On 15th June the Ethno-Festival SVIESTS will take place in Valmiermui\u017ea already for the third time. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This year`s festival theme is \u201cThe Passage of Time\u201d, exploring how people have perceived time in different ages and how they have celebrated special seasons – different cyclical festivities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The daytime programme features the biggest homeproducers and farmers market \u201cGardu Muti\u201d,<\/strong> as well as creative workshops, where different crafts people will show how traditionally time is being represented or measured \u2013 it can be seen in jewelry and other ornaments. The culinary workshops will introduce the public to different ways how to preserve food, thus “stop the time” for different food products – milk that is being churned into butter or fermented into cheese, beer brewing, the use of different herbs in food and also for health and beauty products that are supposed to stop the ageing process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The daytime music programme features the local Ethno Kokles Group<\/strong> from Valmiera – leader Zane Sni\u0137ere, the folklore dance group DANDARI<\/strong> as well as \u201cR\u016b\u017eupis veiri\u201d<\/strong> from Latgale. At 6 p.m. the Evening Programme will start with the best Latvian Ethno-Groups – the first post-folklore group \u201cI\u013c\u0123i\u201d<\/strong> with their new programme, as well as the electro-folk group \u201cZeMe\u201d,<\/strong> that unites the kokle virtuoso Laima Jansone with the internationally reknowned master of electronic music DJ Monsta. <\/p>\n\n\n\n