In Ogulin this year, as an exceptional year celebrating the town’s 520th anniversary of its founding, the Ogulin Fairy Tale Festival and the Igra Kolo review of original folklore of Karlovac County were both held on the same weekend. The […]
The Ogulin Fairy Tale Festival and Igra Kolo 2020
The Ogulin Fairy Tale Festival and Igra Kolo upon the 520th founding of the town of Ogulin The town Ogulin celebrates its own special day on 14th September – the Day of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. On the […]
Reygoch on the Fairytrail
The association for the promotion storytelling and creative arts Vilinput (Fairytrail) was founded in 2014. Its founders are Irena Vukoja, Erika Katačić Kožić and Sandra Vukoja. On 12th December 2019, I was asked to take part in a storytelling event […]
Storytelling in Zagreb library bus
Zagreb City Library Bibliobus invited me, along with others, to participate in the Month of Croatian Books programme. It was my first experience of telling fairy tales in a library on wheels. The Month of Croatian Books is an event […]
Reygoch – the most loved giant
Reygoch – the extremely strong and friendly giant Just as Regoč (Reygoch) is my favourite giant amongst the famous giants, so is Legen Grad (the chilly Frosten City) where the writer Ivana Brlić Mažuranić situated the giant Reygoch in the […]
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić – Tales of Long Ago
How did Ivana’s Tales of Long Ago come to be? Sparks from the hearth of an old Slavic home Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić was born in Ogulin on 18th April 1874. She died in Zagreb on 21st September 1938. Much has been […]
Small business group trip
Today a small group took a break from business meetings and strolled through Ogulin. To my question of what they liked the most in the town the employees of the company Petrokov replied the “snowy view of Klek”. They enjoyed […]