The Anything That Floats Parade is an annual event in Asheville, North Carolina, where participants build and float creative, often whimsical, watercraft down the French Broad River. It's a community celebration organized by RiverLink, a local nonprofit dedicated to protecting the French Broad River watershed. The parade culminates at RiverFest, which features live mu...

Art Rio is an annual celebration of the arts in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ArtRio is more than an art fair; it is a unique event where visitors can view art work by the great masters along side works by up-and-coming artists. ArtRio is active on the art scene throughout the year promoting new artists and galleries by supporting exhibitions and study opportunities. The ev...

Barranquilla's Carniva is Colombia's most important folklore celebration, one of the biggest carnivals in the world. The carnival has traditions that date back to the 19th century. Forty days before Holy Week, Barranquilla decks itself out to receive national and foreign tourists, and join together with the city's inhabitants to enjoy four days of intense festivities....

Bastille Day is the name given in English-speaking countries to the French National Day, which is celebrated on 14 July each year. In France, it is formally called La Fête Nationale and commonly Le quatorze juillet (the fourteenth of July). The French National Day commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution with the Storming of the Bastille on the 14th J...

Beervana is New Zealand’s largest beer festival held in Wellington each August. Although dominated by national brewers, Beervana showcases select international brands. With over 200 craft beers on offer and the opportunity to meet many of New Zealand’s best brewers in person, this is New Zealand’s premier craft beer celebration.

Every Memorial Day weekend since 1969, the town of Bishop, nestled on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains, comes alive with the annual presentation of Mule Days. The outfitters and packers of the region wanted an event to start off the packing season and the businessmen wanted to draw vacationers to the Owens Valley. What began as an informal gathering an...

TheBombay Beach Biennaleis a renegade celebration of art, music, and philosophy that takes place each year on the literal edge of western civilization, at the shores of the Salton Sea. The Biennale, founded in 2015, transforms abandoned housing, vacant lots, and decaying shoreline into a unique canvas for creative expression. Artists, philosophers, creators and makers...

The Boom Festival is a biennial festival which takes place in Portugal. The festival features music, paint, sculpture, video art, installations cinema, theater and a concept of crosspollination of different art forms. The first Boom Festival happened in 1997 with a large influence on electronic music, but nowadays Boom is a multidisciplinary event. Initially a psytran...

The Boryeong Mud Festival is an annual festival which takes place during the summer in Boryeong, a town around 200 km south of Seoul, South Korea. The first Mud Festival was staged in 1998 and, by 2007, the festival attracted 2.2 million visitors to Boryeong. The mud is taken from the Boryeong mud flats, and trucked to the Daecheon beach area, where it is used as the ...

The Carnival of Venice is an annual festival, held in Venice, Italy. The Carnival starts around two weeks before Ash Wednesday and ends on Shrove Tuesday (Fat Tuesday or Martedì Grasso), the day before Ash Wednesday. Masks have always been a central feature of the Venetian carnival; traditionally people were allowed to wear them between the festival of Santo St...

The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is a world famous festival held before Lent every year and considered the biggest carnival in the world with two million people per day on the streets. The first festivals of Rio date back to 1723. The carnival parade is filled with people and floats from various samba schools. A samba school can either be an actual school or just a coll...

Pirates Week is a 11-day pirate extravaganza held each November in the Cayman Islands. It typically attracts 35,000 visitors and includes fireworks, local song contest, a mock invasion where two old-fashioned sailboats packed with pirates make a surprise landing in the George Town harbor. This is the best week to be in the Cayman Islands if you are looking to have fun...

Celebrating Cinco de Mayo in OldTown has been a San Diego tradition since 1983. Fiesta Old Town is the largest event of its kind in Southern California. Three stages of live entertainment two days of music, food and fun.

The Cork St. Patrick's Festival is three days of free family fun on the streets of Cork as the city bursts into life with this year’s Cork St. Patrick’s Festival. Sample some tasty treats at the Barry’s Tea Market as you kick-back and enjoy live music on the streets while dodging circus walkabouts or watching the comedy antics of the festival’s...

Saint Patrick's Day or the Feast of Saint Patrick (Lá Fhéile Pádraig, "the Day of the Festival of Patrick") is a cultural and religious holiday celebrated on 17 March. It is named after Saint Patrick (c. AD 385–461), the most commonly recognised of the patron saints of Ireland. Saint Patrick's Day was made an official Christian feast day in ...