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August is shaping up to be stellar. For three nights across France, les nuits des étoiles will encourage contemplation of the night sky. There’s terrestrial as well as celestial fun on the docket: food festivals, state fairs, street festivals, and sunflowers; vacations, new films, beach reads, and rosé. There’ll even be football games! From wild abandon in the desert to a genteel art fair in Japan – from classic cars to tennis stars – there’s potential joy all around.
It’s the last full month of summer – if you haven’t already, it’s high time to find your summer love.
It’s a big month for us – we’re celebrating our second birthday here at Dandelion Chandelier on August 1st. One year older, one year wiser. We can’t wait to make a wish.
Of course, we’re not the only ones having a party. The glamorous annual Hamptons charity events continue this month: Paddle & Party for Pink to raise money for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation is on August 4 in Sag Harbor, and the Bow Wow Meow Ball to benefit the east End Animal Rescue Fund is August 18th.
August 1 is Swiss National Day, which commemorates the founding of the Swiss Confederation in 1291. Expect fireworks, speeches, and special bread rolls with a small Swiss flag on top. August 9 is National Day in Singapore, commemorating independence from Malaysia in 1965; there’ll be parades, dances and a spectacular fireworks show over Marina Bay in the evening.
Stargazers of the world will be out in force this month. For three nights, August 3-5, les nuits des étoiles, (“night of stars”) will be held all over France; over 300 events will invite both amateurs and certified astronomers to contemplate the planet Mars, “the little sister of the Earth.”
The summer night will also be alight on August 16th in Nyoigatake, near Kyoto, at the Gozan Okuribi (Daimonji Bonfires) – five giant bonfires are lit on mountains surrounding the city at dusk, and burn for about half an hour as a form of prayer and seeing off the souls of the departed for the Okuribi people.
Gozan no Okuribi (Daimonji Bonfire) outside Kyoto Japan
Despite it being high season for summer vacations, there are a few elite gatherings that le beau monde will be stopping in on this month. Luxurious rebellion unfolds at Burning Man in Nevada – Aug 26 – Sept 3 – at which attendees build a temporary metropolis, Black Rock City, before sending it all up in flames. This year’s theme is “I, Robot,” and this year’s temporary Temple is called “Galaxia.” Created by Arthur Mamou-Mani, the name stems from the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. The hosts write that “Galaxia celebrates hope in the unknown, stars, planets, black holes, the movement uniting us in swirling galaxies of dreams.”
Galexia, the Burning Man “Temple” for 2018
In addition to all of that, August 1st is National Girlfriends Day, the day on which we are to take the time to show our baes, BFFs and besties how much we love them; August 25th is National Kiss and Make Up Day (a potential do-over for those who blew it on the 1st).
August 1 is National Girlfriends Day
August 26th is Women’s Equality Day – the day women achieved the right to vote in the US in 1920 and a chance to celebrate women leaders in every field of endeavor. August 26th is also National Dog Day, a day “for people to recognize the importance of dogs and how they impact their lives on a daily basis.”
It’s literally the dog days of summer, people – stay chill.
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