Th* riewiy förmed Ontarip Folk Festival Soclety presents its ftrst . Workshop Festival at the CeiitraL YMCA ~ The John Madsen Folh; Seheoi presents its Ninth Fc^stivai at the Cherry Hill Farm
THE KOSSUfH'S ADY CAN FEEL PROüh '^pj^f^^ JQ
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nal foiK festival exhibitions, and support of research in Canadian folk art.
• ir IS HIGH time that tbe many. cóhred, but oilicially aímóst completélypnattended Canadian iolk cuítares. are now receiving somé wider public a^tentíon.^even ii it is stiíl not *'oíiicial'*, The jnoéressive Ukrainian^'Finnish,^ and other
organizations ior decade& were doing hard, extensive andsacriii-cing pioneeríng to cultivaietbeir'own national cultares oí otigiri
'and^^ to iníegrate them with the much jaegJected Canadian ioík cuíiures. However, in the atmosphere of ofiicial dhcrimination^^ éveit attacksagainst them somé hreak
throughs — th^ir eiiotis and eüects seemed límitedi and somé of them even felt frustirated. - ^ *'.
•^Nciiv these gtoups, among them the Kossuth*s Ady Ensembíe in Toronto^ or the oíd working class-Theatve of Action, ot the tece'nt Play-ActOTSt OT the unique John Madsen Folk School.of Unionvittei canféel very "prond ihat in awake of theitr hard sttuggle and sacrifices the dawn Js breaking for wider and fullet, advaricement of Canadian fotk cűltures. - •
EUROPEAN and X^anadian fólk dances and songs have attracted'so' much attention here in the past^few years thatan Ontario Folk Festival Society has been recently söt, up 'to promote Canada'sfolk cultures, Leon Kossar . of The Telegram wrote last week, ^
-Tlíe first ttep in this w^^^^^ be t^kén June 21 when this orgianizatiqii presents its firat Workshop Festival^ fo cusing principally on folk music and dahciriig, át tHe
Central YMCA in Toronto.
Planncd aa a 'tparticipation festival" the Workshop Festival wUl
tie iri with the Ninth Annaál John
Madsen Folk FesÚval at Cherry
Hill Fanji, Únlonville (neár Mark-
ham,-on highviray No. 7), scheduled -^for* the same week end.
. The Onta^o Folk Festival Society, stin in embryonic stagea.
nbw, includes representaUves from
several key ethnic group organi-
zation as welí as International
Institutfr. YMCA, YWCA, St.
Christopher House, WMHA, Uni-
verslty SetUement officlals. Workshop conunittee chairman
Ml SS Ivy Krehn said all groups
concemed are dedicated to ^ the
"workshop idea'" — the idea of
getUng together in stiidy groups
to explore community llfe and
group culture". Two separate workshop wül be
held: June 21 to study^. the folk
song and the folk dance' of. various
Canadian group components. Eách workshop will coroprise
Canadian square dance; folk song,
and Buropeaii folk song, folk
dance groups: Workshop audlence
wiU particlpate in the dancing and
singing of each group. Canadiana of Anglo-Saxon
stock 'who attend the festival will
be surprised to ' hear themselvea
singing in foreign languages.
Fhonetíc transcriptions of other-than-EngUsh-Ianguage folk' 8<»ig8 will bó available for those who wish to joln in. ( '
With the folk dancing, thin|^ will be a llttle simpler. The foot-work's ^latívely the same In any language. ^. .
The new folk festival orgazüza-tion hsa set several important tUma to cover futture activiUea.
Among these are the promotíon of fojk arta, cíoser co-operaUon betw$en Canada'a' grou^ public a^preciation of folk culturea, aa well aa the pooling of informa-Uon on available cultural resour-ces, raising of slandards of regio-
AGCORDING Jo a statement ís-süed bytlie Canadian Youth Festival Conunittee, JL75 yo\ing' Can-á<^ana are ,^ already registered to attend the 6th -World Youth F«Ba-tival in JJIoscow this summer, and a second pláne haa been chartered to carry additíonal partieipanta to whát promises to be the biggest and most cxciting youth Featival yet. The committee estimatea that there will be at least 200 from Canada at the Festival.
Álong with 30,000 young people from 120 countries, the Canadians will open the Festival- with a large and colorful parade on July ^ 28^ marking the beglnning of 15 days of festívities including cííltural^ and sports events, friendly meet-' ^ihgs between delegaUons, meet-ings based ori'occupation and ín-terest, student seminars and hxmd-(Continuea on pagö 12)
(Al A view «n o copifaltsf country's cuifuri,
ond
(B) A view on o soetalist ceuntfy'c eiilture
by JOE FERENCZY / YoutR and Oulturdl Dlrector of. KMSQtIt
FROM THE TIME the Earth wás first foméd ,we have undergoné constant qhanging, evé^ythJAg that'ís fíom th^ véry crust of the Earth to thé more compHúáted living forms inhabiting it. This we call evolutiori, a small word, with a very complex meaning. ^ " ^
(A) VIEW: . ^
^ For example 400 years ágo Qanada was just hegin-ning tó be known, first came the . explorei*s, then . the wealth seeTcers, then: the öutcasts of other couritries, then the settlers, fírst from
Francé and England, even
more came up from the South (United States). At first only the East part of Canada was setUed, but the tentacles of mass settlefa soon began to foUow the courageous explorers -West.
People from every .corner of the earth came to settlé Canada, uni-ted they: forged/on. Had not the pedples ofCanada a commcm and close relationship.^ aiíd had .they not struggled colléctivély, we the
ATXAST YEAK'S John Mad&sn Folk Festival, among 25 different nationaUty groups, the Toronto ' A^ Ensemble of tba Kossuth Society (iMBF) was one of the best performers with the Bottle Dance and Weddhig at Ecser.'The Ninth John Madsen Folk Festival will be held on Saturday June 22, at the Cherry HiU Farm'of UnionvUle, near Markham, on highway No. 7. «
Fiye Times os Miany Seientísts are Trained in the Soviet Union
VANCOUVER — Ottó Fisher, educational expert for the Defense Research JBoard, Ottawa, said here pn June 5, that by 1960, the Soviet Union Boon will be training five túnea aa mariy civillan scientists and engineeris as Canada in proportion to popülation.
Alreacty, Soviet universities, en-* gineering schoola and medical col-legea have 2,000,000 studenta, or 614 for every 100,000 citirena. Thia comparea with 494 for every 100,-000 in Canada, he aaid.
"Supply of technically trained manpower is a prerequisite for any country which seeka tooccupy a dominant poaltion in world af-^rs," he told delegatea attending the ánnual congresa of the Chemical Institute of Canada.
"The reason for the phenome-nal scale on which Soviet educa-tion ia conducted ia really quite simple — the state takes the gra-duate^ and is prepared to payjor their training," he told a Chemical educaUon sjrmposium that opened the flnal day of the three-day conventiön. Mr. Fisher said tuition feesnow
have' been abollshed altogether and almost all studenta engaged in lilgher-cducation are pald bur-sariea eqülvalent to a reasonable wage.
He said the greatest differences in the educational output of Canada and the Soviet Union are in the fleld of postgraduate studies. More then 7,000 Russian studenta were engaged in this work in 1955, compared with 271 doctors of philosophy candidatea in Canada.
NEWS FROM HUNGARY
BUDAPEST — The Hungárián Universities wiU this year admit 6,000 new studenta — only 180 fewer than last year. In addlUon
provision is being madíf for up to 2,500 adults who want to improve their education to take up corres-pondence courses for university-degrees.
Hungárián youth in generál is fastly getting rid of the effecta of last fali counter-revolution.
A LEADER CAIVIE BACK
The Hungárián State Folk Iki-semble haa retumed home from ita French tour one man atronger tiian it set out. Lajoa Borosa,' leader of the orchestral group, who had left Hungary after thé Insurrecüon, rejoined hia in Paris and went them.
frienda home with
UTFLE FARMER
The dancers and slngers had a very succesful tour, giving 108 performancea to audiencea totall-Ing 150.000. .
OPERA STÁB IN BRITAIN
Mihály Székely, leading baaa of the Hungarian-State Opera Houae ia visiting Brltain, taWng part-in the Glyndeboume FeaUvaL He ato-ted before he left Budapest. Uiat
descondentswoüld yét be living in poverty,sí)d aot in our preaent cohifortable'ahd modem. surround.> -inga. • - , \
I can safely say tíiat iií rawma-teriaV forHi; Gaiiada Is culturally * one of the rícheat; countriea of the world; Wexnight say that Gá-náda is'aüeld diibbed with hund-^ reds of typ§S; of • gloriously colored flQwers. Nowhere elae in the world caii such posslblUtíea bé attained. Then on. the other hand, Canada's culture or flowera are - one of the most uncultivated and neglected ia -the world.^
One/ of the biggest^ short-com-ings of all the ethnic groups of Canada*^ la that: th€y .'look upon their í sole súrroimdings' as the ' inok important sAd to exa-hilné facts ^wlÍJi Ét I sectarian ap-proach.;pntíiiécpiitrÉ^ groups are not for the benefít of thé mem-bersof? that group/^ i^^^ for the behéflt;^if aU in whátéVer ffrpűjEJ'^'they parti-cipaté hí.- We i*P]^ tfe^strUggling that all theiséVflpWei^ ih;;_our back-yard bé preséryéd, so thai iri the future alj :may bevapplíéd and ob-tained withput: iiaying to go Intó any extensive research.
Coming to án agreöment that Cai^ada has a yer^ rich history and an even .greater future in storeiwhat with "thé raw cultural resources:. leads us to ask.
Why are jajl these -cultural resources- not developed and geared to sérvé the masaea^ for it must be addmitted, ihat the museums etc,, dpex.ténsivé research along these lines and already have a fa-bulous; amount' of matériái stored up. ;
Why ddes Canada not have an opera,-etc, etc?
Why'are áll áttempta.at creat-ing these thingsdiscoúráged?
Why la all,typeáöf U. S. enter-tainment, etc. encouraged ?
There are a lot of ^yhys, which may interest somé,' but on the other hand a lot of people" are not ihterested in süch qucations.
The májority of the people are intereated In more matériái tliinga; for example, job, security, houae, food,fariiIly, etc. •
Nevertheless oiír moral, educat-ing, Intellectual,.and patrioüc levél is' determlned by 'our cultural level, and is equally important in determining Canada aa a country and in comparison and relatíon to
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other couritWes: anű their develop-ment
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he would be-appearing in 8 performancea . of Mozar's Magic Flute and a simllar nuüiber in n Seraglio. .
7^ ~MVSICA£^fBRIEFS
Dénes kovács; the Hungárián Violiniat whorwon tlífe Carl Flesch medál in London in 1955, is to give'7 concertsln Sweden at the end of this yaar. He Is now leader of the HungariaJi . State Opera House orchéstra./
George BrfjaáÖax^'tíonductor or the Paris Opera, who is of Hungárián origln, wiUcóhduct at the Budapest StateTppera «t the end of this year.
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