This is a list of festival-related list articles on Wikipedia. A

festival A festival is an event celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, Melā, mela, or Muslim holidays, eid. A ...

is an event of the ordinarily staged by a

community A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given g ...

, centering on and celebrating some unique aspect of that community and its

traditions A tradition is a system of beliefs or behaviors (folk custom) passed down within a group of people or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. A component of cultural expressions and folklore, common exa ...

, often marked as a local or national

holiday A holiday is a day or other period of time set aside for festivals or recreation. ''Public holidays'' are set by public authorities and vary by state or region. Religious holidays are set by religious organisations for their members and are often ...

, mela, or eid. A festival is a special occasion of feasting or celebration, usually with a religious focus. Aside from religion, and sometimes

folklore Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. This includes oral traditions such as Narrative, tales, myths, legends, proverbs, Poetry, poems, jokes, and other oral traditions. This also ...

, another significant origin is

agricultural Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created f ...

. Food (and consequently agriculture) is so vital that many festivals are associated with

harvest Harvesting is the process of collecting plants, animals, or fish (as well as fungi) as food, especially the process of gathering mature crops, and "the harvest" also refers to the collected crops. Reaping is the cutting of grain or pulses fo ...

time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in

autumn Autumn, also known as fall (especially in US & Canada), is one of the four temperate seasons on Earth. Outside the tropics, autumn marks the transition from summer to winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March ( Southern Hemisphe ...

such as

Halloween Halloween, or Hallowe'en (less commonly known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve), is a celebration geography of Halloween, observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christianity, Western Christian f ...

in the northern hemisphere and

Easter Easter, also called Pascha ( Aramaic: פַּסְחָא , ''paskha''; Greek: πάσχα, ''páskha'') or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in t ...

in the southern.

Sublists by locale

States

* List of festivals in Florida (United States) * List of festivals in Georgia (U.S. state) (United States) * List of festivals in Louisiana (United States) * List of festivals in Michigan (United States) * List of festivals in New Jersey (United States) * List of festivals in Pennsylvania (United States) * List of festivals in Virginia (United States)

Country

List of festivals in Australia List of festivals in Australia, including any established festival or carnival in Australia. Australian Capital Territory New South Wales Northern Territory Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria Western Australi ...

* List of festivals in Bangladesh *

List of festivals in Canada This is an incomplete list of festivals in Canada. This list includes festivals of diverse types, among them regional festivals, trade fairs, commerce festivals, fairs, food festivals, arts festivals, and recurring festivals on holidays. Sublist ...

* List of festivals in Colombia * List of festivals in Costa Rica * List of festivals in Denmark * List of festivals in Fiji * List of festivals in Iran * List of festivals in India * List of festivals in the Isle of Man * List of festivals in Japan * List of festivals in Laos * List of festivals in North Macedonia * List of festivals in Morocco * List of festivals in Nepal * List of festivals in Pakistan *

List of festivals in the Philippines The origin of most early festivals, locally known as "''fiestas''", are rooted in Christianity in the Philippines, Christianity, dating back to the History of the Philippines (1521–1898), Spanish colonial period when the many communities (su ...

* List of festivals in Portugal *

List of festivals in Romania This is a list of festivals in Romania. By type Music Jazz, Rock, Electronic Classical * George Enescu Festival * Toamna Muzicală Clujeană Others * Beach, Please! Festival * Electric Castle * EUROPAfest – International festival of jazz ...

* List of festivals in Singapore * List of festivals in Taiwan * List of festivals in Tunisia * List of festivals in Turkey *

List of festivals in the United Kingdom England A *Albion Fairs *Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk * All Points East * Appleby Jazz Festival * Arundel Festival B * Bolton food festival * Barnes Film Festival * Bath Fringe Festival * Bath International Music Festival * Bath Literature ...

List of festivals in the United States This is an incomplete list of festivals in the United States with articles on Wikipedia, as well as lists of other festival lists, by geographic location. This list includes festivals of diverse types, among them regional festivals, Trade fair, c ...

* List of festivals in Vietnam * list of festivals in Sri Lanka

Continent

* List of festivals in Asia * List of festivals in Europe * List of festivals in Oceania *

List of festivals in South America This is a list of festivals in South America. Sovereign states Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia *List of festivals in Colombia **List of festivals in La Guajira (region) *Carnival in Colombia Ecuador *Fiestas de Quito *Pa ...

Sublists by type or topic

Cultural, Religious, and/or Folk

The following lists are for cultural festivals by culture, with location of origin: *

List of Buddhist festivals This is a list of holidays and festivals celebrated within the Buddhist tradition. Holidays *Vesak: The Buddha's birthday is known as Vesak and is one of the major festivals of the year. It is celebrated on the first full moon day in May, or the ...

* List of Bohol festivals (Philippines) * List of Caribbean carnivals around the world * List of Celtic festivals (Ireland and United Kingdom) * List of Christian music festivals (Europe) * Cornish festivals (United Kingdom) * List of Feria (Spain) *

List of folk festivals A folk festival celebrates traditional folk crafts and folk music. This list includes folk festivals worldwide, except those with only a partial focus on folk music or arts. Folk festivals may also feature folk dance or ethnic foods. Handicra ...

List of Hindu festivals Hindus celebrate a significant number of festivals and celebrations, many of which commemorate events from ancient Indian, ancient India and often align with seasonal changes. These festivities take place either on a fixed annual date on the ...

(India and Pakistan) * List of festivals of Maharashtrian Brahmins (India) * List of Muslim festivals (Asia) * List of neo-pagan festivals and events *

List of Sikh festivals This is a list of the major festivals of the Sikhism, Sikh religion. List Other Sikh festivals There are some other (around 45) festivals that are celebrated at a much smaller scale with some being centred in particular regions or towns that ...

(India and Pakistan) * List of Sindhi Hindu festivals (India and Pakistan) *

Tibetan festivals In Tibet, the Tibetan calendar lags approximately four to six weeks behind the solar calendar. For example, the Tibetan First Month usually falls in February, the Fifth Month usually falls in June or early July and the Eight Month usually falls ...

(Tibet)

Seasonal

List of winter festivals This is an incomplete list of multinational festivals and holidays. January ;Christianity * Feast of the Circumcision: ''1 January'' * Twelfth Night (holiday), Twelfth Night (Epiphany Eve): ''5 January'' * Epiphany (holiday), Epiphany: ''6 Janu ...

Fairs, expositions, and shows

List of world expositions A world's fair, also known as a universal exhibition, is a large global exhibition designed to showcase the achievements of nations. These exhibitions vary in character and are held in different parts of the world at a specific site for a perio ...

* List of steam fairs * List of Renaissance and Medieval fairs *

List of world's fairs This is a chronological list of international or colonial world's fairs. 1790s * 1791 – Prague, Bohemia – first industrial exhibition on the occasion of the coronation of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold II as king of Bohemia, took p ...

Sporting

* List of hot air balloon festivals *

List of kite festivals This is a list of kite festivals. Annual kite festivals See also *Sport kite *Kite External linksDrachen Foundation's 10 best kite festivals References

{{Kites Kite festivals, Lists of festivals by topic, Kite ...

* List of motorsport festivals

Theater, dance, and performing arts

* List of theatre festivals ** List of improvisational theater festivals * List of opera festivals

Flower and garden

* List of tulip festivals * List of dogwood festivals

Music

List of music festivals A list of music festivals around the world. A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, ...

** List of music festivals by year ** List of music festivals by genre ** List of music festivals by region

Film and television

* List of television festivals *

List of film festivals A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, bu ...

** List of fantastic and horror film festivals **

List of documentary film festivals Documentary film festivals are film festivals devoted solely to documentary film, which is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originall ...

** List of architecture film festivals ** List of international animation festivals ** List of machinima festivals ** List of regional animation festivals

Food and drink

* List of food festivals in the United Kingdom * List of food festivals in Wales * List of Sauerkraut Days celebrations * List of vegetarian festivals

External links

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