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NEWS IN BRIEF: Heavenly Planet.

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Former Womad artistic director Thomas Boorman has formed a partnership with Festival Republic and Reading Borough Council to launch the Heavenly Planet festival. The event, which twins Reading with a second festival site in Palermo, Sicily, claims to be the UK's first all- weather festival, with organisers promising three fully-covered arenas for the 10,000-capacity audience to follow the ...

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