#festivals in europe

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Sebastian Stan arriving ahead of the 77th Cannes film festival

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AURORA @ Roskilde festival by Francesca Garattoni for Vez magazine // 05.07.2024 // Roskilde, Denmark

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Ogrodzieniec Early Medieval Festival, Poland

© Aleksander Gabrysiak

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SABRINA CARPENTER during her set at Lollapalooza Stockholm in Sweden. 29th June, 2023 ©: Julien Angelini (1,5,6) & Rebecca Holly (2) © (on twitter): birchedvin (3) & bowershewson (4)

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finallyyy

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Pompa Circensis by Julio Borrell Pla

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At the KaZantip musical festival, 1998. Crimea, Ukraine.

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One of the figures in Catalan traditional festivities like festes majors are these big-headed characters. They are called different names depending on the area: cabeçuts, capgrossos, cabuts, cabets, caparrots, nanos or nanets. All these words derive from the concepts of "big head" or "short person", since that's their most iconic characteristic.

They're hollow paper-mache figures where the dancer puts their head in, and sees through the figure's mouth. They dance usually cheerful songs and greet the people who are watching, particularly children.

The figures can represent stereotypical people from the town (a school child, a rich man, a priest, a farmer, a heiress, etc), local historical or legendary people (nobles, pirates, etc), or just silly people. In some places, if someone from the town/city becomes famous or does something very good for the town, people can choose to make a capgròs that represents them.

If I'm not mistaken, this figures also exist in Basque culture, where they are called buruhandiak or kilikiliak (am I right, @beautiful-basque-country?)

Video by Agrupació de Balls Populars de Sitges taken in the national meet-up of cabeçuts from around Catalonia.

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Reading Festival 2023

On This Day: August 26 2023

On this day in 2023, the collective held a ritual at Reading Festival on the Festival Republic Stage at 21:35 (9:35PM) local time for a full 45 minute set. This would be their first appearance back since 2018.

The setlist was reported to be as follows:

Chokehold [YT] Like That Granite Vore [YT] Hypnosis Alkaline [YT] The Summoning [YT] Rain [YT] The Offering

Photographic evidence by Andy Ford [NME]

Additional photographic imagery by adamrosssi [FB]

With a drum cam of II during The Summoning as captured by Sam Hallett and saved by moondust_m3an [TT]

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Haven’t posted in awhile

It’s already fall 🍂🍁🎃

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auroramusic

Thank you Finland 🩸

By @mandariiniviini 🌞

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DRAGONS & UNICORNS - Light festival

Mechelen, Belgium 🇧🇪

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SABRINA CARPENTER on the stage at BST Hyde Park in London, UK. 2nd July, 2023 © Patrick Gunning

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Easter celebrations in Kerkyra (Corfu) island by Christoforos Korakianitis. 

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The Heraean Games by Prospero Piatti

The Heraea was an Ancient Greek festival in which young girls competed in a footrace. The race was held every four years at Olympia, and probably took place around the same time as the ancient Olympic Games.