| DATE |
FEAST
DAY |
VILLAGE
|
|
JUN. 6
|
ALL
SAINTS DAY |
KATAFIGI
|
|
JUL. 1
|
ST.
ANARGIRON |
THERMA
|
|
JUL. 17
|
IKARIAN
INDEPENDENCE/
ST.MARINA |
AG. KIRIKOS, ARETHOUSA
|
|
JUL. 20
|
PROFITILIAS |
GLAREDES, RACHES
|
|
JUL. 26
|
ST.
PARASKEVI |
KARKINAGRI XYLOSIRTIS
|
|
JUL. 27
|
ST.
PANTELOMON |
AG. PANTELEMON
|
|
AUG. 6
|
METAMORPHOSIS |
CHRISTOS,
|
|
AUG 15
|
ASCENTION |
AKAMATRA, PANAGIA, MONOKAMBI, CHRISOSTOMOS,
MAGANITIS, LAGADA, PERDIKI, KOUNIADOU
|
|
AUG. 27
|
ST.
FANOURIOS |
AG. PANTELEMON, RACHES
|
|
AUG. 29
|
ST.
JOHN |
MAVRATON
|
|
SEPT. 8
|
BIRTH
OF MARY |
KERAME, PLAGIA
|
|
SEPT. 17
|
ST.
SOPHIA |
MONOKAMBI
|
|
OCT. 20
|
ST.
MATRONA |
OXEA
|
|
|
Ikaria Eleftheria are festivities of literature and arts including a book fair,popular art and painting exhibitions,musical and dance shows,and recitation of folk poems organzized in various parts of Ikaria and Fourni from the middle of July to the end of August. They were first held in the mid 1980s. Part of these festivities take place at the square of Christos-Rachon including speeches, recitations,one act plays by Ikarian playwrites which project the Ikarian dialect.The Agios Kirikos group of musicians and the dance groups of Agios Kirikos and Raches dressed in traditional costumes join in the festive atmosphere by playing traditional music and dancing folk dances both from the island and the mainland, such as Ikariotikos,Sirtos,Pentozalis,Fisuni, Karagona, and other traditional Greek dances. |
