Talk:Greek festival

Fundraising activity

Greek festivals are a common orthodox church fundraising activity all over the US, as a search for "Greek fest" or "Greek festival" shows. The subject is notable. Gazpacho 19:33, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

It also happens to be a public festival which attracts tens of thousands, in its heyday hundreds of thousands and it is a specific Proper noun, not a generic title which likely has its own event name given by the specific church.

Original article being renamed Greek Fest (Jones Beach) and I hope this one becomes Greek Fest (Greek Orthodox Church)--Whenracismreacheswikipedia 08:36, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

VfD

On April 23, 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. The result was keep. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Greek Fest for a record of the discussion. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 21:24, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Church-State separation

I was wondering whether such festivals respect Church-State separation laws. If you are going to create a public event in any Western society, it should ideally include everyone, and should not merely serve as a tool for just one religion, so that it can try to proselytize people. Another thing is that the Greek Orthodox Church is ideally destined for Greek people who already have a Greek culture, so it cannot really attempt to include people who are outside Greek culture without seeking to culturally assimilate them. I also find that festival organizers tend to misrepresent the Greek Orthodox Church's ecumenical relations with Catholic Church and the Protestant churches, given that extensive inter-Church dialogue has occured since the 1960s. [1] ADM (talk) 08:50, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Greek Festivals celebrate Greek culture. They are open to the public and are basically fundraisers for the churches. Additionally the Greek Orthodox Church is not only for Greek people, the liturgy, or service, is just based on the original Greek rite. The majority of the liturgy at my church is in English and most people, especially the children and young adults do not know the Greek language. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 11:33, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

OverView of Greek Festivals

When attending the Greek festivals there are many interesting things that you will get to experience as a guest. It's about more than food, you know. There's dancing and drinking and socializing. There's singing and books and artifacts. There are all kinds of things . People go to the Greek Festivals to enjoy all of these things listed above. The festival is meant for everyone to come and to enjoy the Greek Culture. While you’re there you can enjoy many different kinds of food. For example you can enjoy the tastes of goat meat frying on the grill, Athenian roasted chickens, moussaka, souvlaki, pastisio . All of the food is made fresh by members of these churches in prepare for the festivals. The members of the church want the younger generations to watch and observe the preparation so they can keep this tradition alive in the community . The Festivals are mostly held traditionally at Greek Churches. The festivals usually will go on for the duration of a weekend for example Friday to Sunday, this allows people to not miss this spectacular event .These churches not only raise money for their ministry but the cultural event provides an opportunity for the Pensacola Greeks to share their heritage, culture and faith with the local communities .  The churches will often offer tours of their facility to show the community what they are all about .  The churches will also donate some of their proceeds from the festivals to charities because of positive donations and from the amount of people that come out and enjoy the festivities. Browna48 (talk) 10:04, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

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