2009 marks the 32nd anniversary of the festival.

" Bear on the Square ", an annual three-day festival held the third weekend in April, marks the day that a black bear wandered onto the square.

The weekend closest to May 17, Norweigan Constitution Day, marks Stoughton's Syttende Mai festival.

The celebration with great fanfare and the performance of priest dances marks the ending of the festival.

The second day of the festival, Naraka Chaturdasi, marks the vanquishing of the demon Naraka by Lord Krishna and his wife Satyabhama.

Each day of Diwali marks one celebration of the six principal stories associated with the festival.

It is a harvest festival and marks the end of harvesting season.

The parade which marks the end of this festival takes place on Oxford Street, the main street that runs through several suburbs, including Darlinghurst.

The next day after the Hindu festival Diwali is called Padwa or Varshapratipada, which marks the coronation of King Vikramaditya.

Satiromastix marks the end of the " poetomachia "; in 1603, Jonson and Dekker collaborated again, on a pageant for the Royal Entry, delayed from the coronation of James I, for which Dekker also wrote the festival book The Magnificent Entertainment.

Nowruz ( also Naw-Rúz, Norooz, Newroz, Navroj, and many other variants ) which means " New Day " in Persian language, marks an important traditional holiday festival celebrated in Iran as well as in many other countries with a significant population of Persian people, such as Azerbaijan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, and by Kurdish communities in Turkey and Iraq and elsewhere.

The festival takes place February 17 – 20, and marks the official end of the long, harsh winter.

This festival marks a tribute to the Hachiman Jinja, located near the Owase Port.

This festival marks a colorful season in this area.

The festival therefore takes place around 21 days after the winter solstice ( between December 20 and 23 ) that marks the starting of the phenomenon of ' northward apparent migration of the sun ' or Uttarayana, literally meaning northward journey of Sun.

The BIA sponsors events that appeal to the different South Asian groups that shop in the area: in 2004, Diwali, the Hindu and Sikh festival of lights, and Eid ul-Fitr, the Islamic feast day that marks the end of Ramadan, occurred around the same time in November.

This festival marks the annual opening of the shrine in which members of the community and visitors may enter and pray for good business.

The festival ’ s opening ceremony is a highly anticipated event that officially marks the start of the festival.

The ( started in 1994 ) is a festival of Irish music that celebrates the old Irish festival of Bealtaine ( the First of May ), which in Ireland marks the start of Summer.

The harvest marks the end of the growing season, or the growing cycle for a particular crop, and social importance of this event makes it the focus of seasonal celebrations such as a harvest festival, found in many religions.

This festival marks the Lunar New Year of this Southeast Asian highland culture originating in the mountains of China, Laos and Thailand.

Durga Puja festival marks the victory of Goddess Durga over the evil buffalo demon Mahishasura.

An ancient Roman festival, Actia, was named after Actium, in Nicopolis, the new city ( today Preveza, Greece ).

The London Short Film Festival is a BAFTA-affiliated festival which takes place in January every year and is dedicated to finding and showcasing the work of new UK talent, including specific screenings for low budget work.

" The festival was celebrated near the cave of Lupercal on the Palatine Hill ( the central hill where Rome was traditionally founded ), to expiate and purify new life in the Spring.

The band performed several new songs in March at the South by Southwest festival.

* Some neo-pagans celebrate their interpretation of Samhain ( a festival of the ancient Celts, held around 1 November ) as a New Year's Day representing the new cycle of the Wheel of the Year, although they do not use a different calendar that starts on this day.

A July festival at CBGB featuring over thirty new groups brought the scene its first substantial media coverage.

The failure of this endeavour, however, was closely followed by the development of a new idea, the revival of the ancient Olympic Games, the creation of a festival of international athleticism.

The folklorist Jenny Butler describes how Irish Pagans pick certain traditional cultural elements associated with the pre-modern folk celebration of Samhain and merge these together with references to the Celtic past to fashion a new festival of Samhain that is inimitably part of neo-pagan culture.

* June: Vlaggetjesdag in Scheveningen is a festival celebrating the arrival of the first new herring of the year.

The Stems then toured nationally to promote the new album, playing their first shows outside Australia last year, including European dates and a successful U. S visit which included the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.

The earliest attested terms referring to wine are the Mycenaean Greek me-tu-wo ne-wo (), meaning " the month of new wine " or " festival of the new wine ", and wo-no-wa-ti-si, meaning " wine garden ", written in Linear B inscriptions.

With Stonehenge banned as a festival site, new age travellers gather at the annual Glastonbury Festival.

His company became an active developer and manager of shopping center and mall properties, even as he shifted focus to new projects which eventually included planned communities and festival marketplaces.

For the tenth straight year the festival will present Variety Critics ' Choice: new and interesting films of mainly European production selected by critics working at this prestigious magazine.

Although their debut was in The Guildhall, Plymouth, on 23 August 1970, it was their performance six days later, at the Isle of Wight festival, that drew the most attention to the new band.

With this new relationship came an attempt at cross-promotion, with attractions based on ABC shows at Disney parks and an annual soap festival at Walt Disney World.

A recognized winter festival, the Chinese New Year, is set by the lunar calendar, and celebrated from the day of the second new moon after the winter solstice.

The Sydney Festival, held each year in January, is Sydney's and Australia's biggest performing arts festival, incorporating classical and contemporary music, theatre, visual arts, new media, etc.

Meanwhile throughout the city of Amasea, although entry into the temples and holy places had been forbidden by the decree of Theodosius I ( 391 ), the festival of gift-giving when " all is noise and tumult " in " a rejoicing over the new year " with a kiss and the gift of a coin, went on all around, to the intense disgust and scorn of the bishop:

Her conclusion was that the evidence testified to an ancient Celtic festival on 1 August that involved the following: solemn cutting of the first of the corn of which an offering would be made to the deity by bringing it up to a high place and burying it ; a meal of the new food and of bilberries of which everyone must partake ; a sacrifice of a sacred bull, a feast of its flesh, with some ceremony involving its hide, and its replacement by a young bull ; a ritual dance-play perhaps telling of a struggle for a goddess and a ritual fight ; an installation of a head on top of the hill and a triumphing over it by an actor impersonating Lugh ; another play representing the confinement by Lugh of the monster blight or famine ; a three-day celebration presided over by the brilliant young god or his human representative.

Up to a point, the two cults reflected a social and political divide, but when certain prodigies were interpreted as evidence of Ceres ' displeasure, the senate appeased her with a new festival, the ieiunium Cereris (" fast of Ceres ").

The tradition died out in the 1830s, but was revived in 1885 by the new vicar, W. H. Seddon, who mistakenly believed that the festival had been ancient in origin.

On June 19, 2010, they played a very well received concert at NEARfest, a progressive rock festival in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and during this show they introduced new songs for a forthcoming album.

It was first reported that Robert Plant's new vehicle, The Sensational Space Shifters, would be debuting at 2012's WOMAD festival in Wiltshire, England.