Raindance Film Festival is the UK's largest celebration of independent film-making and is taking place in London in October.

Pride events in some cities mark the largest annual celebration of any kind.

The largest carnaval celebration in Brazil and the world occurs in Rio de Janeiro, where two million people are found celebrating in the city.

In Goa, Carnival is known as ' Intruz ' ( from the Portuguese word Entrudo, an alternative name for Carnival ), and the largest celebration takes place in the city of Panaji.

The largest and most well-known celebration is held in Trinidad and Tobago.

It is the largest Carnival celebration in Central America.

Additionally, Ferrara is becoming the Italian capital of hot air balloons, thanks to the ten-day-long Ferrara Balloons Festival, the biggest celebration of balloons in Italy and one of the largest in Europe.

A Guinness Book of Records largest donut made up of 90, 000 individual donuts was set in Sydney in 2007 as part of a celebration for the release of The Simpsons Movie.

Another big celebration in Decatur and North Alabama, the Racking Horse World Celebration, attracts horses from around the world to compete in the largest racking horse competition.

During the first weekend in June, Downtown Patterson hosts the town's largest celebration of the year, the Apricot Fiesta.

Grangeville's " Border Days " is a large public celebration on the weekend of July 4 ( Independence Day ), which features the state's oldest rodeo as well as parades, art shows, and the world's largest egg toss.

* Le Festival de Mardi Gras à Lafayette-The second largest Mardi Gras celebration in Louisiana.

Allegan's largest annual celebration, widely reputed as the largest county fair in Michigan, is the Allegan County Fair each September.

The celebration and Flag Day Parade is the largest in the country.

Ocean Township has five named parks The largest, Joe Palaia Park ( formerly the Deal Test Site ), is the site of the township's July 4 celebration, and the Italian American Association of the Township of Ocean's annual four-day festival.

Hornell has the largest Saint Patrick's Day parade and celebration in the area, bringing many out to welcome spring and show their green.

Finneytown is the home of the annual Panegyri Greek Festival, the largest annual ethnic food celebration in the Cincinnati area.

Seaside hosts an annual 4th of July celebration which includes a parade, outdoor concerts, and one of the largest fireworks displays on the west coast.

According to the International Fireworks website, it is ranked the third largest annual Fourth of July fireworks in the United States ; the Travel Channel has called the celebration " one of the best fireworks displays in the world.

Various events, including the annual Independence Day celebration, which has one of the largest fireworks displays in the country, are open to the public.

First held in 1988, the Karmiel Dance Festival is the largest celebration of dance in Israel, featuring three or four days and nights of dancing, with 5, 000 or more dancers and a quarter of a million spectators in the capital of Galilee.

1977: BAM presents the inaugural DanceAfrica, created by Chuck Davis, the country ’ s largest celebration of African-American dance

In 2006, Carol Alt was honored as Grand Marshal at the German-American Steuben Parade in New York City, the largest celebration of German-American Friendship in the United States.

With some of the largest ski mountains on the East Coast, New Hampshire's major recreational attractions include skiing, snowmobiling and other winter sports, hiking and mountaineering, observing the fall foliage, summer cottages along many lakes and the seacoast, motor sports at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and Motorcycle Week, a popular motorcycle rally held in Weirs Beach near Laconia in June.

The largest tourist attraction in the caldera is the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area: the area offers skiing and snowboarding in the winter, and mountain biking in the summer.

* Manchurian wild boar Sus scrofa ussuricus: A very large ( largest subspecies of the wild boar ), almost maneless subspecies with a thick coat that is blackish in the summer and yellowish-grey in the winter.

In 1979, Avon replaced Virginia Slims as the sponsor of the winter circuit, and in its first year offered the largest prize fund for a single tournament, $ 100, 000 for the Avon Championships, in the WTA Tour's history.

For example, Mount Baker recorded the largest single-season snowfall on record in the world in the winter of 1998 – 1999 with.

Chouteau County is the largest winter wheat producer for the state of Montana.

It is believed that the anomaly was caused by a combination of a historic low in solar activity with a volcanic winter event, the latter caused by a succession of major volcanic eruptions capped by the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, in the Dutch East Indies ( Indonesia ), the largest known eruption in over 1, 300 years.

When winter freezes Tawas Bay each year, hundreds of perch fisherman move fishing shanties onto the bay's ice, making Perchville USA, the largest non-land community festival in Northeast Michigan.

The Houghton Lake Area is home to Michigan's largest winter festival-Tip Up Town USA, which is held during the last two weekends of January each year.

Center Harbor is the winter home of the paddle steamer MS Mount Washington, the largest boat on Lake Winnipesaukee.

Each June for nine days beginning on the Saturday of the weekend before Father's Day and ending on Father's Day, the city hosts Laconia Motorcycle Week, also more simply known as ' bike week ', one of the country's largest rallies, and each winter, the Laconia World Championship Sled Dog Derby.

There used to be a third, but in the winter of 2008-2009, Hawks ' Nest became an all tubing park, the largest on the East Coast.

Compared to Spokane ( the largest city in the area ), on average, summer and winter temperatures are cooler at night, but very slightly warmer in daytime.

The Dubois Museum preserves and interprets the natural and social history of the Upper Wind River Valley as the National Bighorn Sheep Interpretive Center focuses on public education about the biology and habitat of the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep with specific focus on the currently largest herd of Rocky Mountain Bighorn sheep in the coterminous United States that winter in the Whisky Basin of Whisky Mountain adjacent to the Fitzpatrick Wilderness in the Shoshone National Forest.

The Big Four Building, named in honour of the Stampede's benefactors, opened in 1959 to serve as the city's largest exhibition hall in the summer, and was converted into a 24-sheet curling facility each winter.

Sandwiched between the Old Bedford and New Bedford rivers, they consist of washland which is used as pasture during the summer but which floods in the winter, and are the largest area of such land in the United Kingdom.

Trysilfjellet is the largest winter sports centre in Norway with 65 prepared slopes.

Hosting an estimated 80 % of all Scottish showfamilies, Glasgow is believed to have the largest concentration of Showmen in winter quarters in Europe, centered mostly in Whiteinch, Shettleston and Carntyne.

In winter, a section of the Rideau Canal passing through central Ottawa becomes officially the world's largest skating rink.

The largest groups congregate after the breeding season and throughout the winter months.

In contrast to most other wine-producing regions, Canada, particularly the Niagara Peninsula, consistently undergoes freezing in winter and has become the world's largest ice wine producer.

Baraboo is home to the Circus World Museum, the former headquarters and winter home of the Ringling Brothers circus and now the largest library of circus information in the United States.

The Skagit River System is home to one of the largest winter populations of Bald Eagles in the United States.

In Argentina, Península Valdés in Patagonia hosts ( in winter ) the largest breeding population of Southern Right Whales, with more than 2, 000 catalogued by the Whale Conservation Institute and Ocean Alliance.