UCC-APC

Exhibit: Dumy moї - My thoughts: Taras Shevchenko, the Ukrainian Diaspora and the Ongoing War in Ukraine
2023-03-24 08:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-23 08:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-22 08:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-21 08:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-20 08:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-19 08:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-18 08:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-17 08:00 - 20:00 (America/Edmonton) and 7 more dates | Rutherford Library, University of Alberta, 11208 89 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2J8, Canada
UPCOMING EXHIBIT
Peter and Doris Kule Centre for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore
Presents:
Dumy moї – My thoughts: Taras Shevchenko, the Ukrainian Diaspora and the Ongoing War in Ukraine
A multi-media exhibition by curators Larisa Sembaliuk Cheladyn, PhD Kule Chair in Ukrainian Ethnography, and Dmytro Yesypenko, Graduate Student MLCS
Exhibition: March 6-31, 2023, Rutherford Library Galleria, University of Alberta
Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861) is one of the most prominent and influential figures in Ukrainian culture and history. During his lifetime, he was recognized as the author of literary classics, notably, the iconic poetry collection Kobzar (Minstrel, 1840). A poetic genius, Shevchenko also became an outstanding painter. His oeuvre is considered to be the prime exemplar of the Ukrainian spirit.
This exhibition, named after Shevchenko’s famous poem “Dumy moї” (My Thoughts), aims to present the timeless significance of the poet’s messages and the artistic imagery of this true national Kulturträger. The multi-media exhibit explores the phenomenon of admiration for Shevchenko and how his legacy speaks volumes about Ukrainians themselves. Four digital screens display images and accompanying explanatory texts in respective thematic streams.
Dumy moї – My Thoughts exhibition covers a spectrum of emotions from tragedy and sadness to humour, empathy, resilience and the unconquerable Ukrainian spirit, admired by the whole world today.
Read more about the Exhibit here:
https://www.ualberta.ca/kule-folklore-centre/news/2023/february/exhibit-dumy-moi-my-thoughts.html
Join us for a Curator’s Talk by Dmytro Yesypenko on March 10, 2023 | 12 PM MST
Location: Rutherford Library Galleria
More information on the curator’s talk here:
https://www.ualberta.ca/kule-folklore-centre/news/2023/february/dumy-moi-my-thoughts-curators-talk.html
For more information, contact: ukrfolk@ualberta.ca.

2023 Annual Bohdan Medwidsky Memorial Lecture “Canadian Ukrainian Ethnicity on the Move”
2023-03-23 15:00 - 2023-04-14 16:00 | BUS 3-05, School of Business, University of Alberta, BUS 3-05, School of Business, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2R6, Canada
Kule Folklore Centre in partnership with Alberta Society for the Advancement of Ukrainian Studies is pleased to host the 2023 Annual Bohdan Medwidsky Memorial Lecture:
“Canadian Ukrainian Ethnicity on the Move”
Presented by Dr. Andriy Nahachewsky – Director Emeritus of the Kule Folklore Centre
When: April 14, 2023 | 3pm MDT
Where: BUS 3-05, School of Business, University of Alberta
Advance registration required. See below for details.
Ethnic identity – often expressed with the metaphor “roots” – is attractive for many because it conveys an impression of permanence and stability in a too-rapidly changing world. Ukrainian Canadians have often been described as an unusually visible and “successful” ethnic group over the last 130 years. However, drawing on my recent ethnochoreological research, I illustrate how Ukrainian Canadian ethnic expression does not necessarily rely on stability to flourish, but rather has been shifting in multiple important ways. Indeed, perhaps counter-intuitively, changes in content, symbolism, and intensity have been powerful facilitators of the continuing relevance and vitality of the Canadian Ukrainian community. The current “6th wave” of Ukrainians arriving in Canada since the current Russian invasion and war will test this claim as never before.
Dr. Andriy Nahachewsky was Bohdan Medwidsky’s first PhD student. He is Huculak Chair Emeritus at the University of Alberta, having served for 15 years as Director of the Kule Folklore Centre. He was also the founding Curator of the Bohdan Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archives, a large multimedia repository. His research interests and publications deal with Ukrainian traditions in the twentieth century, material culture, the Ukrainian Canadian experience, immigration stories, ethnic dance, ethnographic methodology, and graffiti. Active for decades in Ukrainian dance as a performer, choreographer, adjudicator, and historian, his insider/outsider viewpoint is also strongly enriched by international perspectives in ethnochoreology. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Ukrainian communities in eleven countries. He now lives in Brussels, where he continues observing Ukrainian Canadian culture, with a view from a distance.
Dr. Bohdan Medwidsky (1936-2021) was the founder of the Ukrainian Folklore Program, Kule Folklore Centre (KuFC), and the Ukrainian Folklore Archives at the University of Alberta. Without his foresight, perseverance, and wisdom, KuFC and many other Ukrainian Canadian organizations would not be where they are today.
View all details on our website here: https://www.ualberta.ca/kule-folklore-centre/news/2023/march/canadian-ukrainian-ethnicity-on-the-move.html
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Join us on April 14, 2023 at 3pm MDT
Location: BUS 3-05, School of Business, University of Alberta
Advance registration required.
Please register for the event here:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2023-annual-bohdan-medwidsky-memorial-lecture-tickets-574729430197
If you are unable to attend in person, please join us via Zoom here:
https://ualberta-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEsfumtqjotHtxxRo-VQeZXfv82_jnS2-rw
The presentation will be available on our Youtube channel and this web page after the event.
For more information, contact: ukrfolk@ualberta.ca.

YMCA Ukraine: The Role of a Charity in a Warzone
2023-03-23 14:30 - 16:00 | MacEwan University
Viktor Serbulov, National General Secretary of YMCA Ukraine, will describe his first-hand experience providing critical community support through the YMCA during the war in Ukraine. There will be an opportunity to ask questions and learn more about what the YMCAs here in Alberta are doing to support Ukraine.
This event is free, but space is limited, so those interested MUST register to attend.

Zoom Presentation: "The Spirits Never Die: Ukrainian Native Faith as Spatial, Historical and Political Construct"
2023-03-23 12:00 - 2023-03-31 13:00
The Kule Folklore Centre is pleased to announce our upcoming Folklore Lunch: The Spirits Never Die: Ukrainian Native Faith as Spatial, Historical and Political Construct.
Presented by Adrien Nonjon, PhD Candidate, INALCO, Paris
March 31, 2023 | 12pm MDT
Zoom Presentation
Long confined to the margins of anti-Soviet dissidence in the 1960s and 1980s, Neo-paganism is now a tangible reality in Ukraine, thanks in particular to movements such as RUNvira (Ridna Ukrayins’ka Natsional’na Víra) and ORU (Ob’iednannia Ridnoviriv Ukraïny). Correlatively to the rise of this culture and spirituality, which aims to be both alternative and fundamentally autochthonic, a certain number of questions remain as to the content of its discourse, particularly as to its precise ideological positioning. Indeed, if at the beginning it could only be limited to a quest for emancipation on the spiritual, philosophical or identity level, Ukrainian neo-paganism has been able, during the second half of the twentieth century and up to the present day, to progressively transgress political divisions in order to unite, carry and renew certain militant creeds, even the most radical ones. It is through several issues (ecological, political and military) that this presentation aims to show the structuring role of neo-pagan spirituality both in the cohesion of certain claims and in the will to create a coherent worldview exclusively turned towards a celebration of an often idealized “Ukrainity.”
Adrien Nonjon is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the Centre de Recherche Europe-Eurasie (CREE) of the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris. He holds a MA in Geopolitics and Political Sciences. From 2019-2021, Adrien was a research fellow at George Washington University’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, participating in two research programs supervised by Professor Marlène Laruelle, on Transnational History of the Far-Right, and Illiberalism. He specializes in the cultural and political history of the Baltic Black Sea Region.
Photo provided by author.
See all these details on our website: https://www.ualberta.ca/kule-folklore-centre/news/2023/march/the-spirits-never-die.html
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Join us on March 31, 2023 at 12pm MDT on Zoom.
Advance Registration required.
Please register for the event here:
https://ualberta-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvceysqjwjG9coO-Hw_OE69A8HUPcg_ydu
This is an Zoom only event, the presentation will be available on our Youtube channel and our website after the event: ukrfolk.ca
For more information, contact: ukrfolk@ualberta.ca

A firsthand story from a prisoner of Putin in Ukraine
2023-03-21 14:00 - 15:00 | MacEwan University, Room 7-142, 10070 104 Avenue NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 4S2, Canada
Join Aiden Aslin to hear his story of being a British volunteer for Ukraine, fighting and getting taken as a prisoner of war by Russia near Mariupol. Q&A session included.
Aiden Aslin is a British-born dual citizen of the United Kingdom and Ukraine who was captured by Russian forces in April 2022 while fighting for Ukraine in Mariupol. He was sentenced to death on June 9 while being a prisoner of war, however he was miraculously released in a Ukraine-Russia prisoner exchange in September 2022.Join Aiden to hear the real stories of the war in Ukraine. Q&A session included!
This is a hybrid event, you are welcome to register for online participation through this Webinar link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qrsvMSlXSgGzJXFxm3c8Bw

Ukrainian Jam - March 19
2023-03-19 13:30 - 16:30 | ACUA, 10554 110 Street Unit 100, Edmonton, Alberta, T5H 3C5, Canada
UKRAINIAN JAM
A showcase of live Ukrainian music.
Event Date: March 19th, 2023
Doors 1:30 P.M. • Music 2:00 P.M.
*FREE TO ATTEND*
Cash bar🍺
ACUA • 10554 110 Street Edmonton
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Насолоджуйтеся живою українською народною музикою в неділю, 19 березня 2023 року! 🇺🇦 🎼 🎻 🎸 🪗 🎹 🎵 🎶
УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ДЖЕМ
Неділя, 19 березня 2023 р. в ACUA / АРУМ
Двері 13:30 • Музика 14:00
Жива українська музика.
*ВХІД БЕЗПЛАТНИЙ*
Кеш бар 🍺
Sunday’s event features rising star Steven Pankiw with Special Guests, and back by popular demand Brandon Hachkowski as well as the St. Nicholas Mandolin Ensemble!
Представляє Альбертська рада українського мистецтва.
Presented by Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts.
ACUA / АРУМ • 10554 110 Street Edmonton

UKRAINIAN JAM - УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ДЖЕМ
2023-03-19 13:30 - 16:30 | ACUA, 10554 110 Street Unit 100, Edmonton, Alberta, T5H 3C5, Canada
UKRAINIAN JAM
A showcase of live Ukrainian music.
Event Date: March 19th, 2023
Doors 1:30 P.M. • Music 2:00 P.M.
*FREE TO ATTEND*
ACUA (NEW LOCATION)
10554 110 Street Edmonton
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Насолоджуйтеся живою українською народною музикою в неділю, 19 березня 2023 року! 🇺🇦 🎼 🎻 🎸 🪗 🎹 🎵 🎶
Участь у цьому заході БЕЗКОШТОВНА та доступна для будь-якого віку.
УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ДЖЕМ
Неділя, 19 березня 2023 р. в ACUA / АРУМ
Двері 13:30 • Музика 14:00
Жива українська музика.
Представляє Альбертська рада українського мистецтва.
ACUA / АРУМ – 10554 110 Street Edmonton
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CALL FOR MUSICIANS
ШУКАЄМО МУЗИКАНТІВ
Email events@acuarts.ca or call 780-488-8558.

Professional Networking Business Event
2023-03-16 18:00 - 21:00 | Platform Innovation Centre, 407 9 Ave SE, Calgary, Alberta, T2G 2K7, Canada
We invite you to participate in our upcoming Networking Business Event.
Location: Platform Innovation Centre (Calgary, Alberta, 407 9 Ave SE), please enter through the West Entrance
Date: March 16 (Thursday), 2023
Time: from 6 PM to 9 PM
Price of Entry: for UCPBA Members only – $10, regular price – $15
We have invited two great speakers for this session:
– Alla Yushchenko, Relationship Manager, Business Markets from RBC,
– Erkin Atakhanov, Managing Director from PKF Antares.
Our speakers will cover the following topics:
• Business Financing, Business Planning, Business Strategy
• Challenges facing middle market companies in Canada (growth, taxes, banking/finance, management)
• Why business structure matters
• Importance of a Business Plan
• Finding Money
• Useful information resources for small business owners
Space is limited, so please make sure to register via the link below:
https://www.eventbrite.com/…/professional-networking…
This event is sponsored and organized by the Ukrainian Canadian Professional Business Association of Calgary (UCPBA – Calgary).
By registering, you consent to have photos/videos taken of you for promotional purposes on our media.
We are looking forward to meeting you!

Shevchenko Concert
2023-03-12 14:30 - 16:30 | Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex, 9615 153 ave, Edmonton, Alberta, T5E 6B1, Canada
The Ukrainian Canadian Congress-Edmonton Branch and the Ukrainian Music Society of Alberta invite you to the Shevchenko Concert – “Love Your Ukraine” (“Любіть Україну свою”) – on Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 2:30 PM at the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex, 9615-153 Ave., Edmonton.
Featured performers include: Dnipro Choir, Ivan Franko School of Ukrainian Studies, Olia Kharabara, Ridna Shkola, Solomia Holiak, Ukrainian Drama Theatre Suzirya, Valentyn Sheban, Verkhovyna Choir, Viter Choir.
Entrance by donation.
For further information, contact Luba Boyko-Bell at (780) 469-4890.

Camino de Santiago: A Pilgrimage in Mosaic by Theodora Harasymiw
2023-03-10 18:00 - 21:00 | ACUA, 10554 110 Street Unit 100, Edmonton, Alberta, T5H 3C5, Canada
CAMINO DE SANTIAGO
A Pilgrimage in Mosaic
by Theodora Harasymiw
Mosaic and Multimedia Exhibition
Opening Reception:
Friday March 3rd, 2023
6:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M. at ACUA
ACUA – 10554 110 Street Edmonton
Theo is also including an interactive component to the exhibition for the Opening Reception, so the event will run a little longer than previous ACUA Openings. With this in mind we certainly encourage you to come in-person Opening Night to enjoy the exhibition!
Exhibition will be on view at ACUA March 3 – April 1 during regular hours.
Gallery Hours:
Tue-Thu 10am-4pm
Friday 2pm-7pm
Saturday 11am-3pm

Folklore Lunch & Curator's Talk: Dumy moї-My thoughts: Taras Shevchenko, the Ukrainian Diaspora and the Ongoing War in Ukraine
2023-03-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Rutherford Library, University of Alberta, 11208 89 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2J8, Canada
The Kule Folklore Centre at the U of A is pleased to announce our upcoming Folklore lunch:
Dumy moї – My Thoughts: Taras Shevchenko’s Story of Empathy and Resistance Amid the Ongoing War in Ukraine
Curator’s Talk by
Dmytro Yesypenko, PhD Student, MLCS
March 10, 2023 | 12 PM MST
Rutherford Library Galleria, University of Alberta
Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861) is undoubtedly one of the most prominent and influential figures for Ukrainian communities around the world. This short presentation will focus on Shevchenko’s portrayal in contemporary Ukrainian visual arts and the roles assigned to the writer in the conditions of war. Dmytro’s talk will serve as an introduction to the Shevchenko digital exhibition Dumy moї–My Thoughts, which will be held by the Kule Folklore Centre in the Rutherford Library Galleria throughout March 2023.
Dmytro Yesypenko is a Ph.D. student in the Modern Languages and Cultural Studies Department and a research assistant at the Kule Centre for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore (University of Alberta). His interests include Ukrainian historical and literary processes of the 19th-early 20th centuries and medical humanities. Dmytro’s ongoing doctoral research is focused on past epidemics as portrayed in Ukrainian and Polish literatures and folklore.
View this event on our website: https://www.ualberta.ca/kule-folklore-centre/news/2023/february/exhibit-dumy-moi-my-thoughts.html?fbclid=IwAR1wJJLON925R1u-Pz3hbkDFniwTGKmClC5Xw_wMlsNPHCaaBqC3a68yxAM
Exhibition:
March 6-31, 2023
Rutherford Library Galleria
Curators: Larisa Sembaliuk Cheladyn, PhD and Dmytro Yesypenko, PhD Student, MLCS
More about the exhibit: https://www.ualberta.ca/kule-folklore-centre/news/2023/february/exhibit-dumy-moi-my-thoughts.html?fbclid=IwAR1a-rahDiS5ZVIhLtHDIUPNsdPvAylDKyX_k9RPir3vjUri0kmhkRUkuVk
This is an in-person event, however the presentation will be available on our Youtube channel and our website after the event: ukrfolk.ca.
For more information, contact: ukrfolk@ualberta.ca

Job Fair
2023-03-08 11:00 - 15:00
Запрошуємо новоприбулих українців прийняти участь у Ярмарку вакансій, який відбудеться 8 Березня 2023 у St. John’s Cultural Centre з 11:00 до 15:00 за адресою: 10611 110 Avenue T5H 2Z5.
Реєстрація обов’язкова!
Щоб якісно підготуватися:
зареєструйтеся для участі: bit.ly/ukrainianjobs
підготуйте резюме за канадським стандартом
https://docs.google.com/…/1aPlasC6qRb9fnFqlNwK…/edit…
відредагуйте резюме зі спеціалістом (зокрема, можете скористатися послугами Provincial Employment Services for Immigrants, контакти можна знайти на https://uatoabinfo.ca/en/employment/)
візьміть надруковані резюме з собою (не менше 10 копій) – роздрукувати документи можна у кожній бібліотеці міста, адресу найближчої можна знайти на https://www.epl.ca/

2023 CIUS Annual Shevchenko Lecture: The Russia-Ukraine war: Roots and geopolitical context
2023-03-07 19:00 - 21:00 | University of Alberta, Telus Centre, 111 St & 87 Ave, Edmonton, AB, Canada
CIUS’s Annual Shevchenko Lecture, established in 1966, was conceived as a forum for important intellectual discussions concerning Ukrainian history, nation-building, language, literature, culture, and identity. It is the institute’s most eminent and oldest invited lecture, attesting to its long-standing commitment to building and disseminating knowledge about Ukraine and Ukrainians in the world. This year’s guest speaker is retired Lt Col Alexander Vindman, currently a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, a Pritzker Military Fellow at the Lawfare Institute, an executive board member of the Renew Democracy Initiative, and a senior advisor for VoteVets.
In this lecture, Alexander Vindman will provide an analysis of the roots of the Russia-Ukraine war and an examination of its geopolitical context. The lecture will encompass the period from 1991 to the present and include a discussion on the implications of the war for the next decade(s).

Art for Ukraine
2023-03-03 17:00 - 20:00 | Jamieson Place 308-4 Ave SW, 308- 4th Ave SW 2nd level, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Local Artist Carol Cowan has generously donated 50 pieces of her ART to go up for Silent & Live Auction with 100% of proceeds going to Ukrainian Canadian Congress – Alberta Provincial Council
Free tickets on Eventbrite

Vigil for Ukraine and Day of Solidarity
2023-03-01 | St. Joseph’s College (U of A campus), 11325 89 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2J5, Canada
Wednesday, March 1: Vigil and Day of Solidarity, hosted by the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Edmonton, to commemorate the first anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. All-day events at St. Joseph’s College on the U of A campus, free and open to the public. For meal registration, venue location, and other information, visit https://forms.gle/G4hrWxuN3S4phhou9, or contact deacon.kennedy@eeparchy.com.
Schedule:
11AM Prayer Service for Peace (Molebyn) – St. Joseph’s College Chapel
11:45AM Ukraine, her neighbours, and her adversaries: A Conversation with Professor Oleksandr Melnyk
1PM Writings from the War: Archiving and Disseminating Testimonials of Ukrainians – lecture by Alex Averbuch
2:00PM – Rewriting history by Rewriting landscapes: Soviet distortion of Crimean Tatar toponyms – lecture by Oleksandra Kushnir
4PM – The 2014 Maidan as a Student Spirit(ual) Protest – discussion with Rev. Yosafat Khaimyk, OSBM
5PM – Free Ukrainian Supper (Borshch and Perogies) with testimonials from Ukrainian students
6PM – Candlelit Vigil for Victims of the Invasion (Panakhyda) – St. Joseph’s College Chapel

Shumka Auditions
2023-02-26 13:00 - 16:00 | Shumka Dance Centre, 10515 111 St NW, Edmonton, Ab, T5H 3E8, Canada
SHUMKA AUDITIONS 2023
Sunday February 26
Doors open at 1 PM; Auditions at 2 PM
Shumka Dance Centre
10515 – 111 Street, Edmonton, Alberta
Realize your dance dreams! Take the step to exciting dance opportunities, great friendships and life-lasting personal development. Join Shumka in training, the development of new works, a “Whirlwind Summer” of festival performances, and a 3-city Nutcracker tour – all in 2023!
The audition will include basic ballet barre, character and contemporary combinations, regional Ukrainian dance combinations, basic acting while performing, and an opportunity to demonstrate solos or acrobatics.
Auditions are open to the entire dance community. Although experience in Ukrainian dance is an asset, anyone with high-calibre training in ballet, contemporary, jazz, or modern dance, acrobatics, or stage experience in another style of dance will be considered. Dancers must be at least 16 years of age in 2023.
Dancers in Shumka are not required to pay for tuition, training or touring costs.
