The award-winning Kyiv Chamber Choir begins their Canadian tour starting tomorrow. You can visit their MySpace page to check some of their great music, it’s sure to be a great show. Below is the information on their upcoming dates:
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I’m a little late with this post, but I hope everyone’s Easter went well. Here are some articles I’ve highlighted:
Today, Sts. Volodymyr and Olha remains a symbol of Chicago’s rich ethnic history. On Saturday, it was also the scene of a unique Eastern European religious tradition—the blessing of the Easter baskets.
In a parking lot behind the church, hundreds of people gathered with Easter baskets. Many were filled with decorated eggs, bread, salt, pepper and sausage while Rev. Krotec blessed each one with holy water
a Winnipegger has perfected a way to recycle fragments of intricately decorated Ukrainian Easter eggs into lasting artworks.
"I’m the only one in the world that’s doing this," says Dave Wasylyshen, who painstakingly pieces together mosaics out of the colourful eggshells, then coats the finished works with clear plastic resin.
Had some people over last night to make some pysanky! Picked up my supplies at Koota Ooma in the west end of Toronto and used the design from LearnPysanky.com.
From the Living Strings: The Story of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus:
The story of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus is one of incredible courage and true grit – a vivid chronicle that celebrates the human spirit. This is the triumphant story of the original seventeen members of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus who were transported to slave-labour camps in Germany in 1942 and survived one of the most horrific periods in the history of the modern world – World War II.
They were gifted musicians and poets who defied the odds while performing for multitudes of Ukrainians across Europe in the years the war ensued. Through harrowing adventures these men and their families made their way to displaced persons camps and eventually across the ocean to freedom in North America in 1949. This is the story of the Ukrainian spirit that never gave up, a story of incredible heroism – the story of ‘Living Strings’.
From the Brantford Expositor:
Brant MPP Dave Levac made political history with a unique tri-sponsored private member’s bill that gives official recognition to a crime against humanity in Ukraine’s past.
Lt.-Gov. David Onley is expected in the next 10 days to sign into law Bill 146, the Holodomor Memorial Day Act, which cleared third reading with unanimous support in the Ontario legislature.
With the bill’s passage, Ontario joins Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ottawa in declaring the fourth Saturday in November each year as Holodomor Memorial Day.
Congratulations!