The seminar will be held at Papa Nero, a wonderful place by the Aegean sea at Pilion, the beautiful green mountain at the central part of Greece.
During the nine days of the seminar Kyriakos and other teachers will teach dances from the northern part of Greece (Macedonia, Thrace, Epirus), from Pontos and Creta. The lessons will last two and half hours in the morning and another two in the evening. In the meantime participants could enjoy the picturesque Ai Yianni or Damuchari beaches.
Parties with live music will take place during the seminar as well as parties in the taverns where dinner will be served. Accommodation will be at “Katerina” hostel (http://www.papanero.com/) very close at the beach. The dancing place has a wooden floor and incredible view. A unique place!
The number of the participants will be restricted to less than 22 people.

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Grand-Prix - 1000 EURO
Best solo - 100 EURO

Festival is held under the patronage of:
Ministery of culture of the Czech Republic
Senat of the Czech Republic
Music foundation of Alvaro Gomes
Prague conservatory of Jan Deyl

Participation in our festivals is open to different performing groups (all genres)

The participation in the festival requires payment. The payment consists obligatory payment and additional payments, that depend on participants.

Each participant must pay a participation fee of 225 euro (4 days/3 nights - regular program) or 365 euro (7 days/6 nights - advanced program) or individual program (30 euro per night per person + 50 euro festival fee per person).
This price includes: festival fee for 1 nomination, festival and excursion program (for regular and advanced programs) including entrance tickets, accommodation, meals (drinks are not included).
Accommodation is in 3* hotel in 3-4 bedded rooms
Each additional night (if desired) must be paid at the rate of 30 euro per person.
It is possible to have the accomodation in a 4* hotel for the additional payment 15 euro/night/person.
Participation in additional nomination (if desired) must be paid at the rate of 20 euro per soloist, 10 euro per person of the collective.

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ANATOLIAN FOLK DANCE ORGANISATION


III.INTERN. BUDAPEST SUMMER - ART FESTİVAL
02 – 05 July 2015

Folklore groups – Majorettes - Modern dance groups

Participants are ensembles from Italy, Spaın,Portugal,Belgıum,Holland,Germany,Poland,Slovenia, Ukraine, Russıa,Greece, Turkey, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Czech, Slovakia, Bulgary, Bosnıa..


02.07.2015 Arrıval at Budapest, Accomodatıon at the hotel and Dınner

03.07.2015 Breakfast, Visit of the cıty (Square-Opera-Citadella-Parliament building- Bridge Erszebet-Zoo).Opening the ceremony of the Festıval.Performances of the Groups,Dınner..Free tıme.

04.07.2015 Breakfast, Visit of the cıty in optıonaly boat and will go to Szentendre othantıc vıllage Performances of the groups..Dınner and Optıonal Cıgan musıc nıght ...
05.07.2015 Breakfast, departure of the groups..


Condıtıons of the Festıval :

- Number of partıcıpants ara not limited - No age limits - Organizatıon of the performances for the partıcıpants

Partıcıpatıon fee ;
Hotel Oriental 115 Euro

- Accomodatıon in Hotel with 1/3,1/4 rooms and wi-fi
(Surcharge for 1/2 room is 5 € per person per night)

- Half boards (breakfast + dınner)
- Organızatıon expenses
- Diplomas
- Letter of invitation


- At every 20 partıcıpants, one person free at coast
- Any group should be paid advance of %40 of total sum on account of organizers untıl 15th of December 2014, The rest of money, %60 should be paid after the group arrıved. In case of cancellatıon, advance will be not refund.

Contact persons : Arif Sönmez +90 534 600 1879


info@anatolianfolk.org - turkei_iov@yahoo.com

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Traditional Greek dances, seminar & workshop
Island of Tinos, Cyclades, Greece
from Saturday 4th to Sunday 12th of July
8 nights, 7 days

A unique experience!

• An authentic seminar, being prepared and organized by the Tiniots & with the Tiniots (and not a seminar disconnected from people, reality & environment, “parachuted” in an hotel, with a “all-in-one” package)
• A first-rank pedagogy, with our friend Stathis, an exceptional dancer & teacher, widely acclaimed & respected in Greece. Stathis has a deep, broad & rich knowledge of dances & traditions.
• A wonderful island, with unrivalled & unparalleled beauty: preserved, authentic, without tourism. And with 60 white villages, as jewels in a green case.
• An exciting journey through the dances & traditions of 6 regions or themes: Cyclades, Dodecanese, Crete, Asia Minor, North Aegean, Laïko & Rebetiko. 6 days of dance, 6 hours of teaching and practice per day.
• One day of rest, with the visit of Pyrgos. Pyrgos is the Greek center for marble, with its School of Fine Arts, its Museum, its different studios & artists. Several major buildings have been made with Tinos’ marble by Tinos sculptors: the Academy, the University, the Parliament, the Archeological Museum, the Cathedral, many Palaces and Churches, etc.
• A stay in a wonderful fisherman’s wharf, at the end of the island, at the end of the world… and many beaches around…
• An island of good food, with many local excellent products: cheese, meat from sheep & goat, organic vegetable & fruit, honey, artichokes, capers, beers, and much, much local cooking!
• Gorgeous taverns
• 10 years of experience in the organization of seminars & workshops in Greece by our cultural association, Nisiotis.

When?

• First week of July
• You arrive on Saturday 4th, at the time you want. We start the seminar at night with a welcome drink, and with our dinner.
• You leave on Sunday, 12th, at the time you want, after breakfast, and before 12 AM.

Where?

• Panormos, a superb little fishing harbor
• A magical, enchanting place, far, very far from any kind of tourism
• A peaceful & quiet place: fishermen, Greeks, Tiniots. And yourself!
• A paradise…

The strengths of the seminar:

• You discover a beautiful island: this is the very first time that a dance workshop is being organized in Tinos with the Tiniots
• You live with the Tiniots, as all our team is from Tinos
• You are permanently close to the sea
• You dance, learn & practice with an exceptional dancer & teacher.

Your room?

• By default, you share a room for 2 with 2 beds, with another dancer (2 men, or 2 women together)
• If you want to have a single room, this is possible, with a little daily “extra”

The program?

• Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday: dances, teaching & practicing from 10 AM to 1 PM and 5 PM to 8 PM. 6 hours of dance per day.
• Wednesday: we go to Pyrgos, the capital city in Greece for sculpting on white marble: we’ll visit the outstanding Museum, the city, the houses, the cemetery, the streets, the home of Halepas: Pyrgos is an open-air museum!

The dances?

• 6 main regions or 6 themes will be studied and practiced during the 6 days: Cyclades, Dodecanese, Asia Minor, Crete, North Aegean, Laïka & Rébétiko (Zeïbékiko, Hassapiko, Aptaliko, etc)

The main teacher, and director of pedagogy for the seminar?

• Stathis, an outstanding dancer & teacher
• Stathis is « psaltis » (« cantor ») at the Panagia of Tinos, which is the center for Greek Orthodoxy. He has a unique knowledge of music & culture from Byzantium.
• His passion: dance. Stathis has a phenomenal energy, and an outstanding charism. All dancers that have been working & learning with him have been convinced, enchanted, “converted”: Greeks, or people outside Greece.

The meals?

• Morning: Greek breakfast.
• Evening: diner, together, in a local tavern, with local gorgeous food & wine.

The daily break?

• From 1 PM to 5 PM, you are free.
• You may rest, tan on the beach, dive into the crystal-clear waters, walk around Panormos, or have a lunch: Greek salad, grilled fish, squid or octopus…

The sea?

• Just everywhere!
• Beaches with sand, rocks or pebble: you have the choice
• Beaches with wind and waves, or very quiet beaches: you have the choice, again!

The trip to Tinos?

• Very simple!
• First, you fly to Athens
• At Athens AirPort, Eleftheros Venizelou, you take a direct bus which drives you to the port of Rafina, in about 20 minutes
• In Rafina, you take one of the many boats to Tinos. There are several different shipping companies, and several different boats.
• The catamarans are fast, (SeaJet or HighSpeed): you’ll be in Tinos 90 minutes after departure.
• If you prefer traditional boats & ships, you have much choice, too. Your ship will maybe stopover in Andros and/or Syros, on the way to Tinos. The trip will be a little longer.
• All timetables for all ships are on: http://www.gtp.gr/ (Ferry Schedules). You then go to the web site of the shipping company being chosen, and you may book & pre-pay your ticket, online.
• You then have to arrive in Rafina 30 minutes before departure, to withdraw your ticket with the voucher you printed.
• You may also find a ship leaving from the other harbor of Athens, Piraeus, but it is not so close from the Airport. Also, there are less ships from Piraeus to Tinos, and the trip will be longer, because of the distance.
• Once in the harbor of Tinos, Hora, you are only 20 kilometers away from Panormos.
• To reach Panormos, you may take a bus with KTEL (timetable: http://www.kteltinou.gr/ or a cab.
• Once we know better about the arrivals, we may organize this last part. The last miles towards paradise…

Price?

• It includes: room (8 nights), breakfasts (8), diners (8), dance, teaching, and the day to Panormos, (visits, transport, guides, lunch)

Registration?

nisostinos@gmail.com

Information?

www.nisiotis.fr

www.nisiotis.gr

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Cultural Art and Society BISER will hold
The 6th INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL’’ KUD BISER 2015’’.
-folk ensembles and dance troupes,
-belly dancers,
-majorettes,
- choirs, singers, soloists, orchestras
• The Festival will be held from July 18th till 22nd July 2015


• The participants will, beside the regular part of Festival (performing the choreography) have:
- opportunity to meet the legal authorities in the whole Canton, visit to the Premier of Canton, exchange of presents, meeting the traditional cuisine of Canton starting with Bosnian stew, old traditional pies, sweets, pastries, etc,
- opportunity to be informed about the cultural events of town Velika Kladusa,
- one day of association with all cultural and sports clubs with members of the motorcycle group, hikers (mountaineers) , paraglide, karate .The Festival will be organized two parties where at the first one, the participants should learn one of the traditional dances and second party will be to visit Disco club.
- The participants will participate in Una regatta in place Bihac, to try Rottary train /to visit one part of Una Sana Canton by train, bus, swimming in the purest rivers Una, pool and if you want to kayak,
Notice

• Cultural Society Biser organizes the Festival on the different way. We attempt that a dancer-group do what they are suppose to do - to dance. We do not want that our participants make performances in market centers, at the squares. We do not want that our dancers feel exploited. We have visited a lot of festivals where it happened that we performed in the market places for our donators and so on. During our Festival, your only role is to be dancers, to represent a part of your cultural treasure, to be the ambassadors of your country on the places which are for that.

• Our Festival starts with big parade where participate everyone not only cultural clubs but also all those people who feel young, all sport clubs and so on.

- At the Youth’s square the Festival dance will be held where all groups participate and after the parade we all go to the sports hall where follows opening and the presentation of all participants of the 6th International Festival.
• During the festival, the participants will be able to visit all Una Sana Canton, starting with town Velika Kladusa, Cazin, Bihać, Bosanska Krupa, Bosanska Otoka, and Ključ. They will see the colorful landscape, the cleanest river in Europe, the river Una. Velika Kladusa is located in North-West part of Una Sana Canton, BiH. The closest border is Croatia, the nearest towns are Bihac (USC), Karlovac (Croatia).
• Velika Kladusa is town with 50,000 inhabitants with developed cultural lives, known factories such as ‘Agrokomerc’ /famous biscuit TOPS/, ‘Sanitex’ /medical products, gaze, shampoo/, Grupex, constructional items, rich night life, a lot of disco clubs.


People of town are friendly and willing to share and learn other traditions, open-minded.




Special offer for all those who wants more to see in US Canton:


-Rafting - place Kostela – Grmuša 15 km
Water temperature 2-3 degrees with a lot of rapids and downpour/falls
Rafting takes three hours on this path and we propose this path for all those who like white-water rafting with less adrenaline. 35 Euro for rafting, you get equipment: waterproof suit, boots, anorak, helmet, insurance and skipper. After rafting, we usually offer the Bosnian meal called ‘Bosanski lonac’ at the same end near river Una and ‘hurmašica’ – date-shaped Turkish pastry with price. In the evening, we suggest music. After picnic will be a party with alive music till late in the night, under ‘Bosanski šadrvan’ – as a tent, which is placed at the same winning post of rafting.


- Extra going to a Swimming pool ‘Ćoralići’ at the price of 2 Euro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkIsvc3qJo8

We ask groups to inform us if they want to participate in rafting!






Velika Kladusa,
http://www.velikakladusa.gov.ba/images/albumi/Grad%20noću/index.html
http://www.bhtourism.ba/eng/velikakladusa.wbsp

Cazin,
http://www.opcinacazin.ba/
http://www.bhtourism.ba/eng/cazin.wbsp

Bihać,
http://www.bihac.org/
http://www.bhtourism.ba/eng/bihac.wbsp

Bosanska Krupa, http://www.opcinabosanskakrupa.ba/index.php?option=com_google&view=standard&id=1
http://www.bhtourism.ba/eng/boskrupa.wbsp

Bosanska Otoka,
http://www.bosotoka.net/

Ključ.
http://www.kljuc.ba/

http://www.rotary-bihac.ba/index.html

http://tzusk.info/sub-trgovacki.php?id=6&grad=21
https://www.facebook.com/moto.klub.3/photos
http://reprezent.ba/index.php/sport/4046.html
https://www.facebook.com/search/more/?q=Karate+Saniteks+Regeneracija&init=public


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This seminar will be a unique opportunity for everyone who wishes to learn the dances, the traditions, the music and the songs of the Thracian Greeks of Evros/West Thrace.
In the ten days of the seminar we will visit several villages both at the Northern and Southern part of Evros, we will learn their dances and participate in their festivals. Every morning Kyriakos and other specialists will teach the dances from the village we will visit in the night. We will even participate in a gaida festival where we will watch all those gaida players doing their music together and of course we will eat, drink and dance with the 600 guests!
In every evening, local experts (ethnologists, musician et.al.) will inform us about the different aspects of West Thrace like history, music, songs, costumes etc. of the village we will visit.
The number of participants will be limited to 50.
All the accommodations, dance lessons, lectures, presentations, exhibitions will take place in hotels and halls at the towns of Orestiada and Alexandroupolis and of course the villages we will visit.
Start and final point will be Thessaloniki. Transportation to/from Thessaloniki and to/from the Evros villages will be with a bus covered from the seminar.

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Welcome to Macedonia 2015.

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We are pleased to announce that the new website for the 2015 Bulgarian Folk Music & Dance Seminar to be held July 31-August 6 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, is now complete and online registration for the Seminar is officially open: 
http://www.folkseminarplovdiv.net/ .

The Seminar ends the day before the Koprivshtitsa festival begins, and a chartered bus from Plovdiv to Koprivshtitsa will be available for Seminar attendees on August 6th.

This Seminar, now in its 11th year, offers a very special experience for non-Bulgarians (and Bulgarians interested in connecting with their "roots" music and dance) who want a more in-depth opportunity to learn traditional instruments, singing styles, and dance than is normally possible for groups or individuals traveling to Bulgaria. This rich and unique program couples the teaching expertise of instructors at the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts in Plovdiv with the traditional music and dance wisdom of tradition bearers from around Bulgaria. The dance program features different groups of dancers and musicians throughout the week, teaching dances from their own villages. Two levels of Bulgarian language class will also be offered, as well as optional evening social activities and a bitov ensemble class.

On our website you will find details about the 2015 teachers, program, daily schedule and prices, and a FAQ section with detailed information about getting to Plovdiv, accommodations, and much more. You can register for the Seminar on the website.

We are continuing our special 15% discount for East European Folklife Center members (a great reason to join the EEFC if you haven't already!). Students from past years have raved about their experiences at the Seminar.

Check out our Facebook page: "Bulgarian Folk Music & Dance Seminar, Plovdiv" (or just search "Plovdiv Folk Seminar") and "like" us! Help us build our fan base!

Please feel free to contact us with any questions.

contact@folkseminarplovdiv.net

Larry Weiner
Bulgarian Folk Music & Dance Seminar - International Program Coordinator
10206 Day Ave.
Silver Spring, MD 20910
USA tel: 301-565-0539


or

Dilyana Kurdova
Bulgarian Folk Music & Dance Seminar - International Program Coordinator
ul. Knyaz Al. Batenberg 40
9000, Varna
Bulgaria
Cell (from outside Bulgaria): 011-359-887-990-321
Cell (from within Bulgaria): 0887-990-321
[Dilyana is a native Bulgarian speaker who also knows English and Greek, plus some German and Russian.]

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