Fiestas estivales/ summer festivals, traditions
What festivals or traditions do you celebrate in your country in August/summer? Why not post a picture and a description?
I cannot recall a traditional festival in the UK in August, though there are lots earlier in the year. There ia a huge carnival in Nottinghill London started by immigrants from the West Indies, but now the largest in Europe, and a large arts festival in Edinburgh called the Fringe.
¿Qué festivales o tradiciones celebra en su país en agosto/verano? ¿Por qué no publicas una imagen y una descripción?
No puedo recordar un festival tradicional en el Reino Unido en agosto, aunque hay muchos más temprano en el año. Hay un enorme carnaval en Nottinghill Londres comenzó por los inmigrantes del Caribe,pero ahora el más grande de Europa, y un gran festival de artes en Edimburgo que se Llama 'The Fringe'. (la franja.)
Aquí hay un artículo en El País en el que varios periodistas de España describen los fiestas que disfrutaron como niños
Here is an article in El Pais in which various journalists from Spain described the festival's they enjoyed as children.
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Here in my home town (Sheffield) we've had a couple over the past few weeks.
Over the weekend 21-23 July we had the Tramlines Festival. This is a (mainly free) music festival where many pubs and open spaces in the City Centre host bands of varying fame and popularity - from the brand new 'indie' bands to relatively successful commercial bands. It lasts the whole weekend, but as I'm a lightweight these days lol, I could only take Friday night.
Last weekend we had our annual Gay Pride festival. I went to that. Although I'm not gay (just very happy hehehe) I love the atmosphere at this event. Nobody gives a bleep what people think and I find it very relaxing and loving. I like to give my support to my fellow human beings. The only thing that spoilt it was the 'You are all going to burn in hell' people with megaphones trying to intimidate others. But, we forgive them. 
Festival???
My birthday party. LOL and my brother's birthday.
August is winter here.
My parents and many people say:
Agosto es angosto.
There is little money. It's not the beginning of winter so people don't buy winter clothes anymore because spring is coming in September. There is no bonus or aguinaldo, which we have in June and December etc.
"Agosto es angosto "and incredibly my parents had two parties the same "angosto" month. jaja
This teaches us a lesson:
Plan your child's birth month.
lol lol lol
Here in The Big Easy, we have festivals for everything, year round, something is always going on. So many that I gave up trying to remember them all. jeje I remember the biggest ones, like Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest and Essence Festival. Those are easy.
For August
3-6 – Satchmo Summer Fest
5 – Whitney White Linen Night
12 – Red Dress Run
13 – Dirty Linen Night
23-26 – NOLA Downtown Music and Arts Festival
30- September 4 – Southern Decadence
Just to name a few....
Satchmo Summer Fest
In the Basque Country summer is the season when the most important festivities are celebrated. From the smallest village to the biggest city they all have their patron saint festvities and other paralel festivals. It would be impossible for me to list them all so I am going to talk about the most important festival of my city, Bilbao, it is called "aste nagusia" literally "main week" but translated to Spanish as "semana grande". This festival is represented by a figure called Marijaia (Maria-fiesta Mary-party)
Here's a link to the Bilbao council web if there is someone interested in
Please correct my English
Did someone mention festival , you name it we have it .
January
Australian Open Tennis
Australia Day
Midsumma
Melbourne Bridal and Honeymoon Expo
Sugar Mountain Festival
February
Chinese New Year
Sustainable Living Festival
White Night Melbourne
Twenty20 International Cricket
Lonsdale Street Festival (formerly Antipodes Festival)
March
Moomba Festival
Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix
Melbourne International Coffee Expo
Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival
Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show
Melbourne Queer Film Festival
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
April
Melbourne Food and Wine Festival
The Herald Sun | CityLink Run for the Kids
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Australasian Quilting Convention
HIA Home Show
Anzac Day
May
Dog Lovers Show
Next Wave Festival 2018
Melbourne Knowledge Week
Buddha's Day and Multicultural Festival
Good Beer Week
Human Rights Arts & Film Festival
June
Melbourne International Jazz Festival
Good Food and Wine Show
Mind Body Spirit Festival
Melbourne International Animation Festival
Melbourne Boat Show
July
Run Melbourne
Open House Melbourne
August
Melbourne International Film Festival
Melbourne Writers Festival
Melbourne Home Show
National 4×4 & Outdoors Show and Fishing & Boating Expo
Melbourne Day
September
Melbourne Fashion Week
Royal Melbourne Show
Melbourne Fringe Festival
AFL Grand Final
October
Fitness and Health Expo
Victorian Seniors Festival
Melbourne Festival
Melbourne Marathon
November
Melbourne Cup Carnival
Melbourne Music Week
Festival of Homer
Melbourne Awards
Remembrance Day
December
The Big Design Market
Christmas Festival
Vision Australia's Carols by Candlelight
Cricket: Boxing Day Test
New Year's Eve
La tradición habitual de verano aquí en Chicago estaba viendo a los Cachorros perder....y perder....y perder. ¡Con alegría, rompimos esa tradición de 108 años el año pasado cuando ganamos la Serie Mundial! (Me encantan los Cachorros.)
The usual summer tradition here in Chicago was watching the Cubs lose. Happily, we broke that 108 year tradition last year when we won the World Series!
En mi pueblo relativamente pequeño tenemos dos festivales durante el verano, uno en Junio durante el que hay muchas coches antiguos, y uno en Julio durante el que algunos fingen que el pueblo tiene algo que ver con la vieja Inglaterra. No pude ir al primer este año, pero no me interesan tanto los coches, al contrario de mi esposa. Fui al segundo para tomar una cerveza y entregar mi esposa a sus amigas. Caminamos porque viven bastante cerca del centro (lo que es muy pequeño)- a mi esposa no le gusta caminar allí sola. No me gustan mucho los muchedumbres, por eso solo puedo quedarme allí por un rato corto. A mi esposa le encanta cualquier tipo de fiesta.
My mother spent several years working in Malta and said particularly in the summer there were lots of festivals linked with saints to various villages. The article I first posted was by various journalists remembering fiestas they knew in their home towns.
Many years ago, I visited Brussels with my mum. She was celebrating her birthday and we stayed at a convent in Brussels where her sister was a nun. It was at this time of the year. I remember we went to the centre of Brussels where they had sketched a pattern for a floral carpet. The next day we saw thousands of plants, mainly begonias whose flowers were used in a carpet. The glorious carpet was on show for the assumption of the Virgin Mary which is not a holiday in the UK or surprisingly Eire but is throughout much of Europe.
And here is an article in Spanish with some good photos about the last carpet. It is completed every two years.
