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May 9, 2012 7:00 pm

Belarus in Faces (part XLVII).  Беларусь у тварах (частка XLVII).

Malyja Ljady 2009.  Малыя Ляды 2009 год.

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May 8, 2012 7:00 pm

The Extraordinary in the “Ordinary” (part XI):  The Woodpile.  Надзвычайнае ў “звычайным“ (частка ХІ): касьцёр дроў – парадак, гаспадарлівасьць.

Belarusans consider neatly stockpiled wood a sign of thrifty, responsible home ownership.

Al’homjel’ 2011.  Альгомель (Оглямель) 2011 год.

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May 7, 2012 7:00 pm

Women of Tsjerablichy (part II).  Цераблічанкі (частка ІІ).

Tsjerablichy 2011.  Цераблічы 2011 год.

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May 6, 2012 7:00 pm

Orthodox St. George’s Day falls on May 6.  The date traditionally marked the day when villagers led their cows in procession out to pasture for the first time in the year.  Here women from the Polesian village of Bjarezhtsy, having returned from a rye field where they sang St. George’s Day songs and prayed to God for a prosperous season, stop to sing and pray at each roadside cross in the village.

Bjarezhtsy 2007.  Юр’е, Бярэжцы 2007 год.

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May 5, 2012 7:00 pm

Orthodox St. George’s Day falls on May 6.  The date traditionally marked the day when villagers led their cows in procession out to pasture for the first time in the year.  Here women from the Polesian village of Bjarezhtsy, having sung St. George’s Day songs and prayed to God for a prosperous season, return from the fields to sing and pray at each roadside cross in the village.

Bjarezhtsy 2007.  Юр’е, Бярэжцы 2007 год.

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May 4, 2012 7:00 pm

Orthodox St. George’s Day falls on May 6.  The date traditionally marked the day when villagers led their cows in procession out to pasture for the first time in the year.  Here women from the Polesian village of Bjarezhtsy, having walked in procession to a rye field at the edge of the village and danced around the flag and oak branch and flowers held by village men, sing St. George’s Day songs and pray to God for a prosperous season.

Bjarezhtsy 2007.  Юр’е, Бярэжцы 2007 год.

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May 3, 2012 7:00 pm

Orthodox St. George’s Day falls on May 6.  The date traditionally marked the day when villagers led their cows in procession out to pasture for the first time in the year.  Here women from the Polesian village of Bjarezhtsy, stopping to call their neighbors to join them, walk in procession to a rye field on the edge of the village.  Men are chosen to hold the standards and a plant (symbols of fertility).  In the field the women will sing St. George’s Day songs and pray to God for a prosperous season.

Bjarezhtsy 2007.  Юр’е, Бярэжцы 2007 год.

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May 2, 2012 7:00 pm

To commemorate the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’s Constitution of May 3, 1791.  З нагоды Дня Канстытуцыі 3-га траўня.

In reaction to this democratic document, Europe’s first modern national constitution, the Russian Empire launched a war which led to the second, and then the third partition of Poland, wiping Poland off the map until 1918.  Tadeusz Kosciuszko (Tadevush Kas’tsjushka in Belarusian), scion of a noble Belarusian family and a man whose efforts were integral to the success of the American Revolution, fought courageously but in vain against the Russians.  He was born near the town of Kosava in today’s Bjeras’tsje (Brest) Region.

Kosciuszko/Kas’tsjushka statue, Chicago 2002.  Помнік Тадэвушу Касьцюшку, Шікага 2002 год.

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May 1, 2012 7:00 pm

Spring Planting, Tsjerablichy 2011.  Цераблічы 2011 год.

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May 1, 2012 12:01 am

Vjeljamichy 2008.  Велямічы 2008 год.