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.
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.
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.
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 Cultural Olympiad started in 2008 and will culminate in a London festival running from 21 June to 9 September 2012.
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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Reading Borough Council's statement added it hoped the festival would "continue to play a key part in the borough's cultural calendar".
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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The festival became a source of expanding the horizons for each participant of the event in his perception of cultural diversity.
On its website, the council promoted the St Patrick's Day festival by saying that "diverse communities" from throughout County Tyrone would participate in a wide variety of cultural events.
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