* 455 BC: Euripides presents his first known tragedy, Peliades, in the Athenian festival of Dionysia.

Each year, the festival also presents the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema.

* Euripides presents his earliest known tragedy, Peliades, in the Athenian festival of Dionysia.

Each year on the fourth weekend in August, Portland Area Chamber of Commerce presents Riverfest, a homegrown festival celebrating Portland's heritage as the " City of Two Rivers ".

The Yachats event is the summer festival for Four Seasons Arts, an organization that presents annual recitals at Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center.

Sir Michael Caine, patron of the festival, presents the awards, filming schedule permitting, at the Gala Awards Night each year.

The festival is known worldwide for the many music styles it presents, from traditional New Orleans jazz to Swing, bebop, fusion, blues, gospel music, funk music, soul music and drum n bass.

The autumn Hindu festival of Dusshera was celebrated in the palace by the distribution of nazrs or presents to Zafar's Hindu officers and the colouring of the horses in the royal stud.

Louise's charitable giving continued throughout her life, and on one occasion, while attending a harvest festival, she purchased presents and distributed them to local children.

Today the festival presents over 150 individual productions from Canada and around the world.

Unlike the summer festival, NSTF is juried and presents both new and remounted projects by " Fringe Artists ".

Originally a pure jazz festival, it opened up in the 1970s and today presents artists of nearly every imaginable music style.

The festival was intended for a German audience and presents recent German and international shorts and documentaries.

Projekt Records also presents Projektfest, a semi-annual festival of gothic and ethereal music, featuring primarily ( but not exclusively ) Projekt artists.

The limitations and opportunities that the Fringe festival format presents lead to some common features.

This festival presents choirs, soloists and artists from around the world, specialists in sacred music.

The festival presents 750-800 performances of eleven plays in three theatres from February through early November each year, with a total average audience of 375, 000 to 400, 000 each season.

The CineLink Market each year presents approximately 10 finest regional projects for feature-length fiction films, also offering festival guests a special opportunity to meet with the assembled regional industry, with emphasis on young filmmakers, producers and directors presenting their latest projects, productions and works in progress, with highlights of the regional production presented to international distributors, TV-buyers and festival programmers, making CineLink the most important international market place for new features from Southeast Europe.

The festival is a non-profit national organization that presents live dance performances by professional artists.

The Aspen Music Festival and School, founded in 1949, is an internationally renowned classical music festival that presents music in an intimate, small-town setting.

The song is notable for its use of the vocoder voice effect, saying the lines, " Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Disneyland proudly presents our spectacular festival pageant of nighttime magic and imagination in thousands of sparkling lights and electro-synthe-magnetic musical sounds.

Disneyland proudly presents our spectacular festival pageant of nighttime magic and imagination.

Disney proudly presents our spectacular festival pageant of nighttime magic and imagination.

The festival hosts a number of children's, cultural and local events.

Beltane regained popularity during the Celtic Revival and is still observed as a cultural festival by some in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man and among their diasporas.

While inspired by traditional Beltane, this festival is a modern arts and cultural event ( compared by organizers to the American Burning Man festival ) which incorporates myth and drama from a variety of world cultures and diverse literary sources.

Begun by Spencer in 1814, the annual gathering of the Big August Quarterly still draws people together in a religious and cultural festival, the oldest such cultural festival in the nation.

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.

* Antaragni: Annual cultural festival held over 4 days in October. It is one of the most popular college festivals in India.

* 1993 – 37 participants in an Alevi cultural and literary festival are killed when a mob of demonstrators set fire to their hotel in Sivas during a violent protest.

The annual cultural festival ( or culfest ) of Jadavpur University is called " Sanskriti ", which in Bengali or Hindi means Culture.

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.

Culturama, the annual cultural festival of Nevis, is celebrated during the Emancipation Day weekend, the first week of August.

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 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.

Refugee Week is a nationwide festival designed to promote understanding and to celebrate the cultural contributions of refugees, and features many events such as music, dance and theatre.

The Ionian cities formed a religious and cultural ( as opposed to a political or military ) confederacy, the Ionian League, of which participation in the Panionic festival was a distinguishing characteristic.

But cultural life was also soon back on track: in 1947 Mozart festival weeks were held in the Opera House, from which the Franconian Festival Weeks developed.

Though at first an enthusiastic champion of Wagner's music, Nietzsche ultimately became hostile, viewing the festival and its revellers as symptom of cultural decay and bourgeois decadence — an event which led him to turn his eye upon the moral values esteemed by society as a whole-" Nietzsche clearly preferred to see Bayreuth fail than succeed by mirroring a society gone wrong.

It has been founded as a street festival where local sports and cultural clubs offered drinks and foods.

Referred to as the cultural capital of Karnataka, Mysore is well known for the festivities that take place during the period of Dasara, the state festival of Karnataka.

In October 2009, Sting played a concert in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, for an arts and cultural festival.

" During this festival the streets are filled with music, art, theatre, and dance as the city residents celebrate Alcalá's rich cultural heritage.

Although Halloween is often claimed to be a cultural descendant of the Celtic festival of Samhain, such claims are generally not considered either historically accurate or scholarly.