[custom_adv] Kurdistan’s largest-ever spring color festival starts at 11:00 a.m. Friday in the in Erbil. 15,000 tickets have already been sold for the two-day festival organized to celebrate the Kurdish new year. Tickets cost 10,000 Iraqi dinars. Once purchased, buyers will be given a box which includes a Spring Festival T-shirt, a bag of color powder to throw, a wrist band and a pamphlet of instructions written in Kurdish and English. Children under the age of eight can enter for free. [custom_adv] The Kurdistan color festival included Kurdish and western dancing and live music. The festival goers danced, sang, laughed while jumping up and down. The festival runs from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. It includes primarily a color festival, activities for kids and food stalls."We held the first [color] festival last year, one that was very successful. So this year we wanted to expand it even further," one organizer said, referring to other activities for the festival goers such as music and entertainment. [custom_adv] Tickets cost 10,000 Iraqi dinars. Once purchased, buyers will be given a box which includes a Spring Festival T-shirt, a bag of color powder to throw, a wrist band and a pamphlet of instructions written in Kurdish and English. Children under the age of eight can enter for free. [custom_adv] Attendees were provided with red, white, green and yellow colored powders matching the four colors of the Kurdistan flag which were thrown on each other in fun, which vibrantly shown on some white T-shirts or dresses. The theme of the festival is “peace and coexistence,” with organizers expecting people to attend the festival from across the Kurdistan Region, other parts of Iraq, and neighboring countries. [custom_adv] Kurdistan’s largest-ever spring color festival starts at 11:00 a.m. Friday in the in Erbil. 15,000 tickets have already been sold for the two-day festival organized to celebrate the Kurdish new year. [custom_adv] The Kurdistan color festival included Kurdish and western dancing and live music. The festival goers danced, sang, laughed while jumping up and down. The festival runs from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. It includes primarily a color festival, activities for kids and food stalls."We held the first [color] festival last year, one that was very successful. So this year we wanted to expand it even further," one organizer said, referring to other activities for the festival goers such as music and entertainment. [custom_adv] Tickets cost 10,000 Iraqi dinars. Once purchased, buyers will be given a box which includes a Spring Festival T-shirt, a bag of color powder to throw, a wrist band and a pamphlet of instructions written in Kurdish and English. Children under the age of eight can enter for free.
