaco & France. September 28th, attending HSH Albert II foundation benefit, *Monte-Carlo Gala for the Global Ocean*, on behalf of The Manzanita Foundation
September 25-27: New York.
September 24: Chicago. Presentation of the Templeton prize. Attending on behalf of my foundation, Manzanita.
June 1-3: SPIEF, St. Petersburg, Russia
May 25-28: Monaco Grand Prix, Monaco
May 25: Cannes amFAR Gala, Cannes, France
May 17-18: Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France
April 11: North Pole Expedition
February 20-23: HSBC Conferences, attended Riyadh Saudi Arabia and Dubai, UAE
January 20: Presidential Inauguration, Washington DC