St Patrick's Day is on 17 March, which invariably falls in Festival week.
Still, it was a boost to the beleaguered tobacco firms, as was Nicole Kidman's decision to defy the anti-smoking brigade and light up before the cameras at the Cannes film festival this week.
But Holy Week, the Christian festival that commemorates the last week of Jesus' life, is a solemn celebration, and once mass begins, a calm settles over the congregation.
The five days of the interactive festival, which coincides with movie week and comes a week before the festival's trademark music showcase, attracts many of the biggest names and brightest minds in startups.
The festival launched last week with a screening of Burton's 3D animated feature Frankenweenie, now on general release in the UK and Ireland.
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The life and works of Scottish architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh are to be celebrated during a two-week festival in his home city.
As Prof McWilliams struggled through the Edinburgh Festival crowds last week, his analysis might have been best suited to the comedy end of the Fringe programme.
Every other June, music fans flock to the Boston Early Music Festival for a week-long extravaganza of some of the best historically informed performances of music anywhere in the world.
Other highlights during the three-week festival this May will include a world premiere celebrating the Britten Centenary Year, and the UK premiere of My Life After by Argentine playwright and performer Lola Arias.
The Mojave Desert and the Black Rock Desert are both featured in the film, the latter known in recent years for being the site of the annual Burning Man festival, a week-long event during which thousands of people camp out in the desert with the goal of creating a temporary city based on principles of community and self reliance.
The two-week arts festival, which features Shakespearian plays at Ludlow Castle, began in the town in 1960.
Each year, the week long festival presents numerous events that include tastings, seminars, dinners, and new product launches.
Oscar-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave has led 5, 000 children from 77 local schools in a parade to open the three-week Brighton Festival.
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Now in its 27th year, the South by Southwest Music Festival, held last week here, seems to offer musicians the promise of a rocket ride to stardom.
The festival takes place the week after the Henley Regatta.
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Though the festival runs for a week, with most of the action happening in Pastrana Park, celebrations truly fire up in the final three days (Friday to Sunday).
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.
This week is the festival of Diwali in India, in which gold buying is a tradition.
There were about 40 companies presenting at the Launch Festival in San Francisco last week.
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To mark the opening of the centre in mid-March, a week-long festival was held in the city.
The film, called Jobs, made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival to mixed reviews last week, a day after a one-minute clip was released on the Internet.
But we New Yawkers have something that Silicon Valley or Redmond does not: We have Internet Week, a festival for the digerati and the people who love them.
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Were the churches of Edinburgh to withdraw their committed support for the arts in this week, the festival - and in particular the fringe - would look very different.
Every 12 years, when the moon and stars are aligned, this becomes the most auspicious spot in Hinduism, and there is a six-week-long festival, or mela, for the millions of pilgrims.
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Last week, the festival announced that Tom Berninger's "Mistaken for Strangers, " a documentary about the Brooklyn-based rock act the National (Mr. Berninger's brother, Matt Berninger, is the band's lead singer), will open the event.
The festival is usually held mid-week but organisers have moved it this year to include a Saturday.
This is where Stein generally delivers his welcome address for the week-long mountain festival he holds every July.
These include an exhibition of photographs and memorabilia at the library during the week of the summer festival and a revamped plaque for much-loved community building the Wendy House.
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