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Held on the last Saturday in August, the Asakusa Samba Festival is a carnival that's perfect during a hot Tokyo summer..This Tokyo style samba festival is a relatively new addition to the Japanese calendar. The first carnival was held on August 29, 1981 to celebrate the long standing ties between Brazil and Japan.There are usually 30 - 40 dance teams taking part in the Asakusa Samba Festival, with the winning team of the Rio de Janeiro carnival for the year also invited to take part. The dance teams are divided into 3 leagues. The top league is made up of all the professional dancers and musicians who will be competing during the Grand Parade.
I missed the big parade last weekend, didn't eat even one piece of mooncake (don't really like it.)
still nice to see Chinatown dressed up for the festival.
The cellars of the brewery were reserved the end of the World war II under the code name "Sardine". Further details are not known. The largest of these brewery cellars was built in an old mine. Here was installed in a small historic mine tunnel supply lines. Urbex tour with Batram, Blackcat, Ronny Welscher, Jeannette and Martina.
Festival footwear and festival weather were at odds on the final day of the 2012 Cambridge Folk Festival when three days of sun were topped off by an almighty thunder lightening rainstorm with added hail. Mud became the universal fashion accessory
Close to 20 floats are paraded through the streets during the annual Kawagoe Festival in Saitama Prefecture. This 350+ year old festival draws massive crowds that line up along the old storehouse district. This celebration has been recognized by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage event.
Kawagoe Hikawa Festival (2018). Kawagoe, Saitama.
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The Stuttgart Festival (Cannstatter Volksfest/Cannstatter Wasen in German) is an annual two-week festival in Stuttgart, Germany.
The Stuttgart Festival is often considered to be the second largest beer festival in the world, only behind the Munich Oktoberfest. According to estimates by the organizers, about 4.2 million people visited the festival in 2006. For me the main attraction is however not the beer but the final firework ;-) (will come later in this stream).
In the foreground of this picture you see the "Fruit column" which is ths symbole of the Cannstatter Wasen. It is a wooden column decorated with fruit, 26 meters high and weighing 3.5 tons.
In the back there are several of the other 54 ride attractions like60-Meter-Ferris wheel (biggest mobile Ferris wheel in the world), Alpina roller coaster, free fall "Powertower", height 66 meters, "Imperator" (weight: 350 t), "Airwulf roundabout", "Transformer roundabout", "Boosters revolution" and so on ...
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Last Friday is Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, and there were some activities (every year) in the park. There are conundrum guessing, Chinese traditional craft, moon cake and etc. And also, since it's the time of sweet-scented osmanthus, there are some foods (wine, candy, soup) made by it.
The ceremonial gathering of the 2017 annual fête du vodoun (festival of vodou) took place on Ouidah's Djegbadji Plage (beach) at the Porte du Non Retour (Gate of No Return) after the cortege made its way from the Houxwe palace and the Temple des Pythons in Ouidah.
National Multicultural Festival 2012; Festival Opens In Canberra, Australia - 10th February 2012
Today the National Multicultural Festival commenced in the nation's capital Canberra, with live music and fine food playing a significent part in the celebration.
More than 200,000 people are going to converge in Canberra's city centre this weekend for the annual celebration of multiculturalism.
The 16th festival features a record 350 stalls representing just about every nation on earth.
There are four stages and three platforms where much of the live entertainment will take place.
Tonight's opening concert starred Australian performing artist Anthony Callea, with Coloured Stone fronted by Bunna Lawrie getting a fantastic reception.
Music News Australia had the pleasure to interview Bunna after his performance and he said much of the meaning was about "hope, peace and a coming together of energies".
The food and dance spectacular on Saturday and Sunday will include an Indigenous showcase, Carnivale, Turkish bazaar, Greek glendi, Indian display and Chinese New Year celebrations.
Festival project manager Jancye Winter advised in excess of 300 groups and 70 diplomatic missions are involved.
"When you bring food and dance together, you find all of the community works very hard together. We see this particularly at this time of the year, that all of the community groups are working very cooperatively together," she said.
"By going around the stalls you will see the real diversity of all of the cultures here. It's a true celebration of Canberra's diversity."
Ms Winter says many of the visitors and entertainers travel from interstate and overseas.
"The festival brings in so many visitors and has an impact across not only accommodation but many of the tourist outlets, and indeed the shops in Civic enjoy a boost in retail because we bring people right into the heart of the city centre," she said.
Festival ambassador Wolfgang Blass immigrated to Australia from Germany in the 1960s, establishing the well-known Wolf Blass winery in South Australia's Barossa Valley.
He says the festival helps bring different sections of the communities together.
"We have to live together, we have to learn to live together and this multicultural event is going to bring people together," he said.
"Let's hope we all, in a united way, have a good time and enjoy the food that each culture is going to present."
Mr Blass says Australia is a lucky country that has come a long way.
"We are now a society entering a leisurely lifestyle," he said.
"Politically we don't have any big problems. There is no unrest in this country. We have a very strong sporting mind and it is important that we are free and have a strong democracy."
Mr Blass also emphasised that it was "time to party", and started that "Canberra really knows how to put on a party".
Mr Blass also shared the stage with Joy Burch MLA ACT Minister for Multicultural Affairs.
So far the festival looks to have been a wonderful success.
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The Seoul Lantern Festival, now in its sixth year, is one of the highlights of the year in Seoul. Set at the picturesque Cheonggyecheon (stream) running through the downtown area, the festival features hundreds of colorful paper lanterns lighting up the night. This year’s theme for the festival is “The Glowing World Treasures of Seoul” and contains traditional Korean lanterns as well as lights from around the world. Visitors should look out for the Wish Tree event, as participants who make a wish on the tree will have a chance to win a table lantern made out of traditional Korean paper, hanji. Visitors should note the festival times, 17:00 to 23:00.
Accessible from:
Gwanghwamun Station, Exit 5.
Jonggak Station, Exit 5.
Additional information can be found here. seoullantern.visitseoul.net/
The Labor Day Festival was a huge success on Saturday as thousands of people from Warrior Country enjoyed an American-style festival with a touch of Korean heritage on the main streets of Camp Casey.
Labor Day, a national holiday set for the first Monday in September recognizes the hard work and achievements of American workers and for their contributions to the economic growth and prosperity of our nation and to formally celebrate the end-of-summer.
The Area I festivities kicked off as 86 participants competed in a 5 kilometer race at 8 a.m. at Camp Red Cloud. Medals were awarded to the top two finishers in each of the four categories… overall men's and women's event and categories for overall senior men's and women's.
The Casey streets filled with people of all ages were eager to get the festivities started at 3 p.m.
Carnival rides like the merry-go-round, donkey rides, paddle boats, "Viking" rides and the bungee-cord trampoline brought loud shrieks of delight from the younger children who were brave enough to ride them.
The streets were lined with vendors selling carnival style foods like funnel cakes, cotton candy, barbecue, hamburgers, hotdogs and ice-cream. There were plenty of water, sodas, and ice-cold lemonade that could be purchased to quench one's thirst throughout the day.
Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers made their presence felt by challenging contestants to participate in either a fear factor style eating contest or the traditional pie-eating contest.
The fear factor competition had 20 participants with stomachs made of steel as they slimed their way separating the gummy worms out of a pie-pan filled with a concoction of ingredients that would make any normal person's stomach churn.
"The tastes in the first two-rounds weren't too bad," said Cpl. Vincent Stringer, Company A, 1st Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment. "But the last round, what we ate was terrible and too chunky; sometimes I had to just swallow it without chewing."
Col. John M. Scott, U.S. Army Garrison Red Cloud and Area I commander, awarded Stringer with an I-Pad mini for his valiant effort. Second and third place finishers received a goody bag filled with a BOSS polo shirt, t-shirt and other memorabilia.
The pie-eating contestants raced to see who could eat the chocolate and whip-cream pie the fastest as bystanders cheered them on. The first place, second place and third place winners received $150, $100 and $50 Army and Air Force Exchange Service gift cards respectively.
2nd Infantry Division's rock band took to the main stage and provided up-beat songs that had the audiences dancing in their seats.
There were plenty performances scheduled throughout the day for people to observe. The Korean-style drummers and a balancing act on a tight-rope attracted 100s of people around the softball field as they played and displayed their talents.
The Military Police showed off their police dog's obedience and agility by showcasing the different types of attacks used by the MPs.
As the sun went down, folks gathered around the main stage to watch, listen and dance to the live entertainment that included fusion band, mariachi, and a female rock-band, Mad Fret.
According to Scott, the Labor Day Festival is Area I's biggest annual recreational event and this year's event is comparable to county fairs held in big cities.
"Everyone who helped put this [festival] together did a wonderful job," congratulated Scott. "No matter how old you are three or 30 or even older, I think everyone had fun."
I really liked the smiles and giggles these talented young dancers showed at the end of their performance. It appeared as though even the skeleton was moved to smile. This shot was taken at the Encinitas Dia de los Muertos Festival, 2017.