Special Event

Festival as an important feature of the Balinese life occurs on fixed dates according to the Balinese Calendar. The 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 Festivals have been held by the Provincial Government. Such as: the Annual Art Festival usually takes 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 holidays are follows:

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, fruit, cakes and flowers, on the right side of every house entrance. People are attired in their finest clothes and jewel this day.

KUNINGAN: This holiday takes place ten days after Galungan, bringing the holiday period to a closing time. On this day, special ritual ceremony held for the Ancestral spirits.

NYEPI: This holiday is the Balinese's New Year called I Çaka 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 daylong. Great purification and sacrificial rites were held the day before so as to exorcise evil spirits from every corner of the compound.

SARASWATI: This day is devoted to God's Manifestation as Saraswati Goddess, the beautiful Goddess of Knowledge, Art and literature. On this day, books of knowledge, manuscripts and the Wedas are blessed and special offerings are made for them.

PAGERWESI: The name literally means' iron fence', on which day ceremonies and prayers are held for strong mental and spiritual defense in welcoming the Galungan holiday.