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Melbourne Russian Festival 2019

18/2/2019

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‘Dob-ro po-zha-lo-vat’ or Welcome to the annual Melbourne Russian Festival, a celebration of all the richness and diversity of the Russian culture. This year’s festival will take place in Jones Park, Brunswick East, and at the adjacent beautiful Russian Orthodox Cathedral.

The festival will showcase traditional Russian culture in a lively, exciting atmosphere. It will include Russian dancing, music and entertainment, food stalls with authentic cuisine and a beer garden, beautiful arts and crafts, colourful Russian decorations and costumes, interactive activities and games, a children’s village with fun activities for the whole family, and unique masterclasses, featuring some of the well-known traditional folk crafts, many of which are centuries old and cannot be found elsewhere.

The unique feature of this year’s festival is that it is preceding Maslenitsa or Pancake Week, a very famous Eastern Slavic folk holiday, celebrated during the last week before Great Lent. A tradition of Maslenitsa is to share pancakes, also known as blini, with family, friends, and acquaintances. So, make sure you will try this amazing dish. It also has a unique mascot in the form of a beautifully clothed straw figure known as Lady Maslenitsa, not to be missed! ​
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We look forward to seeing everyone once again!

Event organisers:
Russian Ethnic Representative Council of Victoria: www.rerc.org.au 
Pokrov Melbourne Parish: https://www.pokrov.com.au/ 

The event has been supported by Arts Moreland’s Activation Grant.

​For more information, see the Facebook page. 


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Pokrov Open House

Please join us for a guided tour of the Church building; including, of course, the wonderful frescoes, learn about the various saints depicted on the icons, Russian woodcarving and unique metalwork. 

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From 10am during the Russian Festival, 2nd March 2019.
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2 Comments
Wayne Grocock
27/2/2019 03:28:45 pm

Looking forward to Open Day this Saturday.

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Wahdan Arum Inawati link
19/7/2019 05:51:17 pm

how it featuring some of the well-known traditional folk crafts?

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