La Paz's great festival is the Gran Poder ("Great Power"), which takes place in late May or June, on the the Saturday preceding the Feast of the Holy Trinity eight weeks after Easter.
Fashing, or Fastnacht, is a raucous two-day Feast of Fools that precedes the pre-Lenten carnival in Austria.
Mnarja, the Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul, takes place on the weekend preceding June 29 in Buskett Gardens in Rabat.
Canine caper Feast, the short film that precedes Disney's Big Hero 6 in cinemas, was named best animated short subject.
One appealing-sounding show is a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Cristina Enea Park, with live music and contemporary dance, preceded by an alfresco feast at dusk.
It was preceded by a shorter piece, "The Feast (Part 1)," which featured duets in which Ms. Mills's penchant for the push and pull of contact improvisation was deeply felt.
| Christie's will be holding two wine sales this week, a general offering (March 15) that includes spirits, preceded by wines from a private collection (March 14), a feast for Bordeaux lovers.
Dussehra is preceded by nine days of revelry, or Navratri, during which devotees feast, fast and pray, and watch dramatic portrayals of the life of Rama.
Worship of the gods involved sacrifices (including human), chants and recitations, feasting (often with great prodigality), ritual sex (to promote fertility), and other elaborate practices, often preceded by long fasting and abstinence.
Preceded by wife, Marilyn.
