Category: Cultural Diversity

May 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 day […]

This year, April showers us with some important holidays. Without a doubt, Easter dominates the month. It’s 14 days later than it was last year, though if you celebrate Orthodox Easter you will have to wait another week. The reasons for the shifting dates are covered below. Other notable festivals this month are the Solar […]

Put a spring in the step of your April video conferences by adding a background celebrating the key holidays and festivals during the month. April 1: Cypriot National Day Also known as ‘EOKA Day‘, this holiday commemorates the start of the insurgence against the British in 1955 April 4: Senegalese National Day Celebrates independence and […]

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 21st; and Balinese New Year, and the Hindu festivals of Maha Shivaratri and Holi also bring color and life to this month. Month […]

March 3: Bulgarian Liberation Day This holiday is Bulgaria’s national day and honours the Bulgarian volunteers who, during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 with the assistance of Russian and Romanian forces, liberated Bulgaria from almost 500 years of Ottoman rule. March 8: International Women’s Day International Women’s Day was first established at the 1910 International […]

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 1st, which means that February hosts the prestigious Lunar New Year holidays that will dominate the start 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. Martin Luther King Jr Day in The USA

January is ushered in with New Year’s Day, which is celebrated with a public holiday for 90% of the world’s population, making it the most widely observed holiday of the year. January is notable for the lack of national days; clearly January wasn’t a good time to ask your colonial powers for your independence. Indeed […]

After the diversity of religious festivals and notable national days during the previous few months, the focus of December is undeniably one holiday – Christmas. This month we take a deeper look at the day when over two billion people (over a third of the world’s population) will celebrate the birth of Christ. Month info: The […]