'Desert Daze' cancels 2024 festival

Desert Daze cancels 2024 festival

We're lost, just admit it, we're lost. - We're not lost. There are other things to do out here.

Turn around. Show cancelled.

(Billboard) Organizers for the California festival Desert Daze have called off this year's event. In an announcement organizers stated:

"It is no longer possible to execute the weekend as planned." The event, which has remained independent since launching in 2012, was unable to move forward with the 2024 edition due to "rising production costs and the current volatile festival market," according to the announcement.

Yeah, I'll walk back. Is it this way?

"Desert Daze is more than a festival or business venture to us," said Desert Daze co-founder Phil Pirrone in a release. "The community that we've cultivated together means so much to us and is the reason we will work to find a way to keep this beautiful thing going for many years to come."

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The 2024 edition of Desert Daze was set to take place Oct. 10-13 in Lake Perris, California. Headliners for this year's event were to include:

• Jack White,
• Cigarettes After Sex,
• Alex G,
• The Mars Volta,
• Thundercat,
• Liz Phair, and
• De La Soul.

Super-ancient Buddhist stupa with parasol top, according to chinesediscoveredamerica.com

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What else is there to do in the desert? UFO hunt?

"With each year, we do our best to serve the Desert Daze community," added Pirrone. "We are always learning and working diligently to improve the experience, and we tried everything to find a way forward this year. While we hit pause for now, we will be working in the background to deliver another special experience for all of us to share in the future. We thank you for your support."

• Homegrown Music Festival 2024 | ciLiving (WCIA Champaign) Illinois (The HomeTown Foundation | Facebook)

We should move out to the California desert.

All pass holders for the 2024 festival will be refunded and will be contacted directly via their point of purchase. While the main event will not take place this year, side shows under the Desert Daze Presents banner will go forward as scheduled.

For additional information, head to the website: desertdaze.org. More from Billboard

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Dalai Lama CANCELS

GSTDL to host the Dalai Lama on May 1, 2011

Update - April 30th, 9:30 pm: His Holiness physician has advised His Holiness to not to travel. He will remain in Tokyo until he feels better. Unfortunately, this means that tomorrow's [May 1, 2011] public talk is CANCELLED.

On Su nday, May 1, from 9:30 to 10:30, Khen Rinpoche, Geshe Jangchup Choeden, the Abbot of Gaden Shartse Monastery will continue his talk on the Three Principle Aspects of the Path.

On Sunday at 2:30 to 4:00 PM, we will present a talk by Thupten Jinpa, His Holiness' translator on Secular Ethics & Meditation and Robert Thurman, Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University.

Other events, including the sponsor lunch, will occur as scheduled, without the presence of His Holiness.

We understand that many of you have spent a lot of time and traveled great distance to participate in these events, and we offer you our most sincere apologies.

Khen Rinpoche, Jangchup Choeden
Geshe Lobsang Tsultrim
The Board of Directors of Gaden Shartse Thubten Dargye Ling
The Event Coodinators

It gives us great joy to announce that Gaden Shartse Thubten Dhargye Ling will be hosting His Holiness the Dalai Lama on May 1, 2011. Although His Holiness will be our guest for only one day, it will be an extraordinary day.

We are honored that His Holiness has decided to confer a Solitary Yamantaka Initiation on the morning of May 1, 2011. In the afternoon His Holiness will be delivering a public talk on ‘Secular Ethics and Meditation.’ These events will take place in the Terrace Theater at the Long Beach Convention Center, and will be available on this site via live stream.

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Secular Ethics & Meditation Live Webcast

We will be streaming His Holiness' talk on Secular Ethics & Meditation on Sunday, May 1st, beginning at 2:30 PM PDT. Please join us here to watch this special event.

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Khen Rinpoche to give Teachings at GSTDL

During the four weekends in May following the Yamantaka initiation, Khen Rinpoche Jangchub Choeden, Abbot of Gaden Shartse Monastery will remain with us at GSTDL to give a commentary on the practice and the retreat.

Exhausted Dalai Lama admitted to hospital

The Dalai Lama seen here at Lerab Ling temple with France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, just before taking ill (Reuters).

THE DALAI LAMA (Reuters, August 29, 2008) -- exiled Tibetan spiritual leader and head of the Tibetan Government in Exile (Dharmsala, India), has been admitted to a hospital in India with "abdominal discomfort."

The Vajrayana Buddhist leader, who canceled two foreign trips after he complained of fatigue, was "cheerful" after reaching the hospital in Mumbai (Bombay, India), a hospital spokesman said.

Doctors said there was no cause for concern. The announcement that he had been admitted to a hospital in Mumbai came a day after the Dalai Lama's office said he was suffering from exhaustion and would travel to the city for a medical check-up.

"There is nothing major to feel concerned about,'' his personal secretary Tenzin Taklha said. "But he has been admitted to the Lilivati Hospital in Mumbai because he was feeling some discomfort in his abdomen.''

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It is expected that if he should die, the Tibetan separatist movement in China would devolve into chaos. It would also lead to some confusion regarding his succession since most Tibetans do not accept that China has abducted the Panchen Lama and nominated its own government-friendly replacement.

Dalai Lama, battling exhaustion, cancels trips

The Dalai Lama (L), France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (C) and Sogyal Rinpoche (R), director of the Buddhist temple Lerab Ling, attend the inauguration of the temple on 8/22/08 (REUTERS/Pascal Guyot/Pool/France).

Ashwini Bhatia (AP, 8/27/08)

DHARMSALA, India -- The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, was suffering from exhaustion and has canceled two planned international trips to undergo medical tests, his office said Wednesday.

The 73-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner had been "experiencing some discomfort in the past couple of days," a statement from his office said, adding that his doctors had diagnosed "exhaustion."

The Dalai Lama just returned from an 11-day visit to France, capping an intense few months since the violent uprising against Chinese rule in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, in March and the subsequent harsh Chinese crackdown.

The Dalai Lama spends several months a year traveling the globe to highlight the struggle of Tibetans for greater freedom from China and to teach Buddhism.

He canceled two upcoming trips to Mexico and the Dominican Republic and would rest over the next three weeks, said Thupten Samphel, the spokesman of the self-declared Tibetan government-in-exile.

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Samphel said the Dalai Lama would travel to Mumbai for medical tests Thursday before returning to recuperate in the north Indian hill town of Dharmsala, where he has had his headquarters since fleeing Tibet in 1959 after an abortive uprising against China.

"He has been going to Mumbai for regular health checkups on advice from his doctors for quite a long time," said Samphel. He said all appointments and visits would be canceled for three weeks.

While the Dalai Lama is generally thought to be in good health, this is not the first time exhaustion has laid him low. In 2006, the globe-trotting Buddhist leader was grounded by his doctors because of exhaustion and canceled all his engagements for a month.

Since the outbreak of violence in Tibet, China has stepped up its campaign to vilify him, blaming him for recent unrest which Beijing says was part of a campaign to split the Himalayan region from the rest of China.

He has denied the allegations and says he only wants greater autonomy for the Himalayan region to protect its Buddhist culture.

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Dalai Lama during consecration ceremony of Lerab Ling Temple, Roqueredonde, southern France, 8/22/08 (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, Pool)