Giglio Festival: Documentary Analysis

The Madonna of 115th Street is an amazing example of hospitality throughout history. The excerpt details the days and nights of the Festa. On July 16th, the great bell in the campanile of the church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel announces that the festa had begun. This fetsa unites several Italian communities from those in Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and California. Preparation for this festival can take weeks at a time, houses are cleaned from head to toe in anticipation of housing relatives visiting from other states. For the next few weeks the community gathers together in the streets and celebrates greatly from sunrise to sunset. Music, dancing, fires, festivals, everything is prominent in the streets as the Italian community seeks to express itself. The festa is a time to come together and create a sense of community. Religious foundations, sharing of food, parades, all of this signifies what it is to be a part of the Festa. Hospitality is creating a warm and welcome environment to those around you. Everything about the Festa signifies these qualities.

It is Saturday, November 14, 2015 at Mesa, Arizona. A large crowd occupies large spaces all over downtown attending different stages of the first Mesa Musical Festival. Facing the Automotive Callahan Stage at Il Vinaio Restaurant, and only moments after a Rock 'n Roll band finish its performance, the place begins to fill with a public made up of many familiar faces. Voices in Spanish are confused with the English. Suddenly, some musicians begin to take the stage. Six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen people in total with a lot of musical instruments: keyboards, drums, congas, trumpet, bass, guitars, maracas, cuatro. The music starts, and immediately the public begin jumping, singing,

The parade consists of locals dressed as French and Mexican soldiers, and they reenact the war. That is only one of the sacred traditions that go along with this fascinating

One of their main customs, Judea, is a culturally rich event. Judea is a timeless event, it was founded by Hermigildo Bustos, a Mexican artist. Bustos contributed to the event by forging masks, which this town is prominent for. These masks play a large part in the Judea and they reinforce the idea of the custom. Judea is a weeklong reenactment of the crucifixion of Jesus as well as the hanging of Judas. This reenactment utilizes the whole town as a set; it is live theatre event filled with well-orchestrated music, unique foods and lots of tourists.

This paper is about Mardi Gras, A festival or Carnival celebrated once a year. In this paper I will discuss how Mardi Gras originated, when it is celebrated, how it is celebrated, and what does it mean to all the different cultures. Mardi Gras, in the French speaking parts of the world and in some US southern states is the last day of carnival festivities preceding Lent, the time of penitence observed by Christians in preparation for Easter. Mardi Gras ("Fat Tuesday") is a French term for Shrove Tuesday, the day before the start of Lent. Before Lent festivities reach the climax on a day in February or March, depending on what date Easter is.(Americana pg. 308)

The festival shown in the documentary is one of the Italian-American traditions called The Feast of St. Paulinus, or known as the Giglio Festival. The festival usually held in Brooklyn, New York and takes place on every July for a few days. During the festival, there will be lots of people in the streets and it is believed that the festival is attended by at least ten thousand people. Most of the people that attend the festival consist of people from the very young to the very old that known to have Italian heritage that emigrated from any towns near Nola (a town in southern Italy). The festival has been taking place for over hundred years that serves a purpose to commemorate an Italian history.

Central Idea: Festival culture has transformed into a global phenomenon that began in the 50s-60s.

Orsi argues that, for the Italian Americans, the annual festa is a set of ritual expressions of the suffering found in daily life where the suffering of prominent church characters that carried high relation value, such as the Madonna and Jesus Christ, are brought into the view of the everyday streets of Harlem as a sign of a shared suffering and destiny to inspire hope and social reform. Orsi pulled from primary sources such as letters and transcripts from the 1920’s and 30’s in addition to eighty interviews he personally conducted. Although these more ecstatic forms of ritual do not sit well with my worship tastes, I do admire the symbolism of bringing the suffering Holy figures out with the people as a way of visually stimulating their relationship

A cultural event that I have attended in the past that has had a memorable affect on my life was a Native American Powwow. This event takes place every year, Thanksgiving weekend in Tucson, AZ. I arrived in the late afternoon, as the sun was going down. I remember seeing many different types of people, from tourists to the different Native American performers. The physical setting of this particular celebration was outside, and based around, one main circle. Drums were beating so loud, you could feel the pound inside your chest. Different activities were going on all around, such as dancers, vendors, and a huge variety of foods to choose from. The circular dancing arena is known as the arbor, this area is blessed before any of the events

A performative role is that which emphasizes a hidden aspect of performance in a film either as a subject or the filmmaker. According to Bruzzi (2000), “performative documentary is a speech act; it both describes and performs an action. A documentary only comes into being as it is performed, and only becomes meaningful as a negotiation between performance and reality. Their role is to make the audience feel a better sense of reality in the film and how it is being dramatized. The more a documentary draws attention to its self, the further it gets from what it represents (Nichols, 1994: 97).

CINCINNATI- On June 4, at 7 p.m. in the Greater Columbus Convention Center, Tatiana Berman will accept an award from the Ohio Conference for Classical Music for “Most Innovative Artistic Director.” Tatiana Berman is a well-known violinist and the artistic director for Constella Music Festival in Cincinnati. The Constella Music Festival works to defy stereotypes about classical music.

As cultural identity being questioned in global screen due to the influences of transnational cinema and Diasporas in different places, this clip question further the possibilities in future transnational cinema. Through the emergence of cinema styles, all films are to be considered transnational. This essay will argue that transnational cinema could be emerging to a new level in the film industry. The clip provided with the essay explores the potential of transnational films with the context of films studied included in this subject.

The Glastonbury Scrapbook is about the publication, includes, archive pictures, and the story about the event itself from 1970 to the present day, consist of 132 pages, dimension 240x171mm. And the price for the scrapbook is £10, and £7.5 of the scrapbook sales will be donate to the Oxfam’s Haiti project.

The public place, in which I chose to observe fashion, was a community fall festival. This festival occurs once a year and brings people from several communities. I arrived at the festival in early afternoon, around 12:30 pm. The festival was just starting to get crowded. At this time there were mostly families with children present. I observed numerous families with babies in strollers. There were at least twenty “vendor” booths

A marvelous idea began to take shape in the early 1980’s in Baie-Saint-Paul, a charming village nestled on the north shore of the St-Lawrence River, east of Quebec City. Les Échassiers de Baie-Saint-Paul (‘The Stiltwalkers of Baie-Saint-Paul’), a theatre troupe founded by Gilles Ste-Croix, walked on stilts, juggled, danced, breathed fire and played