How To Use Festival In A Sentence

The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
When my sister taught at a junior school they celebrated all the religious festivals.
It also provides a condensed primer to some of the issues at stake in American avant-garde cinema, which, partly because of its historical opposition to the dictates of commercial mainstream moviemaking and partly because it resists commodification unlike, say, abstract painting, oppositional cinema doesn't rack up big sales at Sotheby's, has been relegated to the status of museum pieces and festival marginalia. NYT > Home Page
It sounds good and if it does result in more properly-managed concerts, fairs, festivals and community events being staged in the city's parks it has to be good news.
Her film was premiered in Cannes Festival.

In neopaganism, the spring and autumn equinoxes are called Ostara and Mabon, respectively, although these names are modern in origin and don't correspond to any ancient festivals. CBC | Top Stories News
The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
The Spring Festival Eve is the time for a family reunion.
Thus, this festival brings together the richness of the Indian kitchen with its spices and subtle shades of taste and texture.
Makar Sankrant is the first Hindu festival of the solar calendar year, falling on January 14.
The name is dowitcher. article in Monday's Calendar section about the Coachella Music and Arts Festival said Paul McCartney played a portion of Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady. Undefined
With a wide and varied selection of events, displays and performances, the festival captures the spirit of Yeats's works and the imagination of Sligo audiences.
There are over 350 films in the Edinburgh Film Festival this year.
What has become the largest event in Camarillo, the Camarillo Art & Jazz Festival welcomes a prestigious line up of well-known musicians and artists that will entertain and delight visitors over the entire weekend period. Camarillo Art & Jazz Festival August 10th – August 12th
The Arts Centre is hosting a folk festival this summer.
In these festivals the working people would hold skits in which they would uncrown the king.
It will be timed to coincide with the main music festival season. Times, Sunday Times
Festivals that provide a forum for Arab and Israeli art and culture, and universities and academies that offer joint courses in the Qur'an and the Bible, midrash and tafsir, cabbalah and Sufism, thereby placing them in their original relation to one another, are today only feasible in exile -- in the West, of all places, which bears part of the blame for the present-day impossible situation. MRZine.org
At 6.30 pm there will be an ecumenical service of thanksgiving for the Flower Festival.
It's just that none of those festivals claims to be untarnished by commerce, unsmitten by celebrity, etc., etc. GreenCine Daily: Park City, 2/1.
Festival-goers began to drift off as the evening drew to an end.
At about an hour long, most sets at festivals are just too short for true aficionados. Times, Sunday Times
Thousands of visitors are set to descend on York when the five-day festival of horse racing and pageantry comes to the city in June next year.
The Spring Festival Eve is the time for a family reunion.
As well as laying out the timetable of events, sales of programmes also raise funds for the festival committee.
There are thousands of film festivals around the world, many as welcoming to the casual visitor as they are to movie industry bigwigs. Times, Sunday Times
Festival organizers seem to have keyed into the public anxiety over their use of the park and are offering plenty of reassurances.
He says it amounts to a persuasive economic argument for a regular festival. Times, Sunday Times
Because of this, the government holds an Oriental Cherry Festival every year.
But what Pete and Katrina can vouch for is a degree of comfort at their events that could convert the most hardened anti-festival goers.
Six theatre companies have been selected to take part in this year's festival.
The shop has its own inn, and hosts mini festivals. Times, Sunday Times
Four people were gored and several others sustained scrapes and cuts yesterday as large crowds of enthusiasts in the Spanish city of Pamplona ran alongside six fighting bulls in the third bull run of the annual San Fermin festival.
Without the patronage of several large firms, the festival could not take place.
Later that evening she will launch the festival and will be guest speaker at an event hosted by the heritage office of Carlow County Council.
Some festivals involve long hikes between acts. Times, Sunday Times
Racegoers attending this years Galway festival could come away winning or sharing in one of the big Tote Jackpot pools.
An annual music festival would include opera performances aboard container vessels. Times, Sunday Times
And when I became more heavily involved in musical groups, I often traveled for outstate performances or festivals. 2008 May « Becca’s Byline
As a part of the festival, bird-watching tours, a fishermen exhibition, boat race and a series of cultural programmes are being planned.
Celebrate life. Unless you celebrate each day of life, you are not truly living. Let each day be a festival of joy. RVM
Colmar music "Colmar International Festival" this year celebrates the creative relationship between violinist Jacques Thibaud and pianist Marguerite Long with 26 concerts, including works by Brahms and Mozart. What's on Around Europe
It seems that every town and village in France puts on cultural festivals of some type or another.
A man dressed as an angel jumps through a hole in the ice, into a frozen lake, while taking part in the Polar Plunge at the "Frozen Dead Guy Days" festival in Nederland, Colorado March 10, 2007.
It's reminiscent of an installation by Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch for the International Garden Festival at Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens. Spatial High Jinks
The suspense film "Overheard 2" revealed its English poster yesterday at the 64th Cannes Film Festival.
Robin Hood, the latest depiction of folklore's most enduring and filmable character — directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe — will open the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday and in theaters on Friday. Robin Hood's fluid identity flows on
But Stevie is by no means the only disabled performer strutting his stuff at the festival this year.
Not just settings of the ordinary, but the copious amounts of plainchant needed to cover all the propers (the introit, gradual, alleluia, offertory, communion and other sentences, all of which change according to the day and festival).
To get this scoop, Naxos brought its recording equipment to the Wexford Festival Opera on the coast of Ireland.
We'reall disappointed that Daimler, the main corporate sponsor of the Summer Concert Festival in Washington Park for the past four years, isnot ableto support the performances again for 2009. Grim news from Grimwad (Jack Bog's Blog)
Coinciding with the Action Movie Festival, AXN also organised road shows earlier this week at popular hang-outs all over the city in yet another attempt to connect to its audiences.
They used to take me up to Auckland for Philharmonia concerts and film festivals.
Snow sculpture fans make plans to head for Sapporo and its famous snow festival.
The term garland was also technically used to signify a crown of precious metal, often adorned with gems, made for the arrangement of natural or artificial flowers before the altar or sacred image at festival times. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
To win a Festival race you need a strong galloping horse who can jump well. The Sun
It features a cast of 26 people and is one of the biggest festival productions undertaken in recent years.
Amongst those who have travelled furthest to take part in the Festival are a group from Northern Ireland.
Never mind that this was originally a pagan festival; the taint of necromancy (communing with the dead) has been overpowered by a commercialised confectionery fest.
Co-producer Cam Hayden also promises the festival is going to deliver a zydeco band this year if it's the last thing he does.
In a place known as Nine Dragons, as the city's Hungry Ghosts festival burns around him, Bosch puts aside everything he knows and risks everything he has in a desperate bid to outmatch the triad's ferocity. Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly: Book summary
A pair of superb documentaries offers visitors to Harbourfront Centre's Beats, Breaks & Culture festival of electronic music a chance to geek out whenever they're not enslaved to rhythms elsewhere.
The festival is planned for this year only; a post-mortem will decide if an annual event is feasible.
I am aware that the Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, Mass. gave a number of contemporary music concerts this year and they were very warmly received. Skin and Bone
A country festival had brought together thousands of people; they pressed about the Emperor, who had mingled with the throng, with ringing shouts of "eljen" [_vive_]; they danced the csardas, waltzed, sang, played music, climbed into the trees, and crowded the court. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5
In Germany, there is always the main staple of the country's beer and wine festivals, the wurst.
For those who don't ski or snowboard, most festivals offer discounts at ski schools. Times, Sunday Times
The aim of the festival is to increase awareness of Hindu culture and traditions.
Festival to give a reading of your new tome and found that, entirely because of a struggle between competing ideologies, your luggage had to stay at home. Times, Sunday Times
Cannes hosts the annual film festival.
To feel that way towards toffs today makes you at best an anachronism, at worst a freak, as I was reminded recently when I appeared at a literary festival.
However, Luang Prabang is increasing pressure to mount the play during the festival as it has the potential to become a major source of revenue for the city.
Are they looking ahead to next year and more festival headline slots? The Sun
The festival will end with a spectacular laser show.
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All princesses wishing to apply must respond to this proclamation and attend the initiation ball which is to be held in a sennight on the eve of the Festival of the Roses.
Past festivals have focused on China, Berlin and African-American music.
The concert is part of this Meltdown Festival curated by Morrissey.
Pop along to one of the free screenings at the independent festival in London. Times, Sunday Times
More than 5000 people enjoyed the warm spring sunshine during the festival's most action-packed day.
F______ every restaurant in San Francisco is serving figs on a plate with nothing on it," he said at the New York City Wine and Food Festival. Josh Ozersky: NYC vs. San Francisco Culinarly Rivalry Shows No Sign Of Stopping
Just four weeks before the start of the festival 25 volunteers hoisted the arch into place using ropes.
As a result, accordingthe Gregorian calendar calculations the Islamic festival is no fixed period of time.
Meanwhile, a popular feature of the annual festival, the Carlsberg Rhythm Route, is back and will once again see some top acts perform for free in Waterford pubs and nightspots.
People come from the four corners of the earth to attend the annual festival.
As an art form, it has survived the dynasties, the warlords, the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, the Communist Revolution, and has just about survived the restless nature of the Other Festival's unappreciative audience.
Promising to be the big draw of the festival, it features an intricate weaving of different conversations taking place in a city.
Fishing the Drake hatch in late May is somewhat of a festival.
He appeared at the 1975 Berlin jazz festival with Jazztrack and with the Michael Gibbs orchestra.
We were on our way to Film Forum for a festival of Westerns, but first we stopped into Rocco's pastry shop for some cannoli.
Ah, what a coup for the Liverpool Festival of Comedy.
With that gesture began a long day of live music by every Stax artist to raise money for the Watts Summer Festival.
But she must pack for a music festival and so pedals off, back to her life. Times, Sunday Times
Years later, at the 2000 Vancouver International Film Festival, I sat with many of the same people to see the premiere of Scorn, which re-enacts the events surrounding the murders.
The latest Festival concours winner joined by Kirk MacDonald, hubby Kieran Overs and Barry Romberg.
Fans were disappointed by his no-show at the festival.
Situated in the centre of the Barony of Erris, Belmullet lies between the bays of Broadhaven to the north, and Blacksod to the south and is tailor-made for such a festival.
The city has a medieval quarter, great pubs, and an annual opera festival of international importance.
This new annual youth dance festival offers two programmes. Times, Sunday Times
Seoul International Film Festival 2007 Net Section Calling For Entries!
Believing that music should be free, man, a groundswell of penny-pinching hippies forced the promoter to provide free concerts as a sidebar to the festival.
They indulged in some serious horseshoeing and harness making, but more frequently their band earned its living amusing, and sometimes fleecing, visitors to holy sites, festivals, and fairs. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
Despite bleak weather, there was plenty of sparkle at Grasmere's first Festival of the Stars at the weekend, ensuring the event was a big success.
They have successfully defended their title against 15 bands at the 18th annual Youth Brass Band Entertainment Festival of Great Britain.
Bealtaine, apart from being the Irish word for the month of May, was a festival in pagan Ireland celebrating Spring and heralding the arrival of Summer.
It has now been seen at 15 international festivals, and had its British premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
But until 1949 , the capitol hill just pass the National as a sempiternal festival.
The film had its world premiere in New York in November 2003 and it featured last month at Toronto's Reelworld Film Festival.
In the 1980s, the Berlin fest became well-known as the gayest festival outside the English-speaking world. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
As the interest in wooden boats and yawls grows, the Baltimore Traditional Boat Festival, held at the end of May, provides an excellent showcase for the craftsmanship, beauty and line of these vessels.
The main channel will not show any action until the first day of the Cheltenham Festival. The Sun
Literary festivals, readings and slams have made poetry much more available. Times, Sunday Times
The EU referendum will clash with the Glastonbury festival. Times, Sunday Times
Maybe he was afraid his film wasn't yet arty enough for the poseurs at the festivals.
A pre-Olympic performance became crucial for McDonald and Brentina this month in Aachen, Germany, at the World Equestrian Festival, the sport's biggest annual event. USATODAY.com - Historic ride upcoming?
Producers would sell coupons one or two months before the Mid-autumn Festival and, based on the sales volume of the coupons, they could produce just enough mooncakes to avoid overstocking.
For one of the society's projects-the construction of a music hall-the alumnae raised money with ice cream socials, strawberry festivals, bazaars, and operettas, one of which Zitella directed.
No wonder, well-known authorss called the Galle festival as 'gathering of the bookworms' The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
An Asian film festival approached from any angle is bound to pose questions of a social and political nature, and raise problematic issues surrounding ethnic identity.
The film festival is in/during July.
The quality of the Festivals are benchmarks in global standards and local multinational brands and corporate houses have reposed their faith in them by becoming partners to the growth of the DSF.
Ladbrokes said it had benefited from a good run of results at events including the Cheltenham Festival, the Grand National and Euro 2004.
Join in the fun and celebrate the opening of 1992's Festival.
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Those who do the weekend festival stint get time off in lieu. Times, Sunday Times
The most serious is this, that the woman, who has given birth to a useful citizen, whether taxiarch or strategus should receive some distinction; a place of honour should be reserved for her at the Stenia, the Scirophoria, and the other festivals that we keep. The Thesmophoriazusae
The Winslow Film Festival marked its third anniversary a couple of weeks ago.
He has been leading jockey twice and in terms of Festival winners, is the most successful jockey still riding.
But apparently the festival organizers had anticipated such a reaction, because a burly volunteer was blocking each door.
One of the foremost experts on popular culture launched into a blistering attack on modern broadcasting standards when he appeared at the Literature Festival at the weekend.
Currently, the only publicly funded showcase for local talent at the festival is the British Council's biannual event, to which it invites 250 international talent scouts.
And why you, my beloved readers, only got to see photos of four or five, depending on whether you count yesterday's link back to old gang-gang pictures during this NaBloPoMo virtual parrot festival. Archive 2006-11-01
Come a ‘chaste art festival’, then the distemper art rules the roost in major spots.
The last festival depended on selling exhibition space in large marquees as well as satellite exhibition space to cover the cost of the festival, which is intended to be self-financing.
One thing is sure, the festival of the future will have a more commercial and hard-headed business edge to it and will seek to capitalise much more on the brand name, Rose of Tralee.
The Venice Film Festival has always been the showcase of Italian cinema.
Spaghetti, fettucini, rigatoni, ravioli or gnocchi and pasta are at the centre of Italian delicacies, a wide array of which are on offer at the festival at the Waterfront Cafe of Taj Malabar.
She popularised women's films through various festivals around the world and learned more about them and their way of work.
Those who do the weekend festival stint get time off in lieu. Times, Sunday Times
This year the show includes the National Kelsae Onion festival and terrific nursery exhibits.
Edith Bowman reveals why the festival is special to her, and shares handy hints and her pick of this year's performers
burlesque hall of fame, dixie evans, exotic world, kitten deville, liz renay, michelle l'amour, new york burlesque festival Inspiration and Execution: Tribute Numbers in Burlesque
Glasgow began an annual Saint Patrick's Day parade and festival in 2007.
The school has taken part in the festival since 1997.
It comes amid growing anger about the year-round use of fireworks which now light up the sky to mark the New Year, wedding receptions, birthday celebrations and during religious, sporting and other festivals.
It does mean that we are going to have to rent out a base in the centre of town for about a month around festival time, but we'll manage with that.
In 2008, she founded her own film festival in Nairn in Scotland, entitled the Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams. Tilda Swinton: We need to talk about eccentricity | Observer profile
Last year, the concert impresario allowed fans to access recordings of live performances from its Reading Festival.
Last summer, for the Glastonbury music festival in Scotland, British phone carrier Orange produced T-shirts that used a so-called piezoelectric panel to convert sound pressure waves into electricity. Take Zap! Tech Geeks, Starved for More Battery Power, Give Themselves a Charge
Always one of the festival's more popular events, people can catch up with all the fair ladies at the various events over the coming days.
The festival was a showcase for young musicians.
TBS also presents major live events, including star-studded comedy festivals in Chicago and Las Vegas. Conan O’Brien Goes to TBS | /Film
It seemed a bit weird having a festival in the middle of town, but I'm looking forward to this, yeah.
The delightful Finnish soprano is the first of a distinguished group of vocal recitalists at Brian McMaster's final festival, performing songs by Mozart, Sibelius, Schoenberg and Britten.
What are the must-sees at next week's Cannes film festival?
Thanks to the Grassington Festival I have learnt to build dry stone walls in limestone as he would have done.
As the Chinese New Year draws near, everyone is busy in shopping for the Spring Festival.
The festival will climax on Sunday with a gala concert.
France has instead put forward Valérie Donzelli's cancer drama Declaration of War; Germany has offered Wim Wenders's Pina; Israel has proposed Joseph Cedar's excellent Footnote opening the UK Jewish film festival next month; and Finland has had no hesitation in entering Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre, even though it is shot in France, in French. Trailer trash
Qassem Zein/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images ASHURA FESTIVAL: Shiite Muslims carried candles outside the Imam Ali shrine during an Ashura ceremony Sunday in the Najaf, Iraq. Today's Photos: Jan. 5
The Festival is not all-consuming but if you only have one fancied runner there is no margin for error. The Sun
Manchester Science Festival, ManchesterThis might be the season of superstition and spooks, but since science is more unbelievable, wondrous and scary than fiction, it's apt timing for Manchester's cornucopia of explorative events (more than 200 of them). This week's new events
People have been delighted by the response to their films, charmed by the courtesy and enthusiasm of the festival staff.
Many modern festivals can be traced back to an ancient past.
These outfits are worn only for special occasions such as weddings and festivals.
A Festival for the Dead is held once a year in Japan.
He's 45, he writes plays, directs operas and choreographs ballets - his curious version of Swan Lake ruffled feathers when it was staged at the Edinburgh International Festival two years ago.
While David is away chairing (very eccentrically of course) the Cannes festival committee we finally get to see close to his best and most mysterious and touchingly tragic movie.
Plaits are a great way to embrace the festival vibe, plus they work better with greasier hair. The Sun
The Raindance festival commences on October 23 and will include 70 feature films and 200 shorts from 22 countries.
Meanwhile, the Cheltenham Festival's newest race, the ￡40,000 added Coral Cup, has been an instant hit with trainers.
The melon festival will kick off here with a veritable mishmash of melon-based menu, complete with cocktails and mocktails.
Go down on one's knees seeking the Dragon Boat Festival elementary school English composition!
Equally good at the campsite, on the beach or in a festival field, it comes in six colours and folds away into a neat little carry bag. Times, Sunday Times
Temple also notes that the tradition of making films about festivals, which reached its zenith in the early 1970s, has hardly produced a string of cinematic masterpieces.
Rituals and festivals form an integral part of every human society.
To end on a nicer note, imitation is flattery -- especially when the imitator is a 3-year-old dressed up for church fall festival. CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2008
Standtall Husband attended the just concluded National Sport Festival in Kaduna for the last time. The Decay in Our Sports...
This is Bucky's first trip to Ireland and he was overjoyed to have the opportunity to enjoy such a festival.
Mr. Laurents has also been outspoken throughtout the festival as a supporter of liberal causes, usually finding a way during his talks to make pointed references to the "mendacities" of the current administration. April 2004
Various festivals have come and gone in that time but this one not just endures but continues to grow in popularity.
It's interesting to see how many references or allusions to these festivals remain in contemporary Britain.
To honor the festival's origins, locals concoct fiery brews, which they carry in flasks for warming nips.
UAE Channels Bag Five Gold Medals in Gulf Radio and TV Festival MANAMA (BAHRAIN) - Channels and production houses of the UAE bagged six awards - five gold medals and a silver - as the 11th Gulf Festival for Radio and Television Production concluded in Bahrain on Friday. Khaleej Times : UAE News
In the 1960s, Allen Ginsberg took oral poetry into coffee houses, pop festivals, and art happenings.
The music and musicians at Zakopane's second annual On The Heights chamber music festival were intoxicating, the weather was so free of clouds that you could see the great mountain crag that towers 2000 meters above the city, reachable only by ski lift, cable car and climbers. Laurence Vittes: The Musical Beauty of Zakopane
At the Festival Games he cleared 3.80 metres and was awarded his school colours.
THIS year's festival season is hotting up to be one of the warmest on record. The Sun
Favourite backers got off to a flying start when Irish banker Like-A-Butterfly won the Cheltenham Festival opener.
The first toast at every festival here was drunk in his honour, and, besides the first of May, one day in every week was held sacred to him, and, from his Saxon name, Woden, was called Woden's day, whence the English word "Wednesday" has been derived. Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas
And in Corse and Over, another four people were arrested and questioned about their alleged involvement in organising the festival.
Spanish pueblos, from hamlets to large cities, and many neighborhoods within population centers, all have patron saints each of whose days occasions a public festival, or fiesta.
In India celebration of fairs and festivals has become like a ritual.
The college is open to visitors, but also to overnighters on a range of dates, including during The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival.
All sorts of music will be well represented at the festival, including concerts of Irish folk music, jazz, Parisian chansons and brass bands.
In Selmer, Tenn., a dragster went out of control and smashed into spectators during a fundraising festival in June 2007, killing six people and injuring 22. California Off-Road Race Crash: Truck Plows Into Crowd, Kills 8, Injures 12
Organisers of the festival say they are now considering legal action to recover the group's fee and the singer's manager has responded with claims that she was assaulted by one of the festival organisers.
This epic of Dravidian India is of the type that is told in homes rather than at religious festivals.
Crew members prepare to race in the Dragon Boat Festival while drummers beat their drums.

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