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The International Folk Contest-Festival \u201cThe Flower of the Sun\u201d has received the prestigious FIDAF Best Festival Award for the second time<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n The latest recognition was awarded to the 10th International Folk Contest-Festival \u201cThe Flower of the Sun\u201d<\/strong>, held in \u0160iauliai in 2025. The official award certificate was presented to the festival organisers on 3 October 2026 in South Korea<\/strong>, during the FIDAF events.<\/p>\n FIDAF \u2013 the Federation of International Dance Festivals<\/strong> \u2013 recognises outstanding festivals within its international network each year. The Best Festival Award recipients are selected by the FIDAF Executive Committee, acknowledging the quality of festival organisation and their contribution to international cultural exchange. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n This is already the second FIDAF Best Festival Award received by \u201cThe Flower of the Sun\u201d<\/strong>. The festival had previously been recognised for an earlier edition, while the new award confirms that its high standards continue to be maintained and developed.<\/p>\n The repeated recognition is also important within the wider FIDAF award system, which includes higher-level distinctions such as the Star of Excellence<\/strong>. Therefore, every new Best Festival Award marks not only recognition of what has already been achieved, but also another step forward within the international FIDAF community.<\/p>\n For more than two decades, \u201cThe Flower of the Sun\u201d has brought folk groups, performers and cultural representatives from Lithuania and countries around the world to \u0160iauliai. FIDAF also lists the festival in its official international festival directory. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n This award belongs to the whole \u201cFlower of the Sun\u201d community<\/strong> \u2013 our participants, volunteers, partners, sponsors, audiences and everyone who has contributed to the festival throughout the years.<\/p>\n And we are already looking ahead: the 11th International Folk Contest-Festival \u201cThe Flower of the Sun\u201d will take place in \u0160iauliai on 2\u20136 July 2027.<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=”15169,15172,15173,14675″ posts_number=”2″ show_title_and_caption=”off” _builder_version=”4.27.9″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” custom_padding=”|||2px||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_gallery][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The International Folk Contest-Festival \u201cThe Flower of the Sun\u201d has received the prestigious FIDAF Best Festival Award for the second time. The latest recognition was awarded to the 10th International Folk Contest-Festival \u201cThe Flower of the Sun\u201d, held in \u0160iauliai in 2025. The official award certificate was presented to the festival organisers on 3 October […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saulesziedas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saulesziedas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saulesziedas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saulesziedas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saulesziedas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15175"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/saulesziedas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15201,"href":"https:\/\/saulesziedas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15175\/revisions\/15201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saulesziedas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saulesziedas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saulesziedas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saulesziedas.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}