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Caribbean Festivals and Holidays

A Caribbean festival year you can actually keep, at home or abroad: dates, leave and budget, then Divali, Eid, Phagwa, Christmas parang, Easter, Emancipation and Independence kept well.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Caribbean Festivals and Holidays, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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Pillar

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Area

50

Projects

200

Starter tasks

🌴 Caribbean Life & Diaspora

Caribbean Festivals and Holidays

Keeping Caribbean festivals and holidays: Emancipation and Independence days, Divali, Eid, Phagwa, Christmas parang and Easter traditions, at home or abroad.

  1. Family festival year calendar
  2. Moving festival dates and how they are set
  3. Annual leave plan for the festival year
  4. Festival year budget and sinking fund
  5. Family festival traditions record
  6. Festival supplies box and storage
  7. Local sources for festival supplies abroad
  8. Where each festival is kept near you
  9. Guest etiquette across faiths and festivals
  10. Monthly festival look-ahead
  11. January reset of the festival year
  12. Festival greetings list and calls home
  13. Christmas countdown from October
  14. Divali season routine
  15. Ramadan and Eid ul Fitr season routine
  16. August Emancipation and Independence season
  17. Festival photo and memory archive
  18. After-festival notes for next year
  19. Festival sharing list for neighbours and colleagues
  20. Emancipation history across the region
  21. National symbols, anthem and pledge of home
  22. Indian Arrival Day and indentureship commemorations
  23. Understanding Hosay in St James and Cedros
  24. Phagwa, chowtal and a Holi celebration
  25. Learning parang for the Christmas season
  26. Guyanese Easter kite making
  27. Clay deya making and Divali lighting displays
  28. Spiritual Baptist Liberation Day and its history
  29. Choosing which home holidays to keep abroad
  30. Deya and candle fire safety at home
  31. Fireworks, noise and pets on festival nights
  32. Festival plan for a mixed-faith household
  33. Asking your workplace to recognise Caribbean holidays
  34. Festival clothes for Divali, Eid and national days
  35. Independence Day lime at home
  36. Divali night with neighbours
  37. Eid open house
  38. Christmas parang night at home
  39. Old Year's Night and New Year's Day
  40. Easter weekend traditions from Good Friday to Monday
  41. Emancipation Day observance and procession
  42. First festival season away from family
  43. Bringing festivals to elders at home or in care
  44. First festivals after a death in the family
  45. Introducing a partner to a Caribbean Christmas
  46. Keeping festivals when you work shifts
  47. Community Independence Day flag raising
  48. Running a public Divali or Eid community event
  49. Starting a parang group abroad
  50. Festival memories oral history from elders

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Family festival year calendar

Most households keep festivals from memory, so Phagwa arrives before anyone has bought abir and Independence Day passes with a message sent at night. One calendar holding every festival your family keeps, from both the home country and the country you live in, turns the year into something you can plan rather than catch up on. Writing it now means every later project in this area has dates to work from.

First tasks

  • List every festival and holiday the household keeps in one sitting
  • Look up this year's dates for each, including both countries' public holidays
  • Add them to a shared family calendar with reminders a month ahead
  • Ask each relative which festival they want to lead this year

Moving festival dates and how they are set

Divali, Eid, Phagwa, Hosay and Easter all move each year because they follow lunar, Hindu or church calendars, and Eid can shift by a day depending on the moon sighting your masjid follows. Knowing how each date is set, and who announces it, stops the scramble when a holiday lands a week earlier than last year. It also explains why your cousins back home sometimes celebrate a day apart from you.

First tasks

  • Mark which festivals in your calendar move from year to year
  • Ask your mandir, masjid or church how they fix each date
  • Write down the expected dates for the next three years
  • Agree as a household which moon sighting you follow for Eid

Annual leave plan for the festival year

Abroad, Divali, Eid ul Fitr, Phagwa and Emancipation Day are ordinary working days, so keeping them means using leave on purpose. Mapping your festival days against your leave allowance in January lets you request the days early, before colleagues book the same weeks, and decide which festivals get a full day and which get an evening.

First tasks

  • Check your leave balance and any religious or cultural leave policy
  • Mark each festival as full day, half day or evening only
  • Submit leave requests for the full days before the busy weeks fill
  • Book leave for the next quarter's festival days @recurring(quarterly)

Make it yours.

Install Caribbean Festivals and Holidays, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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