...08/18/2015 What’s inside? Hinduism History of the Holi Festival Personal Experience About the Author References 08/18/2015 What’s inside? Hinduism History of the Holi Festival Personal Experience About the Author References Hinduism Hinduism is seen as the world’s oldest and third largest religion. It is the main religion in India and it claims about 950 million followers. Hinduism is like a flowing of energy. There is no identified founder or organized structure. It does not have a defined or stabled creed of beliefs. In Hinduism, you unite the worshipping of many gods into one divine reality. Hinduism in reality is not one religion, it is more a family of beliefs and it is specific to an individual and their family. Each family has a “Family God.” They make special offerings to their selected god on a selected day, they will wear new clothing, and they will decorate the path to their homes with a sacred symbol called a “rangoli.” Holi Festival Holi Festival “Be a free spirit to play with colors” “Be a free spirit to play with colors” The religion follows scared scriptures called Vedas. They hold important information in regards to gods and worship. They cover the Vedic Period which was about 2000 to 500 BCE. The origins of the Vedas are unknown. The Vedas were originally passed down verbally until they were eventually put into written form. They mean “Knowledge and Sacred Lore.” They could be related to vision and wisdom. There are four basic Vedas...
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...of essay “Holi and La Tomatina: The festivals of happiness” TOPIC: Culture Thesis sentence: Both festival of Holi and La Tomatina have similarities and differences which is can be compared and contrasted in terms of purpose, content, history, celebration, and post-celebration. The Body 1. The purpose of festivals A. Holi * It has religious purpose * Celebration of spring B. La Tomatina * Purely for fun * It has no religious purpose 2. The content of festivals A. Holi * Use natural colors B. La Tomatina * Use tomatoes 3. The history of festivals A. Holi * Connected to the mythical tale in Hindu B. La Tomatina * It is not connected to any ancient tradition 4. The celebration of festivals A. Holi * Set holika bonfire symbolizes the victory of good over evil * Throwing colors B. La Tomatina * Throwing tomatoes each other 5. The post-celebration of festivals A. Holi * Visit friends and relatives, defines social harmony B. La Tomatina * Conduct party and clubbing Conclusion: In conclusion, both festival of Holi and La Tomatina have their own unique features that represent each country, India and Spain. As a land of many cultures and a large of Hindu population, India had a great variety of traditions as well as festivals which is tied to Hinduism beliefs that appears in Holi festival, as a sacred tradition and a celebration also. La tomatina festival is more like...
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...Introduction Holi is also known as the Festival of colors in India. It is a spring festival and perhaps the happiest and most colorful religious festival of the Hindus. Holi Festival is widely celebrated in India, Nepal and other places with Hindu population. In recent times, this festival has also gained acceptance among Non-Hindus as a spring festival of love and colors. It is celebrated on the first day of Chaitra. It makes the beginning of the spring season. The beauty of nature makes this festival colorful. The lovely flowers with their dazzling colors and the sweet songs of the cuckoo provide a charming background to Holi. Celebration of Holi The Holi celebrations begin on the last day of Phalgun. People collect sticks and straws lying in streets at a place. At night they gather at that place and set fire to the huge pile of sticks and straws. They sing songs to the accompaniment of drums. They are mad with joy. They break up when the fire fades out. The main celebration follows the next day. People are in a happy mood. They sprinkle colored water on another. They smear their faces with colored powders. Children spray colored water on the passes-by. Even the old people are mad with joy. All people are in a jolly mood. They forget social distinctions. They mix with all freely. In our villages people move about with colored water. They sing, dance, and jump about. They beat drums and sing loudly in a chorus. In the evening they visit their friends and neighbors. After playing...
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...My lecture is about unusual festivals. Could you give me some examples for unusual festival? -Yes that’s true -Don’t you have any idea? I'm sure you have seen some unusual festivals on TV but now you might forgot them. Forexample you imagin a lot of people gathering in a city throwing tomatos at each other just for fun. Have you ever participated in an unusual festival? -Yes: great this is such an interesting experience I'm sure you never fogot that day. -No: no problem I will give you a lot of information about it. I think you might be in charshanbesori. It is held In the last Wednesday of the year. Just as the rest of the world moves forward into the online digital world, there are still various classical traditions from past centuries that retains their popularity with the new younger generation of people. Even as some of these traditions are strange and unusual, they have been held until now. Another example is Halloween. On October 31, in many countries children and adults dress up in unusual costumes. Some become witches or ghosts; others dress up as trees, goats, and in other very unusual costumes. This festival started in Europe and has spread to all parts of the world. However, not all celebrations spread around the world. Every country has its own singular festivals. The first example that I prepared is Festival of Snakes Many people are afraid of snake.. In some parts of the world, snakes are regarded as evil or, at least, dangerous...
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...University Festival and event assignment one Shenzhen International Food festival carnival Name: Yundie Li ID: 21546037 Word count: 1496 Unit code: MGW2200 Tutor name: Rumi Ramkissoon Unit co-ordinator’s name: Judith Mair Date of submission: 26/08/2011 Executive summary It is planning to use foods festival as an example to build event concept, and detailing the purpose, process and the risk of the international food festival. The purpose of this report is developing a concept of event and outlines the timing, location, venue and season. It aims to build up an international food festival which located in Shenzhen, and it will be hold during the period of Chinese spring festival for attracting more local people and tourists, furthermore, the purpose of this international food festival is reunion for family activities, culture, attracting more people come to Shenzhen, increasing the different cultural interaction and stimulating the growth of local economy. Organizers need to design an effective and efficiency market strategy to motivate and attract people to attend and consume in the international food festival, and the participators can be local residents, tourists, chefs and restaurant managers. The international food carnival will be held around 26 January on 2012, and the duration of the food festival is 10 days. During the period of the food festival, it is also the public holiday in China for celebrating the traditional Chinese spring festival. It aims to...
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...文化局舉行國際音樂節今年已經是第二十九屆，請問你對今年活動安排的滿意程度是多少？ The 29th Macao International Music Festival has been held, how satisfaction did you feel for the arrangement of the events in this year? * 除了國際音樂節，文化局每年也會舉行澳門藝術節，請問你對今年活動安排的滿意程度是多少？ Besides International Music Festival, every year Macao Arts Festival will be held as well, so how satisfaction did you feel for the arrangement of the events in this year? * The 29th Macao International Music Festival ticket sales reached 90% which means the participation of Macau citizens is high, do you know much things about the event? * 這表示今年市民對MIMF的參與度很高，請問你對今年MIMF的活動了解嗎？ * 你對文化局的方便程度你會給多少分？ （包括：服務時間，服務地點，聯絡方法） How would you grade the convenience of Macau Cultural institution provides? (include: Office hours, office location and contact) * 你對文化局的環境設備你會給多少分？ （包括：舒適程度，設施配置） What would you grade the environmental facilities of Macau Cultural institution? (include: Comfortability, facilities setting * 你對上一屆的澳門拉丁城區幻彩大巡遊的交通處理安排的滿意程度是多少？ During The “Parade through Macao, Latin City, how did you feel about the traffic arrangement? * 這幾年文化局一直在推廣藝術，文化等活動，你覺得成效如何？ In recent year, Macau Cultural institution has been promoting art and cultural, what do you think about the effect? * 你對文化局在澳門文化遺產保護方面的滿意程度是多少？ * How would you grade the protection to the historical heritage which the Macau Cultural institution has provided? * 2015年初，特區政府提出將活化前愛都酒店，以作為牽頭帶動周邊區域形成一集文教、藝術等。你對這件事的看法是？ 愛都酒店： Hotel Estoril e Piscina Municipal ...
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...Impact of Festivals and Events on a Destination Introduction Events and festivals can be described as the most exciting and fastest growing industry related to leisure, business and travel. These special attractions have a purpose and objective, which in turn, have impacts on host communities, participants and other stakeholders who as Getz puts it, are “impacted” by the outcomes of events (1993). In recent decades, a substantial amount of research has been carried out to examine the impacts of tourism on a destination and, to a lesser extent, events and festivals. Through this work, both positive and negative impacts of events and festivals on a destination have been discovered. Indeed, it is the expected benefits of events, whether economic, social, political or environmental, that is the principal drive underpinning the support for and increasing popularity of events and festivals at the local, national and international scale. Getz also believes that “local and regional events, including business events and conferences can increase visitation and expenditure, reduce seasonality, revitalize the economy, encourage repeat visitation and heighten regional awareness. Added to this, events and festivals can also provide the stimulus for additional infrastructure development in the local area and building community pride” (1993). On the other hand, events almost inevitably incur cost or have negative consequences that, to a lesser or greater extent, serve to reduce one’s net benefit...
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...Festival | Date of Observance | | Description | Makara Sankranti | First day of Uttarayana | | Makar Sankranti (harvest festival also known by other various names) is the only Hindu festival which is based on the Solar calendar rather than the Lunar calendar. The festival is celebrated by taking dips in the Ganges river or any river and offering water to the Sun god. In Tamil Nadu this is popularly called Pongal, and special prayers and offerings are given the Sun to thank him for the harvest. | | | | | | Vasant Panchami | Fifth day of waxing moon of Magh | | Vasant Panchami (also called Saraswati Puja by Bengalis) is celebrated for the blessing of Saraswati, goddess of wisdom and fine arts. | | | | | | Maha Shivaratri | Thirteenth night of the waning moon of Magh | | Maha Shivaratri is the great night of Shiva, followers of Shiva observe religious fasting and the offering of Bael (Bilva) leaves to the Shiva. | | | | | | Holi | Full moon of Phalgun | | Holi or Phagwah is a popular spring festival. Holi commemorates the slaying of the demoness Holika by Lord Vishnu's devotee Prahlad. Thus, the festival's name is derived from the Sanskrit words "Holika Dahanam", which literally mean "Holika's slaying" | | | | | | Vasant Navratri | Vasant | | Navratri is the Hindu festival of worship and dance. In Sanskrit the term literally means "nine nights". During this festival the forms of Shakti are worshipped. | ...
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...time when you had to work within a group in order to accomplish a specific task or project and then answer the following questions. 1. What was the project you were working on? I once worked on the project that is an intentional food festival. We needed to discuss how to celebrate this event and prepared everything for this event, such as how to publicize this event and design the ticket. 2. Did you/do you enjoy group work? Why/Why not? I really enjoyed this kind of group work. As a volunteer committee, I need to do different kinds of works. This group work brought me a lot of challenge. For example, I needed to design the poster and flyer with other members. That was my first time to do the design work. Fortunately, I had more ideas about how to design. This experience gave me a chance to develop myself and corporate with other people. I can contribute my efforts to this international event. So I really enjoy this group work. 3. When working in a group is you usually a leader, a follower, a slacker or some other role? Explain. As a leader in the design work, I provided the ideas and direction for other people. I like control everything, so I usually give a direction or ideas to organize the group work. In the international food festival, as a cooker to provide international food, I was a follower because this is a different group. We had three groups work for this same project. I can be one leader of a group which was also a follower of another group. Different roles...
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...and report on how to fund a non-profit community book festival for a major United States city. Consider recent changes in the economy ", we identify a various sources to develop the above mentioned topic. These identified sources offered to us information of how we can plan a book festival by means of sponsors to be able to help this non-profit company. What makes a good resource for every investigation or event planning is the validity of information. The person need to make sure the source is trustworthy. How he or she can verify it? For example: a Phoenix University document from the online library VS a complete informative document from Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an online library but made by every person who post information, they didn’t verify the sources, maybe you can find an extensive and complete document about the information that are you looking for but the sources are not reliable. Another example is when the person looks information about decease, is not the same getting the information over the internet that getting the information from a book that its author is a doctor. The sources utilized to get information about how to make or plan a book festival were recovered from University of Phoenix on line library. This is a very good resource to get valid and important information about any or almost any theme. One of the sources is Fall Book Festivals, this source Presents information on several book festivals in the U.S. through November 2004. Also provide websites...
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...to be negative changes in the security, economic ,political, societal, or environmental affairs, especially when they occur abruptly, with little or no warning. More loloosely, it is a term meaning 'a testing time' or an 'emergency event.A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other geologic processes. A natural disaster can cause loss of life or property damage, and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake, the severity of which depends on the affected population's resilience, or ability to recover Creamfields is a large dance music festival that attracts 60,000 people. With a good line up and an outbreaking number of expected customer Creamfields was set to be an outstanding festival this year. However, the good times were cut short when adverse weather took over and 2 week’s worth of rain poured overnight causing structural issues and flooding in and around the site and resulting in the 3rd and final day of Creamfields having to be cancelled. This weather only confirmed what forecasters had predicted about summer 2012, in England and Wales, being the biggest washout for a century. The Met office confirmed this also by stating how it had been the one of the dullest on record, one of the coolest, and the soggiest since 1912. After much discussion Creamfields Manager, Graham, cancelled the event broadcasting too all one day ticketers too not turn...
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...questions should help you to organise your ideas. Remember that the festival should be clearly aimed at your chosen target audience Investigation|What did you decide?||Teacher feedback|Response to feedback| 1. What is the name of your festival?|My music festival is going to be called Violet festival. I chose violet because when you talk about the word Violent you associate it with a vibrant and mystical color which is what the festival will be all about, peaceful, calm and vibrant.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_(color) – Source.|||| 2. What is the target audience for your festival?|The target audience for this Festival will be between 15-30; This festival will try and vary its amount of music to bring enjoyment to many people who love different genres of music. http://music.uk.msn.com/features/average-age-of-uk-festival-goers-now-over-35-2 - Source of average age of festival goers. |||| 3. When will you hold the festival? Date, start time and duration|I will hold the festival in the summer time as this I when most people are free to venture around. The festival will start on the Friday august 29th and will end on Monday September 1st to mark the turn of a new month.http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/21/music-festivals-2013-guide-glastonbury_n_3313399.html - Source for average time of Festivals.|||| 4. At which three venues could the festival take place?|My first venue option is wildflower meadow which is a huge...
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...lo Festivals The high sense of spirituality and inter-cultural values of the Ilonggos paved the way for celebrations of festivals and fiestas as a form of thanksgiving for almost everything the Divine Providence has lavishly endowed them. Aside from district fiestas which usually celebrate a patron saint’s day, there are festivals which are celebrated by the whole city and have attracted visitors from other places in the Philippines and foreign countries. The following are the city’s famous festivities: Dinagyang Sa Iloilo Dinagyang is dubbed as the “Festival of Excellent Folk choreography”. It is a colourful display of street dancing and story-telling. Dinagyang is the Best Tourism Event in the country. Various festivals in the country learned and applied innovations in their own by watching Dinagyang. A religious and cultural festival held every 4th week of January in reverence of “Sr. Santo Nino” A fluvial parade is held on Friday. It also serves as the highlight of the religious aspect of the festival. Kasadyahan is held on Saturday and is a cultural competition showcasing the diverse and colourful Festivals of each participating municipality of Iloilo Province. The Ati Tribe competition serves as the highlight of Dinagyang. Contestants paint their bodies brown as they dance with the pulsating beat of the drums. The dance usually tells the story of how reverence in “Sr. Sto. Nino” affected the community. Paraw and Samba Regatta Festival The sunny but cool...
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...BACKGROUND Introduction Festivals and events play an important role in the tourism and the hospitality industry. They can create good memories and stories not only with its people who inhabit the place but also to the tourists that visit the event. It is also gives a good impression to people to visit the place because events and festivals contribute to the income of the local government in a city, region, or country. Thus, festivals and events are special types of social activities; they are willing to travel to faraway places to be part of the festival and event. Tourists who attend a festival or an event stay in paid accommodations, dine in or out restaurants, participate in group activities, and purchase souvenirs and other ways of creating good memories and meanings. The flow of money will create jobs that will help build local economy. Studies on fest The overall purpose of this study is to explore the Paru-paro festival in Dasmarinas, Cavite and the perception of its residents. Festival impacts, as perceived by residents, have been an important aspect of the festival research because of the range of ways in which festivals benefit and cost the communities in which they exist. The research presented in this paper will examine the perception of the residents of Dasmarinas, Cavite on Paru-paro festival. Statement of the Problem 1) What is Paru-paro Festival as perceived by the local residents? 2) How does the local resident perceive Paru-paro festival as part of their identity...
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...Introduction The focus of my ethnographic research is in the subculture of music festivals. Music festivals are a remarkable community event that attracts people to attend all over the world and has been around for many years as a celebration for any occasion. The atmosphere created at these events has shaped attendees to act differently compared to the ‘real world’ causing them to be more socially confident within the community. The attendance of music festivals has grown exponentially recently, based on the fact the new generation of people value personalized experiences and wish to share with others (Harrison, 2014). Applying mixed research methods will uncover how these social events influence the development of one’s behavior. Examining...
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