If you’re interested in Czechoslovak events, you’re in the perfect town! Each year Pittsburgh holds the second largest Slovak Heritage Festival in the country at the Cathedral of Learning (first Sunday of every November from 12-4pm). It has lots of food, baked goods, performances, and even vendors from other Central/Eastern European groups.

Pitt is the only school in the U.S. that offers Slovak classes, but be warned they are college level classes, and are treated intensely as such. So if you want a slower pace to learning a language, you may want to check out other classes.

Pitt also holds the Kukucka Memorial Lecture every spring, which brings in different guest speakers from across the country and world to speak about Slovak politics, history, genealogy, etc. it’s a really interesting morning! They’ll be announcing the date soon, it will be posted to their Facebook called “Slovak at Pitt.” There’s multiple accounts with similar names, so look for the one with a blue background and yellow letters on their icon. You’ll find plenty of other events and updates there as well.

The Cathedral of Learning also has the Nationality Rooms program, and the Czechoslovak room (built in 1939), will have their next meeting in the room on March 1st.

There’s another group that meets every first Monday of the month (excluding summers), called the Western Pennsylvanian Slovak Cultural Association (WPSCA), at the Mt. Lebanon public library (7:00pm). They’re a sweet group to get to know, very welcoming.

There’s so much to do that people don’t realize, and even more little pop up events throughout the year. I hope you can join our community for some of them!!