Greek Holiday, Glendi, September 16-18, 2010
. . . Our 50th Anniversary
Greek Holiday, Tulsa’s oldest ethnic festival, celebrates its golden anniversary in 2010. The 50th annual Greek festival, sponsored by Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, offers everything from ethnic dancing and dining to shopping for Greek pastry, jewelry, imported Greek foods, and a cookbook featuring the recipes of Tulsa area Greeks.
Thursday, September 16 to Saturday, September 18 (Thursday–11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday, Saturday–11 a.m. to 10 p.m.). After 4 p.m. on Thursday through Saturday, admission is $3 for adults. Children, when accompanied by parents, are always free.
Located at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 1206 South Guthrie (3 blocks west of 11th and Denver, south of the Inner Dispersal Loop; take the Houston Ave. exit from the Broken Arrow Expressway).
Tulsa’s first Greek festival was in December 1961 at the Tulsa Hotel. Holy Trinity parish members catered the event with Greek foods prepared in their homes.
The a la carte food menu replaces the traditional Greek Holiday dinner. The a la carte menu features nine (9) home-cooked Greek foods–including chargrilled shish kabob, gyros sandwich, Greek salad (with feta cheese and olives), calamari, and a Greek appetizer plate [with tiropita (cheese pie), feta cheese, olives, spanakopita (spinach pie), and keftethes (Greek meatballs)]. A new item is the Greek lamb plate–slices of baked lamb on a bed of rice and green beans. Visit the web site for menu descriptions and prices.
A meal of Greek food and beverages would not be complete without taste-tempting Greek desserts such as the famous baklava or loukoumades (honey puffs).
Greek Holiday, Glendi, September 16-18, 2010
At the marketplace, Greek Holiday visitors can buy imported Greek food and gifts–such as clothes, jewelry, olive oil, Kalamata olives–as well as a new official Greek Holiday tee shirt. A cook-book (Cooking Greek for Tulsa) features Greek recipes from Tulsa-area Greeks.
Ancient traditions will come to life on stage, as dancers in authentic ethnic costumes, age 5 to 55, perform dances that are hundreds of years old and that tell stories of harvest, wars, love, and passion for Greece. Six dance groups will perform during the festival.
To learn about the role Greek Orthodox religion and traditions play in our culture, tours of Holy Trinity will be conducted throughout Greek Holiday by Father William Christ.
For more information: call Holy Trinity Church (583-2082).
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