Summer. Song. Festival
In a nutshell: Fizzarum, EXIT Project, Crimson Butterfly, ethnic and electronic music, theatre of fire, dance workshops, yoga classes
Established, including the name, the tradition, the festival WAFEst this year will include four units: water (Water), Air (Air), Fire (Fire) and Earth (Earth). From traditional water components — sailing, wakeboarding and water skiing, zorbing, a water Park and battles on the water pistols. Music (or “breath” of the festival) will be ethnic and electronic, naughty and romantic: within four days visitors will play such teams as Fizzarum (St. Petersburg ), Asketics/Ascetics (Petrozavodsk ), EXIT Project, Crimson Butterfly (Nizhny Novgorod ), “the Penultimate Temptation” (Nizhny Novgorod), SAGE, GreyD and many others. In block Fire their performances will show theatres of fire from different cities of Russia and CIS, as well as guests from Europe — the team Loooop! and master of fire arts Thomas Johansson. And in the Earth block will include all that are unable to absorb other elements: Continue reading
Zelenka in April: when will the famous festival
For five years, the brilliant green fest has grown from a Ukrainian internal event professionals in full-fledged international festival. For the second year to the festival famous bands come from Europe. Ukrainian participants of the previous festivals actively invite other international events.
“One of the important tasks of the Festival is to enter Ukraine in the international dance community. Of course, to find and preserve their own individuality. It is essential to the development of contemporary dance in Ukraine. And we are succeeding. For example, for the second year in a row we attract well-known foreign choreographers to create works with Ukrainian dancers” .
Holiday menu. How to prepare meals for the holiday?
Organization of festive events and assumes a festive menu: original recipes of dishes will allow you to make a spectacular holiday menu at home. Before you start cooking, evaluate your wants, needs, and, mainly, the possibilities – and their own kitchen utensils.
Prefer the simplicity of the experiments and do not overestimate your culinary competence. Complicated recipe – not so good. So read a few recipes selected courses. If they seem too tricky – eliminate them from the festive menu. Recipes it is advisable to choose those dishes that are already prepared more than once. Experiments on the holiday table will only be valid if You are a professional chef.
Having defined the holiday menu, home, make a shopping list and pay a visit to the market or to the store. But first take a look in the fridge and evaluate its contents. Homemade products (mayonnaise, canned fruits and vegetables, smoked or pickled meat, fish etc.) are always significantly different from their industrial counterparts. In any case, You can be confident in the quality of ingredients and the absence of thickeners, emulsifiers and preservatives. If You don’t have much time, think about the foods You can cook in advance and keep fresh in the refrigerator (e.g., mayonnaise), in sealed Continue reading
Rio de Janeiro carnival starts
Traditionally carnival is preceded by a humorous procession through the streets of the city, during which the King Momo is one of the most obese residents Rio sits on the throne. The king is chosen from among the applicants, the weight of which must be at least 100 kg. In the final procession the mayor symbolically hands over the keys to the King from the city, which he will rule for 6 days.
Friday carnival day will be entirely dedicated to children. 30 thousand young participants from 16 children’s Samba schools at municipal schools will showcase their skills. And on Saturday they will be replaced by 1 thousand 800 representatives of the older generation, the majority of participants over 60 years.
The climax of the carnival will be competition 14 best Samba schools, which will be held on Sunday, RIA Novosti reported.
Each of the Samba schools “League” puts into the preparation for the carnival on average about million, spends on making costumes and decorations up to 40 tons of pressed paper, 80 thousand meters of fabric, 6 thousand liters of paint, and a ton of glue, nails, polypropylene and fire-prevention impregnation.
In Moscow will be held the evening Continue reading
Decoration of salads to feast
Today it is hard to imagine any holiday table without a salad. Our Slavic nation loves salads: assorted, delicious, vodka, traditional and original! And beautiful salads – this is such a nice addition to any salad, which tries to embody in his kitchen of every housewife.
Decoration of salads – it’s like a religion and philosophy – each family has its own, and combines them with one common passion — the decoration of dishes. To philosophize about how to decorate salads can be long. And there are people who do not like the decoration of salads in our usual sense. In any case, beautiful salads – it’s the atmosphere of the holiday celebration, it is an opportunity to make our brighter and more saturated.
Dear friends, I offer you an original selection of examples of decoration of salads, which I hope you not only enjoy, but will appear on your holiday table.
Salad “Sunflower”
Salad with chicken and mushrooms “Mushroom”
Salad “Watermelon slice”
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