A festival or gala is an event that is ordinarily staged by a local community that centers around and celebrates a unique aspect of that community. Among many religions, a feast is a set of celebrations in honor of God.1 Each population and community has specific rejoicings and feasts.The joy and jubilation in these solemnities alleviate psychology stress and, hence, one’s health. Nevertheless,...

Provision of culturally appropriate care for Hindus in care homes in the UK. Core Hindu beliefs are explained and the importance of worship, festivals, self care, diet and death rituals are examined. 19 refs. Source: BNI

The recent years have witnessed the decreasing traditional flavor in the way Chinese people celebrated the traditional Chinese festivals, including the Spring Festival the most influential traditional festival in China. In contrast, Christmas seemed to be more welcome than the Spring Festival. The change in the positions of the two festivals reflected the change in the young generations’ concep...

This article brings together the author’s previous research and consultancy along with a review of literature from several disciplines to develop a framework that summarizes the concepts, methods, and processes required to successfully evaluate the impacts of local government community festivals. Events and festivals are a relatively underresearched area but have experienced a growing amount of...

This article maps out the landscape of Shakespeare festivals in Europe and argues that European Festivals Network (ESFN) has been crucial to putting them on tourist map. ESFN is a cultural foundation established March 2010 as an association five festivals: Bath (United Kingdom), Craiova (Romania), Gdansk (Poland), Gyula (Hungary), Neuss (Germany). begins with documenting Network's first ten yea...

In the past few years pop-music festivals on both sides of the Atlantic have rapidly increased in popularity-and length. Press and television have tended to emphasize various aspects of these assemblies, particularly the sexual licence and drug addiction, so that it was with some apprehension that-though we had agreed to staff a festival voluntarily, as we could not obtain fees-we approached ou...