2007 Calendar of Events

JANUARY

1^st    New Year's Day – Public Holiday

8^th    Three Kings Day – Family celebrations with the traditional “Galette des Rois”

(Epiphany cake), served at all celebrations

24^th – Feb 4^th            

17th Annual St. Barths Music Festival - Jazz, chamber music, opera, modern

dance concerts in Gustavia and Lorient

FEBRUARY

16^th   Carnival School Parade – Costumed parade of the schools along Gustavia’s Streets

20^th    Mardi Gras – Costumed parade along Gustavia’s streets

21^st   Ash Wednesday – Burning of the Vaval (king of Carnival) at Shell Beach

MARCH

29^th – April 1^st St. Barths Bucket – A three day invitational meg-yachts race

APRIL

8^th – 9^th Easter Weekend – Public and Religious Holiday

25^th – 30^th   St. Barths Film Festival – A 5 day presentation of Caribbean Films &

Filmmakers - AJOE / Lorient

MAY

1^st     Labour Day – Public Holiday

1^st      Annual shooting competition proposed by Les Frances Archers

4^th – 12^th   Theater Festival of St. Barthelemy proposed by SB Artists

8^th    Armistice Day (World War II) – Public and Religious Holiday

17^th   Ascension Day – Public and Religious Holiday

27^th   Pentecost – Religious Holiday

JUNE

3^rd   Mother’s Day – Family celebrations

5^th – 12^th    Coral Reef Week – Conferences and exhibitions with the team of the Marine Park

17^th     Father’s Day – Family celebrations

JULY

7^th      Fête de l’Anse des Cayes et Anse des Lézards (Anse des Cayes and Anse

des Lézards Parishes Festival) – Music, sports, shows and ball games

12^th – 14^th   St. Barths Open Fishing Tournament – Deep sea fishing competition

organized by Ocean Must

14^th  Bastille Day - French National Public Holiday

28^th – 29^th   Fête des Quartiers du Nord (North Parishes Festival) – Music, games, sport

contests, regattas, entertainment and fireworks at Flamands Beach

AUGUST

11^th – 12^th  Fête des Quartiers du Vent (Windward Parishes Festival) – Dragnet fishing

contests, dances, sport contests in the village of Lorient.

14^th – 15^th Pitea Day – Commemorates 1977 City hood of St. Barths & Pitea (city of Sweden) – Sailing Regattas on Beach of Public

15^th  Assumption Day – Religious Holiday

18^th – 19^th Fête de Gustavia (Festival of Gustavia) – Dragnet fishing contests, pinochle

and domino competitions, regattas, dances, parties, fireworks, live music in Gustavia

24^th  Fête de St. Barthelemy (Festival of St. Barthelemy) – Festival of the island’s

Patron Saint – Church bells ring, flags unfurl, boats are blessed; Regatta,

procession with blessing of the sea, wreath-laying ceremony at War Memorial,

wining and dining, fireworks, live music, public ball

25^th Feast of St. Louis in Village of Corossol with fishing contests, regatta, games, fireworks, live music

SEPTEMBER

2^nd   Senior's Day - Special events and merriment for older citizens by island children

NOVEMBER

1^st All Saints Day – Religious Day – From dusk on, cemeteries decorated with

hundreds of lighted candles

11^th Armistice Day - Public Holiday commemorating the end of World War I (1918)

DECEMBER

24^th – 25^th Christmas –  Midnight Mass / Réveillon on Christmas Eve; gifts/feasting on

Christmas Day, a Religious and Public Holiday

31^st   New Year’s Eve – Live music from 9:00 PM at Quai General de Gaulle in

Gustavia, fireworks at midnight, entertainment in some restaurants

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