The city's annual multi-cultural festival will run in Kelvingrove Park from 12:00 to 18:00 on 15 and 16 June.
In 2000, Sydney will stage the Olympic Games and an associated cultural festival.
He and his associates denied they intended to travel to Somalia, and told the court they were on the island for a cultural festival.
At first there was some confusion because some of the girls had official invitations to model West African fashions at a cultural festival in Libya.
It is now billed as "Scotland's biggest free multi-cultural festival" and also attracts Brazilian, Oriental and Middle Eastern performers, as well as crowds of more than 25, 000 people.
The original idea to ring out Imagine came from artist Cleo Evans, who was commissioned by Futuresonic, a cultural festival, to develop the concept with the Anglican Cathedral.
The event was part of a cultural festival organised by Cardiff council, the St David's Day Committee, the Wales Millennium Centre (WMC) and the Welsh National Opera, running until 2 March.
Both a seasonal rite and a cultural festival, this ritual is a distinctive embodiment of Jeju identity and an expression of the villagers respect for the sea on which their livelihood depends.
Latin America's first multi-national, multi-cultural festival.
In the meantime, though, the authority in charge of the area has organised several short-term events to whet the public's appetite for what's to come, with past events including a weekend of rock concerts in early December 2012 and an inaugural alternative cultural festival later that same month.
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To drive away evil spirits, 500, 000 rounds of eardrum-testing pyrotechnics will be set off at Sara Roosevelt Park in Chinatown at the New Year Firecracker Ceremony and Cultural Festival on 10 February, before lion and dragon dance troupes make the rounds to local businesses to ring in the Year of the Snake.
The genuine bearers of the world masterpieces from Bangladesh, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia, Italy, China, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, the Russian Federation, the Philippines and Japan presented their intangible cultural heritage masterpieces during the festival.
Attend acclaimed cultural events like the Deer Valley Music Festival, running through July and August.
To get the word out to locals, the festival has paired up with area cultural institutions including the Grammy Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which will host special events.
Through the festival, Qiang traditions distilling history and cultural information are renewed and diffused, and social behaviours are reinforced, the community expressing respect and worship towards all creatures, the motherland and their ancestors.
Meanwhile the culture minister described the Faenol Festival as "an important part of our cultural identity and helps to raise Wales's profile within the UK and internationally".
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PalFest collected more than 1, 500 books -- including copies of an anthology of extracts from works by festival participants -- which were distributed to cultural centers and university libraries.
Manchester City Council's executive member for culture and leisure, Councillor Mike Amesbury, said the festival "makes a massive contribution to the cultural offering of our great city and has helped establish us on the world stage as a leading artistic powerhouse".
"The Arts Development Council did a survey on the audience and the programme numbers of different art forms, and Chinese opera is one of the most popular arts in Hong Kong, " said Louis Yu Kwok-lit, executive director, performing arts of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, who is planning the Bamboo Theatre festival.
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The Cultural Olympiad started in 2008 and will culminate in a London festival running from 21 June to 9 September 2012.
These commissioned pieces (10 so far) are also presented in community centers, often free of charge: "The Bricklayer" was done at the Arab-American Cultural Center and the outdoor Nowruz (Persian new year) festival last weekend.
David Petrarca, who directed a couple of episodes of HBO drama Game of Thrones, the most pirated TV series of 2012, was reported to have said at a literary festival in Australia that piracy gave the series a "cultural buzz" but has since denied that he is in favour of the activity.
It was the highlight of the WOMEX festival, which reminded me how the best art can assert cultural pride while promoting cross-cultural unity.
Thursday's concert opened the third Manchester International Festival, which aims to put the city on the global cultural map by hosting new works by respected performers.
Poetry Parnassus is part of the South Bank Centre's "Festival of the World, " in turn part of the Cultural Olympiad, designed to spread the Olympic fervor beyond sport to the arts.
Reading Borough Council's statement added it hoped the festival would "continue to play a key part in the borough's cultural calendar".
In 1972, UNESCO adopted a ten-year plan for the study of African oral traditions and the promotion of African Languages, the first Festival of the Arts of the Pacific was held in Fiji and two series of cultural studies on Latin America were launched.
More broadly, explains festival director Salem Al Mazrouei, it is also a way of preserving aspects of Bedouin cultural heritage that might otherwise be lost in a rapidly modernizing country.
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R.2: Inscription of the Festival of Saint Francis of Assisi on the Representative List could increase the visibility of the intangible cultural heritage in general and promote respect for cultural diversity and human creativity.
The festival became a source of expanding the horizons for each participant of the event in his perception of cultural diversity.
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