You can also take part in very interesting ethnographic festivals. Wooden implements, ceramics and articles of straw are sold in markets, squares and streets. The Vilnius district has a very old tradition to make splendid decorative bunches of willow palme and these pieces of art sold near the curches and in the streets of the Old Town. It is the shortest night and no one seems to go to sleep then. Picked flowers are twined and thrown into streams and rivers to float.
Fields are full of songs and dances.
In the light of glow-worms young people look for the fern flower. There are four groups of dancers accomodating 90 children of 5-16 years of age in it. Its tours to towns and villages of Lithuania are regular. Numerous concerts have been given in Warsaw and Bialystok. Art guide Virginija Skipariene fosters children's love for Lithuanian national art, its dances, songs, music.