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17.07.2026 – FRIDAY

12.30 OFFICIAL LIGHTING OF THE 44TH LEMKO VATRA

13:00 Svoja chyža, svoja stricha, svoja vticha

  • Hrajwiter – youth vocal and instrumental ensemble; Przemyśl (Poland)
  • Rosa – youth vocal ensemble; Uście Gorlickie (Poland)
  • Krajoczka – children’s folk polyphonic ensemble; Przemyśl, Poland
  • Ruczaj – children’s and youth ensemble; Gorlice (Poland)
  • Wowcza zhraja – youth rock band; Przemyśl (Poland)

15:30

  • Opening of the Exhibition “Invocation. Lemkivshchyna in the Dialogue of Art and Generations”

15:45 Vsjady byvaj a swij dim ne zabyvaj

  • Halyna Lukashonok – soloist; Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukraine)
  • Studenty tanciujut – student dance ensemble; Poland
  • Arkan – folk dance ensemble of the Ukrainian school “Szaszkewycziwka”; Przemyśl (Poland)
  • Dumka – song and dance ensemble of the Ukrainian School Complex; Górowo Iławeckie (Poland)
  • Witrohon – folk dance ensemble; Biały Bór (Poland)

18:00 Chto soj spivat tot o bidi zabyvat

  • Krajka – folk polyphonic ensemble with a traditional dance workshop; Przemyśl, Poland
  • Słowiany – folk-rock band; Kraków (Poland)

20:00 Naj cile selo znaje jak soj Vanio huliaje

  • Štefan Štec & Fajta – an Icon of the Rusyns of Slovakia; Košice (Slovakia)
  • VODOHRAY – 50th Anniversary – аolk уnsemble; Lubin (Poland)
  • HarazD – folk-rock band; Gdańsk (Poland)

SPACE OF WORDS

>>> namiot literacki przy Lemko Street

13:00 „לעמקאָווושטשינער ייִדן – Jewish Lemkivshchyna” Conversation with Ewa Mańkowska. Moderator: Bohdan Huk
15:00 “Lemkos in the Crosshairs of the Secret Police. The Case of Paweł Stefanowski” Author meeting: Prof. dr hab. Roman Drozd and dr hab. prof. UW Lidia Stefanowska. Moderator: Prof. dr hab. Bohdan Halczak
17:00 “Wild Fields. Counteroffensive” Author meeting: Dr Olga Solarz. Moderator: Mariana Kril

MEETINGS IN THE CHYŻA

13:30 Screening of “Mikołaj Gabło – the Lemko Memory of Olchowiec”; screenplay by Bogdan Huk, directed by Adam Bortnowski
14:30“Opowim ty daszto” – presentation of the project combined with a screening of Lemko animated films; presented by Myszko Adamczak and Maksym Rawliuk
15:30 “The Landscape of Mountains and Valleys in the Songs of the Carpathian Highlanders – Words and Musical Illustrations” Author meeting: Agnieszka Stopka and Barbara Janczaruk
17:00 Screening of documentary films: “There Were Blacksmiths, There Were”; produced by Monika Szewczyk, and “And So That the War Would End”; produced by Monika Szewczyk and Elżbieta Mirga-Wojtowicz.

VATRA FOR THE LITTLE ONES

14:00 Lemko Origami – Tetiana Yanbukova
16:00 Drawing from the Vatra – Tetiana Yanbukova

WORKSHOP AREA

14:00-17:00 Traditional Tar Production from Bielanka – Tomasz Doszna
14:00 Clay Modelling – Tetiana Gombitova
15:15 Lemko Kryvulka Beadwork – Krystyna Janawa
16:30 Lemko Easter Eggs – Halyna Danylo-Kudlak

LEMKO SPARTAKIAD

14:00-17:00 5-a-side Football / Football Skills Tournament
(depending on the number of participants)
17:00-17:30 Award Ceremony – Football Competition
15:00-16:30 Strongman Competition – Search for the Strongest Shuhaj (Including:rolling hay bales,lifting wooden logs, carrying a housewife on one’s back)
16:30-17:00 Award Ceremony for the Strongest Shuhaj