Festival is an event that involve the wholecommunity to celebrate a unique aspect ofthe community. Such as, the religion of thecommunity, the food, the music, a certainvegetables and so on.

No one is sure of how festivals started, butfestival is an history of any certainoccasions.

Festival can be celebrated just withfamilies or with the community.

Festival doesn't need a definition butneeds people opinion of it.In my opinion festival is when communitygather round to celebrate a history orother occasions.

There are variety of festivals such as: •Arts festival•Beer festival•Comedy festival•Japanese Cultural festival•Esala Perahera festival•Film festival•Fire festival•Folk festival•Food festival•Literary festival•Mela Festival•Music festival•Peanut Festival•Religious festival•Renaissance festival•Rock festival•Science festival•Sindhi festivals•Storytelling festival•Theatre festival•Wine festivals•Winter festivals

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomatina

The most common festival in Spain iscalled La Tomatina. It is a food festivalthat is held every year on the lastWednesday of august, in the town ofbunol in the Valencia region of Spain. Itis known that Tens of metric tons ofover-ripe tomatoes are thrown in thestreets in exactly one hour. The festivalare open to only men and women. Thefestival is a week long that includesmusic, parades, dancing and of coursefireworks. It is known that on the nightbefore the festival begins, the partakerof the festival will compete in a paellacooking contest. The tradition for this isthat women are to wear all white andmen are to wear no t-shirt.

The festival started in the 1945 but wasonly officially recognised in the 1952.The festival is known to be in honour ofthe town's patron saints, St. LouisBertrand (San Luis Bertràn) and theMare de Déu dels Desemparats (Motherof God of the Defenceless), a title of thevirgin Mary. No one is sure of how thefestival originated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovebox_Festival

Lovebox began when GrooveArmada began it as a residentclub night at London Venue ineast 2002. lovebox expanded asthe year progress and known tobecome a festival.

Lovebox might have started to be a dance festival but later other musical genre such as indie, rock, world and pop, even circus performers , cabarets and fringe act was included. Lovebox is recognized to be a creative led event and the stages was well built and dressed. Lovebox has developed a reputation for being an “urban-based-yet-rural-feeling, multi-dimensional festival - without the camping or the endless tramping about.” lovebox is set in a public place meaning that all ages are included, children's, adults, friends and family.

The Lovebox Festival has won a selection of awards. In 2006, it won Virtual Festivals Party People Award for Dance Music. In 2008 Lovebox won the UK festival award for Best Medium-Sized Festival .

Festival are sponsored in variety of ways. Some festivalsare sponsored by the community such as the -SPAINTOMATO FESTIVAL-. This type of funding's shows howthe festival itself is part of that community. Othersfestival are sponsored by companies such as -DeutscheBankIs sponsored by Artfund, COS,Simmons&Simmons and much more.