March is a happy month as it marks the beginning of Spring. Along with your spring cleaning you can also learn how to make Czech/Slovak Easter eggs and how to cook dumplings! And of course, then there are bunch of classical concerts, art exhibitions and interesting lectures on Czech and Slovak topics….
CZ: Je tu brezen a – misto toho abychom zalezli za kamna – tak se bud muzeme naucit jak delat opravdove knedliky nebo jak malovat kraslice. A samozrejme je tu obrovsky vyber klasickych konzertu, vystav a zajimavych prednasek…
1. North Miami, FL (American Czech-Slovak Cultural Club)
- What: Lecture on Leading Personalities in the Creation of Czechoslovakia
- When: March 15
2. New York, NY (Czech Center)
- What: Ivan Passer’s (famous Czech director) movies
- When: March 6 – 13
- What: Jan Sikl’s Private Century (historical exhibition)
- When: March 9 – 15
- What: DG307 (Czech band) and Zive Kvety (Slovak band) concert
- When: March 13
- What: “The End of Beginnings, the Beginning of Ends” (Stage collage with historical documents, films, live music and readings; it commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Czechoslovak occupation by Nazis)
- When: March 16
- What: “The Falling Times” contemporary art exhibition about the current information polution
- When: March 20
3. United Moravian Societies, IL
- What: Sokol Tabor Exhibition
- When: March 8
- What: Sokol Stickney Exhibition
- When: March 15
- What: Genealogy Workshop: “Seeking locations of my roots“
- When: March 28
5.ย Tuscon, AZ (Czech-Slovak American Club of Tuscon)
- What: Bouncing Czechs are performing; traditional Czech dinner is being served
- What: Learn how to make dumplings!
- When: March 24
7.ย Saint Paul, MN (CS Cultural Center of Minnesota)
- What: Lecture on Slovaks around the World (VI.)
- When: March 8
- What: “Where She Came From: A Daughter’s Search For Her Mother”
- When: March 21
8. Czech and Slovak Association in Boston, MA
- What: Beer and coffee hour
- When: every Friday or Saturday
9. Chicago, IL
- What: 12th Annual EU Film Festival
- When: March 6 – April 2
- More info: www.czechevents.net
10. Oak Brook, IL
- What: Learn how to decorate Czech/Slovak Easter Eggs
- When: March 8
- More info: www.czechevents.net
11. Washington DC
- What: Rudy Linka concert (Czech guitarist)
- When: March 11
- More info: www.czechevents.net
12. Ennis, TX
- What: Czech St. Patrick’s Day Celebration
- When: March 17
Featuring 2 Czech polka bands:Vaneks of West & Czech and Then Some 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. Doors open @ 6 p.m. FREE band CD’s for door prizes KJT Youth Club will be selling sandwiches
Admission $7.00
13 & under FREE
Come join in on the fun @ the KJT Hall at 1216 S. Paris St. in Ennis, TX
for the first ever Czech St. Patrick’s Day Celebration
Contact us at info@kjt35.org or 972-875-7982
Visit us online at www.kjt.org
- What: Dvorak’s Rusalka (sung in Czech!)
- When: Narch 20, 22*, 25, 27, 29*, 31, 2009
1. Montreal
- What: Prazak’s Quartet (Classical concert)
- When: March 3
2. Toronto
- What: Art exibition of Marie Gabankova (called Puzzle)
- When: March 7
- What: Night of Slovak Music and Poetry
- When: March 15
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Dumplings are great and one can get away with them. In fact, Mormon missionaries in Czechoslovakia (who briefly converted my dad and sister in the early 1990s) loved them, especially fruit dumplings. But the Easter traditions are controversial!
In Santa Cruz, California, I wanted to whip the girls back in 2000. A Spanish-speaking classmate broke my whip, and when I told you that it was a Slavic tradition, she told me that it was a Spanish tradition to break the whips. ๐ Only a Croatian girl had some remote understanding for it.
Later, in the Society of Fellows at Harvard, they didn’t want to believe me that the women are really being touched by the whip (so that they even feel it or it may even hurt: it’s so humiliating!). Most fellows – and not only the typical hardcore feminists – suggested to bomb the Czech Republic instead of Iraq. ๐
How funny!! They just don’t see the true “beauty” in this wonderful act of long-lived tradition :))
I guess there is not much happening in NY/NJ area. I better plan a special CS meetup group:) We had one in February and it was great (‘rezne’, ‘chlebicky’, ‘zakusky’…). We are planning on having another one around Easter, but the guys are getting excited about the traditional Easter in CS and I’m starting to get nervous about that (‘sibacka’, help!) ๐
O-Oh, you tell them if they beat up on you too much you are going to stay the night at the center for abused women ๐
I think whipping the girls on Easter shows, how we Slavic people are all brothers and sisters! There is a very descriptive proverb in Russia: “Bjot, znachit ljubit” (He beats me, it means he loves me)… and it is not necessary to wait for Easter :))
Do Russians do the whipping too? If that’s the case then I feel bad for the Russian women ๐
Yes, they do. Easter or not
haha, ok I’ll tell them, but I don’t think Czechs and Slovaks care about our remarks haha.. ๐ They can’t wait for this tradition! We are having a little Easter get together on April 11 or 12, so I’ll let you know how it went. I hope they understand the word ‘symbolic’ and not get at us for all the women that done them wrong haha ๐
So if I don’t hear from you after the 11th does that mean that someone ‘spanked’ you a little too much ๐
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Michaela, count me in. I am from NJ