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LegendFest originated in a small historical town of Pi\u0107an<\/strong> where it became a tradition over the years. The town\u2019s rich medieval history provides a dose of mysticism for the festival, making it an ideal cross-platform for history, culture and legends. With such growing reputation, LegendFest now attracts more visitors each year.<\/p>\n During the festival, the old part of town gets decorated with traditional Istrian fabrics and residents dress up in Istrian folk costumes. The visuals of the Glagolitic alphabet are scattered throughout the town accompanied by the unique sounds of Istrian melodies. The visitors can sample local wines whilst being amused by the passing giants, witches, krsniks, vampires, pirates, fairies, Venetians, emperors, bishops … Each available space, each empty house, meadow or square gets filled up with artistic events based on the theme of myths, legends and stories of Istria.<\/p>\n In Croatia, there are many places rich in tangible and intangible cultural heritage which needs to be brought to the attention of the public, protected and nurtured for future generations. This is one of the reasons for the spread of LegendFest in Zagreb and \u0160ibenik-Knin counties where it is slowly becoming a tradition as well.<\/p>\n Ever since 2014 LegendFest is also being held in the old town of Lukavec<\/strong> near Velika Gorica. The old castle rich in history provides an ideal location for representing legends, myths and stories of the Zagreb County. The festival has \u2018wrapped\u2019 the old town Lukavec in fairy tale attire and \u2018breathed\u2019 a new life into it. The magical forest around the old castle, full of oak trees, frogs, butterflies and magical beings, has hosted numerous artists, musicians, children’s workshops and old stories over the past three years.<\/p>\n From 2016 LegendFest brings a new touch of magic at Ro\u0161ki slap in the Krka National Park<\/strong>. In the unspoiled nature of river Krka, at fabulous locations of Ro\u0161ki slap, Ozi\u0111ane cave and ancient water mills, visitors can now experience the richness of tangible and intangible cultural heritage of the \u0160ibenik-Knin County. Stories filled with fairies, mythical dragons, quarrelsome newlyweds and distraught Fathers are all retold through a series of performances, workshops and concerts. We sincerely hope that LegendFest will become a tradition in this region as well.<\/p>\n As nowadays more and more we want to be active participants and not just passive observers at the festivals, LegendFest programme is ideal for those who wish to be active at such events. It is almost impossible to list all the workshops, performances, exhibitions and concerts where visitors could actively participate and interact. LegendFest programme is a real adventure for visitors as they never know what will happen during a performance, when the storyteller will drag them into the story and make them a main character, what will turn up at the next corner\u2026<\/p>\n Over the years over 500 local artists and performers<\/strong> have performed at LegendFest, using various areas of creative expression: theatre, music, dance, film, visual arts, etc. Many guests and artists from around the world (Italy, Austria, Slovenia and Israel) have also participated in the festival programme as well as numerous primary school students. It’s very hard to acknowledge all the performers as there are so many, but we will mention at least some of them:<\/p>\n Musicians<\/strong> Artistic groups and associations<\/strong> Actors<\/strong> Dance and other performers<\/strong> Lecturers<\/strong> Artists guests from abroad<\/strong> [vc_row container_width=”yes” full_height=”yes”][vc_column][vc_column_text] About festival locations LegendFest originated in a small historical town of Pi\u0107an where it became a tradition over the years. The town\u2019s rich medieval history provides a dose of mysticism for the festival, making it an ideal cross-platform for history, culture and legends. With such growing reputation, LegendFest now attracts more visitors each year. During the festival, the old part of town gets decorated with traditional Istrian fabrics and residents dress up in Istrian folk costumes. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendfest.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendfest.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendfest.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendfest.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendfest.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/legendfest.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6512,"href":"https:\/\/legendfest.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1788\/revisions\/6512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendfest.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About programmes and performers<\/h3>\n
\nEthno groups – Kries, \u0160\u0107ike, Veja, Jane, Stjepan Ve\u010dkovi\u0107 and Croatian bagpipe orchestra, Franko Krajcar & Indivia, Ensemble Triola, Putokazi, L.I.P.E., Druydakustik, Riemann Zeta
\nJelena Radan & Meritas, Lidija Bajuk<\/p>\n
\nNikola Faller and association\u00a0Slama, Bratstvo Sv. Mihovila from Karlovac, Historical Society\u00a0Ka\u0161tel Svetvin\u010denat, KUD Mi\u010devec, Laboratory Fun\u00a0from Zagreb, ethno association Kurilovec, Association of Revived History\u00a0“Ordo sanct viti” from Rijeka, Association “Pusti pri\u010du” from Pula<\/p>\n
\nFilip Li\u010danin, Martina and Nenad Mlinar, Theatre Tirena from Zagreb, RI Theatre, Istrian National Theatre, Theatre\u00a0of shadows “Tripstih”, Scena Gorica, Theatre Zvrk from Rijeka<\/p>\n
\nCenter\u00a0for culture Pokret zvuka from Zagreb, Traumatic Arts from Zagreb, Triko Circus Theatre from Zagreb, Razbibriga from Zagreb, Acrofunkers from Zagreb, dance theatre\u00a0Sjene from \u0160ibenik, Sundari, Margareta and Davor Per\u0161i\u0107, Ivo Vi\u010di\u0107, Vanesa Petrac, Dubravka Vidovi\u0107<\/p>\n
\nKorado Korlevi\u0107, Drago Ple\u010dko, Miroslav Berto\u0161a, Vitomir Belaj, Nu\u0161a Hauser, Elis Ba\u0107ac, Egli Ili\u0107, Zoran \u010ci\u010da, Romana Leki\u0107, Sandra Bare\u0161in, Marko Dragi\u0107, Iva Silla, Maja Mastnak Car<\/p>\n
\nItaly -Teatro Drago Rosso and Teatro Opl’a from Verona
\nIsrael \u2013 ethno ensemble Yamma[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”6325″ add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_circle_2″ onclick=”custom_link” title=”Folklore” link=”http:\/\/legendfest.hr\/en\/festivals\/folklore\/”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”42″ add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_circle_2″ onclick=”custom_link” title=”Lukavec” link=”http:\/\/legendfest.hr\/en\/festivals\/lukavec\/”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”43″ add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_circle_2″ onclick=”custom_link” title=”NP Krka” link=”http:\/\/legendfest.hr\/en\/festivals\/np-krka\/”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1339″ add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_circle_2″ onclick=”custom_link” title=”Pi\u0107an” link=”http:\/\/legendfest.hr\/en\/festivals\/pican\/”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"