(The district's performance groups also ranked high in the association's spring festivals).
The aiōra ("swing") used in the ancient Athenian Dionysiac festival, the swings of the spring festivals at Puri (Orissa) and in Thailand, also have similar symbolic connotations.
Most campuses have students who abuse alcohol and drugs, and the spring festivals at many colleges are known for their excesses.
Vancouver Island in British Columbia plays host to a multitude of migratory animals, and its human inhabitants celebrate their passage with several late winter and spring festivals.
While spring festivals occur all over the country, Hoboken's possesses a certain cool veneer that most other street fairs do not.
The rigours of competing at all three of the major spring Festivals have taken their toll on several horses here this week.
These differences are celebrated with spring festivals (when the world is re-created through ritual expressions of generation) and harvest festivals (of thanksgiving and of protecting the life force in seeds for the next spring).
But as with other spring festivals like Easter and Purim, Phagwah is also a day to celebrate color and chaos, marking the end of winter's gray and the earth's revival.
