Coronavirus cancellations and delays: Burning Man, Democratic convention

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Here’s how the epidemic affects our lives with postponements, cancellations and closings.

Sport events

• UFC 249 UFC President Dana White said on April 9 that the event, scheduled for April 18, has been cancelled.
• British Open On April 6, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club announced that the 149th British Open Championship will be delayed until 2021.
• Wimbledon On April 1, the 2020 tennis championship was moved to 2021, when it will run from June 28 to July 11.
• Tokyo Olympics On March 24, the International Olympic Committee and the Prime Minister of Japan declared that the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to be postponed. On March 30, the IOC declared that the matches will now take place from July 23 to August 8, 2021, the Paralympic Games taking place from August 24 to September 5, 2021.
• NBA On March 11, NBA has suspended rest of 2019-2020 season after Utah Jazz player Rudy Gobert tested positive for coronavirus.
• Formula One the Australian Grand Prix, the first race in the 2020 Formula 1 season, was canceled after a member of the McLaren team tested positive for the virus. Upcoming races in Bahrain and Vietnam have been postponed.
• English Premier League English football authorities have suspended all matches until at least April 3 after a player and a coach from different teams have tested positive for the virus. On March 17, the governing body of European football UEFA postponed its European championship national tournament next year. This could allow the leagues, including the EPL, to finish their seasons during the summer.
• Major League Soccer the MLS season has been suspended on March 12 as he “continues to assess the impact of COVID-19 with his medical team and public health officials”.
• NCAA Several major NCAA Division I conferences, including the SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, ACC and the American Athletic Conference, said on March 12 that they cancel their respective conference tournaments this week. the March Madness tournament has also been canceled.
• NHL On March 12, National Hockey League Joins Seasonal Sports Organization List.

• MLB Major baseball league spring training matches have been suspendedand fears for health at the start delayed start of 2020 regular baseball season at least two weeks. On March 16, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shared updated recommendations restricting events with more than 50 people for the next eight weeks, the MLB said it would follow these guidelines and further delay the opening of the regular season.
• The Masters Tournament The Augusta National Golf Club postponed the Masters Tournament 2020 March 13, citing “the health and well-being of all those associated with these events and citizens of the community of Augusta”. The club has not given a new date for the tournament.
• Kentucky derby Kentucky Derby Festival postponed all events until April 4, with Kentucky Derby race postponed to September 5.
• Boston Marathon Originally scheduled for April 20, Boston Marathon will now take place on September 14, according to the Boston Athletic Association.
• EA esports The video game publisher EA said it was suspend all live events for its series of competitive games, which includes the Apex Legends Global Series, EA Sports FIFA 20 Global Series, FIFA Online 4 Live Events and Madden NFL 20 Championship Series. The suspension began on March 13 and will continue “until the global coronavirus situation improves”. Online events in which participants and staff are isolated will continue, said EA.
• Indianapolis 500 The event was moved to August 23. Meanwhile, the GMR Grand Prix was postponed to July 4.

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Cultural events and institutions

• Burning man The annual cross-cultural festival will not happen this year in his usual environment, Nevada Black Rock Desert. Instead, it will be an online event, at Virtual Black Rock City 2020.
• Platoon April live classes Platoon said it was stopping production in his studios in New York and London until April 30.
• Blockbusters of movies A number of renowned films have had their release dates postponed, including Black Widow, A Quiet Place 2, Mulan and the next James Bond episode, No Time to Die.
• Coachella the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has been postponed to October.
• Glastonbury The legendary British music festival at Glastonbury, intended this year to present Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney, Kendrick Lamar and Diana Ross, will no longer take place on June 24.
• Met ball On March 16, Vogue editor Anna Wintour said Met this year’s Gala, scheduled for May, have been reported.
• Tony Awards Postponed from June 7 on an undetermined date.
• Peabody Award The ceremony, originally scheduled for June 18, have been reported.
  
• 47th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will not take place in June as planned, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced in a statement on March 19.
• Ultra Music Festival This Miami festival was carried over to next year.

• • Upcoming movies Many movies and TV shows in production have closed, including The Matrix 4 and several from Disney live action movies.
  • WonderCon Anaheim March 12, WonderCon Anaheim, scheduled for April, has been postponed.
  • Cannes The prestigious Cannes Festival, scheduled for May 12, was canned on March 19.
  • Tribeca the Tribeca Film Festival, which was slated to take place in April, was postponed after New York banned events with 500 or more people.
  • SXSW South by Southwest Sprawling Technology and Entertainment Festival, scheduled for March, was one of the first to be canceled.
  • Tallinn Music Week has been rescheduled for August.
  • Broadway Broadway cinemas close March 12.
  • Eurovision song contest The famous flamboyant The Eurovision Song Contest, to be held in the Netherlands in May, has been canceled.
  • EDC and Beyond Wonderland SoCal The dance music festival Beyond Wonderland SoCal, scheduled to take place in March, has been postponed until June. EDC Las Vegas was moved from May to October 2-4.
  • Edinburgh Fsummer The world’s largest arts festival, the Edinburgh Fringe, was canceled on April 1, along with the Edinburgh Art Festival, the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Edinburgh International Festival and the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. It is the first time in more than 70 years that the Scottish capital has not hosted festivals in August.

• Billie eilish As if that weren’t enough for the Bond movie she sang the theme to be delayed, Billie Eilish is reschedule tour dates in North America.
• The rolling stones Mick Jagger and the buddies were supposed to continue their world tour of North America, but the Rolling Stones postponed summer dates from San Diego to Atlanta.
• Madonna shows canceled in France.
• The Foo Fighters have postponed their 25th anniversary tour.
• Avril Lavigne postponed projects for European shows.
• Noose canceled shows in Japan and across Asia.
• My Chemical Romance was forced to withdraw from the long-awaited reunion shows.
• Pearl jam has canceled a North American tour.
• Green day was to shoot in Asia.
• Pixies have shot shows in Australia.
• Bronson Action shot shows.
• Mariah Carey moved a Hawaii concert from March to November.
• Rage against the machine canceled live dates with Run the gems.
• WHO canceled shows in the UK and Ireland.
• Camila Cabello at postponed his romantic tour of the United States and Europe.
• Talk shows A handful of late-night shows, including The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers, went on to virtual interviews, with hosts broadcasting from their homes.
• The encounter the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced on March 12 that it would temporarily close.
• the Washington monument The National Park Service closed the famous the Washington monument.
• White House Easter Egg Roll The First Lady’s office canceled This year’s White House Easter Egg Roll, which was to take place on April 13. “The health and safety of all Americans must be the first priority, especially at this time,” said First Lady Melania Trump. in a report.
• iHeartRadio Music Awards The annual awards ceremony, scheduled to take place on March 29, was postponed on an unspecified date.
• The Jonas Brothers Their April 1 to 18 residence in Las Vegas had been canceled.
• Kelly Clarkson Another disappointment in Vegas: Kelly Clarkson has postponed his residency in Las Vegas April 1 to July.
• Mandy Moore An Instagram post from Mandy Moore revealed postponement of tour dates.
• Alicia Keys The singer tweeted that her Book tour More Myself and new album will be postponed, although the book is still available on March 31.
• Little big town The group’s Nightfall tour shows were postponed see you later this year and early next year.
• Zac Brown Band The musical act canceled their 2020 tour dates.
• Vidcon The annual conference on online video technologies, to be held in Anaheim in June, has been cancelled.
• Academy of Country Music Awards The event was moved from April 5 to September 16.
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony The event, which was scheduled to air on HBO in May, was postponed to the end of this year.
• Lady Gaga The singer went on Twitter to announce that she is postponing the release of his album Chromatica.
• Comicpalooza The Texas Comic and Pop Culture Convention was canceled.
• Garth Brooks Country singer reported performance in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Cincinnati, Ohio, until June.
• BTS The group is reschedule tour dates in North America, after earlier cancels April concert dates in Seoul.
• Harry Styles The singer postponed his next UK and European tour to 2021.
• Governor’s Ball The NYC festival, slated for June, was canceled.
• Download the festival British rock festival will not take place this year.
• QuakeCon the annual congress owned by video game investor ZeniMax Media, scheduled to take place in August, was canceled.
  
• Pokemon World Championships All sanctioned competitive events are suspended, including the North American International Championships June 26-28 and the Pokemon World Championship Finals August 14-16 in London.
• Women Tech World Conference This year’s San Francisco physical event will be replaced by a virtual linking “women, minorities and their allies to technology”. This will take place from June 10 to 12.

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Tech industry events

Several major industry events have been canceled or reorganized due to concerns about the coronavirus. They include:

• • WWDC Apple said on March 13 that its World Developer Conference will be online only this year.
  • Microsoft Build Microsoft announced on March 12 that it was canceling his Build 2020 in person developer event. The Build trade show will be held virtually, officials said, in the same time slot as planned in mid-May. In April, the company said it would external and internal events only digital until July 2021.
  • E3 The biggest gaming event of the year was scheduled to open June 9 in Los Angeles. Some exhibitors, including Microsoft and Ubisoft, will host online events instead.
  • MWC Mobile World Congress, an annual industry gathering scheduled to open on February 24 in Barcelona, ​​was one of the first victims.
  • Detroit Auto Show The directory The North American International Auto Show has been discontinued after the Federal Emergency Management Administration designated its location, the TCF Center, a field hospital for coronaviruses.
  • Facebook F8 Facebook March Marketing Summit and F8 Developer Conference have both been canceled.
  • Google I / O Android fans will miss out Google I / O, the biggest company event of the year, where the tech giant announces new products and initiatives.
  • Geneva Motor Show the Geneva Motor Show, a die the biggest car shows of the year, was affected after the Swiss government banned all events of 1,000 or more people.

• Adobe Summit The directory Adobe Summit in Las Vegas is disabled, although some content will be offered online.
• Nvidia GTC The speech and product announcements for the Nvidia GPU technology conference, which is usually held in San Jose, California, and which attracts approximately 10,000 people, was canceled on March 16. The company announced earlier that it plans to make the event only online. Nvidia said it continue to organize online training sessions from March 25.
• Snap Partner Summit The annual Snap Partner Summit focused on the Snapchat messaging app will be an online only event, with a keynote speech scheduled for April 2.
• GDC The annual game developers conference, originally scheduled for March 16-20 in San Francisco, was postponed to an unspecified date after exhibitors like Amazon, Microsoft, Epic Games, Sony, EA and Facebook gave up.
• Google News Initiative Summit Alphabet Inc. canceled the Google News Initiative Summit scheduled for late April in Sunnyvale, California.
• Google Next Google’s annual cloud conference, which attracted 30,000 participants Last year, was postponed even after being transformed into a digital event only.
• re: MARCH Amazon has canceled the next re: MARS conference in Las Vegas, which is in its second year of AI and robotics. All customers who purchased tickets will receive a full refund of registration fees.
• Dell Technologies World Dell reportedly told participants his 2020 technology conference that he was moved to “a virtual setting” due to coronavirus problems. According to the note, speeches and some sessions will be online. Dell Technologies World was scheduled to take place May 4-7 in Las Vegas. Dell did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
• Photokina 2020 The world’s largest photography conference, scheduled to take place from fall to May 27-30 this year, was canceled by the organizer Koelnmesse March 18. It’s a biennial show, which means we won’t see it again until 2022.
• Bethesda digital showcase Developer Elder Scrolls Chose do not highlight his next games in June.
• Techonomy East The New York conference, scheduled for May 19-20, have been reported. Rather, there will be a free online conference on these days.