What are Welsh celebrations?

Answer 1

there are a few ,

one being 'dydd gwyl dewi' ... basicly the welsh equivelent of st.Patrick's day etc.

on this day , it's traditional for children to wear in the traditional welsh outfits of ladies and gentlemen (search for pictures on Google) , and then almost everyone wears a leek(for the men) or daffodils(women).

on this day quite a few harp contests are organized , people get together just to celebrate their welshness through eating welsh things (such as welsh cakes or things with leek in) , sing all the traditional welsh songs such as the national anthem and calon lan etc etc.

another is calan mai , wich basicly means the beginning of summer (in the same way calan gaeaf means the beginning of November , althoguh gaeaf means winter). It's a lovley celebration however not celebrated by everyone , people decorate their houses with flowers. Another thing that's done to celebrate calan mai is they a birch pole was decorated by ribbons (quite an art - the decorating is done by dancing and each person holding a diffrent ribbon , when the dance is done the pole is decorated with a colorful pattern) - this is called 'codi'r fedwen' in the south , and called 'y gangen haf' in the north. This dance tends to bring girls and boys together and spark romance. It's all veyr pretty and lovley.

Answer 2

Eisteddfod Festival: is a Welsh festival of literature, music and performance. The tradition of such a meeting of Welsh artists dates back to at least the 12th century, when a festival of poetry and music was held by Rhys ap Gruffydd of Deheubarth at his court in Cardigan in 1176 but, with the decline of the bardic tradition, it fell into abeyance. The present-day format owes much to an eighteenth-century revival arising out of a number of informal eisteddfodau. The closest English equivalent to eisteddfod is "session"; the word is formed from two Welsh morphemes: eistedd, meaning "sit", and bod, meaning "be".

Cardiff Design Festival: is an annual event organised by the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff in partnership with a number of Cardiff organisations, which since its inception has included Design Wales, an organisation which has a pan Wales remit for supporting and encouraging the use of design.The Festival was first held in 2005, within the City Centre at the Park Plaza Hotel on Cardiff's Greyfriars Road, as well as a number of other events and seminars at various locations around the City.

Monmouth Women's Festival: is an annual event in Monmouth, Wales, focusing on issues of interest to women. It is a not-for-profit cultural festival including workshops, talks and other events, and is organised by a small committee of volunteers

The Ebbw Vale Garden Festival of Wales (National Garden Festival 1992) attracted over two million visitors to this small town in South Wales.

The National Garden Festivals were a high-profile 1980s initiative by the then Conservative Government in response to criticism of their alleged neglect of areas hit by the decline of heavy industry. Environment Minister Michael Heseltine proposed that derelict land should be reclaimed for a Garden Festival as a symbol of the rebirth of such areas. The festivals were held every two years. The first such Festival was held in Liverpool in 1984. Subsequent festivals were held in Stoke-on-Trent (1986) and Glasgow (1988) and Gateshead (1990) and Ebbw Vale Garden Festival (1992) which eventually won the competition. The festivals were highly successful in attracting millions of visitors from all over the country to industrial areas long ignored by British tourists. However they did not always lead to the hoped-for long-term injection of private investment in the affected areas.

Gregynog Music Festival, or Gŵyl Gregynog in Welsh, is the oldest extant Classical Music festival in Wales and takes place each summer at Gregynog Hall in the village of Tregynon, near Newtown, Powys, mid-Wales.

In its present form, Gregynog Festival has been running annually since 1988 but it is a revival of festivals held at the same venue from 1933 to 1938 by Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, major patrons of the arts in Wales. The original Festivals were directed by the composer and organist Henry Walford Davies. A sequence of festivals was then held under the direction of the composer Ian Parrott from 1956-61 and a one-off Festival took place in 1972 featuring Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and Osian Ellis. The modern incarnation was directed by the tenor Anthony Rolfe Johnson from 1988 until his retirement in 2006 when Dr Rhian Davies, the music historian and broadcaster, succeeded as Artistic Director.

The Laugharne Weekend is an annual arts festival in Wales.

The festival is held in the spring in the town of Laugharne. Dylan Thomas, Laugharne's most famous inhabitant, described it as a "timeless, mild, beguiling island of a town."

The festival is deliberately small-scale. The size of the town - which itself is very small - ensures that the festival will not grow beyond certain bounds. Its location means that festival visitors and townspeople rub shoulders with the artists and performers.

Answer 3

The christian holidays are celebrated in the same way as they are around the world

(Easter - Easter egg hunts , Christmas - presents , decorations , Christmas tree , chrismtas dinner of turkey and all the trimmings etc)

However they have traditional holidays that arn't celbrated everywhere.

1. Dydd gwyl ddewi / Dydd gwyl Dewi (patron of wales , celebrated by wearing the traditional welsh costumes and schools have the school eisteddfod)

2. Eisteddfod. There are 3 diffrent kinds , School eisteddfod is just for fun. where parties compete against each other in whichever competition they want. 2. Eisteddfod yr urdd - organised by the urdd (you'll have to do your own research) , and Eisteddfod Genedlaethol. The competitions include Singing , Acting , Dancing , Instrumental , Art , Writing - all kinds. there are also hundreds of stalls and lots of things going on.

3) Calan Mai - celebrating the beginning of summer... includes decorating houses in flowers (roses and lavander) and 'fedwen haf' which is a large pole decorated through dance (girls hold ribbons and through a choreographed traditional dance a plaited pattern is created)

4) Calan Gaeaf - Halloween , although in welsh it really means the beginning of winter.

5) Fari Lwyd - celebrating in the middle of January , celebrating that the dark days of winter have passed and things will come back to life now... celebrated with biiiiig parties (whole communities) , lots of singing and a decorated horse skull (a fake one in most places , however traditionaly it'd be real)

Answer 4

Legal holidays in Wales include: New Year's Day (January 1), St. David's Day (March 1), Good Friday (March or April), Easter Monday (March or April), spring and summer bank holidays, Christmas (December 25), and Boxing Day (December 26). St. David's Day commemorates Wales' patron saint. On this day, daffodils are sold everywhere and are either worn on lapels or taken home to adorn houses. Every January, the Festival of St. Dwyhwon, the Welsh patron saint of lovers, takes place. However, it is gradually being replaced by St. Valentine's Day in February.

Answer 5

Holidays in Wales are:

Main holidays:

• Christmas
• Easter
• Whitsuntide (Sulgwyn)

Other important holidays are feasts of the saints:

• St Patrick (Gwyl Badric) on March 17
• St. Quiricus (Gwyl Giric) on June 16
• the Beheading of John the Baptist (called in Welsh Gwyl Ieuan y Moch on August 29
• St Michael (Gwyl Fihangel) on September 29

and

• the Calends of Winter (Calan Gaeaf) on November 1
• All Saints' Day (yr Holl Saint).

Other holidays:

• Saint David's Day March 1
• Gŵyl Mabsant localized celebrations in commemoration of native saints
• Dydd Santes Dwynwen January 25 the Welch day of love similar to St. Valentine's Day
• Gŵyl San Steffan December 26, Boxing Day or Saint Stephen's Day

Answer 6

Wales celebrates Christmas and Easter like much of the rest of Europe, but they also have a number of festivals that are not celebrated much outside of Wales. A few of these are St. David's Day, Nos Galan, and Alban Arthan.

Answer 7

Wales does not yet have any national holidays that are different from those of England, although school Half Term dates are a week earlier than in England.

Answer 8

Wales celebrates New Year's Day, St. David's Day, Good Friday, Easter, May Day, Christmas, and Boxing Day.