Celebrating Spring

Hello everyone! This year we're not organising a public event to drown Marzanna, the Slavic goddess of winter. Instead, we'd like to encourage everyone to give Spring a warm welcome your own way, in your smaller circles of family and friends.  
Here is what YOU can do:

* drown Marzanna - a Slavic rite which means a symbolic departure of winter

* make a Gaik - a symbol of the arrival of spring

* burn Maslenitsa - in Slavic mythology, Maslenitsa is a sun-festival, personified by the ancient god Volos, and a celebration of the imminent end of the winter

* invent your own way to celebrate Spring

It would be great if you shared photographs of your spring celebrations with us.
Just email them to cosmopolis10@gmail.com and we will post them on our blog.

We too will post a few pictures from our own little Drowning of Marzanna to share with all.
May the tradition live on!

Drowning 2017 photos by Anna Kowalska

by Anna Kowalska Photography

Something's happening...

People in embrace...

Holding hands...

More and more of them...

About to burst into a song...

They are dancing!

Dancing in the park.

All colourful!

A flying Scotsman!

Everyone's having fun!

Ceilidh in the park!

Making the world colourful!

Marzanna

Who will be the first to reach her?

Let's give Marzanna some spring colours...

Spring is in the air!

Good bye Marzanna!