Festive events:
Festive events mark the religious, cultural and agricultural calendar and
social life within communities of Iraqi people, and take many different
forms.
These include festivals, carnivals, ceremonies, rituals and celebrations
accompanying the most significant religious and cultural events in the cycle
of life, such as birth, marriage and death.
Festivities in all their variety encompass wide-ranging aspects and forms of
intangible cultural heritage. They are very often an important forum for the
expression of shared values and traditions of a community or society as a
whole, and may include performance arts (music, dance and song) and oral
traditions. Material objects and accessories that contribute to festivals
also accompany the exercise of cultural skills in making garments or masks
in the traditional manner, such as ritual dresses for religious ceremonies.
The religious events such as “ Mihyeh”,“ Majeeneh”,” khetmeh” The learning
of the Qura’an. Or The “Muharam ceremonials” have a strong historical
association with the place where they occur and are rooted in very ancient
cultural traditions.
Festive events encompass rich and diverse elements of both intangible and
tangible cultural heritage. They play a principal role in most societies as
expressions of cultural identity through the collective values and beliefs
which they represent, and the diversity of their manifestations. As such
these events in their many forms should be safeguarded and encouraged.
