Ukrainian Festival at Root 44 Market Special Events

Ukrainian Festival at Root 44 Market!

Root 44 Market and Ukrainian Association of South Africa welcomes you to come and enjoy everything the Ukrainian culture has to offer at the exciting Ukrainian Festival at ROOT 44 MARKET!

See more about the Ukrainian Association of South Africa 

A fun filled day is planned with loads of activities, entertainment and spectacular foods on Sunday 28 October 2018 from 11 am.

A true exciting Ukrainian atmosphere will be created to entertain all and remember there’s no entrance fee at our market.

What to expect

Bandura 

Bandura, also called kobza, a stringed instrument of the psaltery family considered the national musical instrument of Ukraine. It is used chiefly to accompany folk music. The modern bandura has an oval wooden body; a short, fret-less neck attached to the soundboard in an off-centre position and 68 chromatically tuned treble strings stretched over the soundboard.

Ukrainian Folk Songs and a poem by Taras Shevchenko - Performance of children from Ukrainian Sunday School 
Pop-Folk/Rock-Folk music - Svitlana Sheremet 

A classically trained vocalist and pianist, a person of various talents. A finalist and a special award winner of two Beauty and Talent competitions in Ukraine, Zaporizhia: “Woman of the year 2003”, “Lady Zaporizhia 2005”.

Ukrainian Raffle 
Hopak 

A Ukrainian folk dance originating as a male dance among the Zaporizhia Cossacks in the 16th century, but later danced by couples, male soloists, and mixed groups of dancers. The Hopak is often popularly referred to as the "National Dance of Ukraine". Hopak performed by Ukrainian Dance Company “Virsky” 

Cossacks 

Were a group of Ukrainian men, warriors, who became known as members of democratic, self-governing, semi-military communities, predominantly located in South-Eastern Ukraine. Click to read More about Cossacks

Petrikivka painting 

(or simply "Petrykivka") is a traditional Ukrainian decorative painting style, originating from the village of Petrykivka in Dnipropetrovsk oblast of Ukraine, where it was traditionally used to decorate house walls and everyday household items. The earliest known examples of this style date from the 17th century, but it continues to thrive and develop as a modern art form.

Masterclass on Hopak – Both males and females can participate in learning these basic movements.
There will also be a LIVE performance by Sonkind