Classic BRIT Awards ESPY Awards
DATE Mid June 2019
LOCATION London
WEBSITE classicbrits.co.uk DATE Mid July 2019
LOCATION Los Angeles
WEBSITE espn.com/espys
The Classic BRIT Awards are an annual
awards ceremony held in the United King-
dom covering aspects of classical and cross-
over music, and are the equivalent of pop
music’s Brit Awards. The awards are orga-
nized by the British Phonographic Industry
(BPI) and were inaugurated in 2000 “in
recognition of the achievements of classical
musicians and the growth of classical music
sales in the UK.”
ESPY Awards (short for Excellence in
Sports Performance Yearly Award) are
considered the equivalent of Academy
Awards for sports and are an accolade ,
to recognize individual and team athlet-
ic achievement and other sports-related
performance during the calendar year
preceding a given annual ceremony.
The Karlovy Vary International
Film Festival
DATE Late June 2019
LOCATION Karlovy Vary
WEBSITE kviff.com
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is
a film festival held annually in July in Karlovy
Vary (Carlsbad), Czech Republic. The Karlovy
Vary Festival is one of the oldest in the world
and has become Central and Eastern Europe’s
leading film event. The extensive informative
pwrogram features both distribution pre-pre-
miers and films awarded at other festivals. But
it also includes discoveries of artistic creations
by independent directors, productions coming
out of little known film industries, retrospec-
tives, and an overview of Czech film output
during the past year.