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SUMMARY OF THE SPRING ISSUE
Volume 9, No. 1, Spring 2001
Slovak
Heritage Live
A Newsletter of the
Slovak Heritage and Cultural Society of British Columbia
published four times a year
Spring issue was published in early
March 2001 and it was mailed to 1500 recipients world wide.
FROM THE EDITOR
As
of next issue since it costs now CAD$1.60 to mail one newsletter to
Slovakia, we will be sending our newsletter to Slovakia only to members
with paid subscription as we simply can’t afford the luxury of sending
newsletters to Slovakia for free anymore. So most of the Slovak recipients
have been deleted from our mailing list as well as all the nonpaying
members in North America and the World with memberships expired in 1998
and this is your last issue if your membership expired in 1999. If your
membership expired in year 2000 and you like to continue getting your
newsletter, then I strongly urge you to renew as soon as possible since
the summer issue will be your last as we will delete all members with
their memberships expired in 2000...
FROM THE MAIL BAG
Read the correspondence received from our members...
MY
WINTER 2000 TRIP
TO SLOVAKIA
October
25, last year I boarded KLM flight to Amsterdam and went on to Munich. The
flight was fantastic, as one would expect from KLM the Royal Dutch
Airlines. Picked up almost brand new Opel Astra with power windows, air
conditioning and central locking system from Budget Rentals at the
airport. I arrived in evening and decided to drive straight to Bratislava.
I arrived shortly after midnight, but it was now October 27. Early morning
I went to the post office to mail the fall and winter issues of Slovak
Heritage Live newsletter to our members in Slovakia. I have noticed that
the mail costs have increased in Slovakia recently.
Later
on that morning I traveled to Bojnice to attend evening Grand Ball
celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Bojnice’s Castle
museum at Bojnice’s Castle in the Hunady
Ball Room. On
the way to Bojnice I made stop at Lehota near Nitra and visited my friend
and Instrument maker Drahos
Dalos. Drahos is making whistles, fujaras and bag pipes for many years and
recently his instruments are being sold in Switzerland, Germany and
Austria by a musical instrument mail order company. From Drahos I learned
that there will be a second year of Fujara Players...
DEZO
HOFMANN from BANSKA STIAVNICA
was the first photographer of BEATLES
Tuesday night at Hlavne nemerstie (Main Square) in the medieval part of
town, right under the old City Hall, where during Christmas time they have
Christmas market and a giant Christmas three, there was a celebration
honoring the famous photographer Dezo Hofmann whose photo exhibit was to
open in next day on November 29. The main sponsor of the event was HENKEL
a firm producing chemical products for the households. Slovak
BEATLES-BACKWARDS a group of young men from Kosice warmed up the crowd
with many, many Beatles songs played to perfection. Backwards won first
prize recently in USA as the world’s best group performing Beatles
songs...
WOODEN ARTICULAR
LUTHERAN A.V. CHURCH IN KEZMAROK
Kezmarok’s wooden articular Lutheran A.V. Church is one of five
Lutheran A.V. wooden churches in Slovakia. The others being Hronsek,
Paludza (relocated to Svaty Kriz due to the Liptovska Mara hydro
electric dam), Istebne and Lestiny. The only one I didn’t
photographed yet is Lestiny.
It is from the time of religious persecutions of Lutherans that were
under the decision of the Sopron assembly from year 1681 allowed to
build their churches from their own resources, away from the center
of the town, without bell tower and without bells. Materials allowed
for construction were wood and no iron nails and the construction of
the church must have been completed in 365 days...
FOLK
CRAFTS IN LIPTOVSKA TEPLICKA
By: Marcela Smolarova
ZITA
DURICOVA, Liptovska Teplicka 133, Born: February 12, 1942
WEAVING
FLEX CARPETS
Her mother’s father made the loom on which she still waves. They
are over 100 years old. She learned to wave from her mother. Usually
she can wave about 12 inches an hour, or less depending how
difficult is the pattern. She does it for love of weaving, not for
the money. You can say from health reasons. Usually she gives away
all her work to family members, or some of it she sells to friends
just to pay for the materials. You can say that she shortens her
long resting periods by weaving...
CUMIL
The author of this sculpture is Viktor
Hulik (born in 1949 in Bratislava). He graduated from the Academy of
Fine Arts in Bratislava in 1974. He participated in many individual
and group exhibitions, his works are property of galleries in
Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Great Britain, Germany, and other
countries..
LETTER FROM DANA
Dear friends, I am not sure how to address you after such a long
time. In the summer I wrote an article about the folk festival in
Detva, but-by mistake-it didn’t get to the right place in time and
later it wasn’t up-to-date anymore. My interests are rather
limited at this time. It’s all mostly just taking care of my
daughter Tamara, who is 18 months old now. There are other
interests; of course, there’s just not enough time and
opportunities for them. We spend a lot of time walking with Tammy
and I meet other mothers with their children. Our lives (or fates)
are very much alike, as if we lived according to some screenplay or
rule. (Well, it’s not that far from the truth!) But this
screenplay has an open ending; only time will show what it will be
like...
LUCNICA IN BOJNICE
AGAIN
LUCNICA KARPATY 2000
Karpaty a scenic panorama of folk culture of Karpaty was the title
for another great program of the best Slovak amateur folklore
ensemble, LUCNICA.
Slovak culture was formed beside domestic influence also by
influence and factions, which were touching territory of Slovakia in
the past. We like to point out dramatic relation, details, but also
the differences with the Slovak folklore.
On one hand it was Wallachian shepherds colonization with its
specific form of life and culture that reached us through Karpaty
Mountains. On the other side it was the influence of farmer’s
lowland culture in the whole Karpaty valley.
LATEST
BOOK REVIEWS BY OUR CORRESPONDENT
By:
Miroslava
Dulova
CHILDREN
FOLKLORE GROUP
ZAZRIVCEK
Throughout
centuries anonym music was formed that never ever had a single
concrete author. Most of the time the author was life alone.
Beautiful music, songs and folklore survived in the village called Zazriva.
However it was hidden in the small cottages and in the hearths of
our grandparents.
The
thought to preserve the traditions and show the world the beauty of
Zazriva was conceived in April 1998, where after an agreement
between the local village office, cultural center in cooperation
with the primary school Children Folklore Group ZAZRIVCEK was
formed...
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