College of technical management

Business administration department

A seminar about
celebrities(festivity) in united
kingdom
PREPARED BY: ZHALA YOUSEF
TEACHER:MISS BNAR GHAFUR
 what about celebrate:
A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some
characteristic aspect of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked
as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of
globalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion
and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many
festivals are associated with harvest time. The festive have a lot of type just like: food
and drink festivity ,art ,and religion festivity.
 1-25 January-burn’s
night(Scotland)
Burn’s night is a celebration of
Robbie Burns, a celebrated Scottish poet.
In Scotland people have a special dinner
on Burns’ Night. Men wear kilts and
people listen to traditional bagpipe music,
they dance, read Burn’s poetry and share
a meal of haggis (a traditional Scottish
dish of sheep heart, liver and lungs) with
neeps and tatties (turnips and potatoes).
 2-February – Shrove Tuesday or
‘Pancake Day’
Shrove Tuesday, more commonly known
as Pancake Day, falls the day before Lent
begins. Lent is the traditional Christian
period of fasting which begins 40 days
before Easter and ends on Easter
Sunday. Nowadays, not many Christians
fast, instead preferring to give
something up for Lent such as chocolate.
Because fasting meant that lots of food
would spoil during this period,
traditionally people would use up their
eggs, milk and sugar by making
pancakes. Nowadays, even if people are
not fasting, many people still make and
eat pancakes on this day. Some people
enjoy sweet topping such as sugar and
lemon or Nutella. Other people prefer
savoury
pancakes.
3-March to April – Easter
easter is celebrated in Christian countries to celebrate the
resurrection of Jesus Christ (where he is believed to have
come back from the dead). We celebrate by going to
Church, giving Easter eggs and going on Easter egg hunts.
Eggs symbolize new life which is related to Jesus coming
back from the dead.
4-{June – Summer solstice}
The Summer solstice is the
longest day and shortest
night of the year. Developed
from a pagan tradition,
many people gather at the
ancient monument of
Stonehenge in Wiltshire.
People stand inside the
monument facing northeast,
toward a stone outside the
circle called the Heel Stone
to watch the sun rise.
5-June – The Queen’s Official Birthday:
The Queen’s real birthday is on the 21st of April however
it has been a tradition since 1748 for the state to
celebrate the king or queen’s birthday in June. This is
because in June there is more likely to be nicer weather,
so the Queen can celebrate her birthday with civilians in
a more comfortable climate. A military parade known as
Trooping the Colour is held in London and is attended by
the Royal Family.
6- 5th November – Bonfire Night:
In Britain, Bonfire Night is associated with the
tradition of celebrating Guy Fawkes’ failed
attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament on
5th November 1605. It is an annual event
dedicated to bonfires, fireworks and celebrations.
Different traditions celebrate Bonfire Night on
different days. Some of the most popular
instances include Great Britain’s Guy Fawkes
Night, which is also celebrated in some
Commonwealth countries. Throughout the UK
there are various bonfires and firework displays.
7-25th December – Christmas Day:
Christmas is an annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ and a
widely observed cultural holiday, celebrated generally on 25th December by
nearly a billion people around the world. Christmas Day is celebrated as a
major festival and public holiday in countries around the world, including
many whose populations are mostly non-Christian. In some non-Christian
countries, periods of former colonial rule introduced the celebration (e.g.
Hong Kong), while in others, Christian minorities or foreign cultural influences
have led whole populations to observe the holiday.Christmas markets have
made their way to the UK from European countries such as Belgium and
Germany and are now held in many UK cities. There are a popular place to
visit with friends and family in the
run up to Christmas.