Festivals around the World

Escola Secundária Sebastião e Silva

EnglishCatarina Antas, nº 8,

11ºCMargarida Caio, nº 20,

11ºCMarta Nunes, nº 25,

11ºCInês Didier, nº 30, 11ºC

Burning Man - USA1986

Baker Beach, San Francisco

Larry Harvey 8

feet

In honor of the Summer Solstice

The First Burning Man

1990

Assembled and elevated in Baker Beach, but burnt in Black Rock Desert.

Black Rock Desert, NevadaThe week leading up to and including Labor Day

Burning Man Founder, Larry Harvey, wrote the Ten Principles.

2004

Ten Principles

1. Radical Inclusion

2. Gifting3. Decommodifica

tion4. Radical Self-

reliance5. Radical Self-

expression6. Communal

Effort7. Civic

Responsibility8. Leaving No

Trace9. Participation10.Immediacy

Temporary city The Black Rock

City

• Spirit of community• Art• Self-expression• Self-reliance

Each year has a different theme

Fertility, Time, Hell, Outer Space, The Body, The Floating World, Beyond Belief, Vault of Heaven, Psyche, Hope and Fear, The Green Man, The American Dream, Evolution, Metropolis, Fertility 2.0 and the theme for 2013 was Cargo Cult.

1986

2013

“We will always burn The Man”

Oktoberfest - Germany

The world's largest fair held annually in Munich, Germany. It is a 16-day festival running from late September to the first

weekend of October.1810

The Crown Prince Ludwig married the Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen 

The schedule was modified in response to German reunification so that if the first Sunday in October falls on the 1st or 2nd, then the festival would go on until October 3 (German Unity Day).

1994

The festival is held in an area named the Theresienwiese  - Field, or meadow, of Therese - often called Wiesn for short, located near Munich's center.

Traditional festival opening A twelve gun salute and the tapping of the first keg of Oktoberfest beer at 12:00 by the Mayor of Munich with the cry "O'zapft is!“, which means "It's tapped!" in the Austro-Bavarian dialect opens the Oktoberfest.

1950

There are currently fourteen large tents and twenty small tents at the Oktoberfest.

Oktoberfest BeerOnly beer conforming

to the Reinheitsgebot, at a minimum of 13.5% Stammwürze (approximately 6% alcohol by volume) may be served at Oktoberfest. The beer must also be brewed within the city limits of Munich. Beers meeting these criteria may be designated Oktoberfest Beer. The breweries that can produce Oktoberfest Beer under the criteria are: Augustiner-Bräu, Hacker-Pschorr-Bräu, Löwenbräu, Paulaner, Spatenbräu, Staatliches Hofbräu-München.

Festival of San Fermín - Spain

Held in honor of Saint Fermin, the co-patron of Navarre

It was first documented in the 14th century

Single Day Events

ChupinazoRiau-RiauThe Saint

Fermin ProcessionEl StruendoPobre de Mí

Chupinazo

The Saint Fermin

Procession

El StruendoPobre de Mí

Daily Events

Giants and Big-heads Parade

Traditional Sports (stone lifting, wood

cutting, or hay bale lifting)

The Running of the Bulls

The BullfightFireworks

Giants and Big-heads Parade

Wood cutting

Stone lifting

The Running of the Bulls

The BullfightPamplon

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Colour Festival The King Jirania Kashipú

thought he was god and wanted to kill his son Prajlad because Prajlad adored the God Visnú. Even though he tried to killed him many times, he had no success on that, he asked her daughter Hólika to get in to a bonfire with his brother, because they though she was immune to fire. The legend tell us she died burneed by the fire, while her brother was saved by God Vinús.

Sonkran in ThailandAstrological calculation

1888 - 13th of April

1940 - 1st day of january, as a separated party from the traitional one.

Leaving behind the things that did not go write and renew the

energies and hope for the new year.

Diwali

It is celebrated in the first month of lunar Lartika, that occurs between October and November, a time very propitious to sacrifises and religious votes.

He was in Ayodhya, after 14 years of exile in the florest, killed

his wife’s kidnapper. The

people of Ayodhya, the capital of his

kigdom, congratulated him and lightened the

entire city.