This document summarizes several festivals around the world, including Burning Man in the United States, Oktoberfest in Germany, the Festival of San Fermín in Spain, Sonkran in Thailand, and Diwali. It provides details on the origins, locations, dates, and key events associated with each festival.

1. Escola Secundária Sebastião e Silva
Festivals around the World
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2. Burning Man - USA
1986
Baker Beach, San Francisco
Larry Harvey
1990
The First Burning Man
8 feet
Assembled and elevated in
Baker Beach, but burnt in
Black Rock Desert.
Black Rock Desert, Nevada
The week leading up to
and including Labor Day
In honor of the
Summer Solstice

3. 2004
Burning Man Founder,
Larry Harvey, wrote
the Ten Principles.
Temporary city
The Black Rock City
Ten Principles
1.
2.
3.
4.
Radical Inclusion
Gifting
Decommodification
Radical Selfreliance
5. Radical Selfexpression
6. Communal Effort
7. Civic Responsibility
8. Leaving No Trace
9. Participation
10. Immediacy
• Spirit of community
• Art
• Self-expression
• Self-reliance
Each year has a different theme
Fertility, Time, Hell, Outer Space, The
Body, The Floating World, Beyond Belief,
Vault of Heaven, Psyche, Hope and Fear,
The Green Man, The American Dream,
Evolution, Metropolis, Fertility 2.0 and the
theme for 2013 was Cargo Cult.

4. 1986
“We will always
burn The Man”
2013

5. Oktoberfest - Germany
The world's largest fair held annually in Munich,
Germany. It is a 16-day festival running from late
September to the first weekend of October.
1810
The Crown Prince Ludwig
married the Princess Therese
of Saxe-Hildburghausen
1994
The schedule was modified in
response to German
reunification so that if the first
Sunday in October falls on the
1st or 2nd, then the festival
would go on until October 3
(German Unity Day).
The festival is held in an area named the Theresienwiese - Field, or meadow,
of Therese - often called Wiesn for short, located near Munich's center.

6. 1950
Traditional festival opening
A twelve gun salute and the tapping of the
first keg of Oktoberfest beer at 12:00 by the
Mayor of Munich with the cry "O'zapft is!“,
which means "It's tapped!" in the AustroBavarian dialect opens the Oktoberfest.
There are currently fourteen large tents and
twenty small tents at the Oktoberfest.
Oktoberfest Beer
Only beer conforming to
the Reinheitsgebot, at a
minimum of
13.5% Stammwürze (approxi
mately 6% alcohol by
volume) may be served at
Oktoberfest.
The beer must also be
brewed within the city limits
of Munich.
Beers meeting these criteria
may be
designated Oktoberfest Beer.
The breweries that can
produce Oktoberfest Beer
under the criteria are:
Augustiner-Bräu, HackerPschorr-Bräu, Löwenbräu,
Paulaner, Spatenbräu,
Staatliches HofbräuMünchen.

7. Festival of San Fermín - Spain
Held in honor of Saint Fermin,
the co-patron of Navarre
It was first documented in the 14th century
Single Day
Events
Chupinazo
Riau-Riau
The Saint Fermin
Procession
El Struendo
Pobre de Mí
Chupinazo
El Struendo
The Saint Fermin
Procession
Pobre de Mí

8. Daily Events
Giants and Big-heads Parade
Giants and Bigheads Parade
Traditional Sports (stone
lifting, wood cutting, or hay
bale lifting)
The Running of the Bulls
The Bullfight
Fireworks
Wood
cutting
The Bullfight
The Running of the Bulls
Stone lifting
Pamplona

9. Colour Festival
The King Jirania Kashipú thought he
was god and wanted to kill his son
Prajlad because Prajlad adored the God
Visnú. Even though he tried to killed him
many times, he had no success on that, he
asked her daughter Hólika to get in to a
bonfire with his brother, because they
though she was immune to fire. The
legend tell us she died burneed by the
fire, while her brother was saved by God
Vinús.

11. Sonkran in Thailand
Astrological calculation
1888 - 13th of April
1940 - 1st day of january,
as a separated party from the traitional one.

12. Leaving behind the things
that did not go write and
renew the energies and
hope for the new year.

13. Diwali
It is celebrated in the first month of
lunar Lartika, that occurs between
October and November, a time very
propitious to sacrifises and religious
votes.

14. He was in Ayodhya,
after 14 years of exile
in the florest, killed
his wife’s kidnapper.
The people of
Ayodhya, the capital
of his kigdom,
congratulated him
and lightened the
entire city.