It's wine harvest time! We spent a day in the vineyards of Comrat and found out a lot about Gagauz wine tradition.

Maria Arjintari is a 25-year-old girl from Comrat, Gagauzia. She just came back from her 10 month EVS (European Volontary Service) in Redon, France and would like to share her adventures with you.

This August, the Gagauz Art Gallery held the 7th symposium of Gagauz art “The meeting of civilizations”. Professors and artists from various countries such as Poland, Turkey or Canada show their works along with Gagauz artists in this event. It was an important date for local artists and it brought the opportunity to have a cultural exchange based on paintings.]

A curious thing about the oral tradition is that there are often names that appear as protagonists for different stories and you keep hearing about them in diverse situations. In Gagauzia, this character is Kül Pepeleșkusu (a guy who played with ashes).

Ikizli Ekaterina Nikolaevna, a wonderful woman from Kongaz, shared with us one of the stories about this character.

Folk tales are interesting in many ways. They don’t only have a moral, but also a context. When the story was told? With what purpose? When and why it has been retold to new generations? While the moral is the same the purpose changes, and that gives a new dimension to the tale in each generation. This video contains one of many Gagauz popular tales we will be compiling and sharing to get to show more about Gagauz culture.