EDI Observances Calendar 2021-22

September 2021 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2 3 4 Gandhi Jayanti, Hindu.

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 International Day of Rosh Hashanah World Suicide Rosh Hashanah ends* Ganesh Chaturthi – Pryushan Parva, Jain. Charity begins* (sundown) – Prevention Day International Literacy Hindu Racial Justice Sunday - Jewish. Rosh Hashanah Day Samvatsari – Jain Christian Nativity of Virgin Mary – Christian 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 The Triumph of the International Day of Yom Kippur* Cross – Christian Democracy Yom Kippur* 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Anant Chaturdashi – Sukkot starts – Jewish* International Day of Bi day of Visibility Birthday of Guru Ram Jain Peace Autumn Equinox Das - Sikh World Alzheimer's Day Mabon/Ostera - Wicca/Pagan 26 27 28 29 30 Month-long events: Sickle Cell Rosh Hashanah International Right To Michaelmas - Christian (Sundown) -Jewish Know Day World Heart Day Awareness Month; Cancer Sukkot ends* Simchat Torah - Jewish Shemini Atzeret ends - Awareness Month; World Meskel- Ethiopian Jewish Alzheimer's Month; World Orthodox Simchat Torah - Jewish Shemini Atzeret starts- Dementia Awareness Month; Jewish Childhood Cancer Awareness Month; September National Inclusion Week

October 2021

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1 2 International Day of International Day of Older Persons Non- Violence

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 St Francis' Day - Christian Navaratri 2021 - Hindu Blessing of the Animals - Christian 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 World Mental Health National Coming Out World Sight Day St Luke's Day - World Food Day Day Day Dussehra/Dasara - Christian International Day of the Hindu Girl Child 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 International Day for the Eradication of Poverty Mawlid al-Nabi - Islam Mawlid al-Nabi - Islam

24 25 26 27 28 29 30 United Nations Day Bank Holiday - ROI Intersex Awareness Day World Stroke Day

31 Month-long events: Black History Month (UK); Breast Cancer Awareness Month; Lupus Samhain - Beltane - Wicca/Pagan BST Ends Awareness Month; Global Diversity Awareness Month; ADHD Awareness Month; Dyslexia Reformation Day – Protestant Christian Awareness Week (7-12 Oct); National Hate Crime Week (9-16 Oct) All Hallows' Eve - Christian Halloween

November 2021

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1 2 3 4 5 6 All Saints' Day - All Soul's Day – Christian Diwali - Deepavali - Guy Fawkes Birth of the Báb - Baha'i Christian Coronation of Emperor Hindu, Sikh, Jain Night Haile Selassie I - Rastafari Bandi Chhor Divas - Guajarati New Sikh Year - Jain

7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Birth of the Báb - Baha'i Intersex Day of Dedication of the Lateran Armistice Day - World Kindness Day Solidarity Basilica - Catholic Interfaith Christian 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Remembrance Sunday World International Day for International Student's International Transgender Day of Diabetes Day Tolerance Day Men's Day Remembrance Universal Children's Day 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Presentation of the Theotokos Martyrdom of Guru Tegh International Day for the Ascension of Abdu'l- - Orthodox Christian Bahadur - Sikh Elimination of violence Bahá - Baha'i Feast of Christ the King - against Women Christian Day of the Covenant - Baha'i Thanksgiving - US 28 29 30 Month-long events: Lung Cancer Awareness month; Pancreatic Liturgical Calendar begins First day of St Andrew's Day - Chanukah – Jewish Chanukah - Jewish Christian Cancer Awareness Month; Cancer Action Month; COPD Awareness Nativity Fast begins Month; Men's Health Awareness Month; Islamophobia Awareness - Orthodox Christian Month; Interfaith Week (8-15 Nov); Anti-Bullying Week (15-19 Nov); Advent Sunday – Christian Ascension of Abdu'l- Bahá - Transgender Awareness Week (13-19 Nov) Baha'i

December 2021

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1 2 3 4 World AIDS Day International Day for the International Day of Abolition of Slavery persons with Disabilities

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Chanukah ends- Jewish Human Rights Day Feast of the Immaculate International anti- St Nicholas' Day - Conception – Christian corruption Day Christian Rohatsu (Bodhi Day) - Buddhist

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Feast Day of our Lady International Migrants Day Guadalupe- Catholic Christian

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Winter Solstice International Human December Solstice. Christmas Eve - Christian Holy Innocents - Christian Solidarity Day Yule begins - Litha- Christmas Day - Christian Wicca/Pagan Yule - Christian

26 27 28 29 30 31 Month-long Feast of the Holy Family - Bank Holiday - Bank Holiday Catholic Christian Eng,Wal,Scot,NI,ROI Eng,Wal,Scot,NI,ROI New Year's Eve/ events: Universal Boxing Day Hogmanay Watch Night - Zarathosht Diso - Christian Month for Zoroastrian Human Rights; St Stephen's Day - Christian Spiritual Literacy Month; Decembeard.

January 2022

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1 New Year's Day Gantan-sai (New Year) - Shinto 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Bank Holiday - World Braille Day Guru Gobind Singh Ji's Epiphany – Christian Feast of the Nativity - Eng,Wal,Scot,NI,ROI Birthday - Sikh Feast of the Theophany Orthodox Christian Twelfth Night - -Orthodox Christian Christian Saint Hillary's Day - Christian

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Baptism of the Lord Seijin no hi (Coming of Maghi - Sikh New Year - Jesus - Christian Age Day) - Shinto Orthodox Christian Makar Sankranti - Hindu

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Dr. Martin Luther King Week of Prayer for Timkat - Ethiopian Saint Agnes' Day - Jr Day Christian Unity - Orthodox Christian Christian World Religion Day Tu BiShvat -Jewish Christian Tu BiShvat -Jewish Mahayana New Year - Buddhist

23 24 25 26 27 28 29

Robert Burns Night International Holocaust Remembrance Day

30 31 Month-long events: Cervical Health Awareness Month; Alcohol Concern's Dry January

February 2022

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1 2 3 4 5 Lunar New Year* - Candlemass – Christian. Saint Blaise's Day - World Cancer Day Vasant Panchami - Confucian, Daoist, Christian Hindu Buddhist Setsubun-sai - Shinto Imbolc - Wicca/Pagan

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Zacchaeus Sunday - Our Lady of Lourdes - Orthodox Christian Christian Time to Talk

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Triodion Begins - Saint Valentine's Day - Nirvana Day - Buddhist, Magha Puja (Sangha Orthodox Christian Christian Jain Day) - Buddhist International Childhood Cancer Day 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 World Day of Social International Mother Justice Language Day 27 28 Month-long events: LGBT History Month; National Heart Month; LGBT Adoption and Meatfare Sunday - Maha Shivaratri, Hindu. Orthodox Christian Fostering Week (5-11 Feb)

March 2022

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Saturday Friday 1 2 3 4 5 Maha Shivaratri - Hindu Ash Wednesday University Mental Health Day Saint David's Day - Christian - Christian Shrove Tuesday - Christian Self-Injury Awareness Day Lailat al Miraj – Islam Zero Discrimination Day 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Cheesefare Sunday Great Lent Begins - International Women's Day - Orthodox Clean Monday - Christian Orthodox Christian 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Nanakshahi (New Purim - Jewish Saint Patrick's Day - Hola Mohalla - Sikh Holi - Hindu Year) - Sikh Christian Lailat al Bara'ah - Islam Saint Joseph's Day - Christian 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Spring Equinox Naw-Rúz (New Year) - World TB Day Annunciation to the Theotokos Norooz (New Year) Baha'i - Orthodox - International Day for World Water Day Christian Persian/Zoroastrian the Elimination of Annunciation of the Virgin Mothering Sunday Racial Mary - Christian Discrimination International day of World Down's Remembrance of the victims Syndrome Day of slavery and the transatlantic Slave Trade 27 28 29 30 31 Month-long events: Women’s History BST Begins Kohordad Sal (Birth Transgender Day of of Prophet Visibility Month; Prostate Cancer Awareness Zarathustra) - Birthday of Guru Angad Month; Ovarian Cancer Awareness Zoroastrian Dev - Sikh Month

April 2022

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1 2 April Fool's Day World Autism Awareness Birthday of Guru Tegh Day Bahadur - Sikh

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Ramadan Begins - Islam International Romani Day

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Palm Sunday – Christian Birth of the Khalsa Mahavir Jayanti – Jain Lazarus Saturday - Orthodox Rama Navami - Hindu (Vaisakhi) - Sikh Maundy Thursday - Pesach (Passover) Christian Christian - Jewish* Hanuman Jayanti - Hindu Lent ends Good Friday - Christian Holy Saturday - Christian Holy Friday - Orthodox Christian Bank Holiday GB,IRL

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Pascha (Easter) - Orthodox Easter Monday - Christian First Day of Ridvan - Baha'i Earth Day. St George's Day - Christian Christian Bank holiday Stephen Lawrence Day. Palm Sunday - Orthodox Christian Easter Sunday - Christian

24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Yom HaShoah (Holocaust World Day for Health and Ninth Day of Ridvan - Saint James the Great's Day Remembrance Day) - Safety at Work Baha'i - Orthodox Christian Jewish Month-long events: Stress Awareness Month; Bowel Cancer Awareness Month; Parkinson’s Awareness Month

May 2022 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Beltane - Wicca/Pagan Early May Bank Holiday Eid al Fitr (Tentative date)* - Yom Ha'Atzmaut - Judaism Vesak - Buddha Day - (UK) Islam Buddhist Twelfth Day of Ridvan - Akshaya Tritiya - Hindu, Baha'i Jain Yom HaZikaron

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 World Red Cross and Red International Nurses Day Crescent Day

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 International Day of International day against Lag B’Omer - Jewish World day for Cultural Families Homophobia, Diversity for Dialogue and Transphobia and Biphobia Development

22 23 24 25 26 27 28 International day for Declaration of the Bab Ascension of Jesus - Birthday of Guru Amar Biological Diversity - Baha'i Christian Das Sikh Declaration of the Báb - Baha'i Ascension of Baha'u'llah - Baha'i 29 30 31 Month-long events: Action on Stroke Month; Scottish Mental Health Yom Yerushalayim, (Jerusalem Day) – Jewish Arts Festival; National Walking Month; Mental Health Awareness Week International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers

June 2022

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1 2 3 4 International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Pentecost – Christian St. Columba of Shavuot begins- Jewish Iona - Celtic World Environment Day Christian

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Trinity Sunday – Race Unity Day - Baha'i World Blood Donor Day World Elder Abuse Martyrdom of World day to Combat Christian Awareness Day Guru Arjan Dev – Desertification and Drought Pulse Day of Sikh Remembrance Corpus Christi - Christian 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Father's Day World Refugee Day World Humanist Day Windrush Day International Feast of the Sacred Heart – Birthday of Guru Summer Solstice Women in Christian Hargobind Litha - Wicca/Pagan Engineering Day Nativity of Saint John the Baptist - Christian 26 27 28 29 30 Month-long events: Refugee Festival Stonewall Anniversary Feast of Saints Peter and Paul Scotland; Motor Neurone Disease Awareness Month; Stillbirth & Neonatal Death Awareness Month; Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month; Pride month

July 2022

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 Canada Day

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 US Independence Day Birthday of Guru Har Waqf al Arafa - Islam Eid ul-Adha begins* - Krishnan Islam 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Martyrdom of the Báb - World Population Day Asalha Puja (Dharma International Non-Binary Saint Vladimir the Baha'i Day) Buddhist People's Day Great's Day - Orthodox Eid al Adha ends Christian World Youth Skills Day

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 World Day for Birthday of Emperor International Justice Nelson Mandela Haile Selassie - International Day Rastafari 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Pioneer Day - Mormon International Day of Christian Friendship Saint James the Great's Muharram/Islamic New Day - Christian Year - Islam 31 Month-long events: Sarcoma Awareness Month; International Women with Alopecia Month; Scams Awareness

August 2022

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lughnassad (Lammas) Transfiguration of the - Wicca/Neo Pagan Lord - Orthodox Christian

7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Tish'a B'av - Jewish Ashura (Tentative date) - International Day of the Raksha Bandhan International Youth Day Islam World's Indigenous - Hindu People

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Assumption of Blessed Krishna Janmashtami Virgin Mary - Catholic – Hindu Christian World Humanitarian Day Dormition of the Theotokos - Orthodox Christian 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition 28 29 30 31 Month-long events: World Breastfeeding Week. Summer Bank Holiday Ganesh Chaturthi (England and Wales) National Grief - Hindu Beheading of St. John Awareness Day the Baptist - Christian * ‘work restricted’ dates