Summertime festivals around the world

From Boston Globe

Photographers capture communities gathering at events organized to celebrate a variety of cultural observances in 2018.

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Regional dancers perform at the Guelaguetza festival on July 30 in Zaachila, Oaxaca, Mexico. The Guelaguetza is a festival held once a year which gathers music, dance, gastronomy and handicrafts of different ethnic groups and tribes of the state of Oaxaca. (Patricia Castellanos/AFP/Getty Images)

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Revellers participate in the summer solstice gathering at Stonehenge, Salisbury, Britain on June 21. The annual festival attracts hundreds of people to the 5,000-year-old stone circle to mark the longest day in the northern hemisphere. Sunrise was at 4:52 a.m. local time and was celebrated by dancing, music, and ritualistic events around the stones. (Will Oliver/EPA/Shutterstock)

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Some people prepare to catch offerings thrown by Tengger tribe people into the crater of Bromo volcano to in Probolinggo, East Java province, on June 30, as part of Yadnya Kasada festival which falls on the 14th day of the Kasada month based on the traditional Hindu lunar calendar. (Juni Kriswanto/AFP/Getty Images)

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People participate in the events paying tribute to Mary Magdalene in Xico, Veracruz state, Mexico, during the Mary Magdalene Festivities on July 21. (Miguel Victoria/EPA/Shutterstock)

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A sheep jumps over a path at the annual sheep festival near the Gemmipass, between Kandersteg and Leukerbad, Switzerland on July 29. (Jean-Christophe Bott/KEYSTONE via AP)

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A participant rides a carousel at the women’s-only Petrolettes motorcycle festival on July 21 in Milmersdorf, near Berlin in Germany. Around 300 women from across Europe come together for the third edition of festival. Women connect their passion for high speed motorbikes with music, movies, races, yoga etc. The festival that goes for three days was initiated by a group of female motorbike riders called The Curves. (Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

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Horsemen ride in a choreographed cavalry charge in a fantasia during the 14th Tan-Tan Moussem Berber festival on July 8 in the western Moroccan desert town of Tan-Tan. The festival, which is recognized by UNESCO as a “Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity”, is organized every year to promote local traditions and brings together nomadic tribes from northern Africa. (Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images )

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A woman of the Turkana tribe takes a rest in the shade among other tribesduring the 11th Marsabit Lake Turkana Culture Festival in Loiyangalani near Lake Turkana, northern Kenya, on June 28. The annual three-day festival features the cultural traditions of 14 ethnic tribes in Marsabit county to promote tourism and build better relationship between tribes. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images )

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A biker competes in the speeding-in-mud race of the 19th Sirok Bike Week in Sirok, northeast of Budapest, Hungary, July 28. (Peter Komka/MTI via AP)

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A man holds his handmade Tezutsu hanabi (handheld fireworks) dedicated to the Yoshida Shrine as a part of a Shinto ritual, on the eve of the Toyohashi Gion festival, in Toyohashi, central Japan. Every year, each male member of the shrine makes his own set of fireworks from bamboo covered by straw ropes with a loaded gun and metal powder, in a tradition that has been practiced for more than 350 years, according to an old document at the shrine. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images)

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People watch a band on the main stage at Bestival, at Lulworth Castle near East Lulworth on Aug. 3 in Dorset, England. Described by the organizers as a boutique festival, Bestival was started in 2004 by DJ Rob da Bank, on the Isle of Wight. In 2018 it moved to the Lulworth Estate, which also hosts its family-friendly sister event, Camp Bestival. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

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Efi Katz, The Mona Liza character, preforms during the 9th Living Statues International Festival in Rehovot, Israel on July 3. (Ariel Schalit/Associated Press)

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