A festival is an event, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.

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magazine article: Crazy Festivals. "There are festivals going on somewhere in the world every day of the year. We have selected a few of the more unusual, colourful festivals from around the world." Read article

word game: Party idioms. This jigsaw puzzle practises idioms that contain the word 'party'. Play game

word game: Carnival. Find 10 words related to Carnival in this wordsquare. Play game

poem: Night’s Mardi Gras. In this poem Edward J. Wheeler compares the night to the Mardi Gras, where nothing is quite what it seems ... Read poem

cartoon: "Are you coming along to the festival?" "I can't. I have ..." See cartoon

trivia: Numbers. At the 1994 Camel Wrestling Festival in Selcuk, Turkey, 20,000 people gathered to watch 120 dromedaries wrestle in a 2,000-year-old stadium in the city of Ephesus. See more festivals trivia

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