Moldovan Traditions Celebrated in the US
The Moldovan diaspora in the USA celebrated a traditional Moldovan holiday - Martisor. Martisor is the celebration of beginning of spring, life and love in Moldova. Moldovans give each other red-and-white martisors, and wear them close to their hearts throughout March.
This celebration was organized by the Moldovans' Community in DC, Moldovan Embassy in the US with the support of several companies and organizations established by and/or run by Moldovans such as the Moldova Foundation, Moldova House, BIP Moldova, etc. It included a fashion show by designer Valentina Vidrascu, photography contest, Moldovan traditional food contest and lots of music. Around 200 people, mostly Moldovans from Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New York, attended this event. With Evghenia Berzan's permission, here are some pictures from this event.
It would be nice to hear from people that contributed to the organization of and/or participated in this unique event of the Moldovan diaspora in the US.
Comments:
Lucia-
I know that at least one former Peace Corps volunteers who served in Moldova were at the event. I saw some other pictures, and it looked like a pretty good party. Amazing how quickly we all find out about a party in D.C. when we're in Moldova.
Peter - in our days dissemination of information is the key to success! And that's the reason why we got so many guests for celebration of Martisor in Washington DC!
...Several of us (myself, Radu Cucos and Natalia Cucos) first talked about organizing such event literally 2 weeks prior March 3.
Yes, it took us a lot of planning, calling people we know, sending messages, posting ads on several sites... And a week later people whom we didn't know started contacting us asking about the celebration and checking whether they can join us and how they can help!
We had a lot of volunteers and supporters, as well as blessing of Moldovan Embassy in US (which tremendously helped us to bring the event to the higher level ;)
For me that's the power of networking, personal dedication, community involvement and joint effort!
Thank you, Lucia, for spreading the word around.
Evghenia Berzan
"La Placinte" Moldovan Diaspora in DC
Moldovan embassy could've posted something on their website about such event. Is there a way to get info about things like these in advance ( say, an email list or a discussion group)? thanks
Here is the link to the Moldovan Embassy in the US
http://www.embassyrm.org/en/index.html
You are right, info about such an event should have appeared on this site. Moreover, in the Moldovan media, this event was not covered at all. At the same time, similar events in Moscow and Sankt-Petersburg in Russia were broadly covered.
Check Moldpress, they had our press release.
Our intention was to get people together and to celebrate beautiful Martisor not get media attention.
Thank you for your suggestions we will take them into account when we plan our next event.
Lucia
In Macedonia we also have martisor but we call it Martinka.Martinka is something you wear on March 1 and keep it until you see a swallow back from south first time in the spring. I am also wearing a red/white yarn woven bracelet, another kind of martinka. And then once you see the swallow, you take this martinka off and tie it to a twig of a tree. Best regards from Macedonia, It is indeed spring has come in Macedonia.
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