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Festival cards are a great way of expressing your emotions and feelings associated with certain festivals to family and friends. Saying it with a card makes it all the memorable and precious to the person who receives this. Each festival has its own special festival cards and this can be easily obtained too. Have you [...]

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One of the important festivals of the ‘Apatani’ tribe of Arunachal Pradesh is the ‘Dree’ and this festival is connected with the cultivation of rice, which is the back-bone of their ceremony. The ‘Dree’ festival is celebrated in the month of June-July. The Apatanis residing in the beautiful mountain valleys of Subansiri district [...]

For many people in the UK, summer means one thing above all else - festivals! And with a variety of music, dance and performance art festivals taking place throughout Britain from June to September, people with an interest in a variety of pursuits will always find a festival that suits them. However, if it’s your [...]

The Nongkrem Dance is the most important festival of the Khyrim state and is associated with goat sacrifice It is held at Smit, which is 15 kilometres (9 miles), southwest of Shillong. The words Ka Pomblang Nongkrem literally means ‘Goat- Killing Ceremony of Nongkrem’.
The word nongkrem is used because the festival was held [...]

Think of Brazilian festivals and the images that spring to mind are of fantastic street parades featuring dancers in fantastic costumes gyrating to samba rhythms. This is of course the annual Carnival. Carnival starts on a Saturday and officially runs for four days, ending on Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras). The actual date depends on Easter [...]

Like “Ali-Ai-Ligang” festival, “Porag” is also an important spring time festival of the Miris or the Mishings. Generally the youths of the Miris observe this festival in co-operation with the public after harvesting the crops from the field in order to appease the Almighty, mother earth and their fore fathers and thereby wish blessing from [...]

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The Sundance Film Festival, though firmly in its mid-twenties and suffering all the expected crises, is one of the world’s most important cinema venues. It’s been said that what plays well up in the mountains of Park City this year will be trickling into the Hollywood mainstream by the summer after [...]

Every August, Edinburgh turns into festival city, and one of the most popular festive celebrations is the Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Annually, over 200, 000 people visit the Tattoo, set on the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle, to show their support for one of the most well-known and historic of Edinburgh’s Festivals.
The Edinburgh Tattoo officially began in [...]

Traditional Chinese festivals range from the quiet and dignified to colourful free-for-alls with booming gongs and cymbals and frantic dancers in dragon and lion costumes. Most are based on the Chinese lunar calendar and so the actual date differs from year to year.
Confucius’s birthday
First we’ll look at the birthday of Confucius in September. [...]

By now you should probably be aware of the 2008 Summer Olympics to be held in Beijing, China, this coming August. However, there is at least another event going on in (and beneath) China during August. 
 
Every year, during the seventh month of the Chinese Calendar, it is believed that the Gates of Hell will be [...]