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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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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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( Italian Version) Carnevale comincia il giorno di Sant' Antonio Abate. Un proverbio lucano, infatti, recita "a Sant'Antuon maschere e suon" il primo segnale dell'arrivo della festa pi? colorata e divertente dell'anno ? dato dal fuoco. In quasi tutti i centri lucani il Santo dei maiali, delle mucche, delle pecore e di tutti gli animali domestici viene ricordato con l'accensione di grandi fal?. I fuochi vengono accesi nelle piazze principali e soprattutto davanti alle chiese perch? vengono benedetti dal parroco.

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photos and text lion dance

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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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Lucerne are the strongholds of the carnival in central Switzerland whose originality can hardly be bettered. The opening of the " Festive Days " is evry time comparable to the Big - Bang.

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list of giants carnivals in France

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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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Describing in short the tradition. Part of large website.

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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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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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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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photos

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Welcome to our little site dedicated to anything and everything that is Mardi Gras in New Orleans

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text and photos from travel agency

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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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Describing the hindu celebration

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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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The inaugural Killarney SummerFest was deemed to be a huge success with a huge turnout at all of the events. Just some of the highlights were:

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The Philadelphia New Years Day Mummers Parade is a tradition of the city that dates back to pre-Colonial times, making it the oldest folk parade in the United States. The parade originates from a blend of Irish, Swedish, Finnish, English, German, and other European heritages. This great celebration of the new year takes place on the 1st of January, every year in Center City

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Adding to the festivities at the Punch & Judy Faire and providing a dramatic finale to the week of workshops, activities and performances was the Giant Puppet Parade. Led by drummers and puppeteers from Mali, Africa the parade meandered on a long journey over the grounds of the beautiful University of Washington campus.

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The idea of organising a parade of floats to celebrate Carnival outdoors, all together along the streets, developed from some youths of the well-to-do society in February 1873 in the Caf? del Casino. Later this original event, which took place on the Sunday and Shrove Tuesday of February 1873, ripened in the Carnival of Viareggio, as it is known today; one of the most beautiful and magnificent spectacular events of the world.

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PRE-CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS Carnival originated from pre-Christian traditions of the peasantry of Europe and other continents. Peasants live intimately with nature. They depend on good weather for good harvests. They rejoice when they reap abundantly. That's why they tried to influence the insecure factors affecting their crops by means of ceremonies and rituals.......

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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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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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