Naadam is a national festival celebrated every year from 11 to 13 July across Mongolia that focuses on three traditional games: horseracing, wrestling and archery.
Not long after, it became obvious that my bag, a freebie from the National Book Festival, was a mini-compost pile, with a pretty obvious lining of various meat and vegetable sleazes.
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On June 18, locals celebrate the annual Dragon Boat Festival, a national holiday that is marked by races on the Keelung River and by eating jungtzu, a steamed dumpling stuffed with glutinous rice and other goodies.
Of course, a literature festival hardly represents a national mood.
The programme for Derry in 2013 includes the Turner Prize, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal National Ballet and Lumiere, a festival of light.
Time to Flourish festival director, Carmen Perini unwittingly summed up the Pasto attitude, when asked how a multi-faceted, multi-national festival could be organized in 10 months.
The opening day of the four-day Irish National Hunt Festival at Punchestown proved a happy one for the Carberry family.
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So, in order to underwrite Augusts' multi-national festival, the Narino government inaugurated a special licensing stamp for state contractors, costing two percent of their contract revenue.
Hit the National Mall for a variety of free events during the festival.
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Eurovision, in which viewers across Europe (broadly defined) select a winning song from competing national entries, is an annual festival of kitsch.
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has made a particularly concerted push, sponsoring a solar festival at Coors Stadium in Denver during the Democratic National Convention, and constantly reminding lawmakers of the popularity of solar power among the American public.
The organization is best known for throwing Jazzfest, a two-weekend outdoor music festival with dozens of local, national and international bands.
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Recently the festival has included a College Improv Tournament, which draws from a national pool of aspiring coeds who face off in a tournament bracket.
The production, led by directors John Tiffany and Andrew Goldberg, originated at the National Theatre of Scotland and made a stop last summer in the Lincoln Center Festival.
In the US, the National Cherry Blossom Festival kicked off last week in Washington DC with a fundraising walk and vigil for the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
The New York festival begins later with Mistaken for Strangers, a documentary about Brooklyn rock band The National.
His 2003 film Chokher Bali was awarded the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival and his last film, Chitrangada, won a special jury award in the 2012 national film awards.
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