- Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 October 2018 14:08
The 37th Annual Carpatho-Rusyn Celebration will take place on Sunday, October 28, 2018 at St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church Social Hall, 201 East Main Street in Uniontown, PA. The event will be held from 12:00 noon – 6:00 PM.
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The day will feature the heritage of the Carpatho-Rusyns who come from the very heart of Europe, along the northern and southern slopes of the Carpathian Mountains. Their homeland, known as “Carpathian-Rus”, is situated at the crossroads where the borders of Slovakia, Ukraine, and Poland meet.
The event will highlight various aspects of Carpatho-Rusyn culture. Mouth-watering foods such as pirohi, holubki, halushki, kolbasi and sauerkraut, nalesniki (potato pancakes), soup, and more. There will also be a variety of baked goods including kolachi (apricot, nut, poppyseed, and cottage cheese rolls), pagach, breads,cookies, candy, and much, much more.
The Carpatho-Rusyn Celebration will be a blending of spiritual and cultural traditions of the Rusyn people. A Divine Liturgy Saturday, October 27 @ 5:30 p.m. will include a blessing for the event and festival workers. There will be a Divine Liturgy on Sunday, October 28 at 9:00 a.m.
There will be on-going entertainment which includes music, folk dancing and singing, demonstrations, videos, displays and presentations. A folk musical group will perform folk, cardas, polka music at 12:30 and 4:00 p.m. Slavjane Folk Ensemble dancers and musicians from Holy Ghost Byzantine Catholic Church, McKees Rocks, PA, will perform at 2:00 p.m. with their lively and energetic songs and dances.
Information on various topics such as Carpatho-Rusyn family customs-both secular and religious, genealogy and tracing cultural roots, and recent trips to the Carpathian homeland will be available. Members of the Carpatho-Rusyn Society will also be on hand to answer
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questions about genealogy as well as having a Rusyn Marketplace with books, CD’s,DVD’S, and folk art items available.
There will be a fun filled children’s activities room where children can experience the Rusyn culture through storytelling, and making folk craft projects such as decorated eggs, bookmarks, decorating cookies, coloring sheets, and more. This year’s activities will focus on folk arts, especially egg art. There will also be demonstrations of pysanky(egg decorating), folk embroidery, bobbin lace making, and woodburning, which are traditional folk crafts of the Carpatho-Rusyns as well as iconography.
Tables of crafts for sale will include contemporary crafts as well as traditional Carpatho-Rusyn folk crafts. The contemporary crafts include secular and religious items, fall decorations, Christmas items, and much more. There is no admission charge. Handicapped accessible. For information call 724-438-6027 M-F 9AM-3PM (leave message).
