Religious festivals

New Orleans, Voodoo Festival is here and the locals are dressed to impress in the most bizarre costumes and makeup for the fun of the greatest weekend of their lives. Tourist along with new comers take selfies with groups of friends around the large white “Voodoo” lettering past the front entrance that has a line wrapped around City Park. Past the shopping stands and mini bars on the way to the stage there are more sculptures from local artist leading the passageway for festival goers. Thousands of

Go with the flow I have been to multiple concerts before but nothing compares to the Resonance Music and Arts Festival, a weekend long camp out of like-minded, motived, music loving individuals. In simpler terms, modern day hippies. These hippies focus more on medication, dancing, and yoga as a way to reach the ultimate state of joy. The people around me, the clothing they wore, the smell of weed that filled the air, and the music that blared through the speakers were all things I will never forget

When traveling East down State street, you will come across Bristol’s famous sign, “BRISTOL; A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE” with bright lights and arrows to point you to Tennessee and Virginia. The sign happens to sit right on the state line dividing Bristol, VA and Bristol, TN. Little do people living outside of Bristol know, is that this great city has a vast history of business, music, art, racing, and food, of course. What most people come here for is for the extremely popular Bristol Motor Speedway

In “The Sun Also Rises”, there is a festival called San Fermin. The festival of San Fermin is a week-long historically rooted celebration. The celebration starts at noon on the 6th of July, and continues until July 14th at midnight. This festival is locally known as Sanfermines and is held in honor of Saint Fermin, the co-patron of Navarre. There are many things that happen during San Fermin from singing and dancing to running with the bull and bull fights. San Fermin has become the most internationally

Hey everyone, I hope everyone is adjusting to the crazy weather lately. A lot of impressive events are going on at Oakton this week. VIVA! Latino/Hispanic Festival is happening tomorrow at 6pm at the Skokie Campus, there will be dancing, music and food with a small three dollar entrance fee. At the Des Plaines Campus tomorrow Black Lives Matter will be interactive panel discussion talking about the history of the Black Lives Matter movement. Admission to this event is free and refreshments will

Australia’s most amazing parks. When visiting Scenic World, you can enjoy the wildlife, phenomenal waterfalls, and beautiful valleys. In October, you will be invited for an exploration in “the Lithgow and Oberon regions”. Every year, there is a music festival which is held in middle of March. People in Lithgow celebrates Yulefest from June 1st to August 31st. Blue Mountain attracts tourists to the mountains by its magnificent cliffs, gorges and mysterious dark sandstone valley a cool green forests of

the Latino Film Festival and their music festival. They have a demographic of 20 Latin American nations such as colombia , paraguay, Chile, venezuela and many more. Simply with The record of last years film festival of 70,000 attendees, with every new year the numbers increasing demonstrating the importance to showcase latino work to the public. From those attendees 4,000 of those are part of the the outreach program. This outreach program is a small 16 year program of the festival for students of

The festival shown in the documentary is called The Feast of St. Paulinus, or better known as the The Giglio Festival. The festival usually held in Brooklyn, New York and takes place on every July, on the day known as the ‘Giglio Sunday’. On Giglio Sunday, there are lots of people in the streets and it is believed that the festival was attended by at least ten thousand people. All of the people that attend the festival consist from people with all ages, from very young to old people that known to

and festivals have either used alcohol as a sponsor or ancillary revenue. Alcohol and other types of concessions sold at festivals are considered ancillary revenue because it is derived from goods or services other than the primary service or good being offered (What is ancillary revenue, 2015, para.1). Therefore, serving alcohol at festivals is another way for the promotors, event managers, and the venue to obtain additional source of revenue. As the event manager for the Freedom festival, a rock

masquerades. This festival has a very special clothes, and calendar time. The Masquerades festival happens every year and it is usually every November. In their anniversary, they have social gathering and burial rites. During this festival are geared in colorful robes and different styles of masks that made either with wood or with fabric. Masquerades are very connected with spiritual elements that relate it to Igbo belief or dead relatives, which show the uniqueness of masquerade festival as one of the