Yuletide Festival

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The Yuletide festival project or Buy Nothing Yuletide is a grass roots initiative taking place in 2007 directed at curbing both counter-cultural apathy and wasteful traditions that accompany the winter holidays. Rather than making a singular gesture against holiday consumerism in the manner of Buy Nothing Day or attempting to secure a religious foundation as in Buy nothing Christmas this festival acts as an experiment to seek out or test the possibility of a sustainable, green, non commercial winter holiday tradition that is cross culturally inclusive. 
Yuletide, The Twelve Days of Yule: A non-commercial or "freegan" Winter festival of traditions celebrating old, new, disorder and harmony that acts as a challenge to those who choose to participate. Generally the festival can span between Dec 20th and January 1st, approximately from the longest night to New Year's Day, which is about 12 nights, bridging the solar and Gregorian new year. There is a potential timetable composed of a fusion of historical world traditions, but there are no rules. It is up to each community to decide the best way to celebrate each day.
==2007-2008 Festival==
 	(Dawn to Dusk) 	(Sunset) 	(Dusk to Dawn)
Thursday 20th	Deck the Halls 	Eid Feast 	1. Yuletide Eve
Friday 21st	1. Dong Zhi 	Goru Feast 	Yule mass (A lantern Meetup mass)
Saturday 22nd	2. Public City Event 	Food not Bombs Dinner 	3. Community Event
Sunday 23rd	3. Humanlight or Family Event	Festivus Dinner 	4. Feats of Strength
Monday 24th	4. Lenaia 	Chrismukkah Eid Feast 	5. Weihnachten
Tuesday 25th	5. Christmas 	Boars Head feast, Kwanzaa begins	6. Caroling
Wednesday26th	6. Wren day 	Kwanzaa dinner 	7. Junkanew
Thursday 27th	7. Clone day 	Kwanzaa dinner 	8. SL4 party
Friday 28th	8. Día de Inocentadas 	Kwanzaa dinner 	9. Mummers mass
Saturday 29th	9. Public City Event 	FNB, Kwanzaa dinner 	10. Community Event
Sunday 30th	10. Freedom day 	Kwanzaa dinner 	11. DADA night
Monday 31th	11. Day of reflection 	Kwanzaa dinner 	First footing)
Tuesday 1st	12. New Years Day 	Hoppin John Dinner 	Mothers' Night
=== Related topics ===
*Buy Nothing Day
*Buy nothing Christmas
==== Reference ====
*Chicago Yuletide Collaboration Page
*For the Love of Winter, Twelve days of Yule The skeleton News. Issue 14, Chicago 2007.
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