What are we up to ?? ...
Opening of the offices of our Association !!!!
The newly established Folklore & Cultural Association of Sitia "KRITON Rizes" invites you to the inauguration of its office space, at 14 Captain John Papadakis Street, on 25 September 2022, Sunday at 18.00.Your presence will make us very happy.
Highlights from the Opening of the offices of our Association !!
Parade of 28th October 2022...
New Year's cake cutting event...!!!
In return for the love and support with which our fellow citizens surrounded our new beginning, the members of the " KRITON Rizes" Association cut our first New Year's cake and gave our warmest wishes for a better year than the one that left us.
Many friends and members of the Association were present at the event and this special evening was honoured with the presence of the Mayor of Sitia Mr. George Zervakis, the President of DOKAS Mr. Kostis Lymperiou and Mr. Dimitris Mavrokostas owner of "Schools of Traditional Cretan Dances Mavrokostas" with his partners.
As long as the Dance Unites us ...
12 July 2023
Chlouverakis Grove, Sitia
FESTIVAL FOR THE PROMOTION OF PANCRETAN CULTURAL HERITAGE
"The Violin in Eastern Crete"
22 & 23 July 2023
Pedestrian Zone Con. Karamanlis, Sitia
1st Cretan Cultural Heritage Seminar !!!
08-12-2023
For the FOLKLORE & CULTURAL ASSOCIATION OF SITIA "KRITON Rizes" it was a very special day ...
A day when a man whose name is inextricably linked to the Cretan Tradition, honoured us with his presence and agreed to share with us nuggets from the vast knowledge he has acquired on the traditional male and female Cretan costume...
The feelings and impressions he left us were indescribable...We realized how deep the Roots of the Cretan Tradition are....how much meaning every movement, every fabric, every tie has...but also how ignorant and frivolous we are when we "wear" a costume. ..ignorance voluntary or involuntary which ends up becoming disrespectful....to our ancestors...who in the peasantry and the difficulties of everyday life had managed to remain LORDS and LADIES...
ANTONIS MARTSAKIS, a worthy ambassador of the Cretan Tradition who is moved and buzzes when he talks about it....A man who will leave a real work for the next generations ...
The entire Board of the Folklore and Cultural Association of Sitia "KRITON Rizes ", and all the lucky attendees, THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts and we hope to work together again soon!!!!