Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Sugar Creek Slavic Festival is an annual two-day event held in Sugar Creek, Missouri. The 30th annual Festival is Friday, June 5 and Saturday, June 6 in 2015.The Sugar Creek Fair and Festival Board sponsors the Slavic Festival. The board consists of area civic and service organization members. In 2005, the Ambassador to the United States of the Slovak Republic, Mr. Ratislav Kačer, made an appearance at the festival to celebrate the event's 20th anniversary. Through their cooperative efforts, the Slavic Festival has continued to grow and help maintain the ethnic traditions of the people of Sugar Creek.Ancient traditions of Slavic culture brought by immigrants from Czechoslovakia, Croatia, and Poland had been present even in Sugar Creek's earliest days. Celebrations were carried out in the customary manner between the residents of the town throughout the late 19th and most of the 20th century. However, it was not until July 4, 1986 that the celebrations became a formal event. The Fair and Festival Board patterned the festival after the very successful Folk Festivals sponsored by St. Cyril's Catholic Church and its Altar and Rosary Society in the late 1970s."@en }
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- Sugar_Creek_Slavic_Festival abstract "The Sugar Creek Slavic Festival is an annual two-day event held in Sugar Creek, Missouri. The 30th annual Festival is Friday, June 5 and Saturday, June 6 in 2015.The Sugar Creek Fair and Festival Board sponsors the Slavic Festival. The board consists of area civic and service organization members. In 2005, the Ambassador to the United States of the Slovak Republic, Mr. Ratislav Kačer, made an appearance at the festival to celebrate the event's 20th anniversary. Through their cooperative efforts, the Slavic Festival has continued to grow and help maintain the ethnic traditions of the people of Sugar Creek.Ancient traditions of Slavic culture brought by immigrants from Czechoslovakia, Croatia, and Poland had been present even in Sugar Creek's earliest days. Celebrations were carried out in the customary manner between the residents of the town throughout the late 19th and most of the 20th century. However, it was not until July 4, 1986 that the celebrations became a formal event. The Fair and Festival Board patterned the festival after the very successful Folk Festivals sponsored by St. Cyril's Catholic Church and its Altar and Rosary Society in the late 1970s.".