Theme: Festival
When the weather gets warm, festival season gets underway. Whether you gather for music, art, dance, theater, food — or any combination of these — tell us about your experiences at festivals around the world.
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The Scottish Highland and the Isle of Skye
Article by Doug Bruns, 27 April 2008
Essay and photos of travel through the Scottish Highland to Isle of Skye for a bag pipe festival.
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Parading Energy
Photo by Eileen Roche, 26 April 2008
Crowds cheer and jump for beads as floats pass by during the Krew D'Etat Marti Gras parade in uptown New Orleans.
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Up Helly AA, Edinburgh, Scotland
Photo by nathan kelly, 25 April 2008
The Up Helly Aa is said to be a viking festival where the vikings burned their longboats as a symbol of their inability to return home from the land they were invading.
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Behold the color of this week long festival
Photo by Leila Samara, 24 April 2008
Girls dressed in every color imaginable take it easy before the sun sets and the true festival begins.
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China's Unknown Masterpieces
Article by Mary Ann Lewis, 22 April 2008
China's unknown masterpieces from its Golden Age of History are seen for the first time in Europe.
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Mushroom Fountain at Bonnaroo '07
Photo by Michelle Wu, 24 April 2008
Where dirty festival-goers cool off and get clean.
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Anchestral Celebration
Photo by David Seaver, 15 April 2008
Family members pray during a two day festival remembering ancestors and relatives.
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Koloa Plantation Days Parade
Photo by Karen Kindler, 22 April 2008
The various cultural groups that have settled the Poipu/Koloa area of Kauai over the last century participate in the July Koloa Plantation Days Parade and Festival.
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Sunrise dancer
Photo by serge rolland, 22 April 2008
This was taken at the Boom festival which takes place every 2 years in Portugal.
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Pillow Fight
Photo by Joe Flood, 20 April 2008
Two girls enjoy a rousing pillow fight in Washington, DC.
