The harvest festival at the Lublin Village Open Air Museum will start with a Holy Mass at the church from Matczyn at 2 pm. As in previous years, on Sunday the lodge in the church will be reserved for the heir’s family, and the axis of the nave for harvesters with harvest wreaths. After the Mass, a harvest procession will go through the museum town and village of Lubelska Upland to the manor house from Żyrzyn. Rituals of the harvest ceremony will be staged on the porch of the manor house, including the handing over a harvest wreath woven on a wooden frame according to the tradition of the Sławin estate, the location of the Lublin Village Open Air Museum, and wreaths put on the heads of the manor heirs according to the harvest ceremony from the estate of Guzówka near Wysokie.
Programme:
11 AM – 1 PM: display of disappearing professions: threshing, scone baking
11 AM– 5 PM: fair of handicraft and local products
2 PM: thanksgiving holy mass
2:50 PM: harvest festival procession
3 PM: staging of manor harvest celebration
4 PM: harvest party in a manor park
4 PM: 2nd International Folk Music Festival World Wide 2018 (Roztocze sector, at the estate from Teodorówka)