Festival

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

File:Golden Haggadah cleaning.jpg|Dem dey clean in preparation for Passover ()
File:Radha celebrating Holi, c1788.jpg|Radha dey celebrate Holi, Kangra, India (c1788)
File:Flickr - Government Press Office (GPO) - A Christmas mass at the church of the holy Sepulchre, in Bethlehem (1).jpg|A Christmas mass at de Church of the Nativity, insyd Bethlehem, Palestine (1979)
File:Mahoma en el castillo de Villena.JPG|Moors den Christian festival insyd Villena, Spain
File:Decoration_of_a_God_Krishna_in_India.jpg|Decoration of god Krishna on Krishnastami insyd India.


### Arts festivals

File:RIAN archive 100588 All-Union Pushkin Poetry Festival.jpg|Pushkin Poetry Festival, Russia
File:Plage du Martinez.jpg|Television studio at de Hôtel Martinez during de Cannes Film Festival, France (2006)
File:Swami opening.jpg|De opening ceremony at de Woodstock rock festival, United States (1969)


### Food den drink festivals

File:SowetoWineFestival.JPG|Soweto Wine Festival, South Africa (2009)
|File:Holi festival celebration in Kapilvastu.jpg|Holi India (2011)
|File:La Tomatina (25.08.2010) - Spain, Buñol 30.jpg|La Tomatina, Spain (2010)
|File:031 Trachtenumzug Bierwagen Hofbraeu.JPG|Beer horse cart from de Hofbräuhaus brewery at Oktoberfest Germany (2013)


### Seasonal den harvest festivals

File:Nileshwar 22.jpg|Temple Festival insyd India
File:Chateau de Montsoreau Museum of contemporary art sky lantern.jpg|Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art Sky lantern Festival, insyd Loire Valley
File:Midsommardans av Anders Zorn 1897.jpg|Midsummer dance by Anders Zorn, Sweden (1897)
File:Sendai-tanabata-aug2008.jpg|Tanabata summer festival insyd Sendai, Japan
File:Grand Parade 3.jpg|Grand Parade at de Sydney Royal Easter Show, Australia (2009)
File:Calabaza de Halloween.jpg|Halloween pumpkins show de close relationship between a harvest den religious festivals

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