Kamil used part of his week off to construct these two wooden models bought in Poland. How cool!
World Festivals and Celebrations: Tanabata by Meil
The Japanese Tanabata Festival is dated back 2,000 years ago and is originated from the Chinese story. There were two stars named Altair and Vega,which are separated from each other from the milky way and are only able to meet on the seventh day on the seventh month of the lunar calender. One popular Tanabata custom is to write one’s wishes on a piece of paper, and hang that piece of paper on a specially erected bamboo tree, in the hope that the wishes become true. It is a very famous Japanese Festival.
World Festivals and Celebrations: Kawhia Kai by Jack M
The Kawhia Kai festival is celebrated in New Zealand on the 4 of February. This year was its 7th year running and over 10,000 people went to the festival. They have music and entertainment at the festival. There is 25 kai stalls there. Four local Kāwhia marae will each have a stall just for hāngi, a well known type of traditional Māori kai. Other Māori kai during the festival includes Toroi (marinated mussels and pūhā), Creamed Pāua and Kina, Īnanga (Whitebait patties), Kānga Wai/Pirau (fermented corn), Pūhā and pork spring rolls, Pāwhara (smoked fish and eel) and also Kōkī (shark liver pate).
There is also Māori arts and crafts with demonstrations of rāranga (traditional flax weaving), and tā-moko (traditional tattooing).
The cost to get into the festival are
adults:$10
12 years and under:$5 and children 5 years and under go free.
World Festivals and Celebrations: Las Fallas by Lee
Las Fallas is a Spanish festival/celebration which is located in Valencia Spain. The Las Fallas Festival is commemorating St. Joseph. Each neighbourhood of the city has an organized group of people that works all year long holding fundraising parties and dinners they are called (Casal faller). Las Fallas is a festival that includes burning things of pased friends or family that year. If a member of their family wants to keep something valuable or worth keeping they can. Las Fallas is about burning old things not worth keeping of a friend or a family member.
World Festivals and Celebrations: Cinco de Mayo by James M
Most people think Cinco De Mayo was the day to remember Mexican independance, well your all WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But it actually commemorates the battle of Puebla. The battle started because Mexico was in debts to European governments. In response, France, Britain and Spain sent naval forces to Veracruz to demand reimbursement. Britain and Spain negotiated with Mexico and left. But France decided to stay and be greedy. They wanted to take over Mexico. So now you know what happened on the 5th of may 1862 
. This is James M over and out.
World Festivals and Celebrations: La Tomatina by Darragh
La Tomatina was believed to created by a group of friends nobody knows when. It was first officially celebrated in 1959. 10 tonnes of tomatoes are brought by truck to the middle of Bunol, a town near Valencia in Spain. The party begins the night before the first Wednesday of August at eleven am. The truck arrives with approximately 100,000 tomatoes that the council paid for with a few extra added. The people in the truck throw the tomatoes at everyone and if they can’t throw it at anyone or anything they throw the tomatoes at themselves. People on the rooftops squirt water at the people taking part in the events below. When the battle is over the 30,000 people leave and the rest of the locals clean up the the streets and the front of their houses.
World Festivals and Celebrations: Holi by David
Holi is a festival in India it is also called the festival of colours. To take part in this Hindu tradition and you just through chalk at people. Every year, Hindus greet each other with a splash of colour. They don’t just through chalk at each other, they also eat special foods and pray together. Indians call this event “playing colors”. It can happen anywhere where there are Hindus. It can happen in any building. This tradition comes from the Indian Lord Krishna. The Holi festival commemorates the victory of good over evil, brought about by the burning and destruction of the demoness named Holika.
World Festivals and Celebrations: Winterlude by Eoin & Jack H
Winterlude is run by Canada’s National Capital Commission. It started in 1979. The festival is Ottawa’s most important tourist attractions. The festival attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. In 2007 it set a world record for 1.6 million people at one festival.
At Winterlude there are many outdoor winter sports such as public skating, skating displays, ice sculpture competitions, musical concerts, children’s play areas, largest ice playground and numerous off-site events.
Winterlude is most well known for the Rideau Canal which is cleared for ice and other concerts.
Jacques-Cartier Park in Gatineau is turned into a huge snow park with slides and structures.
The event lasts for three weekends, usually the first three weekends in Febuary.
