{"id":4573,"date":"2025-06-24T18:41:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T08:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2026-09-30T14:52:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T04:52:40","slug":"celebrating-ziua-iei-2025-a-heartfelt-gathering-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/celebrating-ziua-iei-2025-a-heartfelt-gathering-in-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Ziua Iei 2025 \u2013 A Heartfelt Gathering in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4573\" class=\"elementor elementor-4573\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b7e8667 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6b7e8667\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ad66c01 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ad66c01\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday, June 23rd 2025, over 80 members of the Romanian-Australian community gathered at the <strong>Romanian Orthodox Church of Saints Peter and Paul<\/strong> to celebrate<strong>\u00a0Universal Day of the Romanian Blouse<\/strong>. The turnout was nothing short of amazing, especially considering the event came together on such short notice. The parish is located near the Melbourne Museum and Lygon Street, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mapquest.com\/au\/victoria\/romanian-orthodox-church-of-the-holy-apostles-peter-and-paul-melbourne-775442355\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">inner-city suburb of Carlton<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year&#8217;s gathering was about coming together, wearing our heritage proudly, and celebrating the stories woven into each thread of our traditional blouses and shirts. The event was entirely community-driven, and organised by <strong>EuRaw Inc<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The atmosphere was vibrant and warm. From the youngest children in traditional embroidered outfits to elders wearing heirloom <em>ii (blouses)<\/em> passed down through generations, everyone brought their own piece of home to the room.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This gathering was about continuity, about seeing our children play in embroidered shirts, about connecting newcomers with old-timers, and about keeping culture alive, wearable, not in a museum, but in movement, voice, and laughter.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you to everyone who came and brought such warmth and beauty. This is just the beginning.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>La mul\u021bi ani, ie rom\u00e2neasc\u0103!<\/strong><br \/>We\u2019ll see you next year, with even more stories to share about <em>you<\/em>, the Romanian Blouse.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\" style=\"margin: 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/50153a0d-5eb6-457e-95ce-16a510ee8655.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4696\" src=\"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/50153a0d-5eb6-457e-95ce-16a510ee8655-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/50153a0d-5eb6-457e-95ce-16a510ee8655-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/50153a0d-5eb6-457e-95ce-16a510ee8655-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/50153a0d-5eb6-457e-95ce-16a510ee8655-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/50153a0d-5eb6-457e-95ce-16a510ee8655.jpg 1066w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, June 23rd 2025, over 80 members of the Romanian-Australian community gathered at the Romanian Orthodox Church of Saints Peter and Paul to celebrate\u00a0Universal Day of the Romanian Blouse. The turnout was nothing short of amazing, especially considering the event came together on such short notice. The parish is located near the Melbourne Museum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/celebrating-ziua-iei-2025-a-heartfelt-gathering-in-melbourne\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Celebrating Ziua Iei 2025 \u2013 A Heartfelt Gathering in Melbourne<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-4573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-events","tag-55"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5060,"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions\/5060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euraw.com.au\/staging\/3790\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}