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Wearing heavy wooden masks with long curved horns and intricate designs resembling demons, witches and skeletons, dancers launched into a danza de los diablos (dance of the devils) in Shute Park on ...
Thousands of spectators gathered in Benin on Sunday for the country’s annual Mask Festival, a vibrant cultural event ...
As the vibrant rhythms of traditional drums fill the air, Oscar Ue-bi's eyes gleam behind his intricately carved Zaouli mask.
A traditional mask festival in Porto Novo, Benin, showcases the country’s unique face masks and full-body costumes, that are ...
Novo, blends sacred rituals and vivid performances to spotlight Vodun traditions and promotes the capital as a cultural hub.
A person in costumes performs in a mask parade during the Porto Novo Mask Festival in Porto Novo, Benin, Aug. 3, 2025. The ...
The Cultural Coalition's 4th annual Mask Alive Festival will highlight different cultural and performance groups in the Valley that use masks with a one-day event full of music, dance and puppetry ...
The 2018 festival mascot is a conjoined Korean and Thai dance mask named Janus, after the Roman god of time, gates and beginnings. "In 2017," Kim said, "Turkey was the co-host.
Tucker Carlson proposed organizing a "Burning Mask" festival on Wednesday after learning that this year's Burning Man festival had been cancelled amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The mask rule goes into effect Saturday, on the third day of the monster four-day festival in Grant Park, which has been a Windy City summer staple for over a decade, and draws more than 100,000 ...