Festival of the Fools

Festival of the Fools! Festival of the Fools in which is celebrated in different culture as different names originally celebrated by most cultures on January first which was first coined in Great Britain in 1861 celebrates inclusive art of busking and street performance with foolish fun for all ages devoted to community engagement and making arts accessible to everyone three full days of acrobats, circus arts quirky comedy, and diverse music In the Middle Ages a mock pope, or a Lord of Misrule, was elected ecclesiastical rituals were parodied low and high officials swapped places could have originated from the Kalends and probably Christian adaptation of Saturnalia In the thirteenth century they became burlesque of Christian morality and worship despite repeated prohibitions and penalties imposed by Council of Basel in 1431 these feasts didn't disappear until the sixteenth century often dressed in street clothing, including women's clothing, masks, garlands of greenery, or even in fools’ costumes priests and clerks wearing masks and dressed as woman, panders, or minstrels Exalting fools and foolishness Praising and toasting every fool Mocking fools and foolishness Feasting and drinking like royalty!