* Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture

The San Xavier Festival is held the evening of the Friday after Easter and features a torch-light parade of Tohono O ' odham and Yaqui tribal members.

* Bendigo Easter Festival

Many festivals are held in Sydney, including the Sydney Festival, a celebration of free performances throughout January ; the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras ( see below ); the Sydney Royal Easter Show, which unites rural and urban communities together in 1 annual event at Homebush ; the Sydney Film Festival and many smaller festivals such as Tropfest.

Major annual community events largely reflect traditional small town American life and include the Easter Egg Hunt, Buck Creek Festival, 4th of July Picnic, concert and fireworks, Fall Carnival, Spring Fling, and the Christmas Parade.

A prominent event in Metter is Another Bloomin ' Festival, an arts and crafts festival held the day before Easter.

* Nor Easter Folk Music Festival

Shady Brook Farm has a large Farm Market and Garden Center, and hosts many events, including Pumpkin Fest and HorrorFest in the fall, Santa's Village and the Holiday Light Show during the Christmas season, and the Annual Easter Egg Hunt, as well as others throughout the year, including the Wine Concert Series and Apple Festival.

From 1922 ( to 1940 ) an Easter Festival was an important feature in the Bournemouth calendar ; in 1927 the Festival was devoted to music of British women composers.

The Arts Festival and Fringe Arts Festival take place every year at the end of June, the traditional Pace Egg plays are an annual Easter event, and the midsummer Hebden Bridge Handmade Parade is a vivid, non-commercial variation on the small town parade.

In June 2011, the orchestra was announced as the new resident orchestra of the Salzburg Easter Festival, as of 2013.

* East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival, held for five days over the Easter long weekend at Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia.

In 1975 Europe ´ s biggest gay fetish event started, Easter in Berlin Leather Festival.

Numerous major cities host Leather Pride events, including San Francisco's Folsom Street Fair, Berlin's Easter in Berlin Leather Festival ( Europe ´ s biggest gay fetish event ) from 1975 and Folsom Europe, New York City's Folsom Street East, Chicago's International Mr. Leather and Amsterdam's Leather Pride.

The biggest event is the Sámi Easter Festival.

In addition, the Sami Film Festival is usually held during the Easter, which is notable for having an outdoor cinema made of snow.

* Sami Easter Festival

* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Russian Easter Festival Overture

* Placencia Village, hosts the Placencia Lobster Fest, the Placencia Peninsula Arts Festival, Easter Week ( similar to US Florida Spring Break ).

Since 1967, there is also an annual Salzburg Easter Festival held by the same organization.

It is particularly popular during " Semana Santa " ( Holy Week ), when campers stay for seven days and then return to Navojoa for Easter celebrations.

The town hosts the " El Paso " festival at Easter ( Semana Santa ), a reenactment of the crucifixion which has a cast of hundreds, mostly local villagers.

Important events are Semana Santa at Easter and La Fiesta in August, a week of events, such as concerts, parties, encierros and bullfights, with the town congregating in La Plaza every evening for a night of live music and dancing.

* Semana Santa: Holy Week the week that leads up to Easter Sunday is a wonderful time to enjoy the area with its street parades and long lines of penitents and big crowds.

Easter, or Semana Santa, is the most important celebration taking place yearly in Lucena, just like in most parts of Spain.

The fair generally begins two weeks after the Semana Santa, or Easter Holy Week.

As such, Christmastime or Navidad and Holy Week proceeding Easter, called Semana Santa, are major times of celebration.

* Semana Santa (" Easter "), held according to the church's calendar.

* The Semana Santa ( Easter week ) festival in Antigua, Guatemala, where designs made out of flowers and colored sawdust are created in the street prior to being trampled by a religious parade.

Gifts of chocolate molded into different shapes have become traditional on certain holidays: chocolate bunnies and eggs are popular on Easter, chocolate coins on Hanukkah, Santa Claus and other holiday symbols on Christmas, and chocolate hearts or chocolate in heart-shaped boxes on Valentine's Day.

Christmas and Easter costumes typically portray mythical characters such as Santa Claus ( by donning a santa suit and beard ) or the Easter Bunny by putting on an animal costume.

" He still believed in the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus ".

In the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1994 ) Jack Skellington asks to see Santa Claus in Halloween Town, but he is mistakenly brought the Easter Bunny.

Examples include the Grand National, the Cambridgeshire Handicap, the Donn Handicap, the Santa Anita Handicap, the Hollywood Gold Cup, the Auckland Cup, the Easter Handicap, the Caulfield Cup, and the Melbourne Cup.

He is shown as a member of the Council of Legendary Figures ( alongside Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Cupid, Mother Nature, Father Time, Tooth Fairy, and Jack Frost ) and tends to fall asleep during meetings.

Seasonal train rides include: Easter Train, Robbery Trains, North Pole Express, Fall Foliage Trips, Haunted Hills Train, Santa Train, Caboose Train, Great Hocking Valley Train Pull and wine trains.

Unlike Santa Claus and, to a lesser extent, the Easter Bunny, there are few details of the tooth fairy's appearance that are consistent in various versions of the myth.

Children often discover the tooth fairy is imaginary as part of the 5-to 7-year shift, often connecting this to other gift-bearing imaginary figures ( such as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny ).

Highly prominent projects are many temples at Angkor, Cambodia, starting in 1990, including Preah Khan and Phnom Bakheng ; the Château de Chantilly in Chantilly, France ; many structures in Rome, including the Temple of Hercules, Santa Maria Antiqua, and the House of Augustus ; several sites on Easter Island ; various sites at ancient Luxor in Egypt ; Lalibela in Ethiopia ; San Ignacio Miní in Argentina ; the ancient Maya city of Naranjo, Guatemala ; the Segovia Aqueduct in Segovia, Spain ; as well as 25 projects in Venice, Italy, over 20 years.

He is shown as a member of the Council of Legendary Figures alongside Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Cupid, Mother Nature, Sandman, Tooth Fairy, and Jack Frost.

Common examples include " The stork brought you " ( in reference to childbirth ) and the existence of Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy or the Easter Bunny.

VLC media player contains an Easter egg which changes the VLC traffic cone logo so that it is wearing a Santa hat.

Jack Frost is one of the main characters in the Dreamworks animation Rise of the Guardians where he and his fellow fantasy figures ; Sandman, the tooth fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus take on the Boogieman who wants to engulf the entire world in nightmares.

Freberg also revisited the " Dragnet " theme, with " Christmas Dragnet ," in which the strait-laced detective convinces a character named " Grudge " that Santa Claus really exists ( and Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and the Easter Bunny, but Grudge still hadn't made up his mind yet about Toledo ).

Some of the more popular religious festivals are the Santa Rosa Festival, Christmas, Easter, Divali, Eid Ul Fitr and Phagwa.

These include Lobocop ( a RoboCop parody ); Blazing Chain of Love ( in which he is sent on a job to a harem ); Paramilitary Christmas Special ( in which he is contracted by the Easter Bunny to assassinate Santa Claus ); Infanticide ( where he kills his daughter and all of his other bastard offspring that she has gathered to try to kill him ); Convention Special ( a send-up of comic book conventions ); and Unamerican Gladiators ( in which Lobo takes part in a deadly televised game show ).

Andrew Bryniarski stars as Lobo, with Tom Gibis as the Easter Bunny and Michael V. Allen as Santa Claus.

* March or April-Semana Santa ( Holy Week or Easter )

Jack Skellington is the patron spirit of Halloween, portrayed as being on par with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny within his own holiday.

Santa Pod Raceway, in Northamptonshire, England, opened at Easter in 1966, is Europe's first permanent drag racing venue.