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Beer festival(Oktoberfest) is held annually in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It is a 16- to 18-day folk festival running from mid- or late September to the first Sunday in October, with more than six million people from around the world attending the event every year. Locally, it is called d’Wiesn, after the colloquial name for the fairgrounds, Theresienwiese. The Oktoberfest is an important part of Bavarian culture, having been held since the year 1810. Other cities across the world also hold Oktoberfest celebrations that are modeled after the original Munich event.

During the event, large quantities of beers are consumed. During the 16-day festival in 2013, for example, 7.7 million litres were served.Visitors also enjoy numerous attractions, such as amusement rides, sidestalls, and games. There is also a wide variety of traditional foods available.

The Munich Oktoberfest originally took place in the 16-day period leading up to the first Sunday in October.As such, if the first Sunday in October falls on the 1st or the 2nd, then the festival would run until 3 October. Thus, the festival now runs for 17 days when the first Sunday is 2 October and 18 days when it is 1 October. In 2010, the festival lasted until the first Monday in October.

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What is Vivid Sydney?

Vivid Sydney is an annual festival of light, music and ideas, held in Sydney, Australia. It includes outdoor immersive light installations and projections, performances by local and international musicians, and an ideas exchange forum featuring public talks and debates with leading creative thinkers.

This event takes place over the course of three weeks in May and June. The centrepiece of Vivid Sydney is the light sculptures, multimedia interactive work and building projections that transform various buildings and landmarks such as the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge in and around the Sydney central business district into an outdoor night time canvas of art.

During the 2015 festival, sites of interest were Central Park, Chatswood and the University of Sydney as well as around the CBD, Darling Harbour and The Rocks.

Unfortunately,the event was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia.

Vivid Light
Along what is known as the Vivid Light Walk, through The Rocks, Circular Quay and Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, there are many opportunities for individuals to interact with light installations through such means as unique technologies. This program includes large-scale projection on other historical buildings such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney's Customs House, and the historical Cadmans Cottage. The Sydney Harbour Bridge is also illuminated.

Vivid Music
Vivid Music includes a range of contemporary music events take place throughout the Sydney CBD. In recent years Carriageworks has played host to a Vivid Music Events.

Vivid Ideas
Vivid Ideas consists of a range of talks, fora, and workshops centred around the Creative Industries. The Vivid Ideas Exchange takes place throughout the festival at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

Vivid School
Introduced in 2019, the Vivid School program targets talks, fora, and workshops centred around creativity and innovation to young people. The program includes topics such as vocational pathways in creative industries.

Past light installations
Musical Cubes, a past light installation was an interactive activity in the harbour. In this activity, a group of six individuals would take part in a musical experiment. Each member would be given a three dimensional cube. Each cube represented a different instrument (guitar, piano, etc.) and each side of the cube would represent a different pace (measured in beats per minute). Every member of the group would take their cube, select a side, and place the cube on a table. A computer program would then interpret all the information from the cubes and play the resulting musical beat over loud speakers that surrounded the table. Participants would be allowed to change the tempo of their instrument and as they changed them, the program would react to reflect the change and play the new tune.

Heart of the City, a light installation at Vivid In 2015, was another activity located in the harbour. This was one of the more popular activities at Vivid due to its immersive nature. The Heart of the City resembled a large, solid beanbag chair and was located near the Sydney Opera House. Upon reaching the front of the line, participants would be asked to seat themselves in the middle of the chair. Once seated, they would be instructed by a Vivid Sydney volunteer to insert their finger into a small hole located near the chair. If your finger was inserted correctly, the chair would begin to light up red to match your heartbeat. As participants began to notice this, their heart rate sometimes increased causing the chair to light up more rapidly.

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THE FESTIVAL OF KOREAN-CHUSEOK (Nur Aisy Dalisha)

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THE FESTIVAL OF KOREAN-CHUSEOK (Nur Aisy Dalisha)

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Experience authentic Korean customs with Chuseok Festival 2021

Celebrate the Autumnal equinox with Korea’s Thanksgiving Holiday, Chuseok (추석)

Chuseok is one of the biggest and most important holidays in the Korean calendar along with Seollal (Lunar New Year’s Day). This year, Chuseok falls on the 21 September 2021.

For this holiday it is customary for Koreans to visit their hometown to spend quality time with their family, gathering to share food and stories and to give thanks to ancestors.

To commemorate Chuseok, we are holding special celebrations at the KCCUK and we invite you to join us and experience traditional Korean culture in its most beloved form.

The Chuseok Festival 2021 will allow you to experience the key Chuseok traditions:

1. Hanbok (한복, traditional Korean clothing)

As Chuseok is a celebration of harvest and abundance, the holiday period is made joyful with various entertainment and folk games such as samulnori (사물놀이, traditional percussion quartet), talchum (탈춤, mask dance), ganggangsullae (강강술래, Korean circle dance), and ssireum (씨름, traditional Korean wrestling). Ganggangsullae is performed during Chuseok, and in this dance, women dressed in hanbok, join hands in a large circle and sing together on the night of the first full moon and on Chuseok. You can try some of beautiful hanbok at the KCCUK and feel free to take selfies!

2. Songpyeon (송편, half-moon rice cakes)

In the morning of the day of Chuseok, family members gather at their homes to hold memorial services called Charye (차례) in honour of their ancestors. During Chuseok’s charye, freshly harvested rice, alcohol, and songpyeon are prepared as an offering to the family’s ancestors. After the service, family members sit down together at the table to enjoy delicious food. At the KCCUK, you will be able to try songpyeon!

3. Traditional Handicraft

During Chuseok, many of the palaces and museums in Korea prepare events dedicated to this festive season. One of their biggest offerings often includes workshops and open sessions where visitors can learn more about traditional Korean handicrafts or join in in classes to make them. These workshops are usually open to all ages and tend to be quite popular amongst families.

This year, the KCCUK will have some exciting workshops to celebrate Chuseok, including crafting sessions where visitors will be able to make their own traditional lanterns and ornamental pendants, such as norigae (노리개) - an item often used with hanboks.

Special Programme: Screening Snap

During the Chuseok holiday, families in Korea enjoy entertainment such as televised drama and music performances together. As the different generation gathers, the most loved genre is comedy. For celebrating Chuseok, we have prepared a screening of non-verbal performance Snap, which won the 'Best Production From Asian Arts Awards' in Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016. The Screening starts at 7:00 pm. The event is free of charge, but booking is essential. Find out more here.

*challenge* Snap and Tag Us to win a prize!

Participants will have the chance to earn stamps for a card by participating our workshops, those who fill their card will win a K-Goodie bag. Ensure that you follow our Instagram account @kccuk and tag us to win!

Spaces are limited so apply now for the chance to take part.

Event Details:

Date: Sunday 26 September 2021

Time slots:
(Slot 1) 11.00am – 12.00pm
(Slot 2) 13.00pm – 14.00pm
(Slot 3) 15:00pm – 16:00pm
(Slot 4) 17:00pm – 18:00pm
(SNAP Screening) 19:00pm – 20:00pm

on the 'Best Production From Asian Arts Awards' in Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016. The Screening starts at 7:00 pm. There is an additional slot created for this performance

Venue: Korean Cultural Centre UK

Spaces: 15 per each slot

Registration Deadline: Friday 24th September

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Lee Ye Ning The festival of Japan - Kishiwada Danjiri Matsuri

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Lee Ye Ning The festival of Japan - Kishiwada Danjiri Matsuri

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The Danjiri Matsuri festival is very common throughout Japan.It is a harvest festival to pray for a good autumn bounty.The Danjiri festival is celebrated in mid September depending upon when the national holiday Respects for the Aged Day falls.

It takes place in Kishiwada Castle and Kishiwada Station,South Osaka. Kishiwada is a working class castle town that was rural until nowadays.The parade of the first day goes past Kishiwada Station with the festivities while on the second day in the neighbourhoods around Kishiwada Castle.

A danjiri is a large wooden float in the shape of a shrine or temple.The float is decorated with elaborate cravings and.It weights over 3000 kg and is pulled by an enthusiastic team with up to 1000 of people.Besides that,All the floats represent a different district of the city and each district pride being at stake as each team is competing for the victory.

The Danjiri Matsuri is believed to have its origins in the Inari Matsuri which was held in 1703.It was created by the Lord of Kishiwada castle and is considered to be Osaka's wildest festival.The reason for this is because it remains a dangerous festival with several deaths not uncommon each year.The men that stand atop the floats are sometimes thrown off or crushed below as they weave and turn down narrow streets.

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Michelle Kok Ke Ying-Taiwan- Dragon Boat Festival

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Michelle Kok Ke Ying-Taiwan- Dragon Boat Festival

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The Dragon Boat Festival is an official public holiday in Mainland China. This traditional holiday, also called the Double Fifth festival, is celebrated on the 5th day of the 5th month of the Chinese lunar calendar in Chinese.

The renowned Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Tuen Ng, falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It commemorates the death of Qu Yuan, a Chinese poet and minister known for his patriotism and contributions to classical poetry and who eventually became a national hero.

China, as the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, celebrate it at the largest scale with the most activities. Some other countries in Asia, like Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia also celebrate it with some different features

The Dragon Boat Festival is a celebration where many eat rice dumplings (zongzi), drink realgar wine (xionghuangjiu), and race dragon boats. ... Chinese citizens traditionally throw bamboo leaves filled with cooked rice into the water and it is also customary to eat tzungtzu and rice dumplings.

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Bidar Boat Race Festival in Palembang, Indonesia (Source)

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Nurul Amirah Najwa >Bidar Boat Race - Boat Race to Celebrate Independence<

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When?
(17th August)

This festival in Indonesia is celebrated in tandem with its Independence Day. It takes place in Palembang in south Sumatra. Large boats made from hardwood trees are crafted throughout the year to be raced on this special day. They can be anywhere between 20-30 metres long, decorated with bright paints and patterns. The boats are propelled by almost 70 racers, including a commander and a gong striker. Watching these beautifully crafted boats race across the waters of Sungai Musi is quite a spectacular sight!

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The Festival of Philippines ~ Sinulog Festival-Cebu (Shahana Ranee)

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The Festival of Philippines ~ Sinulog Festival-Cebu (Shahana Ranee)

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The Sinulog Festival is a traditional celebration in Cebu City held every third Sunday of January to honor the Santo Niño (Child Jesus). Basically, the festival is done by a dance ritual, in which it tells the story of the Filipino people’s pagan past and their acceptance of Christianity. The word “Sinulog” means “graceful dance”, wherein it all started in 1980 with a simple dance that represents the “sulog” (or current) of a river in Cebu.

With the celebration’s evolution, the Sinulog Festival has become a month long tradition in Cebu. The most-awaited feature, nevertheless, is the Sinulog Grand Parade which was held on the 15th day of January. “One Beat, One Dance, One Vision. Cebu – City of Culture” was the theme adopted for the 2012 Sinulog Festival.

Millions of people participated in Cebu City last Sunday to celebrate the Sinulog Festival, one of the most famous festivals in the Philippines. It was attended, not only by Filipinos, but people coming from different parts of the globe also went to witness the celebration. The magnificence of the festival made Filipinos, as well as our fellow Asians, refer to it as the “Mother of all Festivals”. From the colorful and well-made costumes of the dancers, to the beautiful dances and to the music brought by the drums, trumpets, and the native gongs, the Sinulog Festival never ceases to amaze its audience.

As the festival becomes more and more famous each year, tourists would never want to miss the opportunity to watch it and became more and more commercialized. The festival now, not only consists of costumes and dances, but also contests, such as art exhibits, beauty pageants, photo contests, and singing and dancing contests. Participants may also join the festival’s activities, such as concerts, cultural shows, fireworks display, fun runs, and street fairs. For the past 18 years, it has made the Filipinos residing in New Zealand celebrate their own version each year, a proof on how big of an influence the festival is. It has also been recognized as the “City of Culture” by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

The 2012 Sinulog festival embraced the perks of technology, as it was broadcasted live in a major television and, for all the people in the world to see, it was also streamed online.

With the overwhelming amount of people who wish to witness the traditional celebration and the beauty of the culture it depicts, this grand festival remains as Cebu’s proudest attraction, along with the beautiful beaches and historical places.

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Nur Qistina Sofeya- the festival of Indian (Holi)

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Nur Qistina Sofeya- the festival of Indian (Holi)

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Come Holi, and the streets are dotted with people applying dry and wet colours on each other's faces to celebrate the victory of good over evil! Holi is one of the top 10 festivals in India, celebrated with utmost gusto and fervour as people attend parties, indulge in dancing, throwing colours and water balloons and of course, indulging in some lassi!

When is it: March 29, 2021 (29/03/2021, Monday) is the date set for Holi this year.

Significance: Holi symbolises the victory of good over evil according to the mythology of Prince Prahlad killing Holika. The festival also marks the beginning of the spring season.

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Thingyan Festival is the Burmese New Year Festival that usually occurs in middle of April. It is a Buddhist festival celebrated over a period of four to five days, culminating in the New Year. The dates of the Thingyan Festival are calculated according to the Burmese calendar. The dates of the festival are observed as public holidays throughout Myanmar, and are part of the summer holidays at the end of the school year. Water-throwing or dousing one another from any shape or form of vessel or device that delivers water is the distinguishing feature of this festival and may be done on the first four days of the festival. The New Year takes place at virtually the same time as the new year celebrations of many countries in South Asia like China (Dai People of Yunnan Province), Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka.

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THE SANTIAGO DE CUBA CARNIVAL
July 21 – 27, 2017
If you could only choose one Cuban festival, the Santiago de Cuba Carnival is certainly one not to be missed. The biggest festival on the island, and one of the oldest in Latin America, this Afro-Cuban fiesta pays homage to el son, the traditional music of Cuba and main genre of the famed Buena Vista Social Club. Bring your party hat; this one’s not for the faint of heart. Conga parades, over the top mamarachos and a flurry of color will sweep you off your feet all week long.

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Gan Le Yee-The festival of Thailand（Songkran）

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Gan Le Yee-The festival of Thailand（Songkran）

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Songkran is the Thai New Year's national holiday. Songkran is on 13 April every year, but the holiday period extends from 14 to 15 April. In 2018 the Thai cabinet extended the festival nationwide to five days, 12–16 April, to enable citizens to travel home for the holiday.In 2019, the holiday was observed 12–16 April as 13 April fell on a Saturday.The word "Songkran" comes from the Sanskrit word saṃkrānti,literally "astrological passage", meaning transformation or change. It coincides with the rising of Aries on the astrological chart and with the New Year of many calendars of South and Southeast Asia, in keeping with the Hindu Calendar and Buddhist calendar. The New Year takes place at virtually the same time as the new year celebrations of many countries in South Asia like Bangladesh, Cambodia, China (Dai People of Yunnan Province), India (Baisakhi in Punjab, Gudipadva in Maharashtra, Pana or Mahabisuba Sankranti in Odisha, Ugadi in Andhra Pradesh, Vishu in Kerala etc.), Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.

In Thailand, New Year is now officially celebrated on 1 January. Songkran was the official New Year until 1888, when it was switched to a fixed date of 1 April. Then in 1940, this date was shifted to 1 January. The traditional Thai New Year Songkran was transformed into a national holiday.Celebrations are famous for the public water fights framed as ritual cleansing.

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The festival of China-Chinese New Year (Lau Wen Xuan)

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The festival of China-Chinese New Year (Lau Wen Xuan)

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Chinese New Year ,Spring Festival or the Lunar New Year, is the festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. In Chinese culture and Asian countries within Sinosphere, the festival is also commonly referred to as Spring Festival  as the spring season in the lunisolar calendar traditionally starts with lichun, the first of the twenty-four solar terms which the festival celebrates around the time of the Lunar New Year. Marking the end of winter and the beginning of the spring season, observances traditionally take place from New Year’s Eve, the evening preceding the first day of the year to the Lantern Festival, held on the 15th day of the year. The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears between 21 January and 20 February.[3]

Chinese New Year is one of the most important holidays in China, and has strongly influenced Lunar New Year celebrations such as the Losar of Tibet and of China's neighbouring cultures, including the It is also celebrated worldwide in regions and countries that house significant Overseas Chinese or Sinophone populations, including Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, Mauritius, and Canada as well as in North America and Europe.

The Chinese New Year is associated with several myths and customs. The festival was traditionally a time to honour deities as well as ancestors. Within China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the New Year vary widely, and the evening preceding the New Year's Day is frequently regarded as an occasion for Chinese families to gather for the annual reunion dinner. It is also traditional for every family to thoroughly clean their house, in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and to make way for incoming good luck. Another custom is the decoration of windows and doors with red paper-cuts and couplets. Popular themes among these paper-cuts and couplets include that of good fortune or happiness, wealth, and longevity. Other activities include lighting firecrackers and giving money in red paper envelopes.

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Lee Si Xian                                         The festival of England-Halloween 

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Lee Si Xian                                         The festival of England-Halloween 

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Halloween or Hallowe’en is now celebrated across the world on the night of 31st October. Modern day celebrations generally involve groups of children dressed in scary costumes roaming from house to house, demanding “trick-or-treat”. Fearing the worst, intimidated householders normally hand over vast amounts of treats in the form of chocolates, sweets and candy to avoid whatever dastardly tricks may have been dreamt up by these little miscreants. The origins of these celebrations however date back thousands of years, to pagan times.

The origins of Halloween can be traced back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. Until 2,000 years ago, the Celts lived across the lands we now know as Britain, Ireland and northern France. Essentially a farming and agricultural people, the Pre-Christian Celtic year was determined by the growing seasons and Samhain marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark cold winter. The festival symbolised the boundary between the world of the living and the world of the dead.Halloween is celebrated today due to the evolution of the Pagan celebration of Samhain to that of a secular one with ties to Christian influence.

It was believed by the Celts that on the night of 31st October, ghosts of their dead would revisit the mortal world and large bonfires were lit in each village in order to ward off any evil spirits that may also be at large. Celtic priests, known as Druids, would have led the Samhain celebrations. It would also have been the Druids who ensured that the hearth fire of each house was re-lit from the glowing embers of the sacred bonfire, in order to help protect the people and keep them warm through the forthcoming long, dark winter months.

In the decades that followed, Britain was also invaded by a new religion. Christian teaching and faith was arriving, spreading inwards from those northern and western extremities from the early Celtic Church, and up from Kent with the arrival of Saint Augustine from Rome in 597. Along with the Christians arrived the Christian Festivals and amongst them “All Hallows’ Day”, also known as “All Saints Day”, a day to remember those who had died for their beliefs.

Originally celebrated on 13th May, it was Pope Gregory who had the date of the All Hallows’ feast moved to 1st November sometime in the 8th century. It is thought that in doing so, he was attempting to replace or assimilate the Celtic Samhain festival of the dead with a related but church approved celebration.

The night or evening of Samhain therefore became known as All-hallows-even then Hallow Eve, still later Hallowe’en and then of course Halloween. A special time of the year when many believe that the spirit world can make contact with the physical world, a night when magic is at its most potent.

Throughout Britain, Halloween has traditionally been celebrated by children’s games such as bobbing for apples in containers full of water, telling ghost stories and the carving of faces into hollowed-out vegetables such as swedes and turnips. These faces would usually be illuminated from within by a candle, the lanterns displayed on window sills to ward off any evil spirits. The current use of pumpkins is a relatively modern innovation imported from the United States, and we can also extend the same debt of gratitude to our friends in America for that ‘quaint’ “trick-or-treat” tradition!