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Croatian Cultural Garden Dedication
June 3, 2012
The Croatian Cultural Garden Committee invites you to attend the Dedication Ceremonies of Phase One of the Croatian Cultural Garden. We will begin with the Holy Mass at 10:00am at St. Paul's Church, 1369 E. 40th Street, Cleveland, Ohio. The Garden dedication will commence at 1:00pm at the Croatian Garden site on Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. There is free parking on MLK and on East Blvd. A reception will follow the program at the site. Please reserve this date so that we can show our Croatian pride in the new garden.
The Croatian Garden is being developed in three phases. Phase One will be on the lower level on Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Phase Two will include the completion of the hillside steps and benches as well as the waterfall. Phase Three will be the development of the upper garden with busts of Croatian cultural figures and the Viseslavova Krstionica. This space will be open for a gathering place.
A symbolic union of the nations represented in the gardens will be done through a ceremony of placing Croatian soil with the soil of the other nations represented. A bit of Croatian soil will also be placed in the Croatian Garden.
The bronze statue of The Immigrant Mother by the well-known, sculptor Joseph Turkaly will be unveiled in the center plaza. She represents the thousands of mothers who came to America seeking freedom and a better life for their families. Many came as refugees after wars in their homeland.
The granite monument base will have the Croatian grb, a symbol followed by the Croatians for centuries both in wars and in peace. It has been embellished and changed over the centuries in various adaptations.
The Croatian Glagolitic Script will be engraved on one side of the monument. The Croats using the Glagolitic alphabet were the only nation in Europe who was given a special permission by Pope Innocent IV in 1248 to use their own language and this script in their liturgy.
The pleter or troplet in Croatian is a type of interlace, most characteristic for its three-ribbon pattern. It will be engraved around the monument base and garden benches. It is one of the most used patterns of pre-romanesque Croatian. It is found on and within churches as well as monasteries built in early medieval Kingdom of Croatia between the 9th and beginning of the 12th century. Most representative examples of inscriptions embellished with the pleter include the Baška Plo?a and the Branimir Inscription.
The Licitar Heart-shaped Flower Bed surrounding the monument plaza will be planted with red roses and white border flowers to remind everyone of the licitar. The licitar represents an expression of love for one another and our homeland Croatia.
Brac Stone benches will be in the garden for visitors to relax. The white stone is so beautiful and will always remind everyone of the Island of Brac. This stone was also used in the Senate Building in Washington, D.C. It was brought to the United States on cargo ships during the Senate building construction.
Slapovi Krke- Cascades
The waterfall will remind us of the beautiful cascades of the Falls of the Krke in Croatia.
Phase Three
VIŠESLAVOVA KRSTIONICA
Višeslav was one of the first princes or dukes (Croatian Knez) of Littoral Croatia. Višeslav left behind a baptismal font (in Croatian: Višeslavova krstionica), surviving to this day, which remains an important symbol of early Croatian history and the people's conversion to Christianity. The inscription is in Latin, and mentions the name of a priest named John (Ivan) who baptized people during "the time of Duke Višeslav" in the honor of John the Baptist. A reproduction of Višeslavova Krstionica will be installed during Phase Three on the upper level. Contact: Branka Malinar 440-316-7211 or bmalinar@yahoo.com for more information
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2012
Immigrant Mother statue in the Croatian Cultural Garden
Placement of the statue and preview of the Garden
Members of the Turkaly family with the
Immigrant Mother statue in the Croatian Cultural Garden
2011
Croatian Cultural Garden Ground Breaking
April 30, 2011
Jerry and Branka Malinar
Croatian Pride. Cleveland Junior Tamburitzans
At the 21st annual International Folk Festival July 18, 2010
Croatian Cultural Garden Benefit
Photos and videos from the November 1, 2009 event
The Cleveland Junior Tamburitzans was founded in 1959 and there are now 75 active dancers. The goal of the CJT is to teach each child to dance and sing to traditional Croatian Music and to learn to play the traditional instruments of Croatia. Tom Salopek is an expert tambura player and shares his knowledge and skills as Music Director of the CJT. Katarina Lukacevic is a former member of Ivan Goran Kovacic, a premier tambura dance ensemble from Croatia, and she uses her experience to choreograph dance sets, teach dance and instruct vocals at the Cardinal Stepinac Croatian Home Cultural Center.
Cleveland Junior Tamburitzans Performing at the Hungarian Festival of Freedom 10-21-06
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The Croatian Heritage Museum and Library
Located in the American Croatian Lodge Complex in Eastlake, Ohio
The main goals of the Croatian Heritage Museum & Library are:
- Commitment to the collection and preservation of Croatian history and culture source materials and artifacts.
- Commitment to the historical and cultural research of Croatians in the United States.
- Promotion of the fine arts of Croatian artist.
- Sharing the Croatian culture and history with the general public to promote mutual understanding through outreach programs in the community.
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The lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the close of World War I. In 1918, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a kingdom known after 1929 as Yugoslavia. Following World War II, Yugoslavia became a federal independent Communist state under the strong hand of Marshal Tito. Although Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, it took four years of sporadic, but often bitter, fighting before occupying Serb armies were mostly cleared from Croatian lands. Under UN supervision, the last Serb-held enclave in eastern Slavonia was returned to Croatia in 1998. (facts courtesy of CIA World Fact Book)
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