August Festivals | Festivals in August
Festivals in August
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August Festival Articles
17 festival article(s) returned for August
Displaying article(s) 1 to 17 ordered by festival name
Article Title: The Art of Burning Man
Festival Name: Burning Man
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Art, Performing Art, Bizarre
Black Rock City, as the town centered around Burning Man is known, is now the third largest city in Nevada, although it exists for only one week a year. It is also perhaps one of the best-designed cities in the world. It works wonderfully. It's safe enough for women to walk around naked. It's chock full of fantastic and real art. Transportation is primarily via bicycle. It's got a world-class view of a unique wilderness. Consumption is low and creation is high.
Article Title: Charleville Camel, Donkey and Yabbie Race Festival
Festival Name: Charleville Camel, Donkey and Yabbie Race Festival
Festival Country: Australia
Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, Bizarre, Party
Whilst travelling through Central Queensland we heard of the upcoming Charleville Camel, Donkey and Yabbie Race Festival and felt we just had to be there. We made a dash to Charleville risking life and limb, travelling at night through the kangaroo infested outback.
Article Title: Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Festival Name: Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Festival Country: Scotland
Festival Type(s): Fringe, Performing Art, Comedy
The Fringe is an immense gathering of artists, musicians, dancers and actors coming from over 40 countries to perform in over 250 venues. Search for a show on the Fringe website and you will have to sift through a mere 1,909 shows. It would take five years, three months, and 25 days to see every performance in the Fringe 2005 back to back.
Article Title: Hooray For The Fringe! Your Fringe lowdown...
Festival Name: Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Festival Country: Scotland
Festival Type(s): Fringe, Comedy, Performing Art
To anyone except the actor, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is annual paradise. For five frantic weeks the elegant seaside city of Edinburgh resigns itself to theatrical hijack. From all corners of the globe dramatic and musical troupes descend on Scotland's capital to tempt, cajole, and dazzle the spectator into parting with their pounds: in exchange for laughter, tears, derision, and amusement.
Article Title: Eisa, Eisa!
Festival Name: Eisa Festival
Festival Country: Japan
Festival Type(s): Cultural, Traditional
The Eisa festival, held at the conclusion of Obon in late August, marks the end of summer and is the last big festival of the year. It is a time of great celebration and the time to bid farewell to the spirits of ancestors who have come back to earth for Obon.
Article Title: Humungus Fungus Festival - Crystal Falls, Michigan
Festival Name: Humungus Fungus Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Fair, Harvest
What is a Humungus Fungus you ask? Several years ago a "humungus fungus" (a GIGANTIC mushroom) was discovered in the Crystal Falls area. It weighs roughly 11 tons and covers 37 acres.
Article Title: The Airy Charm of Kiteflight
Festival Name: International Kite Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Kite
Held annually on the 26 mile stretch of Long Beach, Washington, the International Kite Festival is beholden to no one. You don't have to pay to get in, you can bring your own little trash bag kite and fly it on a spool of fishing line amid the behemoths, and everyone is welcome.
Article Title: Bathtubs on the River
Festival Name: International Regatta of Bathtubs - La Regate des Baignoires
Festival Country: Belgium
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre
The hot sun of a mid-August day beats down on a motley flotilla as it makes it way down the River Meuse through the town of Dinant, Belgium. One of Europe's lesser-known festivals, La Regate des Baignoires, the International Regatta of Bathtubs, was, as the local tourist board cheerfully admits, a promotional stunt dreamed up to bring visitors to this sliver of a town wedged between steeps cliffs and the Meuse River about an hour from Brussels.
Article Title: King of the Hill in Kazakhstan
Festival Name: Khan Tengri Mountain Festival
Festival Country: Kazakhstan
Festival Type(s): Sport - Mountaineering, Sport - Extreme
In the field of X-treme competitions, Hawaii's Ironman and Alaska's Iditarod strike awe into the hearts of competitors and spectators alike. In a remote corner of a remote country, a new race goes beyond X-treme. Rick Hudson reports.
Article Title: La Tomatina - The World's Biggest Food Fight
Festival Name: La Tomatina
Festival Country: Spain
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Party, Traditional
As history spells it out, what began in 1944 as a simple tomato fight between a group of friends in the town's main square - the Plaza del Pueblo - has turned into arguably the worlds largest food fight. Actually, there is very little to argue about.
Article Title: New France Festival Transports Visitors Back in Time
Festival Name: New France Festival - Les Fetes de la Nouvelle France
Festival Country: Canada
Festival Type(s): Historical, Cultural
As I make my way down a crowded narrow street away from the Place Royale in Old Quebec, a young girl, dressed as a scullery maid, her blouse smeared with dirt, looks up shyly at me from the street corner much as she might have done in 18th-Century Quebec. Not far from her, two couples, dressed in elegant brocades, chat, the husband of second couple gently kissing the hand of the first woman with a hardy 'Enchanté.' If I didn't know better, I'd have sworn I had been transported back in time to the beginnings of this beautiful city. But here I am standing amidst crowds of animated people, many of whom are dressed in 17th and 18th-century costumes. For this is Quebec's renowned Les Fetes de la Nouvelle France, or New France Festival.
Article Title: Scarlett Does Québec
Festival Name: New France Festival - Les Fetes de la Nouvelle France
Festival Country: Canada
Festival Type(s): Historical, Cultural
The buildings in the old part of Québec City resembled a collection of
treasured jewels surrounded by ancient walls and crowned by the
beautiful Fairmont Le Château Frontenac Hotel. Looking down on the city
from the top of the funicular, a reasonable alternative from the very
long and straight-up stairway called 'Heart Attack', I was surprised by
the variety of colors of the copper roofs.
Article Title: London's Calypso Carnival
Festival Name: Notting Hill Carnival
Festival Country: England
Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Party
But all that changes on the August bank holiday weekend as the Notting Hill Carnival - Europe's largest street party and second only in the world to Rio's Carnaval - swings and sways its way into W11.
Article Title: Skin Games - The Nude Olympics
Festival Name: Nude Olympics
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Nude, Naturist, Adult
There are no sponsors, no endorsements and no Life magazine exposes. This is the third annual Nude Olympics we're talking about and, like the contestants themselves, this event has been stripped of all trappings.
Article Title: In the 'Spirit' of Welcome
Festival Name: Obon
Festival Country: Japan
Festival Type(s): Cultural, Traditional
The Japanese have long respected their elders who are held in high esteem for their wisdom. They bestow many honors upon them both before and after death. Okinawans return to their family homes for obon, some of them traveling thousands of miles.
Article Title: Five a Side at the Placencia Country Fest
Festival Name: Placencia Country Fest
Festival Country: Belize
Festival Type(s): Local, Community, Fair
The action was fierce. A player came blazing by, setting up a shot for
goal, a defender in hot pursuit. The soccer ball screamed toward the goal,
only to be intercepted by......a palm tree.
Article Title: Russian Around Aarhus
Festival Name: Ship Ahoy Festival
Festival Country: Denmark
Festival Type(s): Maritime, Historical, Re-enactments
Bellowing out his command loudly in Russian from right behind my ear, the captain sharply snaps me from my momentary lull in the baking Baltic sun.
August Festival Snippets
38 festival snippet(s) returned for August
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USA
USA
USA
England
USA
England
England
USA
USA
Finland
August Festival Photo Galleries
54 festival photo gallerie(s) returned for August
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Festival Country
Finland
Finland
Anguilla
USA
England
England
Cuba
Cuba
Cuba
Anguilla
Canada
England
England
Finland
Scotland
Scotland
Scotland
Scotland
Belgium
Japan
Cuba
Finland
Hungary
Spain
Tibet
England
England
England
England
England
Romania
Germany
Australia
Australia
Canada
England
England
Singapore
August Festival Videos
15 festival video(s) returned for August
Displaying video(s) 1 to 15 ordered by festival name
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Festival Country
Germany
Portugal
USA
England
Scotland
Scotland
El Salvador
Spain
England
Poland
England
August Festival Links
118 festival link(s) returned for August
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Finland
Netherlands
Finland
Australia
Bulgaria
China
England
Georgia
Norway
England
USA
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Germany
Wales
England
England
Scotland
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Canada
Romania
Belgium
Algeria
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Norway
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Norway
Hungary
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Poland
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Belgium
India
England
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Israel
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England
Denmark
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England
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Denmark
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Papua New Guinea
USA
England
Hungary
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