„Lada cu Zestre” Traditional Art Festival first started in 2006 and it’s an event organized with the purpose of promoting and keeping alive the traditional art. The program of the festival is as follows.
Friday, May 23 2014
12:00 – 12:30 The official opening of the festival and official speeches
12:30 – 13:00 Viewing the stands
13:00 – 13:30 Artistic program
13:30 – 20:00 Exhibition of traditional art
Saturday, May 24 2014
09:00 – 20:00 Exhibition of traditional art
11:00 Visiting the exhibition of the Ethnography Museum from Piatra Neamt
13:00 The awards gala
Sunday, May 25 2014
09:00 – 18:00 …

A new edition of “Lada cu Zestre” Traditional Art Festival will take place in Piatra Neamt, Tineretului Park between May 23 and 25 2014. The event is organized every year with the main purpose of keeping traditions alive.
This year there will be over 60 artisans invited to the festival from different ethnographic areas of Romania and from The Republic of Moldova. Among the objects that will be exposed we’ll see traditional fabrics, traditional shirts, sculpted wood objects, ceramics, masks that remind us of the winter holidays, leather objects, painted eggs …

On August 5 2013 took place in Durau resort at the conference room from Bistrita Hotel the Conference “Ceahlau – nature, history and tourism”. The event took place during the Festival of Ceahlau Mountain (August 3 – 6 2013). The conference was divided in two parts: “Nature and Tourism” and “History, Mith and Tourism”. The event was moderated by Catalin Gavrilescu, director of Ceahlau Mountain Park. Special guest of the day was Dan Munteanu from the Protecting Nature Monuments Commission and member of the Romanian Academy.
At the first section were …

The folkloric art exhibition
Between August 3 and 6 2013 took place in Durau resort a folkloric art exhibition, located in front of Durau Monastery, where local artisans from Neamt County exhibited their works.
Among the artisans that participated at this event there are: Ciocarlan Vasile with a beautiful traditional masks collection, Ciocarlan Elena that creates traditional objects of wool, Vasile Neamtu with his wood handmade furniture pieces.
Ionela Lungu, a local artisan from Humulesti participated with some figurines that remind us of the world of writer Ion Creanga. Costi Lungu exhibited traditional …

Between August 3 and 6 2013 will take place in Durau resort the Festival of Ceahlau Mountain, organized by Neamt County Council. During this event there will be several actions: folkloric art exhibitions, food festivals, photography exhibitions and musical shows.
The program of the festival
Saturday August 3 2013
13.15 – 22.00 – Folkloric show performed by the following folkloric bands (the stage will be on the ski slope from Durau resort, near Durau Monastery)
13.15 – 14.45 – ”Datina Strabuna” from Negulesti village
14.45 – 15.45 –”Mugurasii Marginenilor” from Margineni commune
15.45 – 16.45 – …

Sunday, May 26 2013 ended the Folkloric Art Festival “Lada cu zestre” with an award winning gala during which every artisan received a diploma for their participation. Also the artisan Cecilia Haisan received the “Neculai Popa” award for her religious icons pictures.
The official opening of the festival was Friday, May 24 2013 in “Curtea Domneasca” Plaza when the organizers thanked the participants from all over the country for being there. Neamt County Council handled excellence awards to the artisans Maria and Iulian Mihalachi from Baltatesti and Nicoleta and Laurentiu Pietraru …