Lemko ABC, or meetings with ambassadors of the Lemko world — invitation

8 July 2025

We invite you to the 3rd edition of popular science meetings, which aim to familiarize the inhabitants of the Lemko region and the Lemkos arriving before the 43rd Festival of Lemko Culture — Lemko Watra in Zdynia, who the Lemkos are.

Once again, we will have special guests with us:

  • Anna Barnat Ph.D — Ph.D of social sciences, director of the Lemko Watra in Zdynia;
  • Fr. Jarosław Czuchta — rector of the parish of St. Michael the Archangel parish in Wysowa-Zdrój, caretaker of the chapel of the Protection of the Mother of God on Mount Jawor;
  • Ivan Čižmar — ethnographer, archivist, folklorist, cultural activist,, musician and singer from Svidnik (Slovakia);
  • Grzegorz Suchanicz MA — Deputy-chairman of the Lemko Union.

We will also host Areta T. Fedak and her exhibition.

Program of events

JULY 15, 2025
TUESDAY, 5.00 P.M

Chumak
World


Exhibition of paintings by
Petro Sypnyak

JULY 16, 2025
WEDNESDAY, 4.00 P.M

The phenomenon of Mount Jawor — on the hundredth anniversary of the apparitions


Ambassador: Fr. Jarosław Czuchta
Moderator: Dr. Anna Barnat

JULY 16, 2025
WEDNESDAY, 5.30 P.M

Rusyn tradition in a nutshell P.M — on the ritual calendar


Ambassador: Ivan Čižmar
Moderator: Grzegorz Suchanicz

JULY 17, 2025
THURSDAY, 6.00 P.M

Exhibition “Palimpsest” — symbols and graphic signs — action “Wisła” and Jaworzno


Author: Areta T. Fedak