Calendar of Events
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
SASW Annual General Membership Meeting
Where: Slovak Embassy
When: 12:30 - 4:00pm (A light luncheon will be provided.)
Cost:free
The meeting will include the election of three board members for three-year terms and a talk by Marcel Jesenský (title TBA).
Marcel Jesenský is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa (ABD). He received an M.Sc. and an M.A. from universities in
Slovakia and Canada.
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Sunday, September 19, 2010
HOW YOUR ANCESTORS CAME TO AMERICA AND HOW TO FIND THEIR RECORDS
Talk by Tom Sadauskas
Where:McLean Government Center, 1437 Balls Hill Road, McLean, VA
When: 12:00 noon
Cost:free
Every family with immigrant ancestors has stories of how their family first arrived in America. Many of these stories contain grains of truth as well as unsubstantiated myths.
This presentation looks at the immigration process that our ancestors went through to come here to America, as well as the kinds of records that document their travels from
their European village to America.
Tom Sadauskas has been conducting genealogical research actively since 2000, focusing primarily on his Lithuanian ancestry and making several trips to Lithuania and Germany.
He has been successful in reestablishing contact with relatives in Lithuania, as well as contacting newly uncovered relatives. Tom was part of the first group of genealogists
to visit the International Tracing Service (ITS) archives, with its 50 million records on 17.5 million individuals, in May 2008, following the opening of the archives to the
public. He is a 2008 graduate of the National Institute on Genealogical Research (NIGR), and has been a speaker at several genealogical conferences.
Co-sponsored by the Carpatho-Rusyn Society, National Capital Chapter.
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Sunday, June 27, 2010
SASW picnic
Where: 12910 Westbrook Dr., Fairfax, VA (home of Millie and Jim)
When: 1:00 - 4:30pm
Cost: $10/members; $12/non-members; children 12 and under free
Admission is payable in cash or check upon arrival (consider also making a donation toward SASW scholarships at VSM/City University in Slovakia). All are asked to bring
a small dessert (enough for about 4 persons) to share. Everyone should also bring chairs.
Please RSVP, BY THURSDAY, JUNE 24, to Tom Marton at 301-946-9174 or e-mail SASW at dcslovaks@yahoo.com.
This year's Slovak-style picnic is organized jointly with the Washington Slovak Meetup Group and Slovakcooking.com. We will be grilling specially-made sausage and fašírka
(a Slovak-style hamburger), with boiled potatoes and parsley (varené mladé zemiaky s maslom), a cabbage and noodle dish (kapustové halušky), cucumber salad
(uhorkový šalát), with watermelon slices (cerstvý melón) and Slovak Zlatý bažant beer. Leftover food will be sold afterwards on a first-come,
first-served basis. We will also have a fundraising raffle.
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Saturday, May 22, 2010
TO JE ALE MUZIKA! WHAT'S SO SLOVAK ABOUT SLOVAK POP MUSIC?
Talk by Ben Sorensen
Where: 2nd Floor Meeting Room, Arlington County Central Library, 1015 N. Quincy St, Arlington, VA
(midway between Virginia Square and Ballston Metro stations)
When: 2:00pm
Cost:free
What's so Slovak about Slovak popular music? Ben will explore its folk-music roots to identify the elements that have been carried over into Slovak pop music, giving
it a distinct flavor. He’ll show us examples of what’s out there now and talk about how it’s evolved.
Ben Sorensen graduated with a BA in History and Music, only to move to Slovakia to fall in love with ethnomusicology and Slovak folk music. He learned to play the fujara
and píštalka in the fields of Podpolanie while also fronting a bluegrass band (Longhorns) and a progressive rock band (SIX) in Poprad.
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
SVADOBNÉ NÔTY: CEREMONIAL WEDDING TUNES AND SLOVAK TRADITIONAL CULTURE
Talk by Jadranka Važanová
Where: Slovak Embassy
When: 2:00pm
Cost:free
Svadobné nôty are wedding tune(s) that are unique to a locale and are sung a cappella, usually by women, during ritual moments of the ceremony.
What role do these tunes play in the traditional wedding ceremony and how do they fit into the broader context of traditional village culture?
Jadranka Važanová graduated in musicology and aesthetics from Comenius University in Bratislava and received her PhD in ethnomusicology from the City
University of New York, with a dissertation entitled “Svadobné nôty: Ceremonial Wedding Tunes in the Context of Slovak Traditional Culture“ (2008).
Ms. Važanová is a senior editor at RILM Abstracts of Music Literature in New York, where she translates, abstracts, and indexes music writings in Slavic
languages and German.
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
COOKING WITH MILLIE (HOLUBKY)
SASW founding member Millie Schoepe-Evans will conduct a
hands-on lesson in making holubky, the Slovak stuffed cabbage rolls that are such a hit at our annual Sv. Mikuláš party.
Participants will watch Millie demonstrate the various steps, then will make holubky themselves, taking home the finished product.
A recipe will be provided, but bring a pen or pencil to take notes and an apron to wear while you work.
Where: 12910 Westbrook Dr., Fairfax, VA (Millie's house)
When: 10:00am
Cost: $5/person, payable in cash at the start of the event. PLEASE NOTE THAT SASW MEMBERS WILL BE GIVEN PRIORITY.
RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED, AND WILL BE LIMITED TO THE FIRST 10 PERSONS TO RSVP TO dcslovaks@yahoo.com .
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Saturday, March 6, 2010
COOKING WITH MILLIE (HALUSHKY)
SASW founding member Millie Schoepe-Evans will conduct a hands-on lesson in making halushky, delicious Slovak dumplings made from potatoes.
Participants will watch Millie demonstrate the various steps, then will make halushky themselves, taking home the finished product.
A recipe will be provided, but bring a pen or pencil to take notes and an apron to wear while you work.
Where: 12910 Westbrook Dr., Fairfax, VA (Millie's house)
When: 10:00am
Cost: $5/person, payable in cash at the start of the event.
RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED, AND WILL BE LIMITED TO THE FIRST 10 PERSONS TO RSVP TO dcslovaks@yahoo.com .
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Sunday, December 6, 2009
Sv. Mikulas (St. Nicholas) party
Join us for a traditional celebration of Slovak customs, music, and food,
featuring a buffet dinner of kapustnica, pirohy, stuffed cabbage, and dessert,
the music of the renowned Slovak folk band Pajtaši,
and for the children, a scheduled visit by Sv. Mikuláš himself.
Where: Slovak Embassy
When: 2:00pm - 5:00pm (doors open at 1:30pm)
Cost: $25/person for SASW members; $30/person for non-members; children age 10 and under free
Admission is payable in cash or check at the door. To expedite entry, please have your check already made out,
payable to SASW. You may also join or renew your SASW membership at that time.
Also, we hope you will consider a donation toward SASW scholarships at VSM/City University in Slovakia.
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
RSVP to Valerie McNeill, 703-241-0951 or vbuss714@hotmail.com, by December 1.
Those with small children should bring one small gift per child (wrapped and clearly labeled with the child’s name) to receive from Sv. Mikuláš.
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Saturday, November 21, 2009
SASW Annual General Membership Meeting
Where: Lutheran Church of the Reformation, 212 E. Capitol St., Washington, DC.
When: Noon - 4:00pm (A light luncheon will be provided.)
Cost:free
The meeting will include the election of three board members for three-year terms and a talk by H.E. Dr. Branislav Lichardus on the opening of diplomatic relations between Slovakia
and the U.S., and on City University in Slovakia (which we support with scholarship funds).
Branislav Lichardus was the first ambassador of the Slovak Republic to the U.S., and is currently the rector of the College of Management of City University in Bratislava.
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN SLOVAKIA: FROM THE UNDERGROUND TO THE VELVET
REVOLUTION, AND 20 YEARS LATER
Talk by Professor David Doellinger
Where: Slovak Embassy
When: 1:30pm
Cost:free
Professor Doellinger will talk about the Slovak secret church before 1989, the part it played in the Velvet Revolution, and the church’s role
in the 20 years since the collapse of communism.
David Doellinger is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR.
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
INTERRUPTED LIVES: CATHOLIC SISTERS UNDER EUROPEAN COMMUNISM
Documentary
Where: Slovak Embassy
When: 3:00pm
Cost:free
A one-hour documentary that explores the lives and experiences of
Greek-Catholic and Roman-Catholic nuns in Eastern and Central Europe
under communism. Filmed on location in Hungary, Lithuania, Romania,
Slovakia, Ukraine, and the United States.
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
SASW picnic
Where: 12910 Westbrook Dr., Fairfax, VA (home of Millie and Jim)
When: 1:00 - 4:00pm
Cost: $8/members; $12 non-members; children under 12 free
Admission is payable in cash or check upon arrival (consider also making a donation toward SASW
scholarships at VSM/City University in Slovakia). All are asked to bring a dish to share: those
whose last name begins with A-O should bring a salad or a side dish, and those whose last name
begins with P-Z should bring a dessert. Everyone should also bring chairs.
Please RSVP to (301) 946-9174
Come enjoy specially-made klobasa (Slovak sausage), hamburgers, side dishes, desserts, and Slovak
beer. Bob Rychlik will entertain us with hauntingly beautiful music on his fujara (Slovak shepherd's pipe).
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
THE MEDIA AND THE NATION IN 20TH-CENTURY SLOVAKIA
Talk by Professor Owen V. Johnson
Where: Slovak Embassy
When: 2:00pm
Cost:free
During the last century, the Slovak mass media used a variety of ways to foster a sense of
nation among the people of Slovakia. In return, public opinion and the Slovak people’s responses
influenced the forms that the media took and the way that it operated throughout the 20th-century:
under Hungary, during the interwar republic, in the wartime Slovak state, during postwar democracy,
in the communist period through the "Prague" Spring, under post-1968 communism, and in the 1989-92
coda.
Owen Johnson is an Associate Professor in the Indiana University School of Journalism, Bloomington,
IN, where he specializes in the sociocultural roles and functions of journalism in Central and East
European societies, and in selected topics in U.S. journalism history.
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Saturday, March 14, 2009
BABA'S KITCHEN: SLOVAK & RUSYN FAMILY RECIPES AND TRADITIONS
Talk by author Lisa Alzo
Where: Slovak Embassy
When: 3:00pm
Cost:free
Some of Lisa Alzo’s fondest memories from childhood are the times spent in her Baba's kitchen: the aromas of fresh bread
baking in the oven and chicken soup simmering on the stove, the blending together of voices young and old, and her grandmother
in her apron and babushka. The kitchen served as the center of their home and as the place where some of life's most
important lessons were taught and learned, simple principles of generosity, honesty, and love. It was also in this kitchen
that Lisa learned to eat the foods and celebrate the traditions that were central to her Slovak and Rusyn heritage.
Baba's Kitchen is a collection of recipes and traditions passed down through the generations in Lisa’s family. In this book
she shares them as a tribute to her grandmothers and to the Rusyn and Slovak women everywhere who continue to preserve
and share their cooking, rituals, and traditions.
Lisa Alzo grew up in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, and is the author of several books on Slovak and Rusyn subjects:
Three Slovak Women, Baba's Kitchen, Finding Your Slovak Ancestors, and Slovak Pittsburgh. She is also an avid
genealogist.
Copies of Baba’s Kitchen will be available for purchase and signing.
Co-sponsored by the Carpatho-Rusyn Society, National Capital Chapter.
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Saturday, February 21, 2009
WHAT’S SHAPING MODERN SLOVAKIA’S DEMOCRACY?
Talk by John A. Scherpereel of James Madison University
Where: Slovak Embassy
When: 2:00pm
Cost:free
Many different internal and external forces have influenced Slovak policymakers in re-organizing and re-orienting
Slovakia during the past 20 years. New regions have been established and real power sometimes shared with them. How do
ordinary Slovaks see this and how have they reacted to the changes?
John A. Scherpereel is assistant professor of political science at James Madison University.
Copies of Governing the Czech Republic and Slovakia: Between State Socialism and the European Union
will be available for purchase and signing by Prof. Scherpereel.
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Sunday, December 7, 2008
Sv. Mikulas (St. Nicholas) party
Join us for a traditional celebration of Slovak customs, music, and food,
featuring a buffet dinner of guláš, kapustnica, stuffed peppers, and dessert,
the music of the renowned Slovak folk band Pajtaši,
and for the children, a scheduled visit by Sv. Mikuláš himself.
Where: Slovak Embassy
When: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Cost: $25/person for SASW members; $30/person for non-members; children age 10 and under free
(Please note that the increase in admission is to offset our specially-prepared menu.)
Admission is payable in cash or check at the door. To expedite entry, please have your check already made out,
payable to SASW. You may also join or renew your SASW membership at that time.
Also, we hope you will consider a donation toward SASW scholarships at VSM/City University in Slovakia.
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
RSVP to Valerie McNeill, 703-241-0951 or vbuss714@hotmail.com, by December 3.
Those with small children should bring one small gift per child (wrapped and clearly labeled with the child’s name) to receive from Sv. Mikuláš.
For printable flyer please click here.
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Saturday, November 1, 2008
ANNUAL GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
Where: Slovak Embassy
When: 1:00pm
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Saturday, November 1, 2008
1989 in Slovakia: Why Communism in Czechoslovakia Failed So Spectacularly
Talk by Professor T. Mills Kelly of George Mason University
Where: Slovak Embassy
When: 2:30pm
Cost: free
The 20th anniversary of the end of Communist rule in Central Europe is fast approaching. With the perspective of 20 years, how do we remember those exciting days and what have we learned about why Communism in Czechoslovakia failed so spectacularly?
T. Mills Kelly is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Art History, and the Associate Director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
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Wednesday, October 9, 2008
Siren of the Waters
Book presentation and signing
by Michael Genelin
Where: Slovak Embassy
When: 7:00pm
Cost: free
Michael Genelin will read from his new book Siren of the Waters, the first in a new series of crime novels featuring Jana Matinova, a commander on the Slovak police force.
Michael Genelin, a graduate of UCLA and the UCLA Law School, has served in the LA District Attorney’s Office and the US Department of Justice in Central Europe. He has written for film and been adviser to television series. He now lives with his wife and daughter in Paris.
Books will be available for purchase and signing by the author.
Co-sponsored by Soho Press
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
"Crossing the Continents and the Atlantic: An Early Slovak Account"
Talk by Professor Martin Votruba of the University of Pittsburgh
Where: Slovak Embassy
When: 2:00pm
Cost: free
An observant Slovak farmer wrote a remarkable, detailed account of his journey to the U.S. in 1913. Its careful reading gives us a rare insight into the logistics of the endeavor undertaken by hundreds of
thousands of others, and into their personal experiences and first impressions of their new homeland.
Martin Votruba is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the head of the Slovak Studies Program, at the University of Pittsburgh.
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