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The Shapeshifter Festival is a six day "week" in which communities will hold large festivals, each day with a different major festivity. 

On the first day, there will usually be a kickoff ceremony and performance, and each varies from place to place, but they often have a speech at some point. Then everyone just parties, but like it's a backyard barbecue (a surprising number of shapeshifter cultures love barbecues). 

On the second day, there are lots of different plays and such that often tell stories from different shapeshifter cultures or at least parts of their history. Everyone loves these, even if they've seen some of the shows many times over. 

On the third day, shapeshifter activist groups will hold events to help with shapeshifter rights, whether it be for those in their own town, or those in other nations. They will do things to raise awareness for certain issues as well, whether it be shapeshifter discrimination or the destruction of native shapeshifter lands (such as wolf-folk habitats, which have been in danger recently). 

On the fourth day, shapeshifters will set up stalls showing off different parts of their cultures as well as promote their personal businesses if they own any. It's like the shops at a Renaissance fair, but it's for shapeshifter themed stuff with shapeshifter owned businesses. 

The fifth day is one of the best days for everyone: the food fest, which is a bit like the fourth day, but can involve anyone and is solely focused on food. It's amazing, and in the evening, there's a scavanger hunt! You know, for fun. 

And finally, the last day of the festival, there is a giant parade, known for their colorful costumes, beautiful music, and elaborate dance performances. These parades outwardly appear somewhat similar to the real world carnivals in Rio, but they have different purposes. 

Many of the costumes are reminiscent of different shapeshifter, but with a more abstract form. All these performers are actual shapeshifters who are dressing in their own alternate forms, though some will actually come in their alternate forms wearing outfits that exaggerate their features. Some will occasionally shift back and forth between forms depending on the dance and whether or not they have multiple forms. 

These parades are generally designed to show the beauty of shapeshifters and shapeshifter culture, and be a form of solidarity. One of the other most major features of this is the fact that everyone attending the parade will dress up like something or someone they are not (without culturally appropriating anything, obviously), so basically a Halloween costume. 

That is the final day of the Shapeshifter Festival, not counting the other festivities that certain specific locations have, like the city of Von, which has a mascarade ball in the palace, or villages on the outskirts of Ever After, which have basically Halloween, or some cities in Aldwenhurts which, instead of a parade, have children and teens run across the rooftops at night, singing songs and playing (before they all start howling at the moon at midnight).