Photo: Helen Buffalo
Despite the fact that Carnival — pagan festival, every year in March Primorye many different faiths, and just atheists necessarily bake pancakes and go withit treats the guests, or guests to your name.
No longer applicable fairground games and entertainment in the capital of Primorye: every year they are getting bigger and more fun. This year, the organizers of Vladivostok ethno-festival «East Summer» combines traditional celebrations in one Spring Festival — «Butter» .
«The first thing we wanted to come up when this festival is to feel how our ancestors celebrated this holiday. Refer to the traditions that existed two or three hundred years ago. We play traditional Carnival games, led dance, dance , — Said One of the organizers of the festival «oiler» Vasily Danilov. — Personally I was surprised that so many people are willing to be included in our celebrations, as we do, and refers to the origins of the holiday and the lives of our ancestors. »
Folk dances and games, lots of pancakes and a traditional Russian sbiten, clowns and maiden — as Beijing sees off winter and spring in the city lures.
Festival guests learned about the master classes with new musical instruments for them, and could communicate with interesting people. Trade fair impressive variety: someone was making jewelry, amulets, someone selling mouth harp, simultaneously strumming on one instance, someone cut the tree, and someone inflicted everyone Kolovrat image — the main emblem of the Slavic ancestors Carnival .
The culmination of the evening was the concert. On the stage of the Pushkin Theater in these minutes are not only local folk band, and invited guests of the Russian capital.
