This is a list of festival-related list articles on Wikipedia. A
festival is an event ordinarily staged by a
community, centering on and celebrating some unique aspect of that community and its
traditions, often marked as a local or national
holiday,
mela, or
eid. A festival is a special occasion of feasting or celebration, usually with a religious focus. Aside from religion, and sometimes
folklore, another significant origin is
agricultural. Food (and consequently agriculture) is so vital that many festivals are associated with
harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in
autumn such as
Halloween in the northern hemisphere and
Easter in the southern.