If you’re already wistful for the celebrations that typically fill the end of December, don’t worry — Malanka is right around the corner. The celebrations for Malanka — Ukrainian New Year’s Eve — play ...
Each winter in southwestern Ukraine, villages are transformed by a riot of color, noise, and a kind of organized chaos. Costumed performers that are sometimes human, sometimes animal, sometimes ...
Malanka is a Ukrainian and Belarusian folk holiday that draws on pagan folk tales and marks the new year according to the Julian calendar falls on January 13. The celebrations stem from a pagan myth ...
The Traditions of Malanka have been added to the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and Information Policy has reported [Malanka is a Ukrainian ...
Every year on Jan. 14, Ukraine celebrates “the old New Year” – the New Year by the Julian Calendar, by which the country lived until 1918. This old holiday also coincides in Ukraine with Malanka, a ...
In Ukraine there is an own tradition of the Old New Year’s celebration. This day is called Malanka. In Chernivtsi, after a two-year break related to the coronavirus pandemic, the Malanka Fest 2022 ...
Now that the holiday season is winding down, it’s time to start off the new year on a musical note. With this month offering a variety of music, web producer Jocelyn Bennett checked in with a few ...
The film captures the celebration of Malanka just a month before the full-scale Russian invasion and the first Christmas in the newly de-occupied territories of Ukraine’s Slobozhanshchyna and ...