Category: Cultural Diversity

During June there are several national days and notable holidays and festivals. Why not brighten up your video calls by using our virtual backgrounds to highlight these special days? You’ll find some instructions on how to use these images in Zoom and Microsoft Teams at the bottom of the page. June 1st – Children’s Day […]

In the Northern Hemisphere, June is a summer month when individual vacations start to take precedence over wondering when the next public holiday. However there are still some important and diverse festivals and holidays taking place. June also features the important Catholic festival of Corpus Christi. Month info: Probably the name June is derived from the latin word ‘iuvenis‘ which means young, but it is also linked to the goddess […]

May always gets off a strong start with one of the biggest secular holidays of the year taking place on May 1st – International Workers’ Day. This holiday can trace it roots back to European pagan fire festivals celebrating the return of the sun at the end of winter. Nowadays however, any red on May […]

This year, April showers us with some important holidays. Without a doubt, Easter dominates the month. This year, Easter falls at the start of the month, on Sunday April 5th, while Orthodox Easter arrives a week later. The reasons for the shifting dates are covered below. Other notable festivals this month are the Solar New […]

March is a month of rebirth and renewal as spring starts to push back winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Over 300 million people will mark Spring with Persian New Year on March 20th and the Hindu festival of Holi also brings color and life to this month. March also sees the observation of the Islamic […]

Black History Month got its start 100 years ago, in 1926, when Dr. Carter G. Woodson, an African American, promoted Negro History Week in February. In 1915, Harvard historian Carter G. Woodson and minister Jesse E. Moorland founded what is today known as the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in […]

Whether or not February is a busy month for holidays and festivals rather depends on the phases of the Moon. For instance, this year, the second new moon after December 21st takes place on February 17th, which means that February hosts the prestigious Lunar New Year holidays that will dominate the middle of February this […]

In 1986, the Third Monday in January became a Federal Holiday in the USA to honor the life of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. To mark this day we have collected some of his most famous quotes.