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GLOBAL CULTURE
CALENDAR
BY VIVIANA MAZZA AND CHOIRE
SICHA
THE COLORS GUIDE TO
ESSENTIAL AND NONESSENTIAL
GLOBAL CULTURE
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
To submit an event listing, please e-mail calendar@colorsmag.com |
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SWEDEN |
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5 – 14 AUGUST
6TH ADVANCED
WORLD AEROBATICS CHAMPIONSHIP
LJUNGBYHED
WWW.AWAC2004.AERO
Mouth open, nose up, staring at the sky, you may find out you like powered aerobatics— engine aircrafts roaring and turning themselves upside down and inside out in death-defying acrobatic maneuvers. At the 6th Advanced World Aerobatics Championship, more than 40 competitors will fly above Ljungbyhed, known as the cradle of Swedish aviation. After the qualification flights, the competition will run from August 8 to 13, followed by the prize ceremony and a day of freestyle flying and air shows on August 14.
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JAPAN |
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6 AUGUST
PEACE MEMORIAL CEREMONY
HIROSHIMA
At 8:15 a.m., sirens will sound all over Hiroshima, and for one minute thousands of people, gathered at the Peace Memorial Park, will stand still and silent as they do every year on this day. They’ll be thinking of the victims of the atomic bomb, dropped on the city on August 6, 1945, at exactly 8:15 a.m.The mayor will read the Peace Declaration and send it to every country to express Hiroshima’s wish for the abolition of nuclear weapons. In the evening, thousands of paper lanterns will be sent down the Ota River. |
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USA |
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6 – 8 AUGUST
REGGAE ON THE RIVER
PIERCY, CALIFORNIA
WWW.REGGAEONTHERIVER.COM
Along the Eel River in northern California, reggae lovers camp, play music, and listen to the concerts of more than two dozen artists for the three-day-long Reggae on the River festival. Artist lineup to be announced online. |
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SCOTLAND |
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8 – 30 AUGUST
EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL
EDINBURGH
WWW.EDFRINGE.COM
Edinburgh’s Fringe, one of the largest arts festivals in the world, with 975,000 tickets sold last year and hundreds of performances, offers a crowd-pleasing mixture of experimental theater, comedy, and circus-like performances. Fringe Sunday, the largest free event (it attracted 200,000 people last year), will be held on August 15. |
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KENYA |
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AUGUST
INTERNATIONAL CAMEL DERBY AND FESTIVAL
MARALAL
Camel-racing enthusiasts descend on Maralal, in the Samburu District of Kenya, each year for the International Camel Derby and Festival, with teams coming from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, England, France, Spain, Japan, South Africa, and the USA.Since camels can purportedly achieve a top speed of 40 miles per hour, bring a camera with fast film. |
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GREECE |
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13 – 29 AUGUST
OLYMPIC GAMES
ATHENS
WWW.ATHENS2004.COM
The most riveting Olympic spectator sport actually precedes the event: the world has been watching as Greece has pushed its luck with construction deadlines for the massive facilities needed to host the thousands of athletes who will compete in 37 athletic disciplines. If you haven’t already purchased tickets for the most popular events (such as gymnastics), which tend to sell out well in advance, you might be able to find good seats available for unexpectedly riveting events such as the badminton competition (a racket sport popular in Asia and recognized by the General Secretariat of Sport only in 1995). |
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ITALY |
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16 AUGUST
PALIO DI SIENA
SIENA
WWW.ILPALIODISIENA.COM
Siena’s historic center is divided into 17 contrade (neighborhoods). At the Palio, these contrade compete in a massive horse race. Riders are sent from 10 of the contrade—three chosen by lottery plus the seven that didn’t run the previous year. Jockeys ride in a circle in Piazza del Campo for three laps—1,000 meters (about 3,300 feet)—armed with a whip. The day starts at 8 a.m. with a mass celebrated by the Archbishop of Siena, followed by the ceremonial enrollment of the jockeys in front of the city’s mayor, plus flag games and a parade. Drink lots of espresso: the races themselves don’t start until 7 p.m.
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ITALY |
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26 AUGUST – 5 SEPTEMBER
61A MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE D’ARTE CINEMATOGRAFICA
VENEZIA
WWW.LABIENNALE.ORG
The oldest film festival in the world (begun in 1932), the Venice Film Festival is produced each year by the organizers of the Venice Biennale, which results in a festival that stresses cinema as an art form. The program will be formally announced online in July. Last year’s top prize, the Golden Lion, went to Vozvrashcenje (The Return), a Russian drama by Andrey Zvyagintsev about a prodigal father who returns to his 12-year-old and 15-year-old sons a dozen years after having left them.
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CANADA |
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26 AUGUST – 6 SEPTEMBER
28TH WORLD FILM FESTIVAL
MONTREAL
WWW.FFM-MONTREAL.ORG
Canada’s most vibrant city plays host to one of North America’s most globally-minded film festivals, with sections dedicated to the cinema of Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, Oceania, the US and, of course, Canada. Program to be launched in August.
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USA |
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30 AUGUST – 6 SEPTEMBER
BURNING MAN FESTIVAL
BLACK ROCK CITY, NEVADA
WWW.BURNINGMAN.COM
How to explain the Burning Man? Well, for starters, some 25,000 people drive to the middle of nowhere—the Black Rock Desert— carting power generators, building equipment, water, and food. They then build an experimental (and temporary) community made of gigantic art installations—like (to cite recent examples) a mosque made of recycled plastic, a Byzantine clock tower—and theme camps, where they all live and party, surviving the heat of the day and the freezing predawn temperatures, dust, and thunderstorms. And after a week, they burn it all down (including the giant effigy of a man who exists only to go up in flames). Got that? |
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