Bali Spirit Festival 2015

Bali Spirit Festival - The Bali Spirit Festival is

an festival held every year in city of Bali,
Indonesia. Live Dance and Music performances
by some of the leading artists from different
countries. The 5 day mega event will start from
31 March and finish on 5 April, 2015. So if you
are looking for Classical Hatha Yoga, traditional
Javanese dance and more, then Bali Spirit
Festival is perfect place for you. The Bali Spirit
festival is a major international yoga, dance and
music celebration. This year, the event will be
held in beautiful grounds of Purnati Center for
arts located in Batuan near Ubud, Bali.

Bali Spirit Festival 2015

Start Date: March 31, 2015

End Date: April 05, 2015

Venue: Bali Purnati Center For The Arts,

Bali.

For Events detail: http://www.balispiritfestival.com

Location: Batuan, south of Ubud in Bali,

Indonesia.

10 minutes south of Ubud.

The festival offers a unique combination of Yoga, Dance and Music. Live performances by some
of the renewed artists from round the world.

So if you have missed last time, this is your chance to experience all the excitement of this
major event in Ubud, Bali. The Bali Spirit Festival is officially sponsored by Bali tourism board
along with other leading tourism and media partners.

Kuta Karnival 2015

Kuta Carnival 2015, Bali
Start Date: October 2015

End Date: October 2015

Main Events: Carnival, Food Festival, Music Festival, Kite festival and many more events.

Location: Bali, Indonesia.

Welcome to this fascinating event known as Kuta Karnival

in Bali, Indonesia. The Kuta Karnival event will be starting from October 2015 on the glorious Kuta beach
in Bali. The previous edition of this event has witnessed large number of tourists from round the globe in
Bali. This years Kuta Karnival promises more fun and excitement on the beaches of Kuta, Bali. There will
be series of event like opening ceremony with Kite Festival, Balinese Arts, Cartoon exhibitions, Movie
Screening, Bali Food Festival, Sand Sculpture Competition and lots more.

Kuta Karnival Bali Food Festival - As a part of Kuta Karnival 2015, Bali Food Festival will also be held in
this mega event. All those who loves cuisines or recipes can take part in this mega food event in Kuta
region. There will be lot of people joining this food festival to present there culinary skills. Apart from
delicious food stalls, there will be movie screening, DJ session, children playground and lot of other
entertainment activities. So don't miss this Bali Food Festival at Kuta Karnival 2015.
Come and enjoy an event featuring fun, entertainment, tasty food, beach activities and lots more
happening at Kuta Beach, Bali.
 Bidar Boat

The Annual Bidar Race is well

worth including in your plans if
you visit Palembang around
Independence Day, August 17th.
The Annual Bidar Race takes
place at Musi River. Sriwijaya
Festival every June-July
perform cultural attractions and
ornamental boat race.

Long time ago, Palembang was

surrounded by 108 tributaries
and Musi River as its main river. For its area security, fastest boats were needed. The Palembang
Sultanate formed river patrol using Pancalang boat. Pancalang means the fastest sailing boat.
This boat, according to historian, were the origin of Bidar boat. To conserve it, bidar boat race
was held since Palembang Darussalam Sultanate until now. It were called kenceran by some
local people.

The details description of Pancalang boatcan be found in Indonesian Encyclopedia NV, published
by W Van Hoeve Bandungs Gravenhage. It stated that Pancalang boat used to be functioned as
transport vessel and trading vessel on river. It has moveable sunshade of bamboo laths roof, oars
rudder and bamboo sticks as oars.

Nowadays, Bidar boat has different shape from previous one. There are two types of this boat :
First, the best performance boat. It has length 12,7 meters, height 60 cms, and width 1,2 meters
with 22 oarmens.This type usually being shown on annual Palembangs anniversary, June 17.

Second, the traditional Bidar boat. It has length 29 meters, height 80 cms and width 1,5 meters
with 55 oarsmen. This type always being shown on Indonesian Independence Day Anniversary,
August 17, which called Festival Musi. There are boat decorating race, bidar race and swimming
competition with thousands spectators.
 About the Bali Arts Festival

The Bali Arts Festival is a full month of daily

performances, handicraft exhibitions and other
related cultural and commercial activities during
which literally the whole of Bali comes to the city
to present its offerings of dance, music and beauty.
On display are trances from remote mountain
slopes, forgotten or recently revived village
dances, food and offering contests, classical palace
dances, stars of Balinese stage, odd musical
performances, "kreasi baru" (new creations) from
the dance schools of Denpasar, as well as
contemporary choreography and dance companies
from other islands and from abroad.

It is a month long revelry that perhaps no other

place in the world can put up on such a low budget
as the Balinese. Not only is their traditional culture alive and well, but they
have a tremendous pride in it.

It begins in the villages, where the seka or cultural groups are selected and
organized at the regency level, vie with each other to perform the Arts
Festival and thus display in front of a large audience the uniqueness of their
village of birth and resting place of their ancestors.

The Bali Arts Festival is the Denpasar cultural event of the year, perhaps it
would no be too far fetched to suggest that it is the cultural event of
Indonesia. The festival is thus a unique opportunity
to see local village culture both "live" and at first
hand. Tourists are warmly welcomed.

The History of the Bali Arts Festival

When tourism took off after 1965, the Balinese

insisted that it followed cultural guidelines: if
tourism was to be accepted, it was to be a cultural
tourism, or "pariwisata budaya".

As the Balinese put it: "Tourism should be for Bali

instead of Bali for tourism." In time, this idea
become national policy, as part of a larger revping
of regional cultures for national purposes. The
policy owes much to the former Director General of Culture (1968-1978) and
Governor of Bali (1978-1988), Ida Bagus Mantra, an Indian-educed
Balinese. It led, on the one side, to the creation of enclave resorts such as
Nusa Dua to limit the direct impact of tourism, and on the other, to a long
haul cultural policy aimed at nurturing and preserving the traditional
agrarian culture while adapting it to the demands of modernity, and in
particular of "cultural tourism".

At the village level, local music groups, dances and other cultural events
were inventoried, then supported by a series of contests at the district and
regency level. The ensuing competition energized the cultural life of villages,
whose "young blood" was already being drained to the city by the process of
economic change and urbanization.

Schools of dance and art were created, in particular the Kokar conservatory
and the STSI School of Dance and Music. Beside research, these schools
replaced the traditional master/disciple relationship by modern methods of
teaching; standardized the dance movements, produced new types of
Balinese dances for tourism and modern village entertainment. Most
important, it enabled former students to return to the villages as teachers,
where they diffused, beside the creed of cultural resilience and renewal, new
dances and standardized versions of old ones.

Many of the performances are held at the amphitheater which can hold up to
6,000 spectators, in a temple-like stage.

Each year, the Bali Arts Festival, beside the fed

classical dances of the island, such as the legong,
gambuh, kecak, barong, baris, mask dances and
the like, is based on the theme around which new
"dance choreography" is produced and old village
dances and activities revived. Over the years, the
whole range of classical Balinese stories -
Ramayana, Mahabharata, Sutasoma, Panji - have
thus been turned into "colossal" Sendratari Ballets.

The main challenge to the Arts Festival is obviously

economic in nature. As village life is increasingly
feeling the strains of monetary considerations,
dancers, musicians and others cannot be expected
to continue participating simply for the sake and
the pleasure of it. As costs soar, new sources of financing have to be found.
The obvious answer is the private sector and in particular the tourism
industry. The greater task then is to convince the hotels, travel agencies and
tourist guides to be more participatory in the Arts Festival rather than to
their own sponsored events.

Considering the pride the Balinese have in their culture, and the adaptability
and dynism they have always demonstrated, this little hurdle can be
overcome. Trust the Balinese. They will eventually succeed to transform
their tradition into a modern, Balinese culture of their
own.
Yogyakarta: Events & Festivals
Yogyakarta Art Festival (Indonesian: Festival Kesenian Yogyakarta / FKY) is an annual arts
festivals held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.[1] FKY was established on July 7, 1989.[1] Previously, all
24 festivals were held near Fort Vredeburg.[1] Since 2013, FKY has relocated to the Ngasem
Market complex.[1]

Yogyakarta, being the most cultural city of Java, has an arts festival every year from around the
7th of June until around the 7th of July. A lot of shows and exhibitions take place. Loads of
galleries. During this month, the city bursts with arts.

Yogyakarta also has three Gerebeg festivals each year. They are held at the end of January, the
end of April and the beginning of November. During this festival, people walk to the mosque
west of the kraton, but in a big parade, with thousands of colours everywhere. The Indonesian
people dress up in traditional dress. While parading, they make music, sing and pray at the same
time. The event is crowded, but very fun to watch.