The Merseburg Palace Festival with the Historical Pageant, the International Palace-Moat Concerts, Merseburg Organ Days and the Puppet Show Festival Week are highlights celebrated every year.

The Run & Shoot Filmworks Martha's Vineyard African-American Film Festival ( mvaaff. com ) held every second week in August, highlights the works of independent and established African-American filmmakers from across the globe.

Many film scholars consider Shadows one of the highlights of independent film in the U. S. In 1960 the film won the Critics Award at the Venice Film Festival.

The annual Winter Carnival and Summer Festival are two of the highlights.

* 1967-The " Summer of Love " embodies the growing counterculture, with the Monterey Pop Festival and Scott McKenzie's " San Francisco ( Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair )" among the highlights.

One of the highlights of Steve's performance career was his selection as one of a handful of guitarists to perform at the 1996 JVC Jazz Festival 75th birthday tribute concert for Tal Farlow at Merkin Hall in New York City.

The Just for Laughs Festival, or Festival Juste pour rire, a comedy festival, again highlights Quebec's love of humour.

Whereas Spoleto Festival USA features artists and performers of national and international renown, Piccolo Spoleto highlights outstanding local and regional artists with several hundred performances throughout the city.

The Independent Games Festival is the first and largest competition for independent games, and highlights the innovative achievements of developers ranging in size from individuals building PC titles to studio teams creating console downloadable titles.

The two main highlights of the National Hunt Calendar are the Cheltenham Festival meeting at Cheltenham Racecourse, held over four days in the second week of March the festival features eleven Grade one races, culminating in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, the best and most prestigious Chase race in the world, on the Friday.

The Festival also undertakes an annual national Roadshow, showcasing Festival highlights in regional towns across Australia.

The highlights of the year included the opening of the brand new Projac studios and the launch of a new youth oriented program: Malhação, plus its Festival 30 Anos ( 30 Years Festival ) commemorative series.

He has performed at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, ( where The Age newspaper named him one of the festival's highlights ,) the Montreal Comedy Festival ( 1998 and 2001 ) and the Edinburgh Fringe.

* The Morija Arts & Cultural Festival is a prominent Sotho music festival, held annually, which highlights the dance and music of the Basotho people.

Meanwhile, in the village of Calheta the Festival de Julho ( the July Festival ) highlights four days of festivities that brings together ethnic processions, musical comedies, theatrical presentations and local sports competitions.

Additional highlights include the Tanzquartier, an international, state-of-the-art centre for dance, the Architekturzentrum Wien, production studios for new media, artist studios for artists-in-residence, outstanding art and cultural facilities designed for children, and a variety of other events and festivals such as the renowned Viennale film festival, the ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival, and many others.

Other competitive highlights include winning the Rising Star professional Latin title of Blackpool Dance Festival in 2003, and reaching the final of the professional Latin competition in the 2005 Blackpool Dance Festival.

The best known CAMRA award is the Champion Beer of Britain, which is selected at the Great British Beer Festival, other awards include the Champion Beer of Scotland and the Champion Beer of Wales.

Other festivals held in the city of Dayton include, the Dayton Blues Festival, Dayton Music Fest, Urban Nights, the African American and Cultural Festival, and the Dayton Reggae Fest.

Further appearances in Japan include TaikOz's 2005 tour where the group presented an all-Australian program at the Hibike Festival in Echizen and collaborative concerts in Kobe with colleagues Wadaiko Matsumuragumi.

* Asian Film Festival: Most notable amongst the Asian Film Festivals are the Osian's-Cinefan Film Festival, which was recently expanded to include Arab Cinema as well, and the Hong Kong International Film Festival ( HKIFF ) and Busan International Film Festival ( BIFF ).

* African festivals Significant African festivals based on the continent include the biannual Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou FESPACO in Burkina Faso, the annual Durban International Film Festival which has grown in importance for industry with the addition of a co-production forum and Talent Campus.

Its international awards include the Teddy award at the 1999 Berlin Film Festival.

Some examples include Diwali, Chinese New Year / Tết ( Vietnamese New Year ), Mid-Autumn Festival / Chuseok and Nepal Sambat.

Other general festivals that allow machinima include the Sundance Film Festival and the Florida Film Festival.

Regional productions include one at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Massachusetts, in June and July 2003.

Noteworthy gigs by the Undertones since their reunion include performing at the Glastonbury Festival in June, 2005, providing pre-match entertainment prior to kick-off at Celtic Park in the UEFA Champions League play-off between Celtic and Arsenal in August, 2009 and, in March and April 2011, a series of UK gigs in which they played their debut album, The Undertones, in its entirety as part of each show.

Cultural activities in Lewiston include the Dogwood Festival, Hot August Nights, and the Lewiston Round Up.

Television credits include choreographing Sue's Leg ( 1976 ) for the inaugural episode of the PBS program Dance in America ,; co-producing and directing Making Television Dance ( 1977 ), which won the Chicago International Film Festival Award ; and directing The Catherine Wheel ( 1983 ) for BBC Television.

Tourist attractions suggested by National Geographic Traveler include the Monte Vista Crane Festival in March, Los Caminos Antiguos, a regional road network, the Luther Bean Museum at Adams State University and the Firedworks Gallery on Main Street in Alamosa for regional history and art, the El Charro Café on Sixth Street and Calvillo's on Main Street for regional Mexican food.

* Systems that operate on free and open source software systems including Linux are various, and include open-source programs such as the Festival Speech Synthesis System which uses diphone-based synthesis ( and can use a limited number of MBROLA voices ), and gnuspeech which uses articulatory synthesis from the Free Software Foundation.

Suggested elements include a concert venue, an enlarged Chicago Shakespeare Festival space, new restaurants, a renovated commercial area around the Pier's entrance, and additional park-like features to bring people closer to the lake.

Notable psychedelic festivals include the biennial Boom Festival in Portugal, as well as Nevada's Burning Man and California's Symbiosis Gathering in the United States.

These include several musicals based on his life, such as The Fartiste ( awarded Best Musical at the 2006 New York International Fringe Festival ) and Seth Rozin's A Passing Wind which was premiered at the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts in 2011.

Some of Belmopan's noteworthy events include presentations by the Belmopan Choral Society, the Festival of Arts for school children, and National Day activities.

He was given a special Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1972.

He also took part as a special guest at the 46th International Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece.

He was honored with a special 50th anniversary award for his impressive career at the 2002 San Sebastián International Film Festival.

A meditation on the nature of memory and film production, it won the special 40th Anniversary Prize at Cannes and the 15th Moscow Film Festival Grand Prize.

The film was screened as a special presentation at the 43rd San Francisco International Film Festival in 2000.

The movie was screened at a special presentation at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, and was reviewed favourably.

The Cannes Film Festival Ecumenical Jury, which gives prizes for movies that promote spiritual, humanist and universal values, also " honoured " the film with a special " anti-award "; a spokesman for the jury described it as " the most misogynist movie from the self-proclaimed biggest director in the world.

In Israel, Passover is the seven-day holiday of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, with the first and last days observed as legal holidays and as holy days involving abstention from work, special prayer services, and holiday meals ; the intervening days are known as Chol HaMoed (" Weekdays of the Festival ").

At special festivals, especially the Duanwu Festival, dragon boat races are an important part of festivities.

Kelly's boyhood town of Houston, Missouri, named Emmett Kelly Park in his honor and used to host an annual Emmett Kelly Clown Festival, which attracted clowns from across the region including Kelly's grandson, Joey Kelly, who returned every year to perform as a special guest.

In addition to its Oscar, the film also won the International Prize at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival, an award at the Berlin Film Festival and a special achievement award from the Golden Globe Awards.

After the first series, the special Frost Over England was produced, winning the Golden Rose at the Montreux Television Festival.

Pulp were one of the surprise special guests at Glastonbury Festival 2011 in June where they played on The Park stage on Saturday evening.

When Les Herbes folles was shown at the Cannes Film Festival, it was the occasion for a special jury award to Resnais " for his work and exceptional contribution to the history of cinema ".

James Island County Park, approximately 11 minutes by car from downtown Charleston, features a 50-foot climbing wall and bouldering cave ; cabin, RV, and tent camping facilities ; rental facilities, fishing dock, challenge course, kayaking programs, summer camps, paved trails, and many special events such as the Lowcountry Cajun Festival ( usually the first weekend in April ), East Coast Canoe and Kayak Festival ( 3rd weekend in April ), Holiday Festival of Lights ( mid-November through the first of the year ), and the summer outdoor reggae concerts.

James Island County Park, features a 50-foot climbing wall and bouldering cave ; cabin, RV, and tent camping facilities ; rental facilities, fishing dock, challenge course, kayaking programs, summer camps, paved trails, and many special events such as the Lowcountry Cajun Festival ( usually the first weekend in April ), East Coast Canoe and Kayak Festival ( 3rd weekend in April ), Holiday Festival of Lights ( mid-November through the first of the year ), and the summer outdoor reggae concerts.

James Island County Park, features a 50-foot climbing wall and bouldering cave ; cabin, RV, and tent camping facilities ; rental facilities, fishing dock, challenge course, kayaking programs, summer camps, paved trails, and many special events such as the Lowcountry Cajun Festival ( usually the first weekend in April ), East Coast Canoe and Kayak Festival ( 3rd weekend in April ), Holiday Festival of Lights ( mid-November through the first of the year ), and the summer outdoor reggae concerts.