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Rožnov Festivities 2025
The 43rd year of the International Folklore Festival
The Wallachian Open Air Museum and the town of Rožnov pod Radhoštěm would like to invite you to their 43rd International Folk Festival.
The Wallachian Open Air Museum will be celebrating 100 years of its existence in 2025. Its origins are connected with the great ethnographic festival The Wallachian Year which took place in Rožnov in July 1925, and the history of the museum dates back to this time.
The international folklore festival Rožnov Festivities is a direct continuation of the aforementioned First Wallachian Year and aims to be a worthy reminder of it. This centennial anniversary is to be a display of the colour and evolution of Wallachian folklore.
As part of the celebrations of its centenary, we would like to invite all the folklore ensembles and groups currently operating in Wallachia and provide them with a fitting space for the presentation of their activities. There are around forty such groups, and the gathering of an unprecedented number of two thousand performers in folk costume presenting the heritage of Wallachian folk culture at a single time and place is to be documented here.
- The festival is to present unique heritage as performed by domestic and foreign folklore ensembles.
- It is to feature a competition in the Wallachian Odzemek (an improvised male dance listed among the most important elements of the intangible cultural heritage of the Czech Republic).
- It is to present the Romanian dance the Căluș which is part of the intangible cultural heritage listed by UNESCO.
- It is inviting and supporting a Croatian expatriate folklore ensemble that is preserving its Wallachian heritage.
- A hundred years later, the festival is to present a celebratory reprise of the theatrical performance The Rožnov Wallachian Wedding in its original version.
- The special Stage 1925 is to revive the folklore heritage presented 100 years ago.
The festival is being held under the patronage of President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel, Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic Martin Baxa, Governor of the Zlín Region Radim Holiš, Governor of the Moravian-Silesian Region Josef Bělica and Deputy Mayor of Rožnov pod Radhoštěm Tomáš Gross.
PRE-FESTIVAL EVENTS
Thursday 3 July
16.00 The Library of the Wallachian Open Air Museum
My Beloved Region
an opening discussion, a remembrance of the poet Metoděj Jahn on the occasion of the 160th anniversary of his birth
19.00 The Little Wooden Town / Janík’s Barn Theatre
The Herdsmen
a theatrical play by František Sokol Tůma on the stage of the Wallachian Open Air Museum once again 100 years later
THE MAIN PROGRAMME
Friday 4 July
14.00 The Little Wooden Town / Janík’s Barn Theatre
Graduate performance by the School of Young Odzemek Dancers
final performance by graduates
16.00 The Little Wooden Town / Janík’s Barn Theatre
He Who Jumps is a Man
The heats of the competition to find the best dancer of the Odzemek and the Obuška
16.00 The Little Wooden Town / Janík’s Barn Theatre
The Rožnov Festivities through the eyes of the photography club R9
the opening of a photography exhibition
20.00 The Little Wooden Town / Open Air Theatre
Welcome to Our Home
foreign guests with the group Jasénka, a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Zdeněk Kašpar
22.00 The Little Wooden Town / Open Air Theatre
Making Music Beneath the Stars
night entertainment with cimbalom bands
Saturday 5 July
10.00 Masarykovo náměstí
A Great Gathering of Wallachians
a gathering of Wallachians in folk costume on the square, ceremonial opening and the greeting of guests
11.00 A ceremonial procession through the town
from Masarykovo náměstí to the Wallachian Open Air Museum
12.00 The Little Wooden Town / The Glade
The Wallachian Beseda
144 male and female dancers from 18 Wallachian groups will come together to dance 16 typical dances from Rožnov and the surrounding area
The Little Wooden Town / The Stage in the Glade
Stage 1925
13.30 Children’s games and entertainments in the pasture with the groups Soláněk, Jadernička and Podskaláček
14.15 The Zeman Wallachian Wedding (the Ország) – passages from the traditional Wallachian Ország Wedding as performed by the group Hafera
15.00 Vezení peřin – passages from the traditional Wallachian Ország Wedding as performed by the group Hafera
15.10 Klebetnice, Erecting the Maypole – with the group Mezříčan
15.45 Toppling the Maypole – felling the maypole with the group Beskyd
16.30 Harvest parade – harvest customs, songs and dances with the group Ovčák
17.15 Typical Wallachian dances from Rusava with the group Rusavjan
18.00 Dorota – a walking folk play as performed by the group Javořina
18.45 Spring in the Village – springtime work and the enlistment of young men with the group Závršan
19.30 Figural dances from the Rožnov area with the group Bača
19.45 Play Musicians, Play – a commemoration of Jaroslav Štika, a leading figure in Wallachian folklore, with the cimbalom group Polajka
13.00 The Little Wooden Town / Open Air Theatre
The Rožnov Wallachian Wedding
a performance from the libretto by Miloš Kulišťák
17.00 Sušák, 1st floor
For Wallachia and the Nation
a guided viewing with the author of the exhibition
15.00 The Little Wooden Town / Open Air Theatre
He Who Jumps is a Man!
the competition to find the best dancers of the solo male dances the Odzemek and the Obuška
18.30 The Little Wooden Town / Open Air Theatre
Nothing but Revelry, Laughter and Tears in Wallachian Songs
a colourful excursion through the world of folk musicmaking
21.00 The Little Wooden Town / Open Air Theatre
Vivat museum vivum
a gala programme to mark the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the museum
22.30 The Little Wooden Town / The Stage in the Glade
Making Music Beneath the Stars
night entertainment with cimbalom bands
OTHER VENUES
The Stage by the Pond / The Little Wooden Town
13.00 Holubička z Daruvaru (Croatia)
13.45 Burnasul (Romania)
14.30 Jasénka
15.15 Béri Balogh Ádám (Hungary)
16.00 Drieske Nijpers (Belgium)
16.45 Ševčík
17.30 Malé Zálesí
18.15 Ostravica
19.00 Májek
19.45 Klobučan
The Hillside Stage / The Wallachian Village
13.00 Béri Balogh Ádám (Hungary)
14.00 Drieske Nijpers (Belgium)
15.00 Holubička z Daruvaru (Croatia)
16.00 Vizovjánek
17.00 Burnasul (Romania)
18.00 Vsacan
The Meadow in the Village / The Wallachian Village
13.30 Blaženky
14.30 Rokytenka and Surovo drevo
15.30 Luženky and the cimbalom group Valašsko
16.30 Karlovjanky
17.30 Vranečka and Kotula
The Tilt-hammer Stage / Water Mill Valley
14.00 Bartošův soubor
14.45 Valášek
15.30 Ostrévka
16.15 Pramínky
17.00 Javorník
17.45 Valašský vojvoda
Sunday 6 July
10.00 The Parish Church of All Saints in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm
Holy Mass
11.00 The Little Wooden Town / Janík’s Barn Theatre
About the Black Shirt, the Red Vest and the Green Dolman
work clothes and festive garments in folk songs
13.00 The Little Wooden Town / Open Air Theatre
Behind the Barn…
the children from the whole village meet up, but what will they get up to?
15.00 The Little Wooden Town / Open Air Theatre
… We’ll Part on Good Terms
“THE VERY BEST” from the Rožnov Festivities 2025 in a final gala programme
Stage 1925 The Little Wooden Town / The Stage in the Glade
11.15 Rožnovští ogaři
12.00 Dances from Vizovice and the surrounding area with the group Vizovjánek
12.45 Dances from Hutisko with the group Zákopčan
13.00 Spinning – the atmosphere of traditional women’s spinning gatherings with the group Javořina
13.30 Portáši and šverci – a play staged after a gap of 100 years by Valašský sbor portášský
13.45 Songs and dance for Midsummer’s Eve with the group Soláň
14.15 Mařena, šmigrust and buďačka – spring customs with the groups Malý Radhošť and Radhošť
14.50 Honouring the memory of the founders of the Wallachian Pantheon
The Stage by the Pond / The Little Wooden Town
12.15 Holubička z Daruvaru (Croatia)
13.00 Drieske Nijpers (Belgium)
13.45 Burnasul (Romania)
14.30 Béri Balogh Ádám (Hungary)
We reserve the right to make changes to the programme.
