In honor of the Days of the Alka and the Assumption for 2016, we are here to bring you the full program. The opening ceremony will be held Friday, July 22 at 20.30h.

In honor of the Days of the Alka and the Assumption for 2016, we are here to bring you the full program. The opening ceremony will be held Friday, July 22 at 20.30h.

Having only trained in the fields of Sinj, the candidates for this year’s Sinj Alka competition will be presented tomorrow at the official racetrack in Sinj for the first time this year.

On Saturday, June 18 students from Parichaya Srakaeo in Thailand and Karim Taha in Algeria visited Sinj as part of an agreed program with the Sinj Tourist Board and the world's largest student organization AIESEC (founded in 1948), which operates in 110 countries worldwide.

The exhibition will be open until April 8, 2016. Two uniforms - of an Alka knight and an Alka boy will be displayed, as well as parts of a harness, a spear and 20 historic photographs of the Alka tournament. During the whole exhibition, photographs and promotional films about Alka will be shown.

The Sinj Alka tournament celebrated its 300^th anniversary last year. With plenty of events, exhibitions and presentations (including one in Brussels and another one in the United States), it was a wonderful celebration of a unique UNESCO protected event.

And there will be another opportunity to present the Alka, this time at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Here is an announcement from the Sinj Alka Knights Association:

In cooperation with His Excellency Vladimir Drobnjak, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Croatia to the United Nations in New York, the Alka Knights Association organizes a presentation of the Sinj Alka at the United Nations Headquarters in New York through an exhibition “Sinj Alka – 300 years”.

The opening ceremony of the exhibition will take place on Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at 18.00. Around hundred invited guests are expected from the UN and from the New York City administration. An Alka knight in Alka uniforms will be present. The exhibition will be open until April 8, 2016.

This project was financed by the Croatian Tourist Board and the Croatian House Foundation by the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs.

(photos: Ferata.hr)

 

An unusual event took place last night at the Museum of Sinj Alka, informs Ferata.hr. In fact, it was the first time, the museum was a part of this Croatian cultural event - Night of Museums. There were already several hundreds of people waiting in front of the museum, even before Damir Župić marked the beginning of this truly beautiful story of Sinj with the sounds of a trumpet.

When a cultural institution gets 3500 visits in one evening, it is something special.

 

Along with the staff of the museum and the members of the Alka Knights Society, there where Alkars dressed in colorful uniforms and members of the Sinj Folk Theatre dressed in uniforms from the 18th century, who helped in guiding the visitors through the exhibition. Visitors were able to enjoy a documentary about Alka, a tour through the museum, a performance of Klapa Sinj, some good Alka wine and fritule.

 

The interest for touring the museum was so big, that the doors of the museum had to close several times during the night, because it would be impossible to fit in all interested people at once.

In the full projection hall of the museum´s permanent exhibition, its author Nikolina Jelović Mitrović gave a lecture about "How the Museum of Sinj Alka was Created". In addition to the people from Sinj and Cetina area, there were hundreds of people from other parts of Dalmatia interested in visiting the museum, especially from Split and Dubrovnik.

According to Ferata.hr, the Director Filipović-Grčić stated, that the website of the Museum is planned in the near future, but no specific date could be announced yet. At the moment, the website of the Museum exists as a part of the website of the Alka Knights‘ Association.

A visit to the new Sinj Alka museum, a month after opening.