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Festivals

The civic calendar, not a costume party.

When a city empties toward hometowns, or fills for light, water, or a god. What a guest can learn by sitting still.

• Songkran

  Blessing first, family table, a street you enter only by consent.

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• Tết

  Homecoming, an ancestor tray, a city that thins on purpose.

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• Fiesta

  A patron, a parish table, a street that belongs to the town.

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