Kaziuko Muge
St. Casimir’s fair (Kaziuko Muge) is a huge annual fair/ festival that occurs annually in the streets of Vilnius during the first weekend of March. This fair dates back all the way to the beginning of the 17th century and has experienced many changes throughout its many years of celebration. Merchants peddling traditional goods can be seen covering the streets, and have been part of the celebration for centuries. Over time, street performers and music concerts have become a common sight.
Nowadays, crowds upon crowds of people from all over the world have began attending the fair. The city of Vilnius can become congested with people from huge cities like Moscow, Warsaw and Vienna. This fair takes place on the first Sunday of March. The date of the festival, along with its origins, have strong ties to a famous religous figure in Lithuania, St. Casimir. Recently, however, the fair has become increasingly thematic. Meaning that a certain part of the fair is devoted to the current theme.
Newcomers to the fair could see all-manner of interesting things such as artwork, dances, and traditional foods from all over Europe. All in all, Kaziuko muge is a great event in which you can go from buying a souvenir to meeting people from countries all around the world. Learn more
About Us
Our community is the 9th grade class of the American International School of Vilnius. Our school is located in the capital of a small country in the Baltics called Lithuania. Our class is fairly small; we have 8 native Lithuanians, 5 students who have lived in Lithuania for more than one year, and one student who just came to Lithuania this year. Most of us have lived in Lithuania for many years and are fairly knowledgable when it comes to Kaziuko Muge. So when we were informed about the CyberFair, we thought it was a great opportunity to share our information and culture with the rest of the world.
Our community is very passionate about this topic and, besides all the hard work, it was a pleasure to put together. Our grade consists of 14 students: 8 boys and 6 girls, and all of us enjoyed doing this project. Throughout the process, we found that our community is very supportive, focused and well organized. We tried to help each other as much as possible, and tried to get all of our work done for each of our topics as well as keep all of our information organized so it would be easier to work with. All in all, having a great community such as ours, really helped us make this project enjoyable and fun.
We have researched the following topics:
History – On the history tab you can learn about the past of the fair. There is information provided about the origins of Kaziuko muge, the changes over time and its regional connections.
Entertainment – The entertainment tab consists of some videos that show performances of different people. It provides information about the musical and other parts of entertainment in the fair.
Products – This page gives you background information about the products sold in the fair, before you continue to look further into the tab.
Traditional Arts & Crafts – The page about traditional arts and crafts is full of different crafts that are popular and important to Kaziuko muge.
Food – the food page has many different kinds of foods that are sold at the fair. There is information about them and pictures.
Share & Unite – Here the reader can find out how the fair brings different types of people together. There is a video on it as well.
Participating Countries – The page about participating countries consists of flags of the countries that had booths at Kaziuko muge and how they contributed to the fair. It also has cities that organize the fair as well.
Talking to People – This page gives you background information about what we did at the fair and is full of interviews that have been filmed.
Our team – Our team page shows who worked on the project, our mentor, and how each student contributed to the website.
Narrative – On the narrative page you can find all of the narratives that have been written about the project.
Bibliography – Our sources.