Forgotten Festivals

Agricultural banquets, seasonal observances, and historic memory rites that are fading from active practice — documented before they disappear.

Boun Bang Fai: Laos’ Rocket Festival to Summon Rain

Boun Bang Fai rocket festival is one of Laos’ most distinctive traditional celebrations, held each year before the rice planting

For fifteen days each year, Cambodian pagodas fill before dawn with families carrying rice, offering it not just for merit

Tet Vietnamese New Year is Vietnam’s most important annual celebration, bringing millions of people home for family reunions, ancestor veneration,

At dawn, on a specific night determined by an ancient lunar calendar, thousands of people descend into the crater of

Once a year, two ancient gamelan ensembles are wheeled out of a royal palace courtyard and played continuously for a