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YALLFest is a public two-day annual young adult book festival in Charleston, South Carolina that is the largest of its kind in the South.The festival was founded in 2011 by Jonathan Sanchez of the Charleston bookstore Blue Bicycle Books along with authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.
October 31, 2024 at 1:55 AM. Diwali, the festival of lights, is a religious observance commemorated by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and some Buddhists around the world.
Festival of Lights (Hawaii), an annual Christmas celebration in Hawaii; Holiday Trail of Lights, a multi-city event celebrated in Louisiana and Texas in the United States; Magnificent Mile Lights Festival, an annual festival on North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois; Nights of Lights, an annual holiday light festival in St. Augustine, Florida
Rhoda Birley founded the Charleston Manor Festival [5] and it was first called the Sussex Festival. [10] The festival emerged from poetry recitals, readings and talks that she organised at their home over four or five weekends starting in about 1935. Her husband died at their home in London in 1952, but this did not stop the festival. [10]
Mela Chiraghan or Mela Shalimar (Punjabi: میلہ چراغاں; "Festival of Lights") is a three-day annual festival to mark the urs (death anniversary) of the Punjabi poet and Sufi saint Shah Hussain (1538 – 1599) who lived in Lahore in the 16th century.
The event boasts more than 675,000 lights along a three-mile drive. [37] [38] As of 2019, the event had 420 display pieces. [4] The entrance to the event features poinsettia lights, and displays depicting an American flag (which has been sponsored by Big Y since 2001), [4] a Nativity scene, a kinara, and a channukiah. [39]
In 1988, it was renamed the Charleston Conference. [2] The conference was attended by 1,600 people in 2012 [3] and nearly 3,000 in 2021. [4] The first Charleston Conference was held in collaboration with the College of Charleston’s Antiquarian Book Fair in a classroom at the college. As the conference grew, it moved to the college's Lightsey ...
The festival will award more than $60,000 in cash prizes at an Oct. 19 celebration at The Jazz Kitchen. Here are highlights, where to see the films and how to buy tickets. Big titles to watch for