The Christmas Festival will take place from December 17 to January 1. For the first time, the Dominican Order, the Marshal's Office of the Lublin Voivodship and the Lublin Commune are working together to organize Christmas season events.
In the previous years, the authorities of the Lublin Commune would display a Christmas nativity scene at the Po Farze Square. This year, the nativity scene will be moved to the square next to the Dominican Basilica – at the end of Złota Street. During the Festival, it will be the venue of Christmas art performances filled with Christmas carols.
The Marshal's Office of the Lublin Voivodship is the organizer of the Christmas Market. Everyone is invited! Among approximately 20 stalls, there will be a selection of Christmas-themed handcrafted products and delicious traditional Christmas dishes. The Christmas Market will be available to visitors from December 17 to December 21. The stalls will be erected at the Old Town Market Square, next to the Crown Tribunal building.
On December 18, the Dominicans will invite everyone to gather around the Christmas table for the 12th time in the row.
“Christmas is a family holiday, and the Christmas Eve is when people get together. We want to meet at the Christmas table to show our community spirit. We want to show all the best we have. We want to invite everyone to shake hands, exchange wishes and ask for forgiveness in order to make the next year even better. Let's show the world that we stand together!,” invites Father Robert Głubisz, the Prior of the Dominican Convent in Lublin.
The table with Christmas Eve dishes will be displayed in the Old Town, and the Dominican Basilica is where we will gather for a solemn Holy Mass. We will also continue with the tradition of decorating Christmas trees and giving gifts to children.
Among other attractions, there will also be a Christmas illumination, aromatic spruce trees and a welcoming Christmas atmosphere.
Organizers invite everyone to help them organize the Old Town Christmas Eve by preparing gifts for the youngest. Those gifts will be wrapped and given as Christmas presents to 700 of the most needy children of our city.
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SCHEDULE
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December 17, 2011 – January 1, 2012
The Marshal’s Christmas Market
December 17, 2011 (Saturday)
11.30 AM - 4.00 PM – Decorating the Christmas tree, singing Christmas pastorales Christmas storytelling by the Christmas tree
11.30 AM - 12.00 PM – Performance of a musical and vocal band from the Cultural Centre in Kock
12.00 PM - 12.30 PM – Christmas carols concert – “Siedliszczanie” band from Siedliska
12.30 PM - 12.50 PM – Christmas traditions in Europe – Q&A session with an invited guest
12.50 PM - 1.20 PM – Christmas art baking – a show
1.20 PM - 1.50 PM – Traditional and modern Christmas carols concert
1.50 PM - 2.10 PM – Christmas traditions in Europe – the host talks about decorating a Christmas tree
2.10 PM - 3.10 PM – “Chocolate inspirations – playing with chocolate” – stage performance
4.00 PM - 5.00 PM – “Dawid Gałązka z Zespołem” – a concert
December 18, 2011 (Sunday)
12.00 PM - 5.00 PM – Games and plays around the decorated Christmas tree – pictures with Santa Claus in sleigh
12.00 PM - 12.10 PM – Christmas traditions in Europe – the host talks to an invited guest
12.10 PM - 12.40 PM – “Aleksandrowiacy” band – a concert
12.40 PM - 1.40 PM – Christmas dishes – a culinary presentation
2.10 PM - 2.40 PM – “LL Band” – a concert
2.30 PM - 3.00 PM – Traditional Christmas table, Christmas Eve dishes tasting
3.00 PM - 3.30 PM – “LL Band” – a concert
The Old Town Christmas Eve
December 18, 2011 (Sunday) from 4.00 PM to 7.30 PM, the Old Town in Lublin
4.00 PM – Mass for the residents of Lublin
From 5.00 PM:
performance of the “Panopticum” theatre group from the Youth Cultural Centre “Pod Akacją” – “Święta Noc” (“Holy Night”)
Christmas wishes and traditional Christmas wafer sharing
Christmas food tasting prepared by Lublin restaurants (Złota Street – the square around the Crown Tribunal)
singing Christmas carols: choirs – KAMERTONIK / KONSANAS / SŁAWINIACY / SUCHYNIANKI / KOWALANKI / KRAJKA / Chór Ponad Granicami (Over the Borders) Choir of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University's Polish Language and Culture Centre for Polish People from Abroad and Foreigners.
Christmas gifts for children
“Arrindal” Theatre of Fire
Outdoor Christmas nativity scene
December 17, 2011 – January 1, 2012, Złota Street – the Old Town Market Square in Lublin
December 20, 2011 (Tuesday)
7.00 PM – MESSIAH – Handel’s oratorio (the Dominican Basilica)
December 27, 2011 (Tuesday)
5.00 PM – Drewutnia folk band – a concert
December 28, 2011 (Wednesday)
7.00 PM – Ernest Bryll and Marcin Styczeń – performance: “Zejdźmy się jak na wigilię” (“Let's get together like we do on Christmas Eve”)
December 29, 2011 (Thursday)
5.00 PM – Christmas carols – “Sławiniacy” band – a concert
6.00 PM – singing Christmas carols with VIPs
Singing Christmas carols for children
December 20 - December 22, Outdoor Christmas nativity scene and the Cloister of the Dominican Convent at 9 Złota Street, the Old Town in Lublin
December 20, 2011 (Tuesday)
10.00 AM - 1.00 PM – singing Christmas carols by the nativity scene: Middle School number 9, Kindergarten number 18, School Complex number 10, Trzydziestkowe Nutki (children's band from Primary School number 30), Kindergarten number 26, Kindergarten number 63, Kindergarten number 11
December 21, 2011 (Wednesday)
Cloister of the Dominican Convent at 9 Złota Street, the Old Town in Lublin
11.00 AM - 12.00 PM – Nuns from Madagascar
12.00 PM - 1.00 PM/2.00 PM – the White Fathers, Missionaries of Africa – Father Otto Katto from Uganda
2.00 PM - 3.00 PM – the White Sisters, Missionaries of Africa
Scheduled activities:
Singing carols in foreign languages (Swahili, Malagasy)
Presentation of pictures and movies from Africa
Exhibition of the African art
Stories about Africa, Madagascar
Africa and Madagascar dance classes
December 22, 2011
9.00 AM - 11.00 AM – Christmas carols on tin whistles and drums, hosted by Janusz Woźniak (children from grades 1 to 6)
11.00 AM - 12.00 PM – Ewa Noga, angels + playing Christmas carols on pipes (children from grades 1 to 6)
10.00 AM - 3.00 PM – Christmas movie theatre for children
Number of seats is limited.
For reservations, please contact: fundacja@dominikanie.lub.pl