Category Archives: Events and Occasions
Shrove Tuesday – it’s not just all about the Pancakes!
25th February is Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday. People will enjoy a final fling before the forty days of Lent begin, celebrating with traditions as diverse as pancake tossing, skipping, crazy ball games and exotic carnivals. Crowds of revelers will flock to carnivals in Rio, New Orleans, Venice and a host of other cities, joining in the fun with music, dancing, colourful costumes and parades. How will you celebrate?
Diwali – A Celebration of Light Over Darkness
Diwali is a joyous celebration of the victory of good over evil, light over darkness and knowledge over ignorance. Celebrations have already begun and continue into November.
Strange and eccentric Easter activities
From a Florentine explosion and Norwegian crime novels, to giant omelettes or baby bilbys, find some more unusual and eccesentric Easter traditions as we take a look at what happens at Easter time around the world.
Why is Christmas Day on 25 December?
On 25 December more than a third of the world’s population will celebrate Christmas Day. But this is not the only date on which the birth of Christ is remembered. In many eastern countries people will celebrate Christmas on 7 January, while in Armenia the date will be 6 January.
So why do we celebrate on 25 December and what are the reasons for the different dates for Christmas?
Armistice Day: Bells Ring Out One Hundred Years on
This Sunday 11th November, in cities, towns and villages, bells will once again ring for peace, beginning with a slow toll in memory of those who died, and then ringing the changes to produce the joyful peal that is such a distinctively British sound.
Day of the Dead – Dia de los Muertos
Images and symbols from Mexico’s Day of the Dead or Dia de los Muertos are an increasingly familiar sight, thanks to the media and some recent major films. Less understood are its centuries-old significance and the symbolic meanings behind the rituals. We learn more about this ‘deadly’ tradition……
