Family Night will take place on Sunday, January 15th, 2012 from 4:30-6:30 pm at C.S.P.S. Hall, 383 Michigan Street, Saint Paul, MN 55102. This is a fun event for the whole family. Come and enjoy Czech and Slovak conversation and fellowship. We all will make animal masks and play “vybíjená”. Please bring a dish to share for the potluck dinner.
Donation of $5.00/Sokol or CSCC members, $10.00/non member families is appreciated.
St. Nicholas (Mikuláš), is a traditional December holiday not only popular in the Czech and Slovak Republics, but also in the Czech and Slovak community in Twin Cities.
The availability of C.S.P.S Hall for this celebration allows us to have enough space to fit all families with children, tables for traditional crafts and a stage for our favorite band.
Program
Please come join us at this special occasion that signals the coming of Christmas.
When: Saturday, December 3rd, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Where: C.S.P.S. Hall, 383 Michigan Street, Saint Paul, MN 55102
Donation of $5.00/Sokol or CSCC members, $10.00/non member families is appreciated. Please contact Jitka at (952) 926-2055 for last minute changes.
Visit us at http://cs-center.org/donate for more donation options. Proceeds will benefit the Mom’s Club, Czech & Slovak Cultural Center and their activities.
Family Night will take place on Sunday, November 13th, 2011 from 4:30-6:30 pm at C.S.P.S. Hall, 383 Michigan Street, Saint Paul, MN 55102. This is a fun event for the whole family. Come and enjoy Czech and Slovak conversation and fellowship. There will be crafts and games for the children. Please bring a dish to share for the potluck dinner.
Program:
Perníková chaloupka – výroba papírových loutek, zdobení perníkové chaloupky, nácvik vánočních koled pro Mikuláše a generální zkouška naší pohádky o perníkové chaloupce (herci, nezapomeňte kostými :-))
Donation of $5.00/Sokol or CSCC members, $10.00/non member families is appreciated.
Family Night will take place on October 16th, 2011 from 4:30-6:30 pm at C.S.P.S. Hall, 383 Michigan Street, Saint Paul, MN 55102. This is a fun event for the whole family. Come and enjoy Czech and Slovak conversation and fellowship. There will be crafts and games for the children. Please bring a dish to share for the potluck dinner.
Program:
4:30-5:00 craft – decorate a Gingerbread house
5:00-5:30 story Perníková chaloupka
5:30 dinner
After dinner will be games for younger children and play rehearsal for older children.
Donation of $5.00/Sokol or CSCC members, $10.00/non member families is appreciated.
Traditional Czech/Slovak Family Easter Celebration hosted by Czech/Slovak Mom’s Club at CSPS Sokol Hall
When: Saturday, April 23, 2011
Program
The most significant tradition of Czech/Slovak Easter are painted eggs. At our Sokol Easter celebration, you will have a chance to learn how to decorate eggs with hot wax. You can also purchase “perníková vajíčka” (gingerbread cookies) and decorate them with Czech/Slovak motifs. We will have simpler egg coloring for younger children.
There is one specific Easter custom, which often seems cruel to foreign visitors when they see it for the first time. On Easter Monday morning boys and men can legally spank Czech/Slovak girls and women and they are even rewarded for it by the beaten ones! At our Sokol celebration, everyone interested will make a special Easter stick, made of willow branches, decorated with ribbons of different colors. Such stick is called “pomlázka” in Czech and “korbač” in Slovak. According to the tradition, young men will (gently!) use pomlázka/korbač to whip the girls to bring them good health and keep them young. As we have done in the past few family nights, we will have a puppet show for the children. Puppets are a great way to teach language as well as culture. The show will be about a boy who spends “velikonoce” at grandma’s house in a Moravian village. We hope the puppets bring to life customs that we have enjoyed as children in our home country.
Please register for this fun activity and sign up for the potluck (Czech/Slovak meals are preferred). Don’t forget to bring blown-out eggs for your children to color (paint will be provided). If you have access to willow branches, we will be needing many of those, please indicate it in the potluck sign-up.
$5.00 donation/ CSCC-Sokol member family and $10.00/non-member family would be appreciated. You can purchase perniky cookies to decorate for 50c each.
You are invited to join us for another fun afternoon with your friends from the Czech/Slovak community. Activities are planned for the whole family. On the program for the puppet show is the story of “Čert a Káča”, or Kate and the Devil. The children will present their hand-painted backgrounds for the story and have a chance to make props for the April puppet show. Adults are invited to participate in “perníky” baking.
When: Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 4:00 pm
Where: C.S.P.S. Hall, 383 Michigan Street, Saint Paul, MN 55102
Program
Please register online and sign up for the potluck. Donation $5.00/family CSCC-Sokol members, $10.00/non-member family will be appreciated.
Family Night will take place on February 13th, 2011 from 4:30 pm-6:30 pm at the Sokol Hall. Please bring a meal to share for our potluck (Czech-Slovak meals are preferred).
Activities planned:
Puppet Show
Children of all ages are invited to a puppet show “ The Little Red Riding Hood- Cervena Karkulka”. Thanks to Louise Wessinger we now have a big puppet stage that will allow for more children to participate in the show. We are excited to use beautiful puppets from the Sokol Hall!
Craft and Games
There will be a simple craft for children to do and we will play some of the kid’s favorite games- “cukr, kava, limonada; rybicky, rybicky; na honenou”.
Contest!!!
Children and their parents are invited to compete in a contest for the most original story of “Little Red Riding Hood- Cervena Karkulka”. Brainstorm with your children at home and prepare a script of this well known story with a new plot. Scripts will be read by a panel of judges during our gathering at the Sokol Hall and the authors of the most original Red Riding Hood will have a chance to perform their story with puppets! Stories written in the Czech or Slovak language are preferred, but we will accept English too. You can bring the script of the story to the Hall on February 13th or email them to Lenka at braggova@spacestar.net. Only stories with scripts written and prepared ahead of time will be accepted!
Family Night will take place on January 9th,2011 from 4:30-6:30 pm. This is a fun event for the whole family. Come and enjoy Czech and Slovak conversation and fellowship. There will be a puppet show Eduard Petiska’s Bylo jednou jedno loutkove divadlo for the children (Part 3), craft and games. Please bring a dish to share for the potluck dinner.
Where: 383 Michigan Street, Saint Paul, MN 55102
Donation of $5.00/Sokol or CSCC members, $10.00/non member families is appreciated.
Event Summary
St. Nicholas (Mikuláš), is a traditional December holiday not only popular in the Czech and Slovak Republics, but also in the Czech and Slovak community in Twin Cities. The availability of Sokol Hall for this celebration allows us to have enough space to fit all families with children, tables for traditional crafts and a stage for our favorite band. At 4 p.m., our celebration will start with crafts for whole family and then will enjoy puppet theatre Bylo jednou jedno loutkove divadlo. We will have dinner together at Christmas decorated tables, sing popular Christmas carols by the Christmas tree, and await to see if St. Nicholas (Mikuláš), Angel (Andel/Anjel), and the Devil (Čert) will pay another visit this year. Please come join us at this special occasion that signals the coming of Christmas.
When: December 4th, 2010 (Saturday) at 4: 00 PM
Where: SOKOL HALL, 383 W Michigan St, St Paul, MN 55102
Event Summary
Traditional Christmas Bread
Come enjoy the Christmas baking atmosphere and the spirit of the upcoming holidays! All of our Moms’ Club indoor events happen in the perfect surroundings of the CSPS Sokol Hall. This time, with support of Sokol, we would like to not only work in the facility’s large kitchen and bake the traditional Czech & Slovak Christmas bread (vánočka/vianočka), but also sell it super fresh on Friday, December 3rd, 2010 at Sokol’s St. Nicolas Party with proceeds going towards Sokol Hall operations.
Anyone who would like to come bake, learn the recipe or donate ingredients is welcome. We will meet at the 383 Michigan Street, Saint Paul, MN 55102, on Thursday, December 2nd, 2010. We will work in shifts all day long using our recipe that will appear in the planed Moms’ Club Cookbook. Vánočka/vianočka is still a very popular Christmas treat just like a year-round popular Poppyseed Bread (makovka/makovník) which we will be also making. If you would like to donate something else besides your time the following ingredients are needed, bring please on Saturday, November 27th (Tanecni Mladez Dance): all purpose flour, sugar, eggs, raisins, almonds, Solo canned poppyseed or lemons. Bring your children, camera and sign up for shifts or/and place your orders.
We are a non-profit organization, serving as resource for Minnesotans interested in Central Europe and as point of contact for people from Czech and Slovak Republics.
