"Easter festivities" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the celebration and activities surrounding the holiday of Easter. Example: The town held a parade, egg hunt, and other Easter festivities to bring the community together and celebrate the holiday together.
As for the guerrillas who were killed, "they weren't there preparing for Easter festivities".
(Last weekend the "Glee" cast performed at the White House during Easter festivities, and video of the event shows them to be, more or less, uniformly strong singers).
So, get there before the main tourist season begins (with the Easter festivities), and you'll have the city's great sights and museums pretty much to yourself.
As Christians through Easter festivities celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus, and Jews through Passover mark deliverance from slavery in Egypt, I prefer to dwell on unity rather than division.
"People have far less regular work, so that at least means more spare time to devote to our brotherhood," said Genoveva Rodríguez Sánchez, a seamstress who has made several embroideries for her brotherhood and has been setting aside one day a week to help prepare the Easter festivities.
Similarly, the odds of dying from road traffic crashes is significantly higher in March/April compared to January and this seem to coincide with the Easter festivities.
On Easter Sunday!" "Easter Sunday?
Say "Happy Easter" before Easter.
Chocolate Easter eggs and sugar Easter eggs.
At 10 30 a.m. and noon, DR2 Theater, 103 East 15th Street, Manhattan, (212) 239-6200; $20. EASTER AT THE ZOOS (Saturday and Sunday) When zoos offer spring festivities, the eggs that are celebrated go well beyond the Easter variety.
Whitsuntide, Christmas, and Easter are important, each associated with their own musical traditions, as are distinctly Barbadian festivities like the crop over festival and the Landship movement.
