At the Babylonian New Year's festival, the priest was to commission from a woodworker, a metalworker and a goldsmith two images one of which " shall hold in its left hand a snake of cedar, raising its right to the god Nabu ".

Until 2009, St Kilda was home to the Community Cup festival which celebrates grassroots Australian rules football having attracted record attendances of up to 23, 000 and raising money for local charity the Sacred Heart Mission.

Firefly is an environment indicator insect that lives only in the clean environment, and Muju-gun is raising awareness about the seriousness of environmental contamination that is getting worse by linking firefly to a festival.

The festival was founded in 1979 by Dr. Rudy Melone, Don Christopher, and Val Filice, and has been a fundraiser for local charities, raising a total of about seven and a half million dollars for assorted causes.

Individual groups and charities also run booths at the festival, raising additional funds for their causes.

The festival celebrations include a procession ( involving floats decorated by local organisations ), children's maypole dancing, morris dancing, a street craft market, and the raising of the maypole ceremony.

Hay is normally brought in twice a year, often also on festival days.

It is also a fertility festival, similar in some ways to other harvest-time celebrations in other cultures.

He twice ran away from home without permission to hear his elder brother play violin concertos in neighboring churches on festival days ( resulting in the loss of his beloved sugar ), and he also recounted being chastised by his father after failing to greet a local priest with proper respect.

There are also the many North American Indian festivals tied to harvest of autumnally ripe foods gathered in the wild, the Chinese Mid-Autumn or Moon festival, and many others.

In the Anglosphere, most notably in Anglo-America, autumn is also associated with the Halloween season ( which in turn was influenced by Samhain, a Celtic autumn festival ), and with it a widespread marketing campaign that promotes it, in the U. S. A.

Alexandria is also known as " Small Town USA " and holds an annual festival to honor this heritage.

Today, Beltane is also observed as a religious festival by Celtic neopagans.

Like the festival of Samhain, opposite Beltane on 31 October, Beltane was also a time when the Otherworld was seen as particularly close at hand.

Judge's gory send-up When Animated Animals Attack is also a cult hit among animation festival fans in North America, as are the works of Don Hertzfeldt ( Billy's Balloon, Rejected, The Meaning of Life ) and Robert Smigel.

A festival programme is usually also provided, listing the drinks available for tasting and providing a brief description of each beverage.

The park also hosts the annual Taste of Chicago festival.

* One of the four Agonalia, this day in honor of Sol Indiges ; also the Septimontium festival ( Roman Empire )

Akio Tsumura had also played for the festival before Miyake-jima erupted in 2000.

Arabic also uses the term,, meaning " festival of the resurrection ", but this term is less common.

The first North American high film festival was the Columbus International Film & Video Festival, also known as The Chris Awards, held in 1953.

The Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival and Gimli Film Festival are also major festivals in North America, as is the Vancouver International Film Festival, the fifth largest film festival in North America.

In April – May 2011 House of Pain attended the Groovin ' the Moo touring festival in Australia, and also performed at Scotland's T in the Park Festival on 9 July 2011, as well as Sonisphere UK Festival on 12 July of the same year.

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

Hezekiah also resumed the Passover pilgrimage and the tradition of inviting the scattered tribes of Israel to take part in a Passover festival.

Sorita d ' Este observes that it is also important to give consideration to the difference between the modern calendar and the lunisolar calendars which would have been in use when these dates were set, giving us a full moon date around the 13th of each month and the date for the August festival originating with the festival of Nemoralia held in honour of Diana.

It has served as the foundation for most music in South India, including folk music, festival music and has also extended its influence to film music in the past 100 – 150 years or so.

Mishra also wrote an original score for French Director Eric Heumann for his film Port Djema ( 1996 ) which won best score at Hamptons film festival and The Golden Bear at Berlin.

Imbolc or Imbolg ( pronounced or ), also called Brighid's Day or St Brighid ’ s Day (,, ), is a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of spring.

* Paryushana is the most important festival among the Jain festivals. It is also known as Dashlakshan parva. It happens during late August / September commencing on the twelfth day of the fortnight of the waning moon cycle and ending in the fourteenth of the fortnight of the waxing moon cycle.

" ( Larson 17 ) The annual festival involved the construction of " Osiris Beds " formed in shape of Osiris, filled with soil and sown with seed.

Similarly the festival of Tozoztontli ( 24 March – 12 April ) involved more child sacrifice.

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.

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.

La Tomatina () is a festival that is held in the Valencian town of Buñol, a town located 30 km from the Mediterranean, in which participants throw tomatoes and get involved in this tomato fight purely for fun.

The festival gained popularity with more and more participants getting involved every year.

Those involved provided music at various free festivals in the 1990s and also assistance to the then budding Deptford urban free festival ( later the Fordham Park urban free festival ).

During the New Kingdom, she was involved in the Sed festival held by the pharaohs who could celebrate thirty years of reign.

Town officials, deeply concerned about the size of crowds expected for the event and the logistics involved in hosting it, disallowed the festival the site through the Zoning Board of Appeals.

The festival is heavily involved with local schools, devoting several galleries to student artwork.

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.

A great many people who were later to become involved in the punk scene claimed to have " been there " during the two-day festival, but this is an unlikely claim ; the venue had a 600-person capacity.

Towards the end of 1945 Tudor proposed that an international choral festival be added to the 1947 Welsh National Eisteddfod, however the Council of the National Eisteddfod felt that as all their effort were involved in rebuilding their own organisation they could not take on such a scheme.

In 1996, Andy Sears went to live in Spain, where he became actively involved in various projects, including an appearance at the Tiana festival ( Barcelona ), originally planned as a Twelfth Night reunion.

The Night festival or " inna-mutiki " is a party where all the people involved to celebrate a wedding or a new marriage in the village or community, this festival usually lasts for several days until the end of the whole liquor that has garnered the families.

His web site was shut down after he tried selling his unauthorized products without creative approval from the artists involved and the producers of the festival.

Felix Mottl, who was involved with the festival from 1876 to 1901, conducted Tristan und Isolde there in 1886.

Originally they were part of the cassette culture movement, releasing material on the Fuck Off Records label, and were also involved in the squatting and free festival scene.

This involved him shooting footage at the festival as well as drawing on the vast amount of archival footage, as well as footage sent in by fans of the festival.

There are many opportunities to be involved in the community through such iniatives as the community orchard ( repurposed allotments ), the urb farm, the annual scarecrow festival and the lantern parade at Christmas ( running since 1990 ).

In 2005, a festival of Schuller's music directed by Bruce Brubaker involved the Boston Symphony, Harvard University, and New England Conservatory.