# Festival

Festival

form of event| Subclass of | recurring event, public event  |
| Get characteristic | recurring entity  |
| Model item | Prismatic Arts Festival  |
| Has list | list of festivals  |
| Category for eponymous categories | Category:Wikipedia categories named after festivals  |

Musikfest, be one eleven-day outdoor music festival wey dem dey hold every August for Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. E be de biggest free music festival for de United States, wey dey pull over 1.3 million people.
De Hindu festival Holi wey dem dey celebrate for Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple insyd Utah, U.S.
Sinulog Festival Na de one wey dem dey call “Grandest Festival of de Philippines”, den e get like over 4 million people wey attend am.
A **festival** be one event wey community dey celebrate, wey dey focus for special parts of community like demma religion anaa cultures. E sometimes dey mark local anaa national holiday, mela, anaa eid. Festival dey show example for how tins dey relate for local den global (we dey call am glocalization), plus how big culture den street culture dey connect. After religion den folklore, one big reason why people dey do festival be because of farming. Food be serious resource, so plenty festivals dey happen during harvest time. People dey join religious remembrance den thanksgiving for better harvest insyd events wey dey happen for autumn, like Halloween for northern hemisphere den Easter for southern hemisphere.

Festivals often dey serve make e fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration anaa thanking to de gods, goddesses anaa saints: dem be called patronal festivals. Dem sanso fi provide entertainment, wich na be particularly important to local communities before de advent of mass-produced entertainment. Festivals wey dey focus on cultural anaa ethnic topics sanso dey seek to inform community members of dema traditions; de involvement of elders wey dey share stories den experience dey provide a means for unity among families. Attendants of festivals be often motivated by a desire for escapism, socialization den camaraderie; na dem dey see de practice as a means of creating geographical connection, belonging den adaptability.

## Types of festivals

### Religious festivals

* Dem dey clean in preparation for Passover (c. 1320)
* Radha dey celebrate Holi, Kangra, India (c1788)
* A Christmas mass at de Church of the Nativity, insyd Bethlehem, Palestine (1979)
* Moors den Christian festival insyd Villena, Spain
* Decoration of god Krishna on Krishnastami insyd India.

### Arts festivals

* Pushkin Poetry Festival, Russia
* Television studio at de Hôtel Martinez during de Cannes Film Festival, France (2006)
* De opening ceremony at de Woodstock rock festival, United States (1969)

### Food den drink festivals

* Soweto Wine Festival, South Africa (2009)

### Seasonal den harvest festivals

* Temple Festival insyd India
* Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art Sky lantern Festival, insyd Loire Valley
* Midsummer dance by Anders Zorn, Sweden (1897)
* Tanabata summer festival insyd Sendai, Japan
* Grand Parade at de Sydney Royal Easter Show, Australia (2009)
* Halloween pumpkins show de close relationship between a harvest den religious festivals

## Read further

* Ian Yeoman, ed. (2004). *Festival and events management: an international arts and culture perspective* (1st ed., repr. ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-7506-5872-0.