Festivals in May

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Festivals in May - 14 Articles

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.

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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.

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Article Title: International Dragon Boat Racing

Festival Name: International Dragon Boat Racing

Festival Country: Malaysia

Festival Type(s): Dragon Boat, Sport - Water, National

The setting is glorious for this, the 30th annual International Dragon Boat Racing Tournament, in Penang, Malaysia. Surrounded on three sides by bluey-green jungle covered mountains - the fourth side a breathtaking view down to the local resort - the reservoir is as still as anyone could hope for for a rowing competition

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Article Title: Vappu - Finland's Carnival

Festival Name: Vappu

Festival Country: Finland

Festival Type(s): Traditional, Party, National

Finland's Carnival-style celebration of Vappu is one of Europe's best kept party secrets as hundreds of thousands take to the streets of Helsinki to usher in Spring

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Article Title: Budha's Birthday Celebrations in Hong Kong

Festival Name: Budha's Birthday

Festival Country: Hong Kong

Festival Type(s): Religious, Traditional, Cultural

The Lord Buddha's birthday falls in early May on the Chinese calendar, and since 1999 Hong Kong has celebrated it as a public holiday.

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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

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Article Title: Fighting Fans - Cannes Film Festival

Festival Name: Cannes Film Festival

Festival Country: France

Festival Type(s): Film, Party

"Dom! Dom!" The crowd around me was going wild as a black car swept past. Through the tinted windows a woman smiled and waved directly to me. She looked vaguely familiar but I could not place her.

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Article Title: Food and Wine Tasting in North-West Italy

Festival Name: Montà Food and Wine Festival

Festival Country: Italy

Festival Type(s): Food and Wine, Wine, Food

It was on my very first trip to Italy where I stumbled on this food and wine tasting adventure to rival all others. An annual celebration - 2003 being its tenth anniversary - it was only by chance that I happened to be in Italy during the last weekend of May to catch up with two old school friends from Australia, one of whom was Italian.

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Article Title: When Worlds Collide

Festival Name: Faerieworlds Festival

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Folk

They say that at certain times of the year, the veil between our world and the otherworldly realm of Faerie becomes so thin as to be non-existent. When that occurs, Faeriefolk glide and gambol through this, the human domain, magic fills the air and anything is possible. The date is May 10th, 2003 and once again the veil is at its thinnest. The event to mark this auspicious occasion is the first ever Faerieworlds Festival, a celebration of music, art and imagination for the 21st century.

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Article Title: Golden Week - Green Day, Constitution Day, The People's Holiday, Children's Day

Festival Name: Golden Week

Festival Country: Japan

Festival Type(s): Cultural, Traditional

Golden Week is one of the happiest times in Okinawa. With four holidays occurring within the week, many businesses are closed and schools are out. Those businesses that have to remain open can count on increased revenues as people celebrate the different holidays.

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Article Title: Nueva Ecija, Philippines: home of Araquio

Festival Name: Araquio Festival

Festival Country: Philippines

Festival Type(s): Religious, Cultural, Performing Art

Araquio festival - one of its kind in the Philippines, and maybe in the world as well. It is Nueva Ecija's very own theatrical-cum-religious presentation likened to that of the zarzuelas during the Spaniards regime in the country.

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Article Title: 'Santacruzan' - The Queen of May

Festival Name: Flores De Mayo (Flowers of May)

Festival Country: Philippines

Festival Type(s): Floral, Religious

Stop and smell the roses. During the month of May, in the tropical islands of the Philippines (where my roots are), we don't have to stop -- the fragrance of flowers floats in the air.

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Article Title: Floralia

Festival Name: Floralia - May Day

Festival Country: Worldwide

Festival Type(s): Floral, Pagan

The festival of Floralia began around the year 258 BCE. Pagan Romans celebrated for six days, from April 27th to May 3rd, honouring their Goddess of Spring and of Flowers, Flora.

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Article Title: Tejano-Conjunto Music Festival

Festival Name: Tejano-Conjunto Music Festival

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Music - Traditional, Music - Rock

But mostly they come to listen and stomp their feet to the music of conjunto and the modern rock-influenced Tejano bands. This is essence of the San Antonio's version of a rollicking good-time-The Tejano-Conjunto Music Festival.

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