CroatiaFest

EVENT Schedule – Sunday October 5: 12:00pm-6:00pm

ARMORY STAGE

Time

Activity

12:00pm-12:20pm

Opening Ceremonies and Swearing-In

12:25pm-12:45pm

Kisobran

12:50pm-1:10pm

Seattle Junior Tamburitzans

1:15pm-1:35pm

Radost

1:40pm-2:00pm

Tamburaski Orkestar Kardinal Stepinac

2:05pm-2:25pm

Klapa Doo Wopella

2:30pm-2:40pm

Tamburaski Orkestar Kardinal Stepinac

2:45pm-3:25pm

Zrinski

3:30pm-3:55pm

Awards Ceremony

4:00pm-4:20pm

Sinovi

4:25pm-5:05pm

Zrinski

5:10pm-5:55pm

Vela Luka Croatian Dance Ensemble and Ruze Dalmatinke

ARMORY MAIN FLOOR

Vendor Fair (12pm-6pm)

ARMORY LOFT #1A

Time

Programs/Interviews

1:00pm-2:00pm

Dalibor Martinis: Leaving=Arriving

2:45pm-3:30pm

Marko Pavela: Adventures in Croatia

4:30-5:30

Martin Koenig: Through the Lens

ARMORY LOFT #2– Big John’s PFI Konoba (21+)

Time

Activity

1:00pm-1:45pm

Klappa Doo Wopella

2:00pm-2:45pm

Sinovi

3:00pm-3:45pm

Gorani

4:00pm-4:45pm

Bonaca

ARMORY LOFT #3- Cooking Demonstrations

Time

Cooking Demonstration

1:30pm-2:30pm

Nava Dominis and Alenka Dunatov: Njoki (Gnocchi)

3:30pm-4:30pm

Marija Mataja and Antonija Stipetic: London Stangle

ARMORY LOFT #4

Time

Performance

12:00pm-4:00pm

Representatives from the Croatian Consulate Office of Los Angeles

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OVERVIEW
Seattle Center Festál presents CroatiaFest in partnership with CroatiaFest. The festival presents Croatian culture through music and dance performances by the finest Croatian musicians, singers and dance ensembles from the Pacific Northwest, Canada and beyond. Museum quality exhibits tell the story of the Croatian American immigrant experience through historical photos, artifacts, traditional costumes and folk instruments. Attendees can enjoy cooking demonstrations of traditional foods by Croatian chefs. The office of the Croatian Consulate assists with passports, visas and official government documents.

HISTORY

Information provided by CroatiaFest.

CroatiaFest is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Since its inception in 2004, CroatiaFest’s mission is to promote and preserve Croatian culture and to educate future generations of Croatian Americans and the general public with the richness and beauty of Croatian culture and Croatian American contributions to the building of the U.S. With the Honorary Croatian Consul to the State of Washington, Dr. Frank Brozovich, and the support of the Croatian American community of the Pacific Northwest and Canada, CroatiaFest is able to present Croatian culture, history, cuisine, music, original traditional costumes and dance to the thousands of festival attendees and the hundreds of visitors of the Seattle Center campus.

DID YOU KNOW?

The Dalmatian dog breed can be traced back to the Croatian coastal region of Dalmatia.
Together with Spain, Croatia has the highest number of UNESCO intangible goods of any European country.
Nikola Tesla, electrical-mechanical engineer, is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply, was born in Smiljan, Croatia.
The Maglite flashlight was designed by Anthony ‘Tony’ Maglica who was born in Croatia on island of Zlarin.
Croatia is the home of the necktie. The modern necktie that spread from Europe traces back to Croatian mercenaries serving in France during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648).