The Lent International Summer Festival is a major arts festival held for approximately two weeks at the end of June annually in Maribor, Slovenia. Organized by the Narodni dom Cultural Center every year the festival attracts theatre, opera, ballet performers, classical, modern, and jazz musicians and dancers from all over the world as well as visitors. There are also mimes, magicians, and acrobats performing during the festival.
There are several sub festivals including the Otroški Lent (Children's Lent) which is organized to cater for the interests of children and the Lent International Jazz Festival which has attracted some of the world's most famous names including Ray Charles, B.B. King and Jose Feliciano, violinists such as Stéphane Grappelli and noted Slovene performers such as Vlado Kreslin and Zoran Predin.[1][2]
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The Lent International Summer Festival is a major arts festival held for approximately two weeks at the end of June annually in Maribor, Slovenia. Organized...
Lent (Latin: Quadragesima, 'Fortieth') is the solemn Christian religious observance in the liturgical year commemorating the 40 days Jesus spent fasting...
the work. There were other performances, typically for the French mid-Lentfestival of Mi-Carême. All those performances were semi-private, except for one...
and children's festivals take place in Slovenia each year, including the music festivals Ljubljana Summer Festival and LentFestival, the stand-up comedy...
theater, film, festivals takes place in Slovenia each year, including Ljubljana Summer Festival, LentFestival. Ljubljana Jazz Festival Archived 2012-07-23...
music festival, Piešťany Košice Music Spring Festival, Košice Pohoda, Trenčín Metaldays, Tolmin LentFestival, Maribor Benicàssim Bilbao Live Festival, Bilbao...
Great Lent, or the Great Fast (Greek: Μεγάλη Τεσσαρακοστή or Μεγάλη Νηστεία, meaning "Great 40 Days", and "Great Fast", respectively), is the most important...
(try) to give up for Lent". The Independent. Retrieved 17 March 2019. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent - the festival where people give up a...
having eaten up all the rich foods before Lent" in order to prepare for the coming season of repentance. The festival season varies from city to city; Mardis...
Kingdom, Ireland and some Commonwealth countries on the fourth Sunday in Lent. On Mothering Sunday, Christians have historically visited their mother church—the...
Ljubljana Summer Festival and LentFestival. Historically, among the most popular music festivals was the Slovenska popevka festival. Between 1981 and...
white or purple. It blooms during the Buddhist Lentfestival which is the reason why it is called Buddhist Lent Flower.[citation needed] In Buddha’s lifetime...
internationally. Tak Bat Theworohana Festival: The tradition of offering food to monks during the Buddhist LentFestival (around late October to early November...
glossed as Rains Retreat. While Vassa is sometimes casually called "Buddhist Lent", others object to this terminology. For the duration of Vassa, monastics...
wars. Nong Khai has become a popular destination during the Buddhist Lentfestival when mysterious balls of light, or Naga fireballs, rise from the Mekong...
years, Nong Khai has become a popular destination during the Buddhist Lentfestival when mysterious balls of light, or Naga fireballs, rise from the Mekong...
gimnazija Maribor). Every June, the two-week LentFestival (named after the waterfront district called Lent) is held, with hundreds of musical, theatrical...
during Shrovetide as to reduce waste. This festival is known for being a time of great indulgence before Lent (which is a time stressing the opposite),...
mythology in its ritual. It is celebrated during the last week before Great Lent; that is, the eighth week before Eastern Orthodox Pascha. The date of Maslenitsa...
associated with the Jack-O-Lent may also indicate Celtic pagan origins and may be closely related to the Imbolc festival. The popularity of Cornish Hurling...
for Two as One. Lent performed at Download Festival, Rock Am Ring, Pinkpop, Warped Tour, KISS headliner, among other tours and festivals with the band....
or Pancake Day) is the final day of Shrovetide, marking the end of pre-Lent. Lent begins the following day with Ash Wednesday. Shrove Tuesday is observed...
Shrovetide is the Christian liturgical period prior to the start of Lent that begins on Shrove Saturday and ends at the close of Shrove Tuesday. The season...
[non-primary source needed] In the same year, van Lent initiated and organised the first Unnoticed Art Festival in Haarlem, The Netherlands,[non-primary source...
Lent began. People handed out eggs as special treats for children to enjoy prior to the Lenten fast; people then abstained from eggs throughout Lent and...
ISBN 9780199677337. Ferguson, John (March 1982). "The Christian Year: Fourth Sunday in Lent, Mothering Sunday". The Expository Times. 93 (6): 174–176. doi:10.1177/001452468209300607...
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