School Festival
Culture Festival, Arts Festival
noun
Remember how 文化 means "culture?" Well add festival to it and you end up with a culture festival! These happen all the time at Japanese schools, so sometimes they're called school festivals too.
This is a jukugo word that uses the on'yomi readings of the kanji. You've learned all of these readings already, good for you!
文化祭をする
to hold a school festival
文化祭を楽しむ
to enjoy a school festival
文化祭を中止する
to suspend a school festival
そっちの学校の文化祭っていつ？
When is your school's culture festival?
文化祭の練習、何時にする？
What time should we start the school festival rehearsal?
うちの文化祭に誰か有名人が来るらしいよ！
It seems like a famous person is going to come to our school's culture festival!