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Festivals & Events |
| Canadian
Festivals & Events |
| European
Festivals & Events |
| World
Attractions Info |
| Folk
Festivals in Australia |
| Australian
International Arts Festivals |
| Brunswick
Music Festival, Australia |
| Port
Fairy Folk Festival, Australia |
| Australian
International Arts Festivals |
| The
Apollo Bay Music Festival, Australia |
| The
Croc Festival™, Australia - The Croc Festival™ is an innovative
event that builds partnerships in regional and remote communities by celebrating
youth culture. |
| Carnival
in Brazil - Come to celebrate the World's most famous Carnival
and enjoy the biggest Brazilian party. |
| Carnival
in Rio de Janeiro - Carnival
is Rio's main event. It happens at the peak of summer, when Cariocas are
at their best. Festivities attract thousands of people from all corners
of the world. Carnaval, as spelled in Portuguese, is a 4-day celebration.
It starts on Saturday, and ends on Fat Tuesday (Mardi-Gras). Dates change
every year. It's 40 days before the Lent, a Catholic holiday. |
| Rio
Carnival Costumes |
| Hawai'i
Music Festivals |
| Aloha
Festivals - Aloha Festivals is Hawai'i's premier cultural showcase,
a celebration of Hawai'i's music, dance and history intended to preserve
the unique island traditions. |
| Mexico's
Local Festivals & Fiestas |
| Calendar
of Mexican Food Festivals & Ferias |
| Japan
Atlas Festivals - Japanese people's hearts leap in anticipation
of the festivals that take place each year in towns and villages throughout
the country. At some temples and shrines, festivals go back several hundred
years. They are relaxing occasions that make people feel the weight of
history and give them a sense of the sacred--sensations that are all too
often forgotten in the pace of everyday modern life. |
| The
Japan Times Festivals around Tokyo |
| Holidays
and Festivals in Taiwan |
| Festivals
of India - India is a land of festivals and fairs. Every day of
the year there is a festival celebrated in some part of the country. Some
festivals welcome the seasons of the year, the harvest, the rains, or the
full moon. Others celebrate religious occasions, the birthdays of divine
beings, saints, and gurus (revered teachers), or the advent of the new
year. |
| Pushkar
Camel Fair, India |
| Malaysia's
Festivals |
| Hong
Kong Flower Show |
| International
Buddhist meditation festivals |
| Tibetan
Festivals - In Tibet, the most colorful and electrifying things
are many traditional and exotic festivals which spread throughout the year
with one or two of some kind for each month. |
| Carnival
in Haiti |
| Jamaica
Carnival |
| Barbados
Rally Carnival |
| Curacao
Carnival |
| Carnival
in Aruba |
| CaribbeanChoice
- Carnival Connection |
| Grenada
Carnival -
The Carnival Festival celebrates emancipation and brings artistry, music,
dance and food together in ten days of vibrant festivity. Colourful costumes,
pageants, talent shows are just some of the attractions. |
|
Carnival
in Rio
by
Helmut Teissl
An exhilarating photographic celebration
of Rio's annual Carnival is paired with a CD of the rhythms and sounds
of the festival.
" Carnaval!" It's carnival
time! Each year, usually in February though sometimes early March, Rio
de Janeiro erupts in an ecstatic fiesta of pulsating music, swirling dancers,
and radiant costumes. From all over the world, tens of thousands of people
descend upon Rio for festivities lasting four days and four nights. |
After
the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti by Edwidge Danticat
Twenty years after emigrating to
America, Danticat (Breath, Eyes, Memory) returns to her native Haiti and
the coastal village of Jacmel to take part in her first Carnival. But she's
not without reservations. |
Rituals
of Power & Rebellion: The Carnival Tradition In Trinidad & Tobago
1763 - 1962 by Hollis Chalkdust, Ph.D. Liverpool, Hollis "Chalkdust" Liverpool
It explains the powerful forms
of promotion, advertising, and public relations that are needed to attract
broad attention, motivate people to attend, and achieve the desired goals
of an event. |
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