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Festival as an important feature of the Balinese life occurs on fixed dates according to the Balinese calendar. Instead of temple festivals take place mostly in every 210 days or every six months.

There are annual cycle and every six months celebrations of holidays, life-cycle ceremonies of a Balinese person since the time inside the mother’s womb followed in stages up until marriage and the most important of the Balinese ritual is that includes funeral rites and cremation.

To maintain and preserve every aspect of the Balinese’s cultural life, Annual Festival have been held by the Provincial Government, such as the Annual Bali Art Festival usually take place in every Saturday middle of June to Saturday middle of July with exhibitions and performances of various kinds of artworks and cultural achievements, Kite Festival.

Some of the events and festivals are:  

Nyepi
This holiday is the Balinese’s New Year called Icaka New Year, the day of total silence throughout the island. No activity is done, no traffic at all on the roads, no fire may be lit and no amusement held for the day long. Great purification and sacrificial rites were held the day before so as to exorcise evil spirits from every corner of the compound.

Galungan 
This is the most important holiday symbolizing the victory of Virtue ( Dharma) upon Evil (Adharma). The holiday is specialized by the fitting of “Penjor”, a tall bamboo pole splendidly decorated with woven young coconut leaves, fruits, cakes and flower, on the right side of every house entrance. People are attired in their finest clothes and jewels this day.