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Festival Calendar 2005-2006

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April 2005/06

DATE FESTIVAL
1/2006 April Fool's Day
9/2006 Palm Sunday
13/2006 Maundy Thursday
14/2006 Good Friday (Christian)
16/2006 Easter Day
14 Baisakhi (Sikh)
21 First Day of Ridvan (Baha'i)
21 Milad Al-Nabi Prophets Birthday
23 St. George's Day (Patron Saint of England)
24 Passover or Pesach (Jewish)

May 2005

DATE FESTIVAL
2 May Day
5 Ascension Day
8 VE Day
8 Mother's Day (USA)
15 Whit Sunday
22 Wesak (Buddha Day)
22 Trinity Sunday
26 Corpus Christi
29 Ascension of Baha'u'llah

June 2005

DATE FESTIVAL
12 Queen's Official Birthday (UK)
13 Shavout (Jewish)
16 Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev Ji (Sikh)
19 Father's Day (USA and UK)
21 1st Day of Summer
Longest Day
29 St. Peter and St. Paul (Roman Catholic)

July 2005

DATE FESTIVAL
1 Canada Day
4 Independence Day (USA)
7 Tanabata or Star Festival (Japan)
9 Martyrdom of Bab (Baha'i)
13 Bastille Day (France)

August 2005

DATE FESTIVAL
11 Chung Yuan (Ghost Festival) (Chinese)
13 Ulambana (Ancestor Day) (Chinese Buddhist) 
13-15 Bon (Japanese Festival of Souls)
15 Assumption (Roman Catholic)
19 Raksha Bandhan (Humanity Day)(Hindu)
31 Lailat-Ul-Isra' Wal Mi'raj (The Prophet's Night Journey to Jerusalem & Ascension) (Muslim) 
31 Paryushana - Parva (Svetambara & Digambara Sects - Jain) 

September 2005

DATE FESTIVAL
11 Padmasambhava Day (Buddhist)
11 Ethiopian New Year's Day (Rastafarian) 
18 Harvest Festival
19 Lailat - Ul - Bara'h (The Night of Forgiveness) (Muslim) 
20 Shubun No Hi (Higan) (Autumn Equinox) (Japanese) 
22 1st Day of Autumn
23 Native American Day (USA)
25 Grandparent's Day

October 2005

DATE FESTIVAL
4 Rosh Hashana (New Year's Day) (Jewish)
4 Ramadan (Muslim)
4 - 12 Navaratri / Durga Puja / Dusserah (Hindu) 
11 Thanksgiving Day (Canada)
13 Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) (Jewish)
18 Sukkot (Harvest Festival) (Jewish) 
19 Kathina Day (Buddhist) 
20 Anniversary of the Birth of the Bab (Baha'i) 
23 - 30 Inter Faith Week of Prayer for World Peace 
24 United Nations Day
25 Simchat Torah (Progressive - Jewish) 
26 Simchat Torah (Jewish) 
30 Lailat - Ul - Qadr (The Night of Power) (Muslim)
31 Halloween

November 2005

DATE FESTIVAL
1 Divali (Sikh)) 
1 All Saints' Day (All Hallows' originally All Martyrs') (Christian)
2 New Year (Hindu)(2062)
2 All Souls' Day (Christian) 
2 Anniversary of the Crowning of Haile Selassie 1 (Rastafarian) 
3 Eid - Ul - Fitr (Muslim)
12 Divali (Deepavali) (Hindu) 
12 Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Bahá (Baha'i) 
12 Anniversary of the Birth of Baha'u'llah (Baha'i)
13 Remembrance Sunday (UK National) 
15 Shichi-Go-San (Seven Five - Three) (Japanese) 
15 Birthday of Guru Nanak  (Sikh) 
16 Sangha Day (Buddhist)
24 Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur (1675) (Sikh) 
26 Day of the Covenant (Baha'i) 
27 Advent Sunday (Christian) 
30 St. Andrew's Day (Christian)

December 2005

DATE FESTIVAL
8 Bodhi Day (Buddhist) 
8 Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Christian) 
10 Human Rights Day
21 1st day of winter
Shortest day
24 Christmas Eve (Christian) 
25 Christmas Day (Christian)
26-1st January Kwanzaa (African-American)
26 Hanukah (Jewish)
26 Zartusht - No - Diso (Fasli - Zoroastrian)
31 Omisoka (Japanese) 

January 2006

DATE FESTIVAL
1 New Years Day
2 Holiday (Scotland)
5 Birthday of Guru Gobind Singh Ji (Sikh)
6 Epiphany
10 Eid Al-Addha (Islamic)
25 Burn's Night
29 Chinese New Year

February 2006

DATE FESTIVAL
6 Paranirvana Day (Buddhist)
9 Ashura (Islamic) (recognizing the creation)
12 Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (USA)
13 Shevat (Jewish)
14 Valentine's Day
20 President's Day (USA)
28 Shrove Tuesday

March 2006

DATE FESTIVAL
1 Ash Wednesday
1 St. David's Day (Patron Saint of Wales)
3 Al-Hijra (Islamic New Year)
5 Quadragesima (Christian)
13 Commonwealth day
14 Purim (Jewish)
14 Holi (Hindu)
17 St. Patrick's Day (Patron Saint of Ireland)
20 1st Day of Spring
21 Feast of Naw-Ruz (Baha'i)
26 Mothering Sunday (UK)

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