1) Bacchanalia 2) Bazaar 3) Carnival 4) Dionysia 5) Easter 6) Eisteddfod 7) Feast 8) Festivity 9) Fete 10) Gala 11) Kwanzaa 12) Saturnalia 13) Show 1) Ball 2) Cavalcade 3) CBC Television show 4) Celebration 5) Dancing in the streets 6) Fair 7) Feast day 8) Festivity 9) Fête 10) Film event 11) Film or folk event 12) French word used in English 13) Gala 14) Jamaican cuisine 15) Joyful celebration 16) Mardi gras 17) Musical happening at newport 18) Pageant 
A festival or gala is an event ordinarily staged by a community, centering on and celebrating some unique aspect of that community and its traditions, often marked as a local or national holiday, mela or eid. Festivals often serve to meet specific purposes, especially in regard to commemoration and/or thanksgiving. They are associated with celebra...[Church of England] A Festival is a type of observance in the Churches of the Anglican Communion, considered to be less significant than a Principal Feast or Principal Holy Day, but more significant than a Lesser Festival or Commemoration. In Common Worship each Festival is provided with a collect and an indication of liturgical colour. ==F...[newspaper] Festival is a newspaper published in Albania. ...
• (a.) Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.
A special event
Fes'ti·val adjective [ Old French festival , from Latin festivum festive jollity, from festivus festive, gay. See Festive .] Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful. « I cannot woo in festival terms.» Shak....
A special occasion during the church year.
[n] - a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration 2. [n] - an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place)
fete noun an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place); `a drama festival`