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Category: Friends and Family Events


Highlighting events, holidays, and awareness days celebrating, created for or about our closest relationships.

The Family and Friends category includes events that focus on the beautiful mess you were born into (aka family), parenting, and the circle of people you choose to populate your life (aka friends, acquaintances, and co-workers)

Joygerm Day, Ntl: January 8

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Created in in 1981 by Joan White, Joygerm Day is a play on words (Joy + Germ). The holidays are over and it's time to 'infect the world with kindness, courtesy, civility, encouragement, respect and respo...

January

Midwife's / Women's Day (GR): January 8

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The Greeks know how to make a celebration fun. Midwife's or Women's Day in Greece is held annually. Women of childbearing age get out of the house, dine and pamper and leave caring and cleaning to men for...

January

Sunday Supper Day, Ntl: January 9

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What began as a single Sunday in January has expanded to the whole month. The Sunday Supper Movement seeks to bring families together for dinner every Sunday during the month of January. The second Sunday...

January

Puddle Splash Your Friends Day: January 11

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Pulling a puddle splash on a friend or a stranger is a incorrigible prank, unless you're doing it on this day! Puddle Splash Your Friends Day is a day for mischief, just like April's Fools (but with les...

January

Puppy, Hug Your Puppy Day, Ntl.: January 2...

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A day set aside to demonstrate your love and affection for dogs. This even first ran in 2019.

January

Compliment Day, Ntl.: January 24*

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Saint Dwynwen's Day (UK): January 25

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Saint Dwynwen is the Welsh saint of love and friendship. He died in 460AD and was one of several saints who lived a secluded life in the famous island Abby at Llanddwyn Island. For the Welsh people, this...

January

Spouse's Day: January 26

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Spouse's Day in the United States is set aside to show gratitude and appreciation for the man or woman who stands beside you through thick and thin.

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Toad Hollow Day of Encouragement: January...

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Family Literacy Day (CA): January 27

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Family Literacy Day in Canada focuses on parents and their role in improving reading and writing skills within their family. By reading to children and engaging in fun literary activities, parents keep th...

January

Decade of Family Farming, Intl.: 2019-2028

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The UN Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 aims to shed new light on what it means to be a family farmer in a rapidly changing world. It highlights more than ever before the important role they play in era...

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International Decade of Healthy Ageing: 20...

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The years 2021-2030 are the International Decade on Healthy Aging. <br><br>Health is central to our experience of older age and the opportunities that aging brings. Initiatives undertaken as part of the D...

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Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month (CA):...

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Child-centered Divorce Awareness Month, In...

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Children Impacted by a Parent's Cancer Mon...

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First run in 2000, Children Impacted by a Parent's Cancer Month seeks to support children and families where one or more parent is undergoing cancer treatment, living in remission or has died. The impact...

January

Conscience Month, Ntl.: January

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Family Fit Lifestyle Month: January

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Life, Celebration of Life Month: January

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Celebration of Life Month came about as a way to create an upbeat mood after the excitement of the holidays. January can be a difficult month for many people. In the Northern Hemisphere it is dark, cold...

January

Sunday Supper Month, Ntl: January

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What began as a single Sunday in January has expanded to the whole month. The Sunday Supper Movement seeks to bring families together for dinner every Sunday during the month of January. The second Sunday...

January

New Year's Resolution Week: January 1-4

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