* The last day of the Festival of Ridván ( Bahá ' í Faith )

This date is celebrated in the Bahá ' í Faith as The Festival of Ridván.

These events are celebrated annually during the Festival of Ridván.

It was Bahá ' u ' lláh who gave the garden the name of Ridván (" paradise ") during his stay, and the name was thereafter applied to the twelve-day Festival of Ridván — known as the " King of Festivals "— celebrated annually by Bahá ' ís between 21 April and 2 May.

Like local Spiritual Assemblies, all National Spiritual Assemblies have nine members and are elected annually, usually during the Ridván Festival ( April 21-May 2 ).

The title stuck, and twelve years ago an annual Tomato Festival was re-established, replete with a tomato growing contest, tomato tasting, farmers market, vendor's booths, 5K run and, of course, the crowning of the new Tomato Queen.

The program debuted at the San Francisco Film Festival and has been performed live approximately twelve times.

It is the currently held over twelve days ( except in 2005, when it reverted to 11 to avoid a conflict with the Winnipeg Folk Festival ), and it is common for a small number of shows to be held over past the festival's official end date.

* Gabriola Island is home to the Gabriola Theatre Festival, which produces twelve shows over one weekend in August.

He served for twelve seasons as Artistic Director of the Shaw Festival.

Between 1945 and 1985 he composed his series of twelve symphonies, each centred on one semi-tone of the chromatic scale, and in 1992 his unnumbered " Symphony In Memoriam John Fussell " ( his friend, the Director of the Swansea Festival ).

* In December 1968 a large musical festival was held at the arena, the Los Angeles Pop Festival featuring twelve rock and pop bands.

Another form of recovery is the re-establishment of the Indonesian Film Festival ( FFI ), inactive for twelve years, and the creation of the Jakarta International Film Festival.

Construction started in 1899, but the sharp winter slowed construction ; Mrs. Oelrichs ' sister had married William K. Vanderbilt II that winter season, and the house was required for parties in the following Newport season ; the eager Mrs. Oelrichs moved in July 1900, sending the workmen out in order to give a first party in August, a dinner for one hundred and twelve before Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish's Harvest Festival Ball at Crossways ; ferns and floral arrangements concealed the unfinished areas.

At age twelve, he participated in the contest " Festival Infantil Juventud 74 " with " Gracias al Mundo ", a song composed by his father, finally winning the event.

* In the Antonio Paoli Festival Hall ’ s second floor, a mural titled La Plena by Rafael Tufiño is on display and represents twelve famous Puerto Rican plenas by local songwriter Manuel “ Canario ” Jiménez: Cortaron a Elena ; Temporal ; El Perro de San Jerónimo ; Josefina ; Santa María ; Tintorera del Mar ; Fuego, Fuego, Fuego ; Monchín del Alma ; Cuando las Mujeres ; Tanta Vanidad ; Lola ; and El Diablo Colorao.

Only Angels have Wings was also selected as one of twelve films representing the US at the first Cannes Film Festival, however the festival was cancelled due to events leading up to World War II.

* Band-Earned " Superior " scores at District X Festival for the past twelve years, the past five of which were earned playing Grade VI music.

At age twelve, he won the national mandolin championship at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas.

A similarly large event is Festival Ludique International de Parthenay ( FLIP ), a games festival held over twelve days in France.

Even Scarborough Borough Council paid for twelve 15 second adverts to announce events in the town's Festival of Norway.

* Vallenato Legend Festival usually begins on this day.

* The main day of Bon Festival ( Japan )

* The first day of Awa Dance Festival ( Tokushima )

* The first day of Takayama Spring Festival ( Takayama, Gifu, Japan )

The holiday would be held the same day as the Qingming Festival.

* Earliest day on which Turkmen Racing Horse Festival can fall, while April 30 is the latest ; celebrated on the last Sunday in April.

During the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011, Radio 1 ended each day of the festival from Monday 15 to Thursday 18 August with the Fun & Filth Cabaret.

* The first day of Musikahan Festival, celebrated until February 27.

Hanukkah (, " dedication ") also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight day Jewish holiday that starts on the 25th day of Kislev ( Hebrew calendar ).

** First day of Golowan Festival ( Cornwall )

* The first day of Izumo-taisha Shrine Grand Festival.

* The Water Festival is the form of similar new year celebrations taking place in many Southeast Asian countries, on the day of the full moon of the 11th month on the lunisolar calendar each year.

On the first day of the Festival of Ploughing, where the goddess Isis appeared in her shrine where she was stripped naked, paste made from the grain were placed in her bed and moistened with water, representing the fecund earth.

In 1992, the group was one of the first rap acts to perform at the Reading Festival, in England, headlining the second day of the three day festival.

The Karaite and Samaritan Passovers are each one day long, followed by the six day Festival of Unleavened Bread – for a total of seven days.

Lang had experience as a promoter and had already organized the largest festival on the East Coast at the time, the Miami Pop Festival, which had an estimated 100, 000 people attend the two day event.

The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first month () in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th ; this day is called Lantern Festival.

" TO THE LIGHT at the Serpentine Gallery is part of the London 2012 Festival, a spectacular 12-week UK-wide celebration featuring internationally-renowned artists from Midsummer's Day on 21 June to the final day of the Paralympic Games on 9 September 2012.

" Indeed to this day Der fliegende Holländer is the earliest of Wagner's operas to be performed at the Bayreuth Festival, and, at least for that theatre, marks the start of the mature Wagner canon.

Parsifal is one of the Wagner operas regularly presented at the Bayreuth Festival to this day.