Celebrations, Events & Extravaganzas capture live activities and, in the case of the masked ball, borrow from the Italian masquerade and carnival culture, a prominent part of Venetian masquerade balls that emerged from the improvisational Italian theater of the 16th-century, known as Commedia dell'arte. Each image is an opportunity to tell a story, factual or fictitious, that transcends life where each viewer becomes an author who extends the narrative.