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Urdaneta City celebrates Dumayo Festival annually March 18 – 31: Basbas ng Pag-iisang Dibdib (free mass wedding), bloodletting activity, tree planting for environment preservation, jobs fair and fun run for a cause. The city celebrates fiesta every month of December. This is in remembrance of the city patron, Our Lady of the Immaculate ...
Burmese traditional festivals are based on the traditional Burmese calendar and dates are largely determined by the moon's phase. [citation needed] Burmese culture is most evident in villages where local festivals are held throughout the year, the most important being the pagoda festival.
Flores de Mayo (Spanish for "flowers of May") is a festival held in the Philippines in the month of May. It is one of the May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary and lasts for the entire month. The Santacruzan (from the Spanish santa cruz, "holy cross") is the ritual pageant held on the last day of the Flores de Mayo.
The festival is recorded on a stone inscription at Sawhlawun Pagoda dating to 1291. [ 4 ] In ancient times, a cannon (သင်္ကြန်အမြောက် ,Thingyan a-hmyauk ) was used as a signal to notify the people that Thagyamin already descended Earth, which means the Thingyan Festival had already started.
The Festival International des Masques et des Arts (International Festival of Masks and the Arts), or FESTIMA, is a cultural festival celebrating traditional African masks held in Dédougou, Burkina Faso. [1]
This festival is celebrated to mark an event that took place in the past. [10] This festival serves as an occasion for the people in the area to unite and renew their commitment to the Islamic religion. It is also claimed the Wa Naa life is prolonged if he is able to jump over a tethered cow successfully.
Kaamulan Festival is an ethnic cultural festival held annually in Malaybalay City, Bukidnon in the Philippines from the second half of February to March 10, the anniversary date of the foundation of Bukidnon as a province in 1917.
The Aoi Matsuri procession, departing in front of Kyoto Imperial Palace's main gate Kenreimon (建礼門) Man carrying a hollyhock float. The Aoi Matsuri (葵祭), or "Hollyhock Festival", (although commonly, but mistakenly identified as "hollyhock", the "aoi" actually belongs to the birthwort family and translates as "wild ginger"—Asarum) is one of the three main annual festivals held in ...