High school culture festival called Bunkasai

High-school culture festival or Bunkasai

The school-culture festival will be held tomorrow. At a high-school culture-festival, students usually cook Japanese traditional food or internationally well known dishes. This is a time where all students of a class have to work together in preparing food and drinks. Tasks have to be divided: a group which practices cooking, a group which buys food supplies, a group which makes fliers and posters to promote their food stall, a group which sets up the tents outside. The Japanese-high-school culture-festival is not only about making food, some classes choose to do other activities. One activity might be to make a performance like a dance or a short play. Students will practice for weeks to remember and perfect their dance steps. Another class activity might be to turn their classroom into a haunted house or an amusement hall, some might think up some games to play. whatever they choose, they always take several weeks to prepare.

The school-festival is usually called a "Bunkasai" but this means a Culture-festival. However, culture does not have much to do with the whole festival. Japanese schools used to have a real culture festival, but these days anything goes.