Calling In the Spring: Planina Sings at CU Slavic Spring Festival 2025

Name: Calling In the Spring: Planina Sings at CU Slavic Spring Festival 2025 — PLANINA
Start: 2025-04-18T16:00:00-0600
End: 2025-04-18T18:00:00-0600
Location: University of Colorado-Boulder

Friday, April 18, 2025
4:00 PM 6:00 PM 16:00 18:00

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Planina is excited to return to CU-Boulder for the Slavic Spring Festival on Friday, April 19! This is a family event, free and open to the public.

Presented by UC-Boulder's Germanic and Slavic Languages Department, this annual festival brings together traditional music, food, and games to celebrate spring. Blini with various toppings will be served.

Planina will sing songs from Ukraine, Georgia, Russia, Bulgaria, and other Eastern European traditions. A few songs represent a tradition in which women and girls would sing to "call in the spring and see winter off.” Other songs are accompanied by violin, accordion, and drum. Kids and adults alike are invited to dance to some of the tunes.

The event takes place on the northwest corner of the University of Colorado-Boulder campus, on the lawn between Hale Science Building and Varsity Pond near Broadway and University. Here's a link to an interactive campus map Bring a blanket or chair for sitting on the lawn.

UPDATE 4/17: Due to colder weather, the event has been moved indoors to the CU Student Recreation Center, Studio 4.

The Student Recreation Center is located at 1855 Pleasant Street, Boulder. The closest public parking garage is Folsom Parking Garage at Folsom St. and Stadium Drive. Or you can park at the meters on University Avenue – the same place you would have parked for the event on the lawn. Then walk east along University Avenue behind Macky Auditorium and follow the path past the the Humanities Building and the Biology Building on your right. The Rec Center will be on your left.

Studio 4 is on the first floor in the areas where the basketball courts are. When you enter the main doors of the rec center there are stairs straight ahead: go down them, then follow the main hallway to the climbing wall (there is also an information desk there). Go right from there all the way to the basketball court. To access the room, walk along the wall to the right on the court: Studio 4 is the last door on the right, just before the emergency exit.