Festivals
A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and …
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UN: The United Nations · 7 January 2025
Download Formats Add to Basket Files Details SymbolA/RES/31/41 TitleSecond World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture. [...] AccessEnglish: A_RES_31_41-EN - PDF ; Español: A_RES_31_41-ES - PDF ; Français: …
World Bank Group · 7 January 2025 English
Food price inflation in Laos has surged into double digits since mid-2022, surpassing global and regional trends. High food prices impact the welfare of both consumers and agricultural producers. Holding …
harvest cycles or demand peaks during holidays or festivals can also influence short-term price fluctuations …
UN: The United Nations · 7 January 2025 English
Download Formats Add to Basket Files Details SymbolT/RES/364(IX) TitlePetition from the Somali Youth League, Local Committee of Dolo (T/PET.11/13), concerning Somaliland under Italian administration. [...] AccessEnglish: T_RES_364(IX)-EN - PDF ; …
British Future · 6 January 2025 English
Funders and foundations Increase the capacity and knowledge of arts Develop objectives for social connection to The Arts Councils, in particular, could explore practitioners to bridge divides incentivise action routes …
progress is needed events, such as exhibitions and festivals. A large When facilitated in an inclusive format … photography, crafts and woodwork, film local music festivals and has performed production and editing, or teaching … notably through arts 5. Gaps and challenges events, festivals or carnivals that can mobilise communities at … popular by a considerable distance were music festivals or live music events (47%), 4% 8% 13% 21% 47% … musicals (46%), and broader Play or musical arts festivals or carnivals (38%). One in three had attended …
World Bank Group · 3 January 2025 English
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services for awareness raising events, i.e. festivals, panels, workshops, concerts and etc. (Multiple …
NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 3 January 2025 English
Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) use among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and questioning (LGBQ) teenagers is over 30 percent higher than among their heterosexual counterparts. Yet little is known about how …
tailored to the LGBQ community such as pride festivals (Truth Initiative, 2024b). These efforts may mute …
Cirium · 2 January 2025 English
The Cirium On-Time Performance Review 2024 provides a comprehensive analysis of the aviation industry's performance, focusing on operational excellence and reliability. Despite challenges such as global cybersecurity incidents and extreme …
influences, reflected in its music, dance, and festivals. Nature enthusiasts will find paradise in Panama’s …
WHO: World Health Organization · 1 January 2025 English
This paper aimed to provide an overview of the use of food price controls in 10 Member States of the World Health Organization South-East Asia and Western Pacific regions, which …
excessive demand, for exam ple, during religious festivals (Table 1). For instance, Brunei Darussalam applies …
WHO: World Health Organization · 31 December 2024 English
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They can be categorized as cultural (e.g. music festivals), political (e.g. elections or protests), religious … activities, event sites and spectator sites (e.g. fan festivals, fan zones, airports, railway stations, bus hubs) …
UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation · 30 December 2024 English
IGC 14, this document reports on the financial and administrative implications of the potential implementation of a non-pecuniary award for cultural diversity, in line with the revised Overall Strategy for …
or organise events with other international festivals in all continents to enhance the visibility of … political landscape. Cooperation with important festivals is a great idea, and the Committee needs to define …
