Festivals - Topics

Why are music festivals so expensive? What is the importance of film festivals? A monument and a festival enter the heritage system through completely different doors Las Fallas ends by burning everything it spent a year building The same national holiday feels completely different in the north and the south A village revives a lost harvest festival: who writes the script? Up Helly Aa: burning a Viking galley in a Shetland winter Songkran water fights and the locals who leave town for the week Dia de Muertos and the annual confusion with Halloween Temple fairs and the mix of worship and commerce on the same street Rio carnival's samba schools compete all year for one parade Notting Hill Carnival: mas bands and what a costume really costs Sky lantern festivals and the litter they leave in the fields Lunar New Year customs differ across the countries that celebrate it Erntedankfest in Germany and how towns decorate for it How public festivals and household festivals divide the work What actually makes a festival feel traditional rather than staged? Why so many spring festivals revolve around water How big does a street festival have to get before it needs crowd control? Holi colours: what each spring powder traditionally stands for What security checks at large festivals actually catch Which direction do Balkan circle dances travel and who decides? Holi: coloured powder and the water it takes What to do when you lose your group in a festival crowd A temple fair turned into an IP loses the parts that made it worth visiting Krampus parades: a folk scare turned tourist spectacle Why festival tickets get resold at three times face value A living folk practice becomes a stage show once it is scheduled for tour groups What happens at a powwow and who is welcome? Beer sponsors and the real price of a free festival stage A town of four thousand hosting fifty thousand: festival over-tourism Heatstroke at summer festivals: the signs people miss