Living Statue Events
The World Championship of Living Statues is held annually at Arnhem in the Netherlands. In 2011, the festival ran from 28 to 29 August with around 300 000 visitors and 300 living statues (including amateurs and children).
The city of Espinho, Portugal has organized a living statue contest on the Sunday nearest to the 16th of June (the municipal holiday) since 1997.
The University of Business and Social Sciences in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina has hosted a National Contest of Living Statues since the year 2000.
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Famous quotes containing the words living, statue and/or events:
“Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 24:5.
Mysterious men to the women at Jesus’ tomb.
“The spire cranes. Its statue is an aviary.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)