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Boxing Day

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION Boxing Day is a holiday that falls on the day following Christmas Day, concurrent with the Catholic holiday Saint Stephen’s...
Christmas Eve

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION Christmas Eve, sometimes known as the Vigil of Christmas, is the day before Christmas Day. It represents the end of the Advent...
Christmas

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, Messiah of the Christian faith. The name Christmas...
Matariki

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION On the 24th of June 2022, Aotearoa New Zealand first celebrated Matariki as a public holiday. It is the first public holiday to...
Thanksgiving

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION Thanksgiving Day is an annual holiday observed in the United States of America. The origin of the holiday lies in the colonial...
International Women's Day

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The...
Vesak

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION Vesak, or Buddha Day, is a festival which commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and death of The Buddha. Observed by...
Lent

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION Lent is a Christian religious observance commemorating Jesus Christ’s 40 days of prayer and fasting in the wilderness. It is a...
Palm Sunday

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION Palm Sunday, also known as Passion Sunday, falls on the Sunday before Easter and is the first day of Holy Week, the final week...
Ash Wednesday

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent as observed by many Western Christian denominations, including Roman Catholics,...
Ramadan

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic Calendar, considered by Muslims to be one of the holiest months of the year. It is a...
Rongali Bihu

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION Rongali Bihu, or Bohag Bihu, is a harvest festival celebrated throughout north-eastern India, especially in the state of Assam....
Puthandu

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION Puthandu, also known as Puthuvarudam, or Tamil New Year, is the first day of the year according to the Tamil calendar. It is...
Holi

Cultural events are listed here with basic background details. For specific events, dates, and times, please see the Featured Events on the Cultural Calendar main page. EVENT DESCRIPTION Holi, the Festival of Colours, celebrates many things; the coming of spring, the blossoming of love, the triumph of good over...
Mha Puja

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