Sorry no video this week. Along with reading 5 great books for Ukrainian Literature Day, March is Taras Shevchenko month in Canada so instead of watching videos this weekend try reading some poems on the foundation of Ukrainian nationalism. Happy weekend!
From the University for Manitoba’s Centre for Ukrainian Canadian studies:
Press Release – Taras Shevchenko Month for Ukrainian Canadians
Ukrainian Canadian Community to Honour the Great Ukrainian Poet and Freedom Fighter – Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861)
195th Anniversary Since His Birth (1814-2009)
The Ukrainian Canadian community scattered across Canada honours annually in March, Taras Shevchenko – the greatest literary figure of Ukrainian literature, a major painter – artist and freedom fighter. The celebrations in March (the month of his birth and death) include concerts, symposia and academic presentations by members of Ukrainian organizations, churches and especially youth groups. Similar celebrations with also take place in Ukraine every March.
Continue reading Weekend Reading: March is Taras Shevchenko month
Kobzar’s Children: An anthology of short historical fiction, memoirs, and poems written about the Ukrainian immigrant experience. The stories span a century of history from 1905 to 2004; and they contain the voices of people who lived through internment as "enemy aliens," homesteading, famine, displacement, concentration camps, and this new century_s Orange Revolution. More than a collection, it is a social document that revives memories once deliberately forgotten (Children 14 and up).
Hope’s War: Kat’s hopes for peace are shattered when she finds her grandfather being interrogated by the RCMP. He is accused of being a policeman for the Nazis in WWII (Juvenile Fiction).
