Detailed program
On what interesting activities and performances
you can be looking forward to?
Ignition of the sacred fire
Festival organizers and friends will keep
the sacred fire throughout the whole weekend.
It will be a centre of ceremonies and most activities will take place around it.
As our ancestors always did
in their temples and groves during tribal meetings.
Representatives of all countries will be invited to the ignition.
It will be a symbolic link and deepening of the contact
between us and what we bring.
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Lecture "Restoration of Slavic traditions -
back to the heartbeat of Mother Earth"
Representatives of Slavic circle will talk about the long and uneasy process of renewing our own native traditions. How did it all begin? Where did we go?
And what are the new horizons of this important process?
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Mother Earth fertility ceremony
Slavic circle will lead a ceremony for
thanking Mother Earth and ancestors
for protecting our heritage for future generations.
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Lecture "Wheel of the year"
Slavic holidays in the rhythm of the year
will be presented to you by Slavic priest Zdeněk Ordelt.
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Svarga concert
A concert of Slavic ceremonial music.
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Mead brewing
The mead is such an ancient drink, that it's original name medhu
occurs in all Indo-European languages. Meaning:
mead, honey, sweet, drunkenness and bliss or delight.
All suggest that it is the first form of fermented alcoholic beverage,
which was available to a man before he controlled agriculture.
People labelled the beverage as a drink of the gods,
a donor of knowledge and poetry,
a poison of healing and immortality...
Later, the mead was drunk with great popularity especially in northern regions,
where it was more difficult to grow crops for a beer or wine production.
Therefore, in the Nordic countries, inns were called mead halls.
In Edda, we read about mead in a song, where the creation of mead is captured,
and how people obtained mead from Odin.
At a time, when Europe was dominated by the new faith,
the beverage was mainly made by monks.
Mead was equivalent to beverages like beer or wine
until the 13th century, then an interest in it weakened.
Probably due to global warming and the possibility of vine growing,
or with the discovery of distilled alcohol. Unfortunately,
today the mead is rather an unusual choice of alcohol beverage.
One of Dušan Matuška's hobbies is mead brewing,
deals with it for about 4 years. At the festival, you will
participate in his creation and learn more about this old craft.
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Hemp stall and a lecture BioHemp
Hemp seed is one of the highest quality protein foods on Earth.
This plant is a powerful healer being here for us at many levels.
At Jan Šarapatka's lecture, you will discover
many possibilities of using hemp for human needs.
Why is it the plant of the past and the future of our civilization?
At his stall, you will taste seeds, oil, or beer
and other food products made of Czech hemp.
You will find out many interesting things
about this plant and noble being.
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Tea surprise
Dúška Čajová from a teahouse in Senice is coming to the festival too.
What will she bring with herself? ..that is a surprise :)
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Voice workshop - Inner voice of the soul
Nami Maria Lada will guide you through different
levels, colours and essences of the art of singing.
Singing is like a voice of the soul - its sound heals
and opens human beings at all levels.
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Lecture "Sacred plants of our land"
Mother nature offers many secrets.
Our land, like any other, has the power
to give us everything we need. Medicinal plants too.
As well as those that bring us into the consciousness
of the sacred powers of the universe.
What are they and how to use them?
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Female circle
Female and male worlds have always been united as well as divided,
each of them has its own unique gifts. For a woman,
an alliance with other women in the community is important.
As is the transfer of life wisdom between generations.
Something, what is our modern unrooted society losing.
Let's meet in a circle of women to share the remnants of knowledge,
which our grandmothers gave us, to talk about things
that belong to women only.
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By art to the soul of Wild Woman
Katerina Polcanova will show you one of the ways,
how to work consciously with your creativity. How art can help you to:
communicate with your soul and heal it, how to cleanse and harmonize your inner being, how to understand many different aspects of yourself,
how to see archetypal patterns hidden beneath the surface.
You will learn how much is the creative life of a woman
related to her fertility and sexuality.
Together, you will explore the primordial,
naturally wild, feminine essence.
You will create and share your experiences.
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Children's Rodokrug
Petra Bolfova will lead a section of the festival, dedicated to our kids, small and bigger too. During a day there will be some program inputs included.
We have prepared a few of them, but many of them will be spontaneous -
they will come and happen according to the feelings of children and
the environment at the very moment. We will see what children themselves
will be ready for. They will show us the direction where to go...
Faces on trees - good spirits of the forest
We will make faces and heads onto trees
with a little help of dirt, sand and ceramic clay.
It will support the perception of forest and individual trees,
as well as intuition, concentration and connection.
Thunder musical instrument production
Making of a musical instrument
with a sound resembling thunderstorm.
Music therapy orchestra
Children, using familiar and unfamiliar musical instruments,
will create music close to nature.
Archery
Arrows making and target shooting.
Colouring and memory games
- masks, Slavic themes in pictures
- elements, seasons
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Karpatsky Pecuch
Karpatske Slnko, Weleslava and Duchoslav have been maintaining and spreading
the original spirituality for almost 20 years now. They work with schools and kindergartens, complementing gaps in the curriculum
with old ceremonial terminology. They have a unique
archery workshop and a school of intuitive archery.
At the traditional crafts fair you can choose from their work:
bows, books, herbs, incenses, ceremonial objects, etc.
Lecture "Old rites revived and their significance for a man"
A knowledge from 20 years of intensive practice for different groups of people.
With live inputs. Subtopics:
- ceremonies for general public
- construction of a ceremony, place, tools, time
- requirements for a person leading a ceremony
- requirements for a ceremony participants
- Is a ceremony for everyone?
Ritual dance show
Example of ceremonial dance, which was used to be performed
in springtime during burning and drowning of Morana.
Lecture "Sacred ceremonial archery"
A shooting range with traditional bows
Slavic cuisine
Traditional food right from a fire.
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A fragrant corner
Eva Babiaková likes to work with people, provides individual
therapies and leads seminars about family costellations,
shamanic techniques, work with body and energy.
She will come to Rodokrug with shamanic fans and incenses,
natural cosmetics and essential oils Hana Maria.
You will mix your own original body oils with her.
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Rodolad
Světluška Hradilová is a Ukrainian woman living in Moravia, mother of six children.
She works with women and children, deals with postpartum care.
Together with her husband Petrem they have a hemp workshop.
Lecture "Crafts and Oberegs"
The deep meaning of everyday work and crafts - their importance,
educational nature, the possibility of creating
extraordinary things for ordinary life.
Oberegs - protective symbols and items.
Ways and conditions for charging an object with the protective force.
Simple, yet effective, oberegs in everyday life.
Making of a doll and/or Slavic mandala the „God's Eye“
For a more personal look as well as more power of your obereg
bring with you:
- small ball/s of a yarn, best natural one
- a thin strip or a larger piece of ribbon, lace, fabric
(may be new, but better worn and favourite one)
- 2-4 branches (of any strength and length, from 3cm to 10-20cm).
Basic materials for creation will be available.
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Meeting weaving
„... and this one is worn by men. Its name is gamakala,“ says Mamo,
priest of the Kogi tribe, pointing at a white bag.
„How many bags will I sew and for who?” I ask.
„Make yourself clear about what you want. Otherwise, you won't find happiness,“
says Saha, daughter of the Moon.
Is it possible to live simply and comfortably on Earth?
Who are people of my kind? Such questions started in 2010
the wandering of Monika Michael with the Kogi tribesmen.
Since then, she has been with them on the road everywhere and always.
They live in northern Colombia, in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
They say it is the heart of the world, and they know what they mean by it.
We live in the heart of Europe. Do we know what that means
when we say it sometimes?
Kogi women weave bags of natural fibers.
They sew a dream of the world into them,
and alter what no longer serves the life.
They are sending us some.
People have learned to think in one way only,
so it is not worth explaining what we are doing.
We sew bags instead. It is the art of indigenous women.
Those, in which they weave the dream of the world, are called Gama.
And then there are those that mean a journey - those are Sugamé.
When a person does something that disturbs a balance,
an indigenous woman takes sewing
and weaves her knowledge into a bag.
Weaving is the foundation of the spiritual practice
of Kogi women. But men also learn it.
To be able to break into the art of spinning the dream of the world
at least for a while at the festival, you will need:
- yarn of natural material (e.g. linen, hemp, nettle, cotton, wool)
- a large-eared needle or a crochet hook.
There is some story-telling waiting for you at the meeting,
as well as a space for questions and answers,
peace, silence and everything that will be born of the silence.
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From heart
Šárka Urbanová is a gingerbread maker from a gingerbread house
in Velká Lhota in Wallachia. She honours traditions, loves soil, nature, horses
and self-sufficiency. She will come with her magnificent artwork
in the form of hand-painted gingerbreads.
You will learn how to decorate gingerbreads, as it should be.
From heart.
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Straw knitting
Art and tradition, but also skills, good heart
and now almost forgotten straw knitting.
Mr. Patinka from Štefanová in Vrbovce
will come and share his art at the craft fair.
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Kačena Soaps
Natural cosmetics from Kateřina Podzemná from Wallachia.
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Blacksmith workshop
Jan Šmakal will present you the black craft of smithery.
He will provide you with information about how to make tools for everyday life,
or how to keep them fit. During a day you try the craft yourself
or let your older kids try it. Don't forget to bring
knives or other tools for repairing and regrinding.
Blacksmithing is an ancient craft that used to be everywhere,
at every step, at every corner in the country.
For the simple reason of usefulness for our agricultural culture.
It connects all elements, and therefore more sensitive of us can feel
a kind of mysticism that subconsciously attract us.
It can be a path to self-sufficiency even today, for it is a craft
in its pure form, which didn't change for thousands of years.
All it takes are simple tools in combination with mind, heart and body.
You can notice, that the way back to the roots leads us
to the ground and land, we live on. Leads to the cultivation
of plants that give us a livelihood.
As the science about metals deepened its experience,
it was constantly splitting and specialized into individual sectors,
in which masters penetrated deeper into details.
They also penetrated into the experiences,
which if they disappeared from the world with their deaths,
our culture would live differently. In light of this awareness,
it is clear that metallurgy is a powerful science.
Therefore, it is necessary to approach it
with an open heart and mind.
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