Culture In The World

1) Australia: Sydney Festival: It runs for three weeks in January, in Sydney, in theathers like the Sydney Theatre, CarriageWorks, City Recital Hall and venues at Sydney Opera House. The estival offers a program of around 80 events involving upwards of 500 artists from Australia and abroad covering dance, theatre, music, visual arts, cross media and forums. Sydney Festival also presents a number of free outdoor events such as the long-running festival in the Domain with Jazz and Symphony concerts, each attracting up to 100,000 people.

2) Bahamas: Jumpin 'n Jammin Carnaval: It's between July 25 and August 2, on the streets of St. John, where there's music and parties, ending with a bigger party on the street.

3) Barbados: Crop Over Festival: The festival starts in June, and finishes on the first Monday of August. The home of the festival is Tim's on the Highway, but there are also street parties. They do calypso competitions, a music style where they satirise politics and comment on the issues of the day. There are also the People's Monarch and Party Monarch competitions. The People's Monarch is a competition in which the public are given groups of songs; each group with 2 songs, and they vote until a winner is chosen. The Party Monarch competition, however, is chosen by a panel of judges and is based on presentation. Therefore, you may have the best song but not be able to make use of stage and props and not be crowned 'Party Monarch King/Queen'. The competition is held on the Ermy Bourne Highway, commonly known as East Coast. The climax of the festival, Kadooment Day, is celebrated with a national holiday when costume bands fill the streets with pulsating Barbadiam rhythms and fireworks that ignite the sky.

4) Canada: Canada Day: Every July 1, all Canada celebrates their independence from England, with parades and outside parties, being the biggest ones in Montreal and Toronto.

5) England: Queen's Birthday: It celebrates on a Saturday of June, and the date changes over the years, and it's not queen's real birthday, but it's in June for the Holidays, in London, where there are military parades, and in different places, there are between 20 and 60 simultaneus shots to salute the queen.

6)Fiji: Diwali: It's celebrated between mid-October and mid-November in Fiji, there are candle decorations and oil lamps, sweet food, celebrating the good over the evil.

7) Ireland: St. Patrick's Day: On March 17, it celebrates worldwide by every irish, but it's also celebrated by people that are not irish, like americans, they wear green, there're parades and people eat irish food and drinks.

8) New Zealand: Boxing Day: On December 26, after Christmas, the whole country celebrates the Boxing Day, where they help needish people, giving them money or gifts.

9) Scotland: Burns Night: It's celebrated on January 25 in all Scotland, in honor to the poet Robert Burns, where there is a dinner, that follows a traditional order, with different kind of food, guests and , usually, dances.

10) U.S.A.: Thanksgiving Day: It's celebrated on the 4th Thursday of November, in the whole country, with a traditional dinner with turkey, to give thanks to God for helping the pilgrims of Plymouth Colony to survive in the winter.