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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Spectator Sport
Article by Jennifer Hattam, 20 May 2008
Photographing the sidelines at Carnaval in Venezuela
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Flower power
Photo by Jennifer Hattam, 20 May 2008
San Francisco celebrates Carnaval in its own inimitable style, with the usual feathered beauties and traditionally costumed dancers joined by pirates, low-riders, roller-skating disco divas, and the city's always crowd-pleasing garbage men, whirling their trash cans down the street and up in the air in perfect sync.
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Orange Crowd
Photo by Tobias Peciva, 20 May 2008
The Auckland Festival is a biannual festival of music, theatre, film, dance and visual arts.
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Hipsters in Heat - The 2008 Coachella Valley Music Festival
Article by Dave Dayneko, 20 May 2008
With 130+ bands spread across 6 stages over three days the Coachella Valley Music Festival has become one of the premiere yearly destinations for lovers of music and sunshine.
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Coachella main stage
Photo by Dave Dayneko, 19 May 2008
Coachella 2008 - My Morning Jacket plays as the suns set behind the Coachella valley
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They're Off!
Photo by Kathryn Radeff, 19 May 2008
Charging down the stretch every year at Saratoga Raceway in upstate New York are the superstars of thoroughbred racing in their most celebrated races.
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Horse Racing at Historic Saratoga
Article by Kathryn Radeff, 19 May 2008
Feel electricity in the air.
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Giant Puppets of the New France Festival
Photo by rich and ruth carlson (aka Axel Olson), 6 May 2008
Every year the New France Festival take locals and tourists back to the days of merry men and woman in period costumes with parades, music, and food.
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Thrissur Pooram Festival
Photo by Rich Hendricks, 17 May 2008
The heart in your throat bus ride, it's 110 degrees, the smell of incense and jasmine wafting through the air, swarms of people, fifteen beautifully adorned elephants march side by side, the steady jingle from their oversized anklets, the beat of ceremonial drums, the subtle unease knowing 8 people died the day before from a fireworks malfunction.
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Fields of Gold
Photo by dean zulich, 17 May 2008
Annual Skagit Valley Tulip Festival in Washington, USA.
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