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Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts '09

A unique feast of music set on a huge site offering a grand scale of entertainment unlike any other festival in the world. For five days the Pilton farm plays host to a tented city in Somerset. As well as music from nearly every genre imagi [...]

Posted On : Jun, 25 2009 | Comments : 0

Caracteristics of the festival

The famous Sinulog festival in Cebu City is held every year on the third Sunday of January. The festival is characterized by a very long parade with many groups of persons dressed in colourful costumes, finding their way through the s [...]

Posted On : Jun, 24 2009 | Comments : 0

Singapore Food Festival 2009 highlights Straits-Chinese cuis...

The 16th outing of Singapore's famous food festival will run only nine days this year--instead of the normal three or four weeks. What's the reason? Swine flu epidemic? Global recession? I can't say I've done meticulous investigati [...]

Posted On : Jun, 23 2009 | Comments : 0

KITE FESTIVAL 2009

The Kite Festival, first held in 1981, was included in the "Top 50 Ontario Festivals" list for four years in a row. The program has been renamed as the "Top 100 Ontario Festivals" and the Thunder Bay Kite Festiva [...]

Posted On : Jun, 22 2009 | Comments : 0

Zhangjiajie Colorful festivals

Zhangjiajie International Forest Conservation Festival.The International Forest Conservation Festival is held in Zhangjiajie every year centering on the theme of “the earth calls for green and human being long for forest”, usual [...]

Posted On : Jun, 19 2009 | Comments : 0

33rd Chiang Mai Flower Festival, February 2009

If someone asks me about winter in Chiang Mai, one of the very first things that flash up on my mind is the vividly-colored scene of the Chiang Mai Flower Festival – the time when all the roads surrounding the old city’s moat ar [...]

Posted On : Jun, 18 2009 | Comments : 0

Hard-up governments take the fund out of festivals

The leaders of the "Sunday Out" festival watched thousands brighten a gray day in early May by celebrating in the wet Philadelphia streets with multicolored umbrellas, rainbow-hued hats and colorful necklaces in the name of gay pr [...]

Posted On : Jun, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

Festivals and Cultural Debate in Caracas

Culture as a transforming essence of the peoples and a key player in the battle of ideas to build a new world was the main topic of a great festival held in Caracas this week. Since Wednesday, all Bolivar squares in the country hosted a tr [...]

Posted On : Jun, 01 2009 | Comments : 0

Squabbles over the Dragon Boat Festival

China celebrates the Dragon Boat Festival on Thursday, with rowing teams around the country participating in dragon boat races enlivened with beating drums, while everyone eats sticky rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves, known as &ldquo [...]

Posted On : May, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Maharashtrian Art festival at Su:riti, 23 May to 31 May

Su:riti – the Culture Shop, part of the Hiranandani Group proudly presents ‘Maha Utsav – A Maharashtrian Art Festival’ (23rd May – 31st May, 2009) at Haiko Mall, Powai. Maharashtra is a huge storehouse of time [...]

Posted On : May, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

Merrie Monarch Hula Festival

Hula was born on Hawaii and the biggest festival takes place each spring on the Big Island. This colourful festival takes place in April 2009 in Hilo. More than just a dance event, hula encompasses historic stories, lanuguage and . Th [...]

Posted On : May, 20 2009 | Comments : 0

Cultural festival celebrates Asia

The Explorasia festival on Friday featured culture, music and style from all over continental Asia and the Pacific Islands, all housed at the Recreation and Physical Activity Center.OSU's Multicultural Center collaborated with Asian organiz [...]

Posted On : May, 11 2009 | Comments : 0

A colourful festival of culture and tradition

It was widely advertised as going to be an Eyo festival with a difference. And for once, government came out fully to identify with it and to make it the best organised in recent times. Government’s interest, according to state govern [...]

Posted On : Apr, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Festival of colors celebrated in Ramboor Kalash

Chitral vally Pakistan frstival of colors was celebrated in Ramboor and Briri villages of the North western Pakistan. Every year several religious and cultural festivals are celebrated by the local population in these vallys. Little girl [...]