A calendar of festivals

DATE FESTIVAL ACTIVITY FOOD INERESTING FACTS

January 21 - February 20 Chinese New Year Chinese New Year is a time for families to be together. Fish Y, Chinese dumplings, Spring Every street, building, and house is
Wherever they are, people come home to celebrate the Rolls, Longevity Noodles, Good decorated with red. Red is the main
festival with their families. Fortune Fruit (tangerines, oranges). color for the festival, as it is believed
to be an auspicious color.
February The Carnival of Rio de People come out on to the streets and dance and sing, The carnival resembles parties with The Rio de Janeiro carnival marks
Janeiro and all this finally concludes in the Samba Parade. drinks, food (morsels of barbequed the beginning of Lent, the forty-day
meat on a stick, sausage, chicken) sacrifice period before Easter.
March 17 Saint Patricks Day Thousands of wildly dressed and colorful performers Corned beef and cabbage and soda It was originally a celebration of the
Festival; Ireland entertain crowds of natives and tourists with music, bread. Now days all food is colored in beginning of Christianity in Ireland
street theatre, carnivals, and parades. green. but has expanded into a world-wide
celebration of Irish culture.
April 27 Kings day; This is a national holiday and a free market day, so Carrot and pineapple salad, bowls of The date marks the birth of King
Netherlands everyone sells everything on the streets. There are also garish orange colored cheese chips Willem-Alexander.
games, concerts, performances, and parties on boats in and crisps, orange and fennel Salad.
the canals.
May 13 - 24 Festival de Cannes; It is an annual the international film festival, which - 200,000 is the total number of actors,
France previews new films of all genres, including directors, producers, agents and fans
documentaries, from around the world. who come to France for the festival.
End of June White Nights Scarlet Sails is just one part of the White Nights Because of hot weather it is popular to Entertainment also includes
Festival/Scarlet Sails; festival, including spectacular fireworks, concerts, and eat salad, ice-creams, drink cold appearances by popular rock stars, as
St. Petersburg a mock battle among pirates in boats on the Neva River drinks. well as St. Petersburg Symphony
Orchestra, ballet, and other classical
acts.
July 23-25 Pflasterspektakel; An annual street art festival includes musical acts, Different snacks such as cotton candy, Artists are performing at around forty
Austria juggling, acrobatics, pantomime, improvisational lemonade. locations throughout the city of Linz,
theatre, clownery, fire dancing, painting, samba in and around the main square and
parades. the Landstrabe.
Last Wednesday in La Tomatina, Buol; In the food fight festival participants throw tomatoes Tomatoes. The tomatoes have to be squashed
August Spain and get involved in this tomato fight purely for fun before throwing to avoid injuries.
September 10-13 Bestival; England A 3-day boutique music festival and party set at Robin Burgers, hot dogs, Chinese food, Every year there are different themes
Hill Country Park, known for its annual fancy dress vegetarian food. of festival, in 2013 the theme was
competition. Disco. And the ticket costs 170 for
this festival.
October Diwali Festival of It is an ancient Hindu festival. A family-oriented Puffed Pastry, Asian sweets, Indian On Diwali night, people dress up in
Lights; Asian countries festival with firecrackers, sweets, and the lighting of dessert which is served as flakes, and new clothes or their best outfit, light
small clay lamps and candles. has a crisp and flaky texture. up lamps and candles inside and
outside their home.
October 30- November 2 Pushkar Camel An enormous camel fair with music, events, exhibitions, Vegetarian food , banana chips; a A ritual involves piercing the camel's
Festival; India and cultural market stalls. crispy, flat bread made of rice batter). nose. There are 25,000 camels
exchanged.
December 25-26 Christmas; all Christian It is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Fish, salads, pap, pie, turkey, pudding, The British wear paper crowns while
countries Jesus Christ. It is a family festival which includes gift roast potatoes. they eat Christmas dinner. The
giving, Christmas music and caroling. crowns are stored in a tube.