Czech and Slovak Cultural Center

Miss Czech Slovak Minnesota Pageant will take place this Saturday, April 14th, 2012 at the American Legion Hall, 102 Elm Ave. W., Montgomery, MN 56069. Rachel Kuzma, St. Paul Sokol member, is a candidate! There is a dinner of pork, sauerkraut and dumplings at 5:00PM, and the pageant begins at 7:00PM. Between dinner and the pageant, our Little Sokols will be performing The Musicians of Bremen in Czech! at 5:30pm. Everyone is invited. Nashledanou/Dovidenia.

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Family Night will take place on Sunday, February 12th, 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 decorate with our children heart cookies (pernikova srdce), create special cards with fabric, practice our theatre play, start learning a song and definitely learn how to move super fast . Please bring a dish to share for the potluck dinner.

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.

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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.

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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.

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Traditional Czech/Slovak Family Easter Celebration hosted by Czech/Slovak Mom’s Club at CSPS Sokol Hall

When: Saturday, April 23, 2011

Program

• 12:00-1:00 potluck (bring items to share)
• 1:00-2:00 Czech/Slovak Easter activities (bring blown out unpainted eggs)
• 2:00-3:00 puppet show, pomlázka/korbač

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.

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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

• 4:00-4:30 set up
• 4:30-5:00 craft
• 5:00-5:30 puppet show
• 5:30-6:00 potluck
• 6:00-6:30 games, clean up

Please register online and sign up for the potluck. Donation $5.00/family CSCC-Sokol members, $10.00/non-member family will be appreciated.

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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!

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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

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