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September 27 - Octorber 6, 2002

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On September 28th and 29th 1996 the eighth Annual Awards event took place in Nelson New Zealand. 245 garments were showcased on a 100 metre long catwalk in the two hour art spectacular The garments were designed by prominent sculptors, fabric designers, paint artists. They were also created by school students, career professionals and Rest Home residents. . The magic was inspiring and many of the spectators went away revelling in re-discovered wonder.

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Dunkelfolket loves to performe on the street, and we have been in Viareggio Italy for about 10 years. Carnival in: Italy - Viareggio Sweden - Norkj?bing and Stockholm England - London/Nottin Hill Lithuania - Vilnius Singapore Millinium 2000 Denmark - Aalborg Appearances with: Aalborg Symphony Orchestra "Focus on the mask" Aalborg Symphony Orchestra and "Det Nordjydske Operakompani "Commedia Della Musica" Oslo The 700 years anniversary of "Akershus Festning"

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The Virgen del Carmen Festival is one of the most authentic and colorful native religious celebrations in the Andes. It is a wonderful blend of pre-Columbian pagan rites and Roman Catholic worship, in which masked dancers perform powerful symbolic dances and rituals around the eternal battle between good and evil. After exploring and acclimatizing in Cusco, you'll trek and camp in lovely Andean valleys for several days, hiking past small villages and campesinos' farms.

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Carnaval in San Juan Chamula is a week long celebration. We'll be visiting the Carnaval celebrations there and in three other Chiapas communities in this years tour. We will be visiting carnaval celebrations in three Chiapas communities; the highland indigenous communities of San Juan Chamula and Tenejapa and the lowland mestizo communities of Ocozocoautla and San Fernando.

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Depuis 1907, Chalon sur Sa?ne c?l?bre l'hiver finissant et l'ann?e nouvelle durant son carnaval. Pendant 10 jours, musiques, chars, g?niots, bals masqu?s et f?te foraine animent les rues de la ville.

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The town of San Francisco celebrations are relatively young, if compared to Venezia or Rio de Janeiro, but nevertheless its energy it's there to make performers and public vibrate. Parade is always the 4th Sunday of May or Memorial Weekend (thus disconnected from the catholic traditions), the parade lasts one day only and begins at Bryant & 24th at 10am. Then it heads down the Mission Street to 15th where the parade dissolves in beer and more dancing. The show continues until 6pm. Of course the celebration goes on privately after hours, but that's another story

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Roberto Delpiano's Carnival of Venice page offers information on the carnival tradition in Venice, Italy. This site includes lots of information on Commedia and its characters, as well as other carnival traditions

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With Photogallery showing many wonderful masks. ( Photo = Bilder )

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The Baden carneval

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We are an carnival-association who based on old storys about the village "Dettenhausen" in the south of germany. Our masks are handmaded out of wood. We are using the masks only in time of carnival to banish evil creatures.

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El Carnaval Dominicano es una de las tradiciones m?s coloridas y celebraciones m?s alegres de la Rep?blica Dominicana. En el mismo participa todo el pueblo, que se lanza a las calles a disfrutar, compartir y celebrar con alegr?a. Su mayor intensidad ocurre a finales del mes de febrero en su ?ltimo fin de semana, aunque dependiendo de la regi?n, se celebra todos los fines de semana del mes de febrero e incluso hasta inicios de marzo. Existen otras fechas particulares en las que algunas poblaciones celebran carnavales aislados, pero con la misma creatividad y entusiasmo mostrado en febrero por toda la naci?n. Pero es febrero el mes de Carnaval en la Rep?blica Dominicana y el j?bilo y la celebraci?n masiva en las calles y clubes sociales son el sello que distingue estas fechas.

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There are several versions on the origin of the word "Carnival". In the Milanise dialect, Carnevale means "the time when the use of meat is taken away", since Carnival is precisely the night before Ash Wednesday. In Brazil, the event is the greatest popular cultural manifestation besides soccer. It is a mixture of fun, party and theater which involves art and folklore.

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+ VIDEO ( REALPLAYER) "For centuries, the people of Papua New Guinea have gathered for festivals. In the past, these gatherings have provided an opportunity for feasting, and for asking forgiveness for wrong-doing such as pig stealing. Today, the best known gatherings are held at Mount Hagen and Goroka."

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Dubarry (Porcelaine de Limoges) have produced a series of pill/trinket boxes based on the Masks produced for the Princes Trust by 500 celebrities and well known spokespeople from the worlds of art, music, theatre, film, politics, business and sport. Each celebrity was invited to decorate a clay mask. The results are a stunning collection of original designs. Pictured top right are three of the boxes from designs by Sting, Bette Midler and Mary Quant. The actual masks by Sting and Bette Midler are pictured

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In English - updated version with fotos "The carnival festivities have strong roots in the Opatija region. Their origin is from the time when the key persons were the Zvon?ari, people who, at the beginning of February, dressed in skins of wild animal, wore colourful hats and had cowbells tied to their body. they would go out in the forests in groups to scare out the turkish soldiers, which dates the events to somewhere about 1511, when the last battle took place in this territory."

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A site telling about the fabulous Basel - fasnacht IN ENGLISH !!

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Trip to CARNIVAL held in Oruro, Bolivia (click on link)

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A Chinese proverb states that all creations are reborn on New Year?s day. The Chinese New Year is a celebration of change ... out with the old and in with the new!

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Dia de los Muertos, Oaxaca 2001 Day of the Dead Tour One of the most important holidays in Mexico is Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, when those that have passed on to another life come back to visit their families. Dia de Los Muertos is actually a series of festivities lasting about a week and ending on November 2.

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Describing in short the tradition. Part of large website.

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( Chapter about the Purim - masks and costumes ) Purim is the most festive of Jewish holidays, a time of prizes, noisemakers, costumes and treats. The Festival of Purim commemorates a major victory over oppression and is recounted in the Megillah, the scroll of the story of Esther. Purim takes place on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of Adar, the twelfth month of the Jewish calendar. This year (2000) Purim begins at sundown on Monday the 20th of March

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Du Moyen Age jusqu'au troisi?me mill?naire, quelle belle continuit?, malgr? les hiatus et le silence relatif des archives ; mais les maillons chronologiques sont assez tenus, pour rappeler une histoire ancr?e dans la cit?. Carnaval est partie int?grante du patrimoine et la manifestation la plus populaire et la plus vivante de l'hiver Albigeois.

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This years' festival ( 2000 )invites 32 theater troupes (22 French, 3 African, 2 Dutch and 4 Israelis), covering 30 different artistic projects, including 23 ?creations? (recent productions), and 8 coproductions with Chalon-sur-Sa?ne "Abattoir", which is a creation and production site for "street art".

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