site.btaAssociation of Bulgarian Schools in America Starts Project to Preserve Bulgarian Traditions

The Association of Bulgarian Schools in America (ABSA) is starting a project to preserve Bulgarian traditions, the ABSA reported on its website. The project entails inviting students from Bulgarian Sunday schools in the US to produce content related to the most popular Bulgarian holidays and customs, then submit the content into a competition.

The content will then compete in one of three groups depending on the age of the child: from 4 to 7, from 8 to 11 and from 12 years to 18-year-olds. A submission can be made for the competition up to the last Sunday before the particular holiday to which it applies.

The competition includes the following holidays marked in Bulgaria:

• National Awakeners Day, November 1
• Feast of St Nicholas the Miracle Maker, December 6
• Christmas Eve
• New Year's Eve
• Commemorating the anniversary of the death of revolutionary Vasil Levski, February 19
• Baba Marta Day, March 1
• Liberation Day, March 3
• Mother's Day, March 8
• The day when a Constituent Assembly adopts the Constitution of the Bulgarian Principality, later known as the Tarnovo Constitution, April 16
• Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter
• Easter
• Day of Bulgarian Alphabet, Bulgarian Enlightenment and Culture, May 24
• Day of Remembrance for All Who Have Died for Bulgaria's Freedom and Independence, June 2