Hello everybody, today I have some fresh pics from the world culture event: Purim, the Jewish  gala day by Esther scroll. 2015 year it is 8 of March so I attended to it. It was a call for maskarade costumes so I went in one:

Purim en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purim took place in ancient Persian Empire - the story is recorded in the BiblicalBook of Esther (Megillat Ester מגילת אסתר in Hebrew). The ancient story requires memory about grave daanger, struggle and resque the Jewish people which was done by Queen Ester. For this memory several events comes in a week, and th celebration crowned by the last day which was just several hours ago. Actually, I am writing this post being sleepy after the celebration. But tomorrow it will be my Chinese Gohua painting practice, so Jewish culture should be today. So. The celebration was in a huge very modern Museum of Tolerance en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Museum_and_Tolerance_Center which was founded by one of my relatives. Today the museum was full of people who came to celebrate the fiest.

Special kosher food en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher_foods was served in cafe:

People was invited to try several beautiful clothes to feel the history, especially the story itself belongs to 5 century B.C. The beautiful silk covers with fine metal cord , with assistant of several designers was for free. It was so beautifl! Different colors of covers, gentle float of silk, and new beauty of girls which was shining when they weared the dresses and fabricks, everything was amazing.

I came with my own fast-combine costume:

As I needed to run here and there to make some important videos and pics, my costume was short, combined with throuses. However the head jewelry was good enough to be presented into ancient Persian court… I hope:

I honestly tryed to keep the veil on the face but it was too much unconvenient, with floating silk which blocked cameras, so eventually I alowed the silk head cover to release.

Amazing part of the story was happy faces of people, both weman and men, who weared in masquerade silk covers, mustaches, beads. All faces became shining, and smileys was like a warm sun coming from clouds. People was attached to feel the culture by themselves, among everyday mess and casual clothes.

A lot of kids came with their parents:

Ir was a lot of accessories for free, with designer`s assistant, so people was glad making a choice what did they like more, a crown, or a silk veil, or a turban with jevelry and peacock`s feather.

One of the historical parts of Purim is storitelling. Actors represent the main characters of the story of the Scroll of Esther: King Ahasuerus with Esther, his Queen; the good guy Mordekai (her uncle) and the bad guy Haman, royal vizier  are sitting at the table as they was in the story. They was telling what`s happened. It was several empty chairs for visitors who want to be involved in discussion (that`s why you can see my hand here as I was one of the close listeners). The actor at the centre represented bag guy Haman, at the right part was the Persian king:

this is esther herself and her uncle Mordekai:

Everything looked mistarious, so I spent about 7 hours, up to the end of the feast, with great pleasure and happiness to meet people and be a witness how they are culturally envolved, both in modern and historical ways. Intelligence and respect, this two words are a good description to the event. I have more pictures I`ll publish later, now I am nearly sleep right on the keyboard so, have a nice day!

Sincerely, Anna

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