Penn State Intercom......April 19 , 2001

Folk dance, art to be celebrated
at annual Slavic Folk Festival

The 23rd Annual Penn State Slavic Folk Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, April 21, and from 12:30-6:30 p.m. Sunday, April 22, in the ballroom of the HUB-Robeson Center on the University Park campus.

The festival showcases cultural achievements of Pennsylvania's Slavic-American ethnic groups, featuring exhibits, demonstrations of folk art and live performances. Special events for children, including a babalaika and accordion duo and a ventriloquist, will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday.

The Sunday program will feature classical music with Galla and Dan, dance music by Zima and David Barro, folk singer.

Museum exhibits and demonstrations of various folk arts will be a part of the festival including Peggy and Nick Miskovsky's demonstration of Ukrainian Easter egg decoration. Exhibits of Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Polish, Croatian and Russian folk arts also will be on display.

The ethnic snack bar will serve soups, sandwiches and entrees from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5-7:30 p.m. Saturday and from 12:30 until 3:30 p.m. Sunday. Hot and cold beverages and pastries also will be available.

The festival is sponsored by the Penn State Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages. The event is free to the public, but donations will be accepted.

The preliminary program of festival events will be available at 311 Burrowes Building on the University Park campus or by calling Lorraine Kapitanoff, festival coordinator at (814) 238-6416.

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