Religious · Goa · Varies

local village feasts

Small parish and village feast days observed throughout the year, central to Goa's Catholic community calendar.

Art, craft & performance around local village feasts

local village feasts sits inside Goa's wider living culture — not an isolated event, but one date on a calendar that also holds these traditions.

Art & craft

Dance & performance

local village feasts belongs to

Goa

More festivals in Goa

Goa · March

Shigmo

Goa's spring festival, with vibrant street processions, folk dance and colour that predates and parallels Holi.

Goa · February/March

Carnival

A four-day pre-Lenten street festival with parades, floats and music — a Goan-Portuguese tradition unique in India.

Goa · June

Sao Joao

A monsoon festival where young men jump into wells and water bodies wearing floral crowns to celebrate St John the Baptist.

Every festival here is a door into the state it comes from.