| Those who tenaciously stuck till the tail end of the festival were regaled by an unexpected treat. |
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| The Fringe likes to think of itself as the festival where you see the stars of tomorrow today. |
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| Our first encounter with the festival was the enormous queue of people who lined up to enter. |
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| And the festival goers who attended the grand opening were similarly enthusiastic. |
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| The festival was an outcry against everyday life and a short escape from the treadmill of the work-eat-sleep regime. |
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| Inaugurated by the Malayalam filmmaker Mohan on January 25, the festival screens 13 films by the master. |
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| The revels originated years ago as a bank holiday festival for men who worked in the local quarries. |
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| Tickets for the 22nd Orkney Folk Festival went on sale from Tuesday at the festival ticket office in Victoria Street, Stromness. |
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| They had been attending a festival event of talks, meditations and discussions in the city over Easter. |
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| This festival manages to deliver more than 75 feature films and dozens of shorts in just 10 quick days. |
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| Organisers are billing this event as a BIlingual festival and a Celtic celebration. |
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| The official website of the festival promised exciting displays and demos from environmental groups all over the country. |
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| However, the organisers are considering rescheduling the festival from the second Sunday of August to the last week of November. |
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| Foodstuffs taken to church for the harvest festival are generally given to charity. |
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| Many major book launches are now accompanied by author appearances on the festival circuit. |
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| In August an astonishing 300,000 people joined an anti-capitalist festival at Larzac in the south of France. |
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| The festival will have something to tickle the interest of all but the staunchest anti-intellectuals. |
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| The last festival I went to was terrorised by drunken yobbos and violent episodes. |
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| The festival is being extensively promoted in advance with stands booked for the Holiday World extravaganzas in Dublin, Cork and Belfast. |
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| The annual singer-songwriter festival that happened this past Canada Day was a raging success by any standards. |
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| The festival is meant as a platform to reflect the diversity of contemporary works, including intermedial and non-European music. |
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| The Raindance festival commences on October 23 and will include 70 feature films and 200 shorts from 22 countries. |
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| The organisation of this festival of fun in the middle of winter is typical of the resilient people of Blackball. |
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| On 17 March we'll be webcasting the festival event as well as reporting live on radio from the parade. |
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| The festival also offered the chance to talk with fellow readers and share reading recommendations. |
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| While the Hispanic population in Calgary is still less than 20,000 people, the festival is a huge draw for Calgarians from all backgrounds. |
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| Here, cameras follow four of the ladyboys both at the festival and during their everyday lives as they shop for clothes and shoes. |
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| This biennial festival took place in late June, beginning in 1961 and ran for 28 years. |
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| Also biting the dust will be the Metropole's ballroom and other rooms, centres of many late night jazz festival gigs and other functions. |
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| And they are planning a harvest festival next Saturday, featuring a local produce auction, as part of the festivities. |
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| This movie is more of a festival of excesses, where tone and temperament are identified and altered to confuse and bemuse the audience. |
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| He starred in the first festival in 1995, helping to win it national acclaim. |
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| And not content with conquering dry land, the festival will also be waterborne, with boat trips and river-related theatre. |
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| On one hand, it's a small-scale theatre festival that gives a leg-up to some of the newest and most creative names on the scene. |
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| Luckily, however, this year the festival admin could look to organisation for inspiration. |
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| The festival embraces various strands of the arts including music, theatre, dance, film, comedy, literature and family entertainment. |
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| After all, what would a festival in Canada's electronic capital be without a few nights of bleeps, bloops and bumps? |
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| As a piano player, he's the odd one out in a festival that's about chamber music, but he's very valuable. |
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| For instance, it is not known exactly how the Norooz festival was viewed in terms of religious beliefs by ancient Persians. |
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| Thus, this festival brings together the richness of the Indian kitchen with its spices and subtle shades of taste and texture. |
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| The festival of Lupercal falls on this 15 day of February, and you must be rested for the races. |
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| The problem is that most people had my experience as a child and thus lack the treatment of the day as a festival for the tinies. |
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| A fire-walking festival held at Katagarama attracts pilgrims from all over the island, as do other sacred centers of Buddhism. |
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| The annual Caribbean Carnival will top off the festival on June 20 with a Mardi Gras from 7pm-midnight and firework finale. |
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| So, Baisakhi is an important festival for the Sikhs because it is a formal celebration of the brotherhood of their community. |
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| The music festival that spreads its diverse tentacles from Aberdeen south to Glasgow and Edinburgh is now in its sixth year. |
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| For the past couple of years a poetry festival has been held in Riccione, a resort town on the Adriatic coast in Emilia Romagna. |
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| The origins of Halloween date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. |
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| Unlike most bands on the current jazz festival circuit, the Chicago Six do not adhere to a single genre. |
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| The Manipuris rarely perform at any festival which is not accompanied by dance, music and song. |
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| It was formerly the eve of the Celtic festival of Samhain, a name which comes down to us directly from the Gaelic for the end of summer. |
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| After checking into my hotel, I decided to drop by the registration tent for some festival material to get myself oriented. |
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| The first festival I attended was by far the best, because the air was thick with bile and acrimony. |
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| Britain's first vintage beer festival proved that strong ale can be left to mature like wine. |
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| The festival offers a week of organised walks ranging from short strolls to challenging long distance routes. |
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| The Coleman festival which took place from September 2th to 4th was a resounding success with packed audiences each night at the concerts. |
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| 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. |
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| Edinburgh's international festival is now engaged in a head-to-head battle with the hyper-inflated fringe. |
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| Warren Beatty, then attending the festival with Bonnie and Clyde, expressed his praise for the film and condemned the censors. |
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| It is a festival that feminists would love to strike out completely from the history of a nation. |
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| The town's tasteful festival appearance should help to boost its economic life this Christmas. |
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| In traditional Ireland, Samhain was the harvest festival marking the end of one year and beginning of the next. |
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| The festival opened officially on June 20 with a special concert competition featuring laureates from the Inter-Atlantic Music Foundation. |
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| A flower festival at St Andrew's Church, Kildwick, at the weekend was a blooming success. |
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| The city has a medieval quarter, great pubs, and an annual opera festival of international importance. |
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| Somehow, possibly accidentally on purpose, this festival seems to have managed to almost totally exclude the student body. |
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| The evening continued with Killybegs Festival Carnival led by the festival queen. |
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| Another addition this year will be a festival queen and two princesses chosen from local girls. |
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| After a triumphal festival performance in California last month, Smith and co will soon tour with a string of acolytes supporting. |
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| It's all a part of the legendary good time that the Edmonton festival is so well known for. |
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| As Montreal finally heats up just in time for festival season, the familiar colours and rhythms of Carifiesta are just around the corner. |
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| Bright and attractive colours were used to create a merry festival atmosphere. |
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| It was here that arguably the most potent aspect of May Day arose, the festival becoming a one-day strike in many countries. |
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| There is no express right for workers to take time off to attend a religious festival if it is not covered by statutory holidays. |
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| In the meantime, the provisional festival programme has thrown up some intriguing possibilities for a couple of good nights on the town. |
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| International festival screenings of the uncut version followed in a somewhat haphazard fashion. |
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| To neutralize the aftertaste of balut, the festival has halo-halo, a traditional, rich drink suitable for any occasion. |
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| In scheduling enough content to run the gamut of women's experiences, the festival has performed a balancing act. |
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| Later however, the men of the parish got together and cleared gorse and heather from the present festival field at Gurteen and sowed grass seed. |
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| It is a pity that the sanctity of the festival should be lost with ersatz Santas luring people to malls. |
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| One of the ace accordionists visiting the festival was New York-based John Nolan, seven times All-Ireland Champion. |
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| Smith has built something from virtually nothing, scraping a festival together and building it slowly over decades. |
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| They assemble at the festival and offer their homage by performing in the mela. |
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| Act 3 includes the Ride of the Valkyries which few festival goers will fail to recognise as the theme music to the film Apocalypse Now. |
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| Maradona is at the festival to promote a self-titled documentary made by Serbian director Emir Kusturica. |
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| Either way, I felt that this was one important element of festival life that was lacking. |
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| Organizers said they could still stop the festival if the situation changed. |
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| The festival includes both new and established artists, showing the diversity of Hungarian culture. |
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| At the festival itself, some of the men wear small goat horns attached to their heads, giving them a rather satyr like appearance. |
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| You'll find it in abundance back in Aarhus, which has hosted a festival every year since 1965 to celebrate love and human relationships. |
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| Book festival audiences are inclined to be well disposed towards the writers they come to hear. |
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| The other good news is that there are plans afoot for there to be a free festival next year! |
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| So it is a bit odd that the nations choose to come here for a jolly festival of running, jumping and splashing about. |
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| I moved our car back into the garage, assuming there was a festival or parade the following day. |
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| The festival also features 15 morris dance teams performing at stations along the line, and on-train bars serving real ale. |
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| The festival will link literacy and literature, and encourage people to read more widely and discerningly. |
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| Leading writer John McGahern officially opened the 35th annual writers' festival in the north Kerry town. |
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| The college where the festival is held throws a party the night before the event. |
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| So how come the most prevalent symbol of this monumentally significant festival is the chocolate egg? |
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| In fact, schools hog the limelight, by celebrating the festival in a customary manner, involving children and teachers. |
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| I booked a one-way ticket to Montreal on US Airways for the jazz festival and to celebrate Sudha's 30th birthday. |
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| Last month re-enactors staged a mock battle at the site, as a testing ground before the full festival on September 23 and 24 next year. |
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| Halloween is known as Samhain to pagans and was the Celtic festival of the dead. |
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| The festival is part of the same process, attracting visitors off-season and introducing them to the delights of the area. |
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| The festival closes on Sunday and some of these films don't show after tonight. |
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| Originally the Celtic fire festival of Samhain, it celebrated the end of the Celtic year. |
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| A variety of special articles are featured during religious festival seasons. |
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| He suffered from manic depression after shell shock in World War II and the festival has been timed to coincide with Mental Health Week. |
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| At the festival celebrated in the country around Athens, a jar of wine and a vine headed the procession. |
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| Film festival programmers, as far as one can tell, assiduously do their work. |
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| The youth music festival begins with an invocatory violin concert by Malavika and Sharada, both upcoming artistes. |
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| Salisbury's food and drink festival is guaranteed to cook up a storm this weekend, with a mouthwatering line-up to tantalise every taste bud. |
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| Romans adorned their homes with evergreens during Saturnalia, a winter festival in honor of Saturnus, the god of agriculture. |
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| Anyway, it seems the Lupercalian festival changed as the Romans moved north into France and Britain. |
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| But more importantly, the festival lets you take a break from those big Hollywood blockbuster films. |
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| As well as laying out the timetable of events, sales of programmes also raise funds for the festival committee. |
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| A culinary festival will feature workshops, wine and food tastings, and dining specials with guest chefs from around the world. |
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| The initiative will consist of four performance residencies and a local festival in which new productions will premiere. |
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| I ate some yakisoba and other standard festival fare before setting up my tripod and getting ready to attempt to photograph the action. |
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| On the eve of its annual festival Natasha Hughes asks if slow food could be the new fast food? |
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| This annual festival boasts food and craft stalls, with the main attraction being the prickly pear witblits made in a 19th century copper still. |
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| The National Youth Orchestra has chosen the prestigious festival as one of the events to unveil its newly-established sinfonietta. |
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| Now it is becoming a festival of Mammon, much to the chagrin of the religious. |
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| The festival opens on Tuesday, Feb. 6 with a varied and somewhat eclectic orchestral program. |
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| The oddly alliterated Fervent Fray of Fraternal Fervor, written and directed by Thomas Thompson, is the second festival offering. |
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| The melon festival will kick off here with a veritable mishmash of melon-based menu, complete with cocktails and mocktails. |
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| As they have done each and every year, Pattaya's city administration and private sector organized a festival for the auspicious occasion. |
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| Celebrating all things multidisciplinary, the first ever Vasistas festival is here to show us all that multi-tasking art is where it's at. |
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| Shabad kirtans are sung and langar hosted during the festival at the Gurdwara Sir Guru Singh Sabha at Perumanoor, Thevara. |
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| The Olympic Games is a festival of nationalism, a gourmandising 17-day feast of jingo. |
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| The two films being shown at this festival date back to his early South Korea days. |
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| His absence from the most prestigious festival in the film industry calendar was guaranteed to get the tongues wagging. |
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| Denis Beckett treks to the festival to reflect on the accidents, chances and coincidences that shape the world we know. |
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| Rock photographer Jill Furmanovsky has been going regularly to the festival for more than 10 years. |
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| Is the EIF by definition a festival exclusively for high-minded pursuits where jollity has no place? |
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| I have noticed that the most prominent activity at the festival is alcohol consumption. |
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| As a result, there is unlikely to be even the slightest dent in the demand for gold from India, particularly as we remain in the festival season. |
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| And speaking of mud, the festival mercifully escaped the rain that was lashing York. |
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| But plans are already afoot to ensure that the festival is revitalised next year. |
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| Jamming sessions in all the festival venues, led by the pros, will cover all styles of music from jazz to rock to blues and much more. |
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| For the actor-activist then, the festival this year is something of a family affair. |
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| If it is partly the aim of a literary festival to enthuse new, young readers, these two readings don't look like setting them on fire. |
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| The town is staging its annual bugs festival and there is a real buzz of excitement in the community. |
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| The festival last week was charged with a modern-day energy and a multicultural feel. |
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| British director David Mackenzie has great hopes riding on him for his new film, Young Adam, at the Cannes film festival next week. |
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| But for those who only want to see life through the lens of the camera, the festival is probably a good option. |
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| The festival of merriment and joy of sharing again had hotels and shops lining up some exciting events and gifts. |
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| The festival has been going since then, and every summer it presents operas, plays and concerts of the finest. |
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| These performances are then showcased at a festival to promote aspirant writers. |
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| Meanwhile, the school's rugger players took part in a tag festival at Sparrows Den. |
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| Mr Halliwell said the big festival events of last Sunday, such as the SportKarnival and vintage vehicle rally, appeared to be successful. |
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| This is exactly the kind of buzzworthy film that keeps Sundance at the peak of the festival pack. |
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| The town prides itself in being a festival meeting, with plenty of craic on the streets and in the pubs at night. |
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| The 2003 festival is no exception, offering a towering series of art exhibitions and workshops. |
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| However, I assure you that the Hogbetsotso festival is a genuine Ghanaian event. |
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| At 6 p.m., the audition procedure, the most bedraggling and stressful portion of the festival for some began. |
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| Innovatively flavoured with tantalizing aromas and packed with exotic spices, the festival promises an enticing treat to all biryani buffs. |
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| Floral magnificence should not be missed at a flower festival taking place this weekend in a York village church. |
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| The festival is a training ground for aerialists, now in its third year, and has well exceeded expectations. |
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| To tickle your taste buds, the food festival offers a wide range of dishes, including pastas, salads, soups, desserts and pizzas. |
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| The book festival is in a square, filled with huge tents, pods and even a yurt. |
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| We are all very aware that this is a dance festival performance, so we aren't thinking of ourselves as aerialists. |
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| Broken Pencil Magazine presents Canada's largest zine fair and festival of alternative culture. |
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| During the Christmas festival each one is adorned with decorations, but not gaudy lights and tinsel. |
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| Later in the afternoon the golden jubilee festival carnival and procession takes place in The Mall. |
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| Four generations of the Salt family gathered in a building constructed by their ancestor to mark a festival celebrating Sir Titus Salt. |
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| Each year hoards of fans converge on Chippenham for the festival from as far afield as the USA and the Netherlands. |
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| Focusing on merengue and other Latin music, this festival features a couple of jam-packed days in the sun. |
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| During the festival he will present a series of new sculptural and printed works. |
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| Unfortunately, the snow's put the kybosh on most of the festival fun planned for Saturday. |
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| For that to happen at an Afrikaans festival was unthinkable a few years ago. |
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| The festival begins on the 25th day of Kislev and is celebrated for eight days. |
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| Another Aymara festival is Alacitas, the Festival of Abundance, which takes place in La Paz and the Lake Titicaca region. |
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| Therefore, it should come as no surprise that his self-created guitar festival focuses primarily on the blues. |
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| The Crop Over festival features costume bands, folk music, and calypso competitions. |
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| This once great festival has been slipping for several years and it really does need a major shake-up. |
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| This had been, after all, originally their festival of light and of feasting, which they called Saturnalia, after Saturn, father of Pluto. |
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| Go to any jazz festival in Australia and you're likely to find a gospel church service in the program. |
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| The festival will include introductory lectures as well as screenings of major Spanish films. |
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| But he still makes time for the important stuff, and thankfully that also includes coming to the Vancouver festival more often. |
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| Shavuot is also considered an agricultural celebration, as it celebrates the festival of the first fruits when wheat is harvested. |
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| Forget the good old battered sav, the company is planning to revolutionise festival food. |
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| From the start the festival has proved a popular draw with jazz lovers by offering good music, mostly for free. |
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| Today, music lovers do not have to attend a religious festival to enjoy a little wine with their music. |
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| It's a school festival where we get little booths all around the blacktop outside of our school. |
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| In Argentina Christmas used to be a low key affair, the biggest festival being Twelfth Night. |
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| At the Lala Lajpat Rai Hall at the Coimbatore Punjabi Association, a select gathering had assembled to celebrate the festival of Baisakhi. |
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| Vaisakhi, also spelled Baisakhi is a long established harvest festival in the Punjab. |
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| Which is a safe choice, but hardly the point of a festival about elbowing the creative boundaries a little. |
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| Also needed are locals wishing to get involved by decorating their home, shop, office or workplace along a 1940s theme for the festival weekend. |
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| Mother's Day should be the most important festival of the year, because it honours the person who brought us into the world. |
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| The festival features an authentic selection of performing artistes from the world music genre. |
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| The festival began in the bar on top of the koppie, and has been going from strength to strength. |
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| The elderly gentleman from Morningside was having trouble getting his kip, what with all that festival malarkey going on. |
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| Don McKellar's follow-up to Last Night wrapped in December and should be done for September's festival season. |
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| Clonaslee came alive to the sound of music on Sunday June 2 as the annual festival got under way. |
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| Calgary's first beer festival is not only alive and well, but getting bigger and better. |
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| The festival provides an opportunity for people to connect with important science of the day. |
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| More than 1,500 programmes are printed each year, helping to provide a timetable of events but also raise funds for the festival committee. |
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| Racegoers attending this years Galway festival could come away winning or sharing in one of the big Tote Jackpot pools. |
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| It puts the mockers on things as it was a free festival and the kids were really enjoying it. |
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| The festival picks up its musical theme again with a concert by the multi-talented Simeon Wood at Christchurch. |
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| The festival will showcase food and crafts from around 100 local producers. |
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| Local police, military forces and authorities patrolled major public places and festival venues. |
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| The festival will be rounded off on Sunday with a free and easy all-in open session. |
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| This all-inclusive holiday festival will feature three stages of non-stop music, sumptuous food, creative crafts and interactive fun. |
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| There was a festival atmosphere in the air, with hundreds of people packing the streets for all of the events that had been organised. |
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| The festival will open with the historical film Vercingetorix, which was shot in Bulgaria. |
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| The festival will be the first and only time they will have played together since they split up. |
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| Mahashivratri is a Hindu festival dedicated to Shiva, one of the deities of the Hindu Trinity. |
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| John of Gaunt entered five groups in this year's regional festival including its wind band, low brass ensemble and trombone octet. |
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| Fineline Productions will then take their film on to the festival circuit with a view to having it shown on terrestrial television. |
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| The custom of decorating with apples, pumpkins, cornstalks, and autumn leaves has its origin in an ancient Druid autumn festival called Samhain. |
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| Therefore, allotment of seats to youth festival winners for professional education courses should be stopped. |
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| But the family have been forced to scrap the annual festival after rowdy lager louts invaded this year's event and started a fight. |
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| So I waited and waited and dreamed up my all-time favourite festival line-up. |
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| This month Gravesend's Sikh community is celebrating its most important festival Vaisahki, the birth of its religion. |
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| The festival kicked-off on Monday night with a special headlining performance from By Divine Right. |
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| The music festival will offer numerous organ, harpsichord and piano recitals by emerging artists as well as internationally renowned soloists. |
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| She sandwiches the concert between summer festival appearances in the Isle of Man, Holmfirth, Sidmouth, Gainsborough and Norway. |
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| At the festival he will perform a solo recital and play the Elgar concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. |
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| It seemed a bit weird having a festival in the middle of town, but I'm looking forward to this, yeah. |
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| They have donated a basket of bread for our harvest festival for the past couple of years. |
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| The tabanka festival combines African-style shrines with a Portuguese religious parade. |
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| This festival lasted for seven days and included the winter solstice, which usually occurred around December 25th on the ancient Julian calendar. |
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| The film festival wasn't aimed at conflict issues, but issues do work their way in, if only tangentially. |
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| On the eve of the festival of Lupercalia the names of Roman girls were written on slips of paper and placed into jars. |
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| Many African Americans now celebrate Kwanzaa, an alternative festival with a focus on traditional African values. |
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| Mentioning the Writers' Collective events remind me that it will just be a hop, skip and jump until festival time. |
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| The purpose and character of the festival We Are One Family is to unite orphans who have been living in poor conditions. |
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| The festival had the best buck-dancers and cloggers that I'd encountered here, perfect for the old-time fiddle tunes and claw-hammer stuff that we play. |
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| The Christmas tree, for example, harks back to a northern Germanic fertility festival and feast of the dead when greenery was hung up in the home to warn off evil spirits. |
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| The festival was a resounding success in terms of access, competition standards, numbers of choirs taking part and the administration and organisation. |
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| Based on these criteria, I must judge my experience as a panelist for the film festival group's annual list of notable Canadian films a roaring success. |
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| The discussions tabled during the meeting focused on creating a more unique festival atmosphere specific to Pattaya and reducing the time frame of the event. |
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| Still, the film is a startling document for its time, and in its crazy quilt of themes could be screened credibly in a festival of avant-garde films. |
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| Warnings about consuming too much sugar get pushed to the back of the mind during festival time, when everyone is cooking and distributing delicious sweetmeats and savouries. |
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| The sad tale of a madman's decent to the depths of despair hardly provided the most upbeat ending to the festival but created a stir in the audience. |
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| Although not hot, the weather was kind to the festival and the showery rain that the town had experienced all week did not materialise save for one five minute burst. |
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| Running until Sunday, the festival has a diverse programme of events including lectures, book launches, workshops, debates, symposia, film and art. |
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| The pond is at the height of its glory during the sexennial festival when the reflection of a hundred thousand lights around the temple provides a grand spectacle. |
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| On show at the festival are leather goods, clay statuettes, wooden showpieces, handloom garments, jute bags, paper articles, metal crafts and so on. |
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| Or the inimitable Oregon Country Fair, a 45,000-person, three-day Woodstock-esque hippy festival in the woods outside Eugene. |
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| While the Culchie Competition is restricted to men the women of the area are not being neglected either with plans now in train to select a festival queen. |
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| Anyone seeking any kind of assistance in making it over to Hungary for the only festival of jazz I know that is held in a vineyard should get in touch pretty sharpish. |
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| We believe it may be the first of its kind in York, and we hope it will become a yearly festival to create a focus event for ethnic groups in York. |
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| I think all in all you could say the festival was a stonking event! |
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| Last week's festival slaked the thirst of over 1,000 visitors, real ale veterans and virgins alike descending on Troon for three days of eager boozing. |
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| Clowns, magicians and puppets are set to entertain shoppers over the summer holidays, with Basildon's Eastgate Centre starting its summer festival today. |
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| The festival in her honour was a tame affair until a few years ago. |
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| When Hayei Sarah is read, these restrictions are often tightened, taking away more rights to make room for the festival weekend. |
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| To many, the modern rock festival has evolved into a well-oiled commercial machine, far removed from the laissez-faire hippy idealism of its infancy. |
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| The festival will feature headlining sets by Toubab Krewe each night. |
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| Our pasta festival continued with a mound of linguine vongole, a mild tomato sauce simmered with garlic and shallots and peppered with pieces of clam. |
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| It is a festival of joy for being created this way after centuries of being told that we are sinful, loathsome, and disgusting. |
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| It developed a reputation as the preferred festival drinking spot for Americans and Australians, and it does not disappoint. |
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| I'm staying in a youth hostel which, for the other 11 months of the year when there's no major festival going on is a university hall of residence. |
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| The festival director shamelessly embellishes every description he writes. |
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| Officials express high hopes that the Doha festival will be a force for cross-cultural dialogue. |
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| It was the single-handed effort of this man which took Kathaprasangam, which once was a prominent part of the temple festival itinerary, to the mainstream of Kerala culture. |
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| She founded the legendary drag festival that is held in Manhattan every year, and created her own trademarked routine of singing and dancing fused with stand-up comedy. |
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| On till August 10, the festival will screen the 20 that made it from the 329 entries received, after careful scrutiny from an eminent panel of selectors. |
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| A series of workshops will be held building up to the festival in June. |
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| 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. |
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| Champ was prepared especially for the festival of Hallowe'en when large quantities of potatoes were pounded with a cylindrical wooden implement called a beetle. |
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| It was at the cherry blossom viewing festival in my area, whilst strolling down a sakura lined path by the river, that I stumbled upon the most garish use of concrete to date. |
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| Originally this cake belonged to Twelfth Night but moved to the secular festival of New Year when religious reformers banned Christmas as a festival. |
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| At the start of the festival the organizing committee announced to me that I could not enter the stadium floor where the maskers were to appear because I was a woman. |
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| For those who have put off their shopping till the very last minute, designer-wear ready-mades are ideal to help celebrate the joyous festival in fashion. |
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| The intended spirit of the ancient festival is one of gentleness and thankfulness, paying respect to elders and showing appreciation for the gift of life-giving water. |
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| It is almost obligatory for any new Edinburgh resident to wax lyrical over the cultural backdrop that the castle, the festival and the tattoo give to the city. |
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| Most of the festival centred itself around the bandstand in the Arboretum park, with its surrounding paved semi-amphitheatre, and a grassy sitting area beyond that. |
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| In Ancient Rome at the dark-of-the-winter festival of the Saturnalia, drunkenness was part of the general licence, and the reversal of normal sober behaviour. |
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| In the pre-spring festival senators and slave owners would put aside their stately togas and kindred marks of rank and don shapeless garments known as syntheses. |
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| Before the introduction of Christmas, each year beginning on December 17th Romans honored Saturn, the ancient god of agriculture, in a festival called Saturnalia. |
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| And since seven Sundays had passed since Easter, it was now Whitsuntide, the greatest festival of the Church next to Easter itself, and so it must be celebrated, sorrow or no. |
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| Skrillex and his electronic music label, OWSLA, launched an all-out aural assault on the HARD Summer festival in Los Angeles. |
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| The matched young couple stayed together for the festival of Lupercalia. |
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| If you want to celebrate the festival in your own home, you'll have to make some latkes, or potato cakes made with grated onions and potatoes deep fried. |
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| If Edmonton can't support a jazz festival then it is a reflection of Edmonton's ruralism and redneck attitude, not the efforts of the Edmonton Jazz Festival! |
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| Their absence both raises awkward questions over whether or not Edinburgh's festival is losing its lustre and highlights the intractable nature of film business politics. |
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| Before the commencement of the festival young maidens put their names into a hat and the young men picked out the name of the girl who would be their partner for the festival. |
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| The opera festival was on and that helped to create good passing trade. |
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| The festival will also raise awareness about natural health therapies, composting, waste prevention, energy conservation and alternative architecture. |
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| Walker's sharply funny piece about a fading movie star who starts stalking one of her fans will be remounted in this summer's Fringe festival and is a show to look out for. |
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| This mid-autumn festival has strong links with their harvest festival and coincides with the Lantern Festival, with red lanterns of all shapes in all Chinese settlements. |
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| The best way to experience living conditions as they were at the turn of the last millennium is to book yourself into a festival once the heavens open. |
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| The gorge Amphitheatre plays host to the 3-day festival Sasquatch on the west coast in Washington. |
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| Now it's only Sunday mornings, weddings, funerals, a carol service the week before Christmas and an occasional harvest festival for the local C of E infants and juniors. |
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| Here is a picture of me drawn based on a photo of me which is taken after I am declared the undenied winner of 2001 salsa festival and the crown is on my head. |
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| Prince Harry was at the Glastonbury music festival over the weekend with his girlfriend Cressida Bonas. |
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| Masses of revellers thronged the streets of Newtown when the rainbow nation got together to celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights, on Saturday, 22 November. |
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| If the presence of the man who produced rank commercial potboilers at the film festival was construed a mismatch by many, he insisted he was not there to chase rainbows. |
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| Sadly the Canes were blowing cold on the night, although it didn't really dampen the crowd's enthusiasm for a festival of entertainment that is only partly about rugby. |
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| The fact that the Prime Minister himself is said to have strong-armed London's museums into mounting the festival does not make it inevitable that it will be lousy. |
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| The festival aimed to raise the nation's spirits following the war and years of austerity, whilst promoting the very best in British art, design and industry. |
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| Nobody can confuse an annual festival with a ballot paper for an election. |
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| 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. |
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| The festival is already renowned as a place for the discovery of films, often screening titles which go on to become box office hits months after the festival. |
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| I met up with people at the launch party for the free festival group. |
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