... Ghost Festival in Hong Kong and the Greek Festival of Sydney. The article will first discuss what ethnic festival is. Secondly, explain the concept development by using Goldblatt's five "Ws" concepts (1997 cited in Allen, O'Tool, McDonnel and Harris 2005: 96). Lastly, the article addresses the main stakeholders in both events as well as what are they seeking for. Ethnic festivals are distinguished from other events such as Art or Musical events because the management of ethnic festivals in multicultural societies often involves strond partnerships between diverse organisations and interest groups deriving from different ethnic background. Ethnic festivals have their own unique characteristics. Firstly, they have common objectives of establishment which other events do. From the idea of Spiropoulos, Gargalianos & Sotiriadou (2006:172), ethnic festivals are usually focus on the politics of cultural representation, the notions of identity and cultural poetics of representation community formation and customs preservation. Secondly, some ...

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