It is the oldest continually operated experimental film festival in North America and has become one of the premiere film festivals for independent and, primarily, experimental filmmakers to showcase their work.

At the state-sponsored facility, which was named Jamestown Festival Park, later renamed Jamestown Settlement, full-sized replicas of the three ships that brought the colonists, the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and the Discovery were constructed at a shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, and docked at Jamestown, where became a permanent attraction to be both toured, and seen by water from the nearby Jamestown Ferry system operated by VDOT, and relocated for the festival to nearby Glass House Point.

The festival operated the last full week of the month.

) The festival stage has resided at the Disneyland theme park in California since 1985 and has operated under various names and functions as the Videopolis dance club, the Videopolis Theatre, and the Fantasyland Theatre.

The label also organizes The Fest, an independently operated annual festival known for featuring over 250 punk, pop punk, country, metal, indie rock, avant-garde and similar musical acts across many venues for 3 days in Gainesville, Florida each fall.

The official companion festival to Spoleto Festival USA, is operated by the City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs.

For two years, in 2003 and 2004, he was given control of Detroit's popular annual electronic music festival, originally conceived by Carl Craig and Derrick May, now operated by Paxahau.

On July 4, 1976, following the rendezvous of Tall Ships in New York for the U. S. Bicentennial, eight ships from other nations visited Baltimore, where they attracted a huge outpouring of tourists and launched the creation of many tourist attractions – including the National Aquarium, Maryland Science Center, Baltimore Convention Center, Hyatt Regency Baltimore Hotel and the Harborplace festival marketplace ( operated by The Rouse Company ), which opened on the Fourth of July, 1980.

Passenger shuttle services and excursions operated daily throughout the week of this festival, which was attended by locomotives, rolling stock and railfans from all around the country.

The festival began in 1982 and is operated by the Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society, a provincially registered non-profit and federally registered charitable organization.

Several special trains operated to Mystic during the 2000 OpSail festival, the only such service to date.

The festival caters for more than 10, 000 people and is professionally operated by a team of dedicated volunteers that reside in Yarraville.

Since 2010, Vodafone UK have operated a ' VIP ' reward scheme as part of a partnership with Live Nation, in which customers can access tickets 48 hours before release for major UK events including T in the Park, Isle of Wight Festival, Reading & Leeds festival, London Fashion Week and the British Grand Prix.

The festival is organized and operated entirely by volunteers, which once included author Pierre Berton, a famous resident of the village.

Programmed and operated by Subway Cinema, the festival generally features contemporary premieres and classic titles from Eastern Asia and Southeast Asia ( particularly Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, China, and Thailand ), though South Asian cinema has also been represented via films from India and Pakistan.

The festival offers food, art, and entertainment throughout the day while celebrating Auburn Avenue ’ s past and growth, and is operated by the Sweet Auburn Committee.

Although less as a " collective " after 1990, DIVA TV continued documenting ( over 700 camera hours ) the direct actions of ACT UP, activists, and the community responses to HIV / AIDS, producing over 160 video programs for public access television channels ( as the weekly series " AIDS Community Television " from 1991 – 1996 http :// www. actupny. org / divatv ; and from 1994-96 the weekly call-in public access series " ACT UP Live "; film festival screenings ; and continuing on-line documentation and streaming internet webcasts.

In 1998, Tinariwen came to the attention of the French world music ensemble Lo ' Jo, who traveled to a music festival in Bamako and met two members of the Tinariwen collective.

* ONCE Group, an artists ' collective that sponsored a 1960s music festival

In addition to putting on gigs members of the Last Hours / Rancid News collective have been involved in a number of squatted social centres, for example in 2003 with involvement in the Blackstar collective, 2004 with the In Arms Reach collective, which squatted a building off London's Oxford Street for a two week punk festival, and 2005 at the Institute for Autonomy on Gower Street, London.

Mand davarap refers to a collective bath taken after the festival comes to an end.

Since 2004, the collective has made consistent appearances at Modesto's Earth Day festival, terming it " Earth First!

In 2012, VIA Pittsburgh -- the collective that hosts an internationally acclaimed audio / visual festival each October -- acquired its first venue, 6119 ( sixty-one nineteen ), in East Liberty, courtesy of the ELDI.

The word Gawai means a ritual or festival whereas Dayak is a collective name for the native ethnic groups of Sarawak ( and neighboring Indonesian Kalimantan ): the Iban, also known as Sea Dayak and the Bidayuh people, also known as Land Dayak.

Darby's connections with the early Eighties festival scene and involvement in organising free acid house parties centered around Pepper Box Hill near Salisbury in Wiltshire in the latter part of that decade-especially a joint event at that location in August 1989-led to an informal partnership between a DJ and sound system collective based around the shop and Nottingham's The DiY Sound System, with whom they collaborated to stage many free parties throughout the South West during the early to mid 1990s.

This led to a split within the collective, and in September 1968 they performed at the International Essen Song Days — Germany's first underground festival — as two groups, " Amon Düül " and " Amon Düül II ", at the suggestion of drummer Peter Leopold.

The first festival in 1997 was produced with short-lived new media arts collective, onearmbandit.

Held in early December, it has the usual festival celebrations ( calypso, pageants and jamming ), held in ' De Village ,' the name given to the collective Western Basseterre communities ( because the ward resulted from the overgrowth and amalgamation of several small, separate villages once in the area ).

This festival is locally known as Korfest.

The Japanese festival, in which Altair is known as, is based on this legend.

Alexandria is also known as " Small Town USA " and holds an annual festival to honor this heritage.

In Irish Gaelic, the month of May is known as Mí Bhealtaine or Bealtaine, and the festival as Lá Bealtaine (' day of Bealtaine ' or, ' May Day ').

In Scottish Gaelic, the month is known as either ( An ) Cèitean or a ' Mhàigh, and the festival is known as Latha Bealltainn or simply Bealltainn.

The region is known for its production of white truffles, and hosts a festival and a museum dedicated to the rare fungus ( genus Tuber ).

An internationally known foot race called the Bix 7 is run during the festival.

The first North American high film festival was the Columbus International Film & Video Festival, also known as The Chris Awards, held in 1953.

This festival is mainly for groups that are already known in the music world.

Hultsfred is known as the site of a major rock festival in Sweden, the Hultsfred Festival.

* Paryushana is the most important festival among the Jain festivals. It is also known as Dashlakshan parva. It happens during late August / September commencing on the twelfth day of the fortnight of the waning moon cycle and ending in the fourteenth of the fortnight of the waxing moon cycle.

Sukkot ( סוכות or ס ֻ כ ּ ו ֹ ת sukkōt ) or Succoth is a seven-day festival, also known as the Feast of Booths, the Feast of Tabernacles, or just Tabernacles.

A known Lupercalia festival of 44 BC attests to the continuity of the festival but the Lupercal cave may have fallen into disrepair, and was later rebuilt by Augustus.

In 1774, in the Burmese city of Rangoon, the Burmese King Hsinbyushin ( known in Thai as " King Mangra ") decided to organize a seven-day, seven-night religious festival in honor of Buddha's relics.

In the first 9 days of the lunar 9th month festival, an oil lamp of 9 branches may also be lit to honour both the Northern Dipper and 2 other assistant stars ( collectively known as the Nine Emperor Stars ), sons of Dou Mu appointed by the Taoist Trinity ( the Three Pure Ones ) to hold the Books of Life and Death of humanity.

When the Temple in Jerusalem was standing, the focus of the Passover festival was the Passover sacrifice ( Hebrew korban Pesach ) also known as the " Paschal Lamb ").

Like the holiday of Sukkot, the intermediary days of Passover are known as Chol HaMoed ( festival weekdays ) and are imbued with a semi-festive status.

Padstow is best known for its "' Obby ' Oss " festival.

To provide his citizens with wives, Romulus invited the neighboring tribes to a festival in Rome where he abducted the young women from amongst them ( known as The Rape of the Sabine Women ).

The Roman Catholic festival of All Saints is known to have been introduced in the early 7th century, on the occasion of the dedication of the Pantheon as a church, but on the continent, it was celebrated on 13 May throughout the 7th and 8th centuries.

Having no other choice but to drink the poison, she died on the eve of Samhain, after which the festival came to be known as Mongfind's Feast, " wherefore women and the rabble make petitions to her on samain-eve.

Over time, the night of October 31 came to be called All Hallow's Eve, and the remnants festival dedicated to the dead eventually morphed into the secular holiday known as Halloween.

The remaining days are known as Chol HaMoed (" festival weekdays ").