Despite Christianity’s attempts to sanitize it, Russia’s midwinter festival, Svyatki, is the most anarchic, mystical and obscene pagan extravaganza you’ve never been to. Is it too late to join in? Translated as Holy Days, Svyatki begin on Christmas Day – January 7 according to the lagging Julian Calendar used by the Orthodox Church, and end […]
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The Sicilian School for Peasant Prodigies
We’re awarding 10 brilliant undergraduate students $ 10,000 to make their passion project a reality. Find out more here, and stay tuned for the OZY Awards Ceremony, sponsored by JPMorgan Chase & Co. It’s a sunny morning in the fall of 1969 in Petralia Soprana, a tiny village in deep mountainous Sicily, and a bunch […]