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🇩🇰 Copenhagen, DenmarkNatFilm Festival An annual Danish cinema gathering held around Easter from 1990 to 2008Performance

🇹🇭 Thailand and 1 moreMenoraมโนราห์ A traditional Thai dance drama from the south, featuring acrobatics and sacred rituals.Performance 🇵🇸 Palestine and 1 morePalestine Festival of Literatureاحتفالية فلسطين للأدب An annual touring literary gathering staging free bilingual readings across PalestinePerformance

🇮🇳 India and 1 morePunjabi wedding traditions The multi-day marriage customs and rituals of Hindu and Sikh Punjabi familiesRite of passage · Sweets given and shared

🇪🇪 Kuressaare, EstoniaSaaremaa Opera FestivalSaaremaa ooperipäevad An annual opera festival in Kuressaare, Estonia, featuring international performances.Performance

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Menora: AjarnRichard, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Punjabi wedding traditions: Unknown author, Public domain, source
Saaremaa Opera Festival: Ave Maria Mõistlik, CC BY-SA 3.0, source

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