Every June since 1991 the Golowan Festival
(which includes Mazey Day) has been held in the town. Before the 1930s Penzance
was the scene of large May Day celebrations, which saw local children making
and using tin 'May horns' and 'May whistles'; a small revival of these
traditions took place on 4 May 2008. The feast day of Corpus Christi was also
celebrated in Penzance. The Corpus Christi fair has been a long-standing event
in the town, and is currently undergoing attempts to revive it in a more
traditional format.
Allantide, a Cornish version of
