Bizarre Festivals
Bizarre Festivals
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Bizarre Festivals Articles
32 festival article(s) returned for Bizarre Festivals
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Article Title: Art on Cows - Luxembourg
Festival Name: Art on Cows
Festival Country: Luxembourg
Festival Type(s): Art, Bizarre
The plaque on the base of the first cow offered little in the way of an explanation - Spledide by Christine Dumbsky. She was a metallic blue beast for the most part, with deep purple hooves and featured two topless pole dancers air brushed on her left flank.
Article Title: Blobfest Brings 'B' Sci-Fi Horror Film Back to Life
Festival Name: Blobfest
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Film, Bizarre
Indescribable... Indestructible! Nothing Can Stop It!' So reads the tagline of the 1950s Sci-Fi classic, The Blob. And nothing seems to be stopping a festival that brings this kitschy film back to life.
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: Calcio Storico
Festival Name: Calcio Storico
Festival Country: Italy
Festival Type(s): Sport - Football, Sport - Bizarre, Bizarre
Steeped in almost 500 years of tradition and described loosely as a mix between football and rugby - with a good dose of bare-knuckle boxing added to the mix - Calcio Storico is not a game for those who flinch at the site of blood.
Article Title: Camel Wrestling
Festival Name: Camel Wrestling Championship
Festival Country: Turkey
Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, Bizarre, Sport - Combat
While the Spanish have bullfights, and the Italians cockfights, and the English go hunting with hounds, the Turks have camel wrestling.
Article Title: The 10th Annual High Times Cannabis Cup
Festival Name: Cannabis Cup
Festival Country: Netherlands
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Adult
The Cannabis Cup is a 5 day long celebration of the many wonderful things about marijuana. It's official purpose is to bring cannabis experts together so that they can 'taste' the latest varieties of marijuana and hashish, and vote for the one they like best, much as a panel of wine experts might gather to judge the year's wine offerings.
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: Cheese Rolling in Gloucestershire
Festival Name: Cheese Rolling
Festival Country: England
Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, Bizarre, Harvest
Wherever it's origins it's hard to argue that cheese rolling is a sport for the outrageously courageous or at least the dangerously demented. Contestants in the Cooper's Hill event (between Gloucester, Stroud and Cheltenham in the Cotswolds) on the last Monday in May, stand precipitously at the top of a 300 yard hill, that maintains a gradient of two in one for the most part whilst a Master of Ceremonies counts them down.
Article Title: Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling
Festival Name: Cheese Rolling
Festival Country: England
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre, Traditional
I never expected to spend my May Bank Holiday weekend as a participant in one of Europe's wackiest and most dangerous events, but there I was, perched atop a huge, steep, bumpy hill in Gloucestershire as an entrant in the third race of the day, about to throw myself down after a piece of rolling cheese.
Article Title: D.B.Cooper Party
Festival Name: D.B.Cooper Party
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Fan Convention
D. B. Cooper is famous for one, single act - he hijacked a jet in 1971 and parachuted into the Washington night with $200,000 of ransom money tied to his waist
Article Title: Viana do Bolo Flour Festival
Festival Name: Flour Festival
Festival Country: Spain
Festival Type(s): Traditional, Bizarre, Community
The whole Latin world celebrates carnival during this time, and Galicia is no different. Different areas celebrate in different ways, all with their own trademark. One such trademark is the orgy of flour throwing which engulfs the town of Viana do Bolo, in Ourense, every year.
Article Title: Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival
Festival Name: Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre, Winter
No trip to Colorado would be complete without attending the strangely-bizarre, Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival in Nederland held annually in March
Article Title: Game of the Bridge
Festival Name: Game of the Bridge
Festival Country: Italy
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Re-enactments, Historical
Rival teams from different quarters of Pisa fought for symbolic
possession of a bridge over the Arno River. In those times, the games
often degenerated into brutal and bloody man to man fighting.
Article Title: Hadaka Matsuri - Naked Festival
Festival Name: Hadaka Matsuri - Naked Festival
Festival Country: Japan
Festival Type(s): Nude, Adult, Bizarre
Talk about male bonding! Have you ever gotten together with your buddies, stripped down to your thongs, and paraded around the neighborhood? In groups of 10-12 people at night? In mid-winter? No? Well, since I know you're dying to do this, I'll tell you about the Naked Festival in Saidaiji, Okayama prefecture.
Article Title: The Holi Festival
Festival Name: Holi
Festival Country: India
Festival Type(s): Traditional, Cultural, Bizarre
Holi is all about colour, namely colour in the hair, colour on the face, colour on your clothes, colour all over the streets and colour just about anywhere else it'll stick.
Article Title: Beer, Women and Huge Male Genitalia
Festival Name: Hounen Matsuri
Festival Country: Japan
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Traditional, Adult
Not to be outdone, every March 15th, the small town of Komaki, Japan celebrates Hounen Matsuri. Matsuri means festival and Hounen, I'm fairly sure, means Big Wooden Penis. Okay, actually it means something much less interesting, but it SHOULD mean Big Wooden Penis, because there is, in fact, a Big Wooden Penis featured prominently throughout the festival.
Article Title: Fertile Fun
Festival Name: Hounen Penis Fertility Festival
Festival Country: Japan
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Traditional, Street Parade
Remember the joke about the three old ladies and the flasher? Two had a stroke, but the other one couldn't quite reach.... Well, the Hounen matsuri (festival), held annually at Komaki's Tagata-jinja shrine, provides plenty of opportunities for all present to get their hands on some outsized phalli.
Article Title: Il carnevale d'Ivrea - Ivrea Carnival
Festival Name: Il carnevale d'Ivrea - Ivrea Carnival
Festival Country: Italy
Festival Type(s): Carnival, Bizarre, Party
That fight for liberty is recreated with the Battles of the Oranges, which substitute stones. Italy exceeds its production quota of oranges as agreed within the EEC (the European Economic Community) , so the excess needs to be destroyed (just to keep up the retail price). My co-citizens cooperate in the difficult path towards a unified Europe by helping to smash some oranges.
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: Kanamara Matsuri Festival - Festival of the Steel Phallus
Festival Name: Kanamara Matsuri Festival - Festival of the Steel Phallus
Festival Country: Japan
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Traditional, Adult
A large, pink phallus turns the corner and heads down the street. Sitting atop the shoulders of 10-12 men in bandanas, it bobs up and down to their rhythmic chants. Locals carve white radishes into images of the male reproductive system, preparing to auction them off at an afternoon banquet. Transvestites line the street; their red lipstick and hairy legs are no less a contrast than the grandmother who's licking on a lollypop that's in the shape of a....well, you can probably guess by now.
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: SPAMARAMA
Festival Name: Pandemonious Potted Pork Festival, SPAMARAMA
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Food
Officially called the Pandemonious Potted Pork Festival, SPAMARAMATM draws 10,000 people with a highly refined sense of humor to one of the wackiest festivals in America
Article Title: Festival of San Fermin
Festival Name: San Fermin
Festival Country: Spain
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Traditional, Party
The Festival of San Fermin, first made famous outside of Spain by Ernest Hemingway in his novel 'The Sun Also Rises' (also known as 'Fiesta')
Article Title: Three and a Half Ton of Bull
Festival Name: San Fermin - Running of the Bulls
Festival Country: Spain
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Party, Sport - Bizarre
My stomach was churning, my palms sticky, my heart smashing at the inside of my ribcage. I put on a brave face. Strange to think that I'd paid to be here.
Article Title: Songkran
Festival Name: Songkran
Festival Country: Thailand
Festival Type(s): Traditional, Religious, Bizarre
During Songkran everyone is armed. Old and young, all have buckets, bottles, hoses, urns, water guns and even the fire tender is on hand to add to the total sum of water.
Article Title: The Wetter the Better - Thailand's Songkran Festival
Festival Name: Songkran Water Festival
Festival Country: Thailand
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Traditional
Imagine this scene: scads of Clampett-like hillbilly families crammed into the back of pickup trucks, chugging along in bumper-to-bumper traffic and squirting water at other vehicles and pedestrians. The water warriors use squirt guns, super soakers, hoses, buckets, garbage cans and anything else they can get their hands on in order to disperse their liquid ammunition. Drive-by squirtings everywhere.
Article Title: Thaipusam - Festival of Faith
Festival Name: Thaipusam
Festival Country: Malaysia
Festival Type(s): Traditional, Bizarre, Religious
As an avid attendee of matsuri (traditional festivals) across my adopted home country of Japan, I had thought there was little to touch them in terms of color, vivacity and raw animism. Until I went to Malaysia's Thaipusam festival, that is.
Article Title: The Festivals of Valls: Humans Castles and Calçots
Festival Name: The Festivals of Valls
Festival Country: Spain
Festival Type(s): Traditional, Cultural, Bizarre
One of the loveliest aspects of Catalonia, or certainly one of the most striking, is its capacity for local celebration. The Catalans are good at blowing their trumpets or more correctly stated the "gralle", an oboe like traditional Catalan instrument used in all the local festivities including Sardanas, Human Castles (Castellers) and the town parades of giants and puppets.
Article Title: World Body Painting Festival
Festival Name: World Body Painting Festival
Festival Country: Austria
Festival Type(s): Art, Bizarre
Colors fly in a weeklong event known as the Mecca for body painting. A quaint Austrian town plays host as artists from around the world come to feast their eyes on the wonders of nature and all who are naturally painted.
Article Title: Roach Racin'
Festival Name: World Championship Cockroach Racing
Festival Country: Australia
Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, National, Bizarre
Only in Australia would they celebrate their national holiday by racing cockroaches. Yes, that's right I'm talking about those pooey brown, hairy legged, skin crawling, under the fridge indulgers and lights out kitchen partiers that infest much of the land Down Under.
Article Title: World Championship Kinetic Sculpture Race
Festival Name: World Championship Kinetic Sculpture Race
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre
World Championship Kinetic Sculpture Race - A kinetic sculpture is an imaginative, often wacky - but always ludicrous - contraption designed to travel along an obstacle course on land, through mud, and over deep harbor waters
Article Title: World Pillow Fighting Championships
Festival Name: World Pillow Fighting Championships
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre
Anyone over the age of 14 can enter as long as they leave their maturity outside the arena. Competition begins by straddling a slippery wet pole suspended over a pit of mud.
Bizarre Festivals Snippets
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Bizarre Festivals Photo Galleries
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Bizarre Festivals Videos
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Bizarre Festivals Links
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