{"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.&hellip;<\/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}]}}