The park also hosts the annual Taste of Chicago festival.

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

* Ellensburg hosts the annual Jazz in the Valley music festival on the last weekend in July.

Hobart also hosts many events as part of the biennial international arts festival Ten Days On The Island.

Every year Hanover hosts the Schützenfest Hannover, the world's largest marksmen's festival, and the Oktoberfest Hannover, the second largest Oktoberfest in the world.

Whitstable, Kent, hosts a good example of more traditional May Day festivities, where the Jack in the Green festival was revived in 1976 and continues to lead an annual procession of morris dancers through the town on the May Bank Holiday.

It hosts frequent gigs, an anarchistic library, vernissages, exhibitions, annual birthday festival ( each October ), poetry evenings and graffiti festivals.

The village of Perranporth (' Porthpyran ' in Cornish ) hosts the annual inter-Celtic festival of ' Lowender Peran ', which is also named in honour of him.

* July & August: The city hosts a series of weekly firework displays by the sea front in Scheveningen, as part of an international fireworks festival and competition.

The city hosts, among others events, the international theatre festival, " Kontakt ", annually in May

The festival also hosts the " Show and Shine " classic car show alongside the other attractions.

Celebration hosts many events every year, including community-wide yard sales, an art show, an exotic car festival, an annual Radio Disney Holiday concert, an Oktoberfest Celebration, the " Great American Pie Festival " ( televised on The Food Network ), a " Posh Pooch " festival, and downtown events for the Fall and Christmas seasons when autumn leaves and " snow " ( small-scale soap flakes ) are released into the Town Center.

In April of every year, the Foundation for Pierce College hosts Farmwalk, an outdoor festival including animals, activities, displays, games and music.

Lucca hosts the annual Lucca Comics and Games festival, Italy's largest festival for comics and related subjects.

The festival also hosts numerous beer gardens, live music, fairground attractions and a Ferris wheel.

The city also hosts another rock festival, Down by the Laituri, and one of the largest electronic music festivals in Northern Europe, UMF ( Uuden Musiikin Festivaali, " New Music Festival "), in addition to a vibrant nightlife, centred around the Market Square.

Later in June, the Gay and Lesbian Service organization hosts the Lexington Pride Festival, currently into the planning phases of its third festival as of 2009, the event is popular among the diverse communities in Lexington.

Perugian chocolate is very popular in Italy, and the city hosts a chocolate festival every October.

The town hosts the annual Samba festival every summer, where Samba bands from around the world converge on the town for a week of drumming and parades.

Every four years, Brest hosts the international festival of the sea, boats and sailors: it is a meeting of old riggings from around the world.

The piazza outside the parliament building is also the location of a number of events, and the town hosts a music festival every winter.

The conductor Charles Hazlewood lives locally and hosts the " Play the Field " music festival on his farm nearby.

After the death of Cleomenes and the refusal of the Athenians to restore the hostages to Leotychides, the Aeginetans retaliated by seizing a number of Athenians at a festival at Sunium.

Outside festival season, Edinburgh continues to support a number of theatres and production companies.

The largest festival, in terms of the number of features shown, is the Seattle International Film Festival, screening 270 features, and approximately 150 short films.

For a number of years this volunteer led festival has concentrated mostly around film but, starting in the Year of Highland Culture-Highland 2007, its scope was widened, and it dropped the ' film ' from its title.

Von Trier has had a number of his films featured at the Cannes Film Festival over the course of his career, and each time has insisted on driving from Denmark to France for the festival and back.

Although the festival was remarkably peaceful given the number of people and the conditions involved, there were two recorded fatalities: one from what was believed to be a heroin overdose and another caused in an accident when a tractor ran over an attendee sleeping in a nearby hayfield.

The town has a large Christmas festival that includes a number of lighted displays in the downtown area.

Rennes invests heavily in arts and culture and a number of its festivals ( such as the music festival Les Transmusicales, les Tombées de la Nuit and Travelling ( a cinematic festival )) are well known throughout France.

The Autumn Glory Festival, a fall festival that attracts a great number of tourists, takes place in Oakland every October.

There are a number of festival days, fast days ( ta ' anit ) and days of remembrance.

Mysore is noted for its palaces, including the Mysore Palace, and for the festivities that take place during the Dasara festival when the city receives a large number of tourists.

The city receives large number of tourists during the 10-day Dasara festival.

The festival name is changed each year to represent the number of years it has been held ( for example, 2011 was 8Fest ).

After the 1970s the festival took place almost every year and grew in size, with the number of attendees sometimes being swollen by gate-crashers.

She has won a number of awards, including a National Film Award and various international film festival awards, and was a nominee at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA Awards and Filmfare Awards.

The town of Sandwich has an annual festival period towards the end of August where a number of events are staged.

This festival, which brings thousands of people every year ( 137. 000 in 2008 ) to the city, is the second French film Festival after Cannes in term of visitors, but the first one regarding the number of spectators ( in Cannes visitors are not allowed in theatres, only professionals ).

Despite the exclusively female, aristocratic connections of her winter festival at Rome and her high status as a protecting deity of the Roman state, elite dedications to Bona Dea are far outnumbered by the personal dedications of the Roman plebs, particularly the ingenui ; the greatest number of all are from freedmen and slaves ; and an estimated one-third of all dedications are from men, one of whom, a provincial Greek, claims to be a priest of her cult.

Other changes were the decrease of length of the festival down to thirteen days, reducing the number of selected films thus ; also, until that point the Jury was composed by Film Academics, and Jacob started to introduce celebrities and professionals from the film industry.

However, in 2008, the festival was back to being entirely in Seattle, and had a slight decrease in the number of feature films.

The festival has hosted a number of jazz, classical, and Hawaiian folk musicians including Ray Brown, Gene Harris, James Moody, Howard Alden, Big Brother and the Holding Company and Hubert Laws.

Community organizations stage a number of regionally known annual events, including Sandpoint Winter Carnival in February ; Lost in the 50s vintage car show in May ; the Festival at Sandpoint summer music festival in August ; and Idaho State Draft Horse International show in September.