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Festival

Type - Festival
August Moon festival
Australasian Scout Jamboree 1938-39
Biennale of Sydney
Carnivale
Chalk Urban Art Festival
Chinese Festival 1938
Chinese New Year
Festival of Fishers Ghost
Festival of Sydney
Flickerfest
Granny Smith Festival
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Great Inflatable Film Festival
Hollandse Kermis
International Women's Day
Italian Film Festival
Kultūras Dienas
Lantern Festival
Leura Gardens Festival
Marrickville Festival
McAlister Day Fair 2000
New South Wales Holland Festival
Orange Blossom Festival
Oranje Fest
Qing Ming Festival
Ritmo Brazilian Festival
Russian Resurrection Film Festival
Scottish Week
Shell National Folkloric Festival
St Albans Writers Festival
St David's Day
St Nicolaas's Day
St Patrick's Day
Sydney Māori Festival
Tet Nguyen Dan
Tet Trung Thu
Waratah Spring Festival

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Festival

August Moon festival

Major festival in the Chinese calendar, held on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. It usually falls in September in the western calendar.

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Australasian Scout Jamboree 1938-39

Gathering of scouts held in Bradfield Park, northern Sydney, in December 1938 until January 1939, attracting scouts from all over the world.

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Biennale of Sydney

International festival of contemporary art held every two years at various locations around the city. It is the third longest running biennale in the world.

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Carnivale

Multicultural festival held in Sydney.

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Chalk Urban Art Festival

Annual event celebrating artworks created by in chalk on the pavement. Venues have included Darling Harbour and Parramatta.

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Chinese Festival 1938

Spectacular festival organised by the Sydney Chinese community as part of the sesquicentenary celebrations to publicise China's plight following the Japanese invasion of Nanking the previous year.

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Chinese New Year

Important Chinese festival, celebrated in Sydney since the mid-nineteenth century, and now a part of Sydney's public cultural calendar.

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Festival of Fishers Ghost

Annual celebration of local community organised by Campbelltown City Council that has taken place since 1960. The festival commemorates the ghost story told about the murder of Frederick Fisher in 1826.

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Festival of Sydney

Festival of art, music and performance held in Sydney in January.

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Flickerfest

International short film festival held annually in Australia since 1997

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Granny Smith Festival

Founded in 1957 and held by Ryde City Council since 1985, commemorating Maria Ann Smith who first grew the well-known apple variety bearing her name in 1868.

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Great Inflatable Film Festival

Film festival on Australian Beach culture held at Wylie Baths since 1996.

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Hollandse Kermis

Fundraising festivals held by the Sydney Dutch community in the 1970s

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International Women's Day

Held every March 8 to celebrate respect, appreciation and love towards women for their economic, political and social achievements.

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Italian Film Festival

Annual festival of Italian films held each September in several cinemas.

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Kultūras Dienas

Latvian cultural festival of dance, sport and art held biennially.

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Lantern Festival

Festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunar year in the Chinese calendar, the last day of the Lunar Chinese New Year celebration.

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Leura Gardens Festival

Open garden festival held in spring to raise funds for the Blue Mountains Hospital.

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Marrickville Festival

Annual street market and festival in Marrickville.

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McAlister Day Fair 2000

Annual fair in Engadine since 2000 named for Charles McAlister, developer of the area.

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New South Wales Holland Festival

Popular festival, instigated by Henk van der Weide in 1982, and held at the Fairfield Showground.

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Orange Blossom Festival

Annual community run festival of parades, sporting events and performances to mark the first blossoms of the orange orchards which had lead the development of much of The Hills district.

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Oranje Fest

Festival to mark the Queen of the Netherlands' birthday which is celebrated by Dutch people around the world.

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Qing Ming Festival

Chinese festival which celebrates springtime and denotes a time for people to tend the graves of departed ones.

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Ritmo Brazilian Festival

Festival held in September to celebrate Brazilian food and culture.

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Russian Resurrection Film Festival

Annual film festival to promote an appreciation of Russian cinema.

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Scottish Week

Scottish cultural festival held since the 1980s, usually in late November.

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Shell National Folkloric Festival

An annual ethnic folk festival first held in Sydney in 1973 and involving performers from several dozen ethnic groups.

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St Albans Writers Festival

Annual lIterary festival held in the rural village of St Albans in the Macdonald Valley since 2015.

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St David's Day

Feast day of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, on March 1 which is celebrated by Welsh communities around the world with parties and eisteddfod.

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St Nicolaas's Day

Traditional holiday celebrated in the Netherlands, Belgium and northern France and wherever Dutch migrants settled. Also referred to as Sinterklaas, it is held on December 5.

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St Patrick's Day

Cultural and religious festival commemorating the date of death of the patron saint of Ireland which is celebrated worldwide on March 17th.

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Sydney Māori Festival

Māori cultural festival first held in Sydney in 1979.

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Tet Nguyen Dan

Vietnamese festival beginning on the first day of the first lunar month. Vietnam's most popular festival, it marks the beginning of the lunar new year and the arrival of spring.

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Tet Trung Thu

Popular Vietnamese harvest festival which focuses on family and children.

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Waratah Spring Festival

Festival and parade held in Sydney between 1956 and 1973. Organised by Sydney City Council and the Sydney Committee, which was made up of council, state government and city business representatives, the aim of the festival was to enliven the city each spring.

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