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Patrick Boylan wrote
When I was Director of Arts & Museums for the very "multi-cultural" City
of Leicester in central England (about 45% of the 270,000 population were
from first or second generation immigrant families from around 80
countries of origin in all five continents) we started the "holiday"
displays and street lights around the beginning of October (preparation
for the Hindu festival of Diwali). The street and other decorations
(e.g. in schools and the museums) continued (with a few appropriate
modifications as to current symbols) through Halloween, Guy Fawkes Night,
Chanuka, Scandanavian St Nicholas & Christingle festivals, the Roman and
Protestant Churches' Christmas, New Year, the Orthodox Christmas and then
ran breathlessly on to Ramadan and the festival of Eid, taking in a
couple of Sikh Guru anniversaries on the way. (In years with a late
Ramadan and and early Easter or Passover the not stop festivals might be
even run on with hardly a break into April!
Patrick, whatever happened to the Moon Festival, Chinese New Year and the
Dragon Boat races?
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