Twenty-Second Annual Slavic Festival Set For April 1, 2
March 6, 2000
University Park, Pa. -- The 22nd Annual Penn State Slavic Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, April 1, and from 12:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, April 2, in the ballroom of the HUB-Robeson Building.
The Festival showcases cultural achievements of Pennsylvania's Slavic-American ethnic groups, featuring exhibits, demonstrations of folk art, and live performing groups. There will be book and artifact books, an ethnic snack bar, and special events for children on Saturday morning from 10 a.m. to noon, including a balalaika and accordion duo and a ventriloquist. Participation of the audience will be encouraged.
The Saturday afternoon program from 1 p.m. — 4 p.m. will feature the Tsar Lazar Male chorus of Pittsburgh, the Slavjane Folk Ensemble from McKees Rocks and Kazka, a Ukrainian dance group. The Saturday evening program will feature the Penn State International Dance Ensemble as well as music for listening and dancing as well as a polka and waltz contest.
The Sunday program will feature classical music with Galla and Dan, Dance music by Zima, the Slavcja vocal group, and David Barro, folk singer. The Festival will end with a traditional Closing Ceremony.
There will be special museum exhibits and demonstrations of various folk arts throughout the Festival with Peggy and Nick Miskovsky of State College, who will demonstrate Ukrainian Easter egg decoration. Exhibits of Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Polish, Croatian, and Russian folk arts will be on display throughout the Festival.
Several commercial vendors and a souvenir stand will sell books, music, artifacts, and ethnic clothing items.
The Ethnic Snack Bar will serve hot foods on Saturday from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. and again from 5 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. Foods featured will include soups, sandwiches and entrees. Hot foods will also be available on Sunday from 12:30 until 3:30 p.m. Both hot and cold beverages and pastries will be available throughout the Festival.
The Penn State Department of Germanic and Slavic languages sponsors the Festival. Lorraine Kapitanoff is the coordinator of the Festival, Anna Mary Smally is the snack bar manager, and the Festival secretary is J.T. Letowski. There is no admission charge, and programs are free, however donations will be gratefully accepted to help continue this Festival.
The preliminary program of Festival events will be available at 311 Burrowes Building University Park or by calling the Festival coordinator at (814) 238-4616.
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