Celebration

by Kathy Bassett

Title

Celebration

Artist

Kathy Bassett

Medium

Photograph - Photography - Digital Art

Description

A festival or gala is an event ordinarily staged by a local community, which centers on and celebrates some unique aspect of that community and the Festival."The Cultural Festival" (Bunkasai) and "The University Festival" (Daigaku-sai) are common nouns in Japanese, so particular names of cultural festivals depend on each school. For example, the festival at the University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus is named Komaba-sai.
Names[edit]
School English name Japanese name
Nursery school Daily life exhibition Seikatsu-Happyou-kai(生活発表会)
Kindergarten Daily life exhibition Seikatsu-Happyou-kai(生活発表会)
Elementary School Literary arts exhibition
Learning exhibition Gakugei-kai(学芸会)
Gakushū-Happyou-kai(学習発表会)
Junior High School Cultural festival Bunka-sai(文化祭)
High School Cultural festival Bunka-sai(文化祭)
University University festival Daigaku-sai(大学祭)
Variations[edit]
The Cultural Festivals of junior high schools and high schools are sometimes named differently:
English name Japanese name
School festival Gakuensai(学園祭)
School festival Gakuinsai(学院祭)
School festival Gakkōsai(学校祭)
Among many religions, a feast is a set of celebrations in honour of God or gods. A feast and a festival are historically interchangeable. However, the term "feast" has also entered common secular parlance as a synonym for any large or elaborate meal. When used as in the meaning of a festival, most often refers to a religious festival rather than a film or art festival.
In the Philippines and many other former Spanish colonies, the Spanish word fiesta is used to denote a communal religious feast to honor a patron saint.
In the Christian liturgical calendar there are two principal feasts, properly known as the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord (Christmas) and the Feast of the Resurrection, (Easter). In the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglican liturgical calendars there are a great number of lesser feasts throughout the year commemorating saints, sacred events, doctrines, etc.Seasonal are determined by the solar and the lunar calendars and by the cycle of the seasons. The changing of the season was celebrated because of its effect on food supply. Ancient Egyptians would celebrate the seasonal inundation caused by the Nile River, a form of irrigation, which provided fertile land for crops. In the Alps, in autumn the return of the cattle from the mountain pastures to the stables in the valley is celebrated as Almabtrieb. A recognized winter festival, the Chinese New Year, is set by the lunar calendar, and celebrated from the day of the second new moon after the winter solstice. An important type of seasonal festivals are those related with the agricultural seasons. Dree Festival of the Apatanis living in Lower Subansiri District of Arunachal Pradesh is one such important festival, which is celebrated every year from July 4 to 7 praying for bumper crop harvest. In this particular photograph a Taiko performance accompanied with young dancers was a delight on the festival and Celebration of Canada Day!

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