Museumsuferfest 2010, Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main waved a farewell to the summer of 2010, by organizing another grand event - Museumsuferfest.
Celebrations continued for three days, from Friday to Sunday. Planned without a minute’s pause, the program was enough to fill all fifty-two pages of the brochure.
Frankfurt celebrations always successfully engage and satisfy all their visitors. The Museumsuferfest 2010 was not an exception. People of any ages and lifestyles could find something interesting to enjoy themselves with. There were city’s numerous museums welcoming visitors of their exhibitions until late night; There were concerts held at both banks of the river Main where the audience could also join in to dance; Stalls all the around the place offered food and drinks as well as souvenirs from around the world. And despite the cold rainy weather, the streets were full of people.
After the Parade of Cultures, the Museumsuferfest was one more opportunity for the international residents of the city to swirl and rejoice in the diversity of their cultures.
During the festival Frankfurt hosted the annual book exhibition with Argentina as a focus country. Moreover, the land associated with football, tango and Gauchos served as the leitmotif for the whole Museumsuferfest this year.  Argentinean tango show, followed by the fireworks, was the concluding performance of the celebration.

Parade der Kulturen 2010, Frankfurt – Part 2

One of the climaxes of the parade was the large Bolivian dance group. As they entered the ......... square jumping under the beats of the tribal drums, the audience was hypnotized  by their energy and colours! Bolivia presented the ancient folk dance - Tobas.
The people of Toba used to  perform it on religious parties dressed in wilderness costumes. Nowadays it is danced at different times and in very long streets.

Parade der Kulturen 2010, Frankfurt – Part 1

Representatives of one-hundred-and-seven different nations living in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, cheered through the streets of the city on June 26th to express their cultural identity and offer a magnificent show of colours, costumes, music, dance.  The capital of Hessen hosted its seventh annual Parade of Cultures.

Fasching Carnival in Frankfurt am Main - February, 2010

If you are an elegant respectful gentleman who happened to be on a business trip in Germany at the end of January until the mid-February, do not be surprised if on one ice-cold snowy Thursday a strangely dressed woman of a ‘Balzac Age’ runs up at you screaming. Beware! Even though you might manage to read out a jolly smile through her heavily smeared make-up, check if she is holding a pair of sharp scissors in her hand. And if she is… run!

‘Die Wieberfastnacht’ or the ‘Women’s Carnival Day’ is a Thursday a week before the long Christian Lent. On this day ladies become untamed and demonstrate the disobedience by cutting off neckties from men (tie is then a symbol) and giving kisses to the scared male.
The Women’s Carnival Day marks the beginning of the 6-day climax period of the ‘Karneval’ season which starts on 11th November at 11.11 a.m. every year.

International Pillow Fight Day, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

April 17, 2010. The following took place between 4 pm and 5 pm. A crowd of young German and international citizens silently gather in Hauptwache square in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Among the calmly here and there wandering youth, one notices a certain degree of similarity: the same weapon, of different dimensions, colours and level of hardness. But it is one and the same with each and every of them. The smiles and looks they throw each other and the passers by without uttering a single word should not be underestimated.