Social events

thumb|upright=1.35|right|Sport in childhood. [[Association football, shown above, is a team sport which also provides opportunities to nurture physical fitness and social interaction skills.]] thumb|The 2005 London Marathon: running races, in their various specialties, represent the oldest and most traditional form of sport.

thumb|The Hindu festival of [[Holi at Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah, United States.]] thumb|Musikfest, an eleven-day outdoor music festival held annually each August in [[Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is the largest free music festival in the United States, drawing over 1.3 million attendees.]] alt=Sinulog Festival Contingent 2024-03|thumb|Sinulog|Sinulog Festival is the one entitled of the “Grandest Festival of the [[Philippines” and which estimated over 4 million attendees. ]] thumb|right| Buddhism|Buddhist festival of [[Magha Puja celebration held in Thailand.]] A festival i

thumb|300px|Hip, Hip, Hurrah! (1888) by [[Peder Severin Krøyer, a painting portraying an artists' party in 19th-century Denmark]] thumb|300px| A September 1945 street party in Selborne Road, [[Margate, celebrating victory in the Second World War]] A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion. A party will often feature food and beverages, and generally conversation, music, dancing, or other forms of entertainment.

thumb|150px|Ceremonial at court during Prinsjesdag A ceremony (, ) is a unified ritualistic event with a purpose, usually consisting of a number of artistic components, performed on a special occasion.

A happening is a performance, event, or situation art, usually as performance art. The term was first used by Allan Kaprow in 1959 to describe a range of art-related events. <!-- ==Background==

thumb|Artist Aleksandr Moravov's Tampere conference of 1905|"Tampere Conference of 1905", depicting the first conference of the [[Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in Tampere and notably, the first-time meeting of Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin.]] A conference is a meeting, often lasting a few days, which is organized on a particular subject, or to bring together people who have a common interest. Conferences can be used as a form of group decision-making, although discussion, not always decisions, is the primary purpose of conferences. The term derives from the word confer.

meeting of a group of individuals and/or companies in a certain field

group of people gathered to discuss a topic in front of an audience

In general, spectacle refers to an event that is memorable for the appearance it creates. Derived in Middle English from c. 1340 as "specially prepared or arranged display" it was borrowed from Old French spectacle, itself a reflection of the Latin spectaculum "a show" from spectare "to view, watch" frequentative form of specere "to look at." The word spectacle has also been a term of art in theater dating from the 17th century in English drama.

event created for publicity

Informal social event for sceptics since 1999

A hootenanny is a freewheeling, improvisatory musical event in the United States, often incorporating audience members in performances. It is particularly associated with folk music.

Owanbe (sometimes wrongly spelt Owambe) is a Yoruba term for extravagant parties thrown by the Yoruba people in Yorubaland and the diaspora. The term is derived from the Yoruba expression "Ó wà ní ibẹ̀", directly translating to mean; The place where it is at, but more nuancedly referring to a party or event (often elaborate), where there is a lot of celebration going on. Coinage of the term is attributed to the band of Jùjú musician Tunde Nightingale active from the 1940s. The word soon became synonymous with his brand of Juju music (Owanbe sound) as well as club and party life in urban Wester

dance held in the summer or autumn in the afternoon

event held at an educational institution where its doors are open to the family of students to allow people to look around the institution and learn about it