May
Sites
48Hours- New Zealand film making competition. Within a 48 hour period entrants are assigned a genre of film and must write, shoot, edit and add soundtrack to their short film.
- Auckland Writers and Readers Festival
- Chelsea Flower Show
- Annual show held in late May each year.
- Christchurch Stage Challenge & J Rock
- Country Rock Festival
- Bay of Islands.
- Documentary Edge Festival
- Annual international documentary film festival which screens in some New Zealand cities.
- Festival de Cannes
- Prestigious annual international film festival. Official site with festival information, history, details of the most recent recipients of festival awards and an archive of past Cannes.
- Formula 1 Gran Premio de Espana
- Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco
- French Open
- The second Grand Slam of the year, played in late May on a red clay at Roland Garros in Paris - the site provides information, draws and results. From the Federation Française de Tennis
- Glyndebourne
- Opera festival held in Sussex between May and August.
- Hay Festival - Hay-On-Wye
- Long running literary festival in the town of Hay-on-Wye in Wales.
- Human Rights Film Festival
- Annual festival of human rights films.
- Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia
- New Zealand International Comedy Festival
- New Zealand Music Month
- Rally of Argentina
- Rally of Italy (Sardinia)
- Rally of New Zealand
- SBS Christchurch Marathon
- Annual marathon event held in June following the 1974 Commonwealth Games course.
- Sydney Biennale
- Biennale of Sydney. 27 June to 16 September 2012.
- Sydney Writers Festival
- Volvo Round The World Ocean Race
- The 2011-12 Volvo Ocean Race started in Alicante, Spain, in October 2011 and will finish in Galway, Ireland in July 2012. Auckland is a stopover port.
- Wheels Week Ashburton
- Youth Week
- Youth Week is to celebrate youth.
