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.
Photo by Navdeep Soni, 19 April 2008
Baisakhi Festival : An auspicious day for Sikhism.
Photo by Joe Flood, 20 April 2008
Two girls enjoy a rousing pillow fight in Washington, DC.
Photo by serge rolland, 22 April 2008
This was taken at the Boom festival which takes place every 2 years in Portugal.
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.
Photo by Michelle Wu, 24 April 2008
Where dirty festival-goers cool off and get clean.
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.
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.
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.
Photo by Lizzie Morrison, 27 April 2008
Largest balloon event in Kentucky and the 5th largest balloon festival in the United States.
Photo by Karen Hamlin, 28 April 2008
Feed the dragon cabbage!