They perform at both military and civilian airfields, and often perform directly over major cities such as San Francisco's " Fleet Week " maritime festival, Cleveland's annual Labor Day Air Show, the Chicago Air and Water Show, and Seattle's annual Seafair festival.

* North American: The San Francisco International Film Festival, started in 1957, is the oldest continuously running film festival in the Americas.

While the Expresión en Corto International Film Festival is the largest competitive film festival in Mexico, specializing in emerging talents, and is held each year during the last week of July in the two colonial cities of San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato.

In 2007, Loach was one of more than 100 artists and writers who signed an open letter initiated by Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism and the South West Asian, North African Bay Area Queers ( SWANABAQ ) and calling on the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival " to honour calls for an international boycott of Israeli political and cultural institutions, by discontinuing Israeli consulate sponsorship of the LGBT film festival and not co-sponsoring events with the Israeli consulate.

In December 1969, a rock festival took place in Altamont, California, about 30 miles ( 45 km ) east of San Francisco.

The Burning Man festival began in 1986 at a San Francisco beach party and is now held in the Black Rock Desert northeast of Reno, Nevada.

On October 1, 2005, she performed at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

* 2001 — Richard Kelly won with Donnie Darko for " Best Screenplay " at the Sitges film festival and at the San Diego Film Critics Society.

The city is famous worldwide for the San Fermín festival, from July 6 to 14, in which the running of the bulls is one of the main attractions.

Liverpool, England is home to a large LGBT population ( equivalent to the size of San Francisco's ), and as well as having an officially recognised gay quarter, the city hosts the annual Homotopia ( festival ), the only lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans combined arts organisation in the North of England.

From this year onwards, " Los Clavarios de San Luis Bertrán " ( San Luis Bertrán is the patron of the town of Buñol ) organised the whole festival and brought in tomatoes which had previously been brought by the local people.

On 30 September 2011, Plant and Band of Joy played in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, as part of the 11th Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival.

He usually wears an oversized yellow sombrero, white shirt and trousers ( Which is a common tradional outfit worn by men and boys of rural Mexican villages ), and a red kerchief, similar to that of a reveler in the San Fermin festival.

Inspired by the Italian San Remo Music Festival, this festival was followed by a wave of similar music festivals in places like Barcelona, Majorca and the Canary Islands.

In 1989, a festival of animation shorts, organized by Craig " Spike " Decker and Mike Gribble ( known as " Spike & Mike ") and originally based in San Diego, began showcasing a collection of short subject animated films.

His next appearance in the U. S. was in San Francisco for the New Music America festival in 1981.

Highlights included performances at several events involved with the All Tomorrow's Parties concert series, Pop's 60th birthday on the stage of San Francisco's Warfield Theater, touring with the Lollapalooza festival, and a performance of two Madonna covers at the Michigan-born singer's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in protest of the Stooges ' failure to receive an induction into said institution despite six nominations.

An annual San Jacinto Day festival and battle re-enactment is held in the month of April at the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site.

An annual toy piano festival is held in San Diego which features a collection of toy pianos and recording of toy pianos.

Although the band rarely releases albums or perform together currently, the group came together for a reunion at Cypress Hill's SmokeOut festival in San Bernardino, CA on October 23, 2009.

Originally taking place in Los Angeles, the festival has expanded to several locations over the years including Chicago, New York, Boston, Cleveland, San Francisco, Vancouver, Toronto and Liverpool, England ( the latter event included performances at the re-created Cavern Club ).

The band also played with all the original members at the Smoke Out festival in San Bernardino, CA on October 23, 2009.

The most famous running of the bulls is that of the seven-day festival of Sanfermines in honour of San Fermín in Pamplona, although they are held in towns and villages across Spain, Portugal, and in some cities in Mexico, Mesquite, Nevada, and southern France, during the summer.

The company was founded in 1989 Pamplona's San Fermín festival.

Statues dedicated to Sanfermines festival, in Pamplona

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

During the festival, a procession ( believed to be depicted on the Parthenon frieze ) traveled through the city via the Panathenaic Way and culminated on the Acropolis.

The city is home to the Atlanta Dogwood Festival, an annual arts and crafts festival held one weekend during early April, when the native dogwoods are in bloom.

* Festival celtique de Québec or Québec city celtic festival, ( Quebec city, Quebec, Canada )

The annual summer festival, the Taste of Chicago in Grant Park, highlights food in the city with many local restaurants taking part.

" Seattle International Film Festival is credited as being the largest film festival in the USA, regularly showing over 400 films in a month across the city.

Guatemala City offers all the modern amenities along with important historic sites that a world class city can be expected to have ranging from an IMAX Theater to the Ícaro film festival ( Festival Ícaro ) featuring films produced in Guatemala and Central America.

The city is host to some big cultural events such as the Gentse Feesten, I Love Techno in Flanders Expo, " 10 Days Off " musical festival, Flanders International Film Festival Ghent ( with the World Soundtrack Awards ) and the Gent Festival van Vlaanderen.

During this festival, Elagabalus placed the Emesa stone on a chariot adorned with gold and jewels, which he paraded through the city:

According to ancient Greek sources, a hecatomb ( a sacrifice of 100 cows ) was carried out for the festival and the people received the meat in the Kerameikos, possibly in the Dipylon courtyard ; excavators have found heaps of bones in front of the city wall.

Lupercalia was a very ancient, possibly pre-Roman pastoral festival, observed on February 13 through 15 to avert evil spirits and purify the city, releasing health and fertility.

In 1774, in the Burmese city of Rangoon, the Burmese King Hsinbyushin ( known in Thai as " King Mangra ") decided to organize a seven-day, seven-night religious festival in honor of Buddha's relics.

As the people of Kathmandu were celebrating the festival of Indrajatra, Prithvi Narayan Shah and his men marched into the city.

For the Panathenaic festival, arguably the most important civic festival at Athens, a torch race began at the altar, which was located outside the sacred boundary of the city, and passed through the Kerameikos, the district inhabited by potters and other artisans who regarded Prometheus and Hephaestus as patrons.

The race then traveled to the heart of the city, where it kindled the sacrificial fire on the altar of Athena on the Acropolis to conclude the festival.

Perhaps the most important cultural event in Poznań is the annual Malta theatre festival, which takes place at many city venues usually in late June and early July.

The Eleusinian mysteries was a festival celebrated at the autumn sowing in the city Eleusis.

* 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 city hosted Estonia's first song festival in 1869, as well as the Vanemuine, the first national theatre, in 1870.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti, a longtime resident of the city, regularly participates in the festival, which invites orchestras and other performers from around the world.

In the Belgian city of Binche the Mardi Gras festival is the most important day of the year and the summit of the Carnival of Binche.

The festival is celebrated almost exclusively in the city of Limassol.