Klaipėdos universitetas

The article deals with the organization of festive celebrations in co-workers’ environment. Based on field studies, co-workers’ gathered on the occasion of the holidays, the organization’s place, both internal organization itself and its surrounding external – local, national culture, the influence on their manifestation. Two traditional and two modern holidays are being analysed, where the habits of celebrations, formal and informal channels are compared between the city and its environs co-workers’.

In the article, personal festive celebrations of co-workers in a diachronic perspective are examined. The following occasions: birthdays, childbirth, marriage, funerals (the family life cycle), and employee employability, seniority or similar achievements and retirement (the working life cycle), are important for socialising with co-workers, for job satisfaction, and in the formation of an organisational culture. By analysing fieldwork data, we determine the intensity of the commemoration of these occasions in the studied areas.

The article aims to show how cultural workers construct a place through both general historical moments of community life and through individual experience. This study used the methods of conversation, questionnaire, semi-structured and in-depth interview, and observational participation. The research reveals that the feeling of home is best revealed through the individual experience of each respondent in relation to other co-workers. Connected by local history,