festival A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival ...

is a celebratory event, usually centered on a theme. Festival may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film

* ''Festival'' (1967 film), a documentary about the 1963-1965 Newport Folk Festivals * ''Festival'' (1996 film), a film by South Korean director Im Kwon-taek * ''Festival'' (2001 film), a drama film by Swedish director Karl Johan Larsson * ''Festival'' (2005 film), a comedy about performers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe * ''The Festival'' (film), a 2018 comedy film set at large UK music festival

Literature

* ''Festivals'' (book), a 1973 collection of festival-related folklore by Ruth Manning-Sanders * "The Festival" (short story), a story by H. P. Lovecraft

Music

Music companies

Festival Distribution Festival Distribution was a Canadian independent record label and music distributor, specializing in folk, blues and world music artists. The company was formed in 1993 when it purchased the music distribution arm of the Vancouver Folk Music Fes ...

, a Canadian record label and distributor *

Festival Records (Australia) Festival Records (later known as Festival Mushroom Records) was an Australian recording and publishing company founded in Sydney, Australia, in 1952 and operated until 2005. Festival was a wholly owned subsidiary of News Limited from 1961 to ...

(1952–2005), an Australian music recording and publishing company *Festival Records, a record label founded in 1958 by Herb Abramson

Albums

* ''Festival'' (Jon Oliva's Pain album) or the title song, 2006 * ''Festival'' (Kenan Doğulu album), 2006 * ''Festival'' (Lee Ritenour album), 1988 * ''Festival'' (Santana album), 1977

Songs

*"Festival", a song by Krokus from '' To You All''

Television

Festival (TV channel) Festival is a defunct American premium cable television network that was owned by Home Box Office, Inc., then a subsidiary of Time Inc., and operated from 1986 to 1988. The channel's programming consisted of uncut and re-edited versions of rece ...

, a defunct family-friendly HBO premium channel * ''Festival'' (British TV series), a 1960s dramatic anthology series * ''Festival'' (Canadian TV series), a 1960s entertainment anthology series

Other arts and entertainment

*''The Festival'', an 18th-century

masque The masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment that flourished in 16th- and early 17th-century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy, in forms including the intermedio (a public version of the masque was the pageant). A masq ...

*''DDR Festival Dance Dance Revolution'', a 2004 ''Dance Dance Revolution'' video game

Other uses

* Aerostar R40S Festival, a Romanian light-sport aircraft *

Christian festival The liturgical year, also called the church year, Christian year or kalendar, consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in Christian churches that determines when feast days, including celebrations of saints, are to be observed, and which ...

, a major event in the Liturgical year of Christian churches, such as Christmas and Easter **

Festival (Anglicanism) A Festival is a type of observance in the Churches of the Anglican Communion, considered to be less significant than a Principal Feast or Principal Holy Day, but more significant than a Lesser Festival or Commemoration. In '' Common Worship,'' each ...

, a type of observance day * Festival (food), a type of deep-fried bread in Jamaican cuisine *

Festival Speech Synthesis System The Festival Speech Synthesis System is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system originally developed by Alan W. Black, Paul Taylor and Richard Caley at the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of Edinburgh. Subst ...

, a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system