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Volya School of Ukrainian Dance Year End Concert
2023-05-06 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Edmonton) | The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne Street, St. Albert, AB, T8N 3Z9, Canada
Attention all music and dance enthusiasts! Get ready for an unforgettable night of entertainment – the Volya School of Ukrainian Dance is proud to present their Year End Dance Concert.
Join us for an evening of vibrant dance performances, foot-tapping music, and traditional Ukrainian costumes as we display our love for Ukrainian culture. Our talented dancers will transport you to a world of energy and passion as we showcase many traditional dances, including Hopak and Kozachok. This concert is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the rich history and culture of Ukraine.
The Volya School of Ukrainian Dance serves as the primary training ground for the renowned Volya Ukrainian Dance Ensemble. Our school welcomes students aged 4-18 years and offers comprehensive training in academic-style Ukrainian dance. Our program places emphasis on traditional Ukrainian stage dance, as well as ballet and character dance training. Our dedicated and talented team of instructors, led by the esteemed Artistic Director and State Honored Artist of Ukraine Zhenia Bahri, provide expert guidance to students of all skill levels. Our assistant instructors are also highly skilled and experienced, ensuring that every student receives the individual attention they need to thrive.
The Volya School of Ukrainian Dance is honored to receive support from the Province of Alberta through the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. This support is a valuable recognition of our commitment to promoting and preserving Ukrainian culture through dance. We are grateful for this opportunity to enhance our school and provide even better training to our dancers. Thank you to the Province of Alberta and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts for their support.

Opening Reception • Taking Wing Art Exhibition: Erin Haugen & Nina Leontowicz
2023-05-05 18:00 - 20:00 | ACUA, 10554 110 Street Unit 100, Edmonton, Alberta, T5H 3C5, Canada
We are delighted to announce our May Signature Artists are painter Erin Haugen and metal artist Nina Leontowicz!
Note: This is our last Signature Artist Series Exhibition of the season. Our next exhibition season begins September 2023.
Opening Reception
Friday May 5th, 2023
6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.
Exhibition will be on view at ACUA May 5 – May 27 during regular hours.
Gallery Hours:
Tue-Thu 10am-4pm
Friday 2pm-7pm
Saturday 11am-3pm
ACUA
10554 110 Street Edmonton

Viewing Hours • Taking Wing Art Exhibition: Erin Haugen & Nina Leontowicz
2023-05-05 14:00 - 2023-05-27 19:00 | ACUA, 10554 110 Street Unit 100, Edmonton, Alberta, T5H 3C5, Canada

28th Annual Kyiv Konnection Banquet
2023-05-04 17:30 - 20:00 | St. John’s Cultural Centre, 10611-110 Avenue NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5H 2Z5, Canada
Join our annual Kyiv Konnection Banquet fundraiser with this year’s event speakers, Hon. Ed Stelmach, Orysia Boychuk, and Kevin Royle. Presented by the
Ukrainian Foundation for College Education (UFCE).
Ed Stelmach was Alberta’s 13th Premier, making him the first Premier of Alberta of Ukrainian origin and only the second person of Ukrainian descent to be elected Premier of a Canadian province. Being the grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Ed has always been an active member of the Ukrainian community in Alberta. He received the Hetman Award from the Alberta Provincial Council of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress in 2011 and the Michael Luchkovich Award by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress in 2013. At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Ed Stelmach organized one of the first planes filled with humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
Orysia Boychuk is a president of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress – Alberta Provincial Council, an umbrella organization representing the Ukrainian community organizations in Alberta. She has been an active community member holding various leadership roles including committee member of the Advisory Council on Alberta-Ukraine Relations, President of UCC Edmonton, President of Ukrainian Benevolent Society. Orysia is a recipient of several awards including the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Award, Hetman Award, and the Alberta Federal Council Award.
Kevin Royle is a first class firefighter and fire investigator and a veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces. He founded Firefighter Aid Ukraine (FFAU) in 2014. As of March 15, 2023, FFAU has shipped almost 240 tons of aid to Ukraine in the form of rescue equipment, specialty tools, medical supplies, surgical instruments, hospital equipment, drugs and medicine. FFAU is actively training first responders in Ukraine. FFAU was one of the first NGO’s in Canada to charter a plane and send aid in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The banquet will take place on May 4 (Thursday) in St. John’s Cultural Centre, 10611-110 Avenue NW.
Reception: 5:30 pm
Dinner and Program: 6:30 pm
Tickets are $90 per person
Tax receipts available
For tickets, call:
George Zaharia at 780- 435-5842
Rena Hanchuk at 780 468 6206
Ernie Skakun at 780-434-0543
Buy tickets online – https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/590101979907
UKRAINIAN FOUNDATION FOR COLLEGE EDUCATION
c/o Ukrainian Resource and Development Centre
MacEwan University, P.O. Box 1796 Edmonton AB T5J 4S2

Vesnianky for Ukraine Spring Zabava
2023-04-23 04:00 - 11:00, 2023-04-22 08:00 - 17:00 | Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex, 9615 153 ave, Edmonton, Alberta, T5E 6B1, Canada
Don’t miss a chance to welcome spring brightly, with Ukrainian traditions and supporting Ukraine financially!
EASTER DICSOUNTED TIKETS SALE UNTIL FRIDAY APRIL 21!
– $50 for an adult,
– $25 for children 12yrs and under,
– 3 years and under are free
– $40 Zabava Only
Tickets available online at cutt.ly/s47RQGL
Program:
– Vesnianky spring Ukrainian social dance and singing workshop;
– Silent auction;
– Perogies Hot Late Lunch & Cocktails;
– Live Music By: Euphoria Band;
– Performance by Volya Ukrainian Dance Ensemble
– Photobooth
All proceeds go to the Guardian Angels of Ukraine Fund and Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity to connect with your heritage and embrace the beauty of Ukrainian culture. Mark your calendars and join us for Vesnianky on April 22nd! Don’t forget to wear your vyshyvanky or something blue and yellow! We can’t wait to see you there!
For tickets contact:
Andrii — 780 504 5340
Vira: 780 266 7787 (text anytime, call — after 7 pm)
Anna: 403 479 2227 (after 4 pm)

National Conference - Ukrainian Immigration to Canada: From Post Independence to Post War
2023-04-21 - 2023-04-22 | University of Alberta, Peter Lougheed Hall, 11011 Saskatchewan Dr NW, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
This two-day conference will examine thirty years of Ukrainian immigration to Canada, the migratory flow of Ukrainians displaced by the ongoing war, and how recent research on Ukrainian immigration can inform Canadian policymakers and community leaders.
Join scholars and community advocates from North America and Europe in this decidedly vital and timely set of conversations.
The conference is open to the public and free to attend.
Registration is mandatory.

“Enemy Archives” Book Launch with Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk
2023-04-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex, 9615 153 ave, Edmonton, Alberta, T5E 6B1, Canada
Newly released book that presents “the Ukrainian Nationalist movement during and after WW2 recently researched archival material. “Enemy Archives”, released in February, 2023 is a 1176 page collection of annotated documents, compiled by researchers Lubomyr Luciuk and Volodymyr Viatrovych. Presenting at the Edmonton Book Launch will be Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk. It will take place at the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex 9615 153 Avenue. Books will be available for purchase.

National Conference – Ukrainian Immigration to Canada: From Post Independence to Post War
2023-04-05
A two day conference at the University of Alberta examining thirty years of Ukrainian immigration to Canada, the current unprecedented migratory flow of Ukrainians displaced by Russia’s war on Ukraine, and how recent research on Ukrainian immigration can inform Canadian policymakers and community leaders.

POSTPONED An evening with the Premier
2023-04-04 17:00 - 19:30 | Calgary Petroleum lub, 319 - 5th ave, Calgary, Alberta
Hello Everyone!

UCPBA Calgary and Ukrainian Canadian Congress – Alberta Provincial Council regrets to inform you that owing to circumstances beyond our control it has become necessary to postpone our Evening with the Premier event, previously scheduled for April 4, until later this year. We will be in touch with ticket purchasers during the week of April 3 to arrange for refunds.

We appreciate everyone’s understanding on the matter!

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions about the cancellation by phone at 780-414-1624 (9AM-4PM) or e-mail info@uccab.ca

Get ready for Easter at ACUA!
2023-04-01 11:00 - 15:00 | Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts, 10554 - 110 Street NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T5H 3C5, Canada
Get ready for Easter at ACUA!
Food • Ukrainian Easter Supplies• Artisan & Craft Vendors • Art & Ukrainian Goods
In addition to the market, ACUA is offering a curated menu of Ukrainian food and other food offerings for Easter!
Visit our online food market to place your order.
Order here: https://acua-market.square.site/
Order Online: March 6 – 25, 2023
In-Store Pick Up: April 1, 2022, 11:00 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Don’t be disappointed!
Make sure to place your order, as many of these online food vendors will not be visiting the market at ACUA on April 1.
ACUA Ukrainian Easter Market
Saturday, April 1, 2023
11am to 3pm
10554 – 110 Street NW, Edmonton
FREE to attend!

Ukrainian Film Festival in Edmonton
2023-04-01 07:00 - 2023-04-04 17:00, 2023-03-31 08:00 - 17:00 | Metro Cinema, 8712 – 109 ST NW EDMONTON, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 1E9, Canada
The Ukrainian Film Festival in Edmonton (UFFE) will present a selection of contemporary Ukrainian films that have been acclaimed by world critics and have won various international awards. Over the course of three days, festival-goers will have the opportunity to watch the brightest representatives of Ukrainian cinema in recent years and taste what the world of contemporary Ukrainian cinema has to offer.
It will include the following films: The Earth is Blue as an Orange (2020), Stop-Zemlia (2021), Ya i Felix (2020), Klondike (2022), My Thoughts Are Silent (2019), Pamfir (2022).
For movie times and tickets, please visit the Metro Cinema schedule https://www.metrocinema.org/series/ukrainian-film-festival/. For more information about the festival and the films, please see https://www.ukrfilmfestival.com/
The UFFE is co-organized by the Alberta Society for the Advancement of Ukrainian Studies and by the Contemporary Ukraine Studies Program at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, in cooperation with Ukrainian Resource and Development Centre at MacEwan University and the Alberta Local and International Education Association.

Exhibit: Dumy moї - My thoughts: Taras Shevchenko, the Ukrainian Diaspora and the Ongoing War in Ukraine
2023-03-31 08:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-30 08:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-29 08:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-28 08:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-27 08:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-26 08:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-25 08:00 - 20:00, 2023-03-24 08:00 - 20:00 and 3 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.

Ukraine vs England Soccer match(Euro 2024 qualifier)
2023-03-26 10:00 - 12:00
Come join us for Ukraine’s first Euro 2024 qualification match at the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex! Doors open at 9:30am. Entrance will be by donation, and proceeds will be sent to UYA soldiers and families in Ukraine (humanitarian fund). Snacks will be provided, beer available for purchase.

2023 Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture
2023-03-24 12:00 - 17:00 | Online
“𝗧𝗼𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙞 𝙢𝙞𝙧 : 𝗨𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻”
An online lecture from 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗶 𝗕𝗮𝗯𝘆𝗻𝘀𝗸𝘆𝗶, Ukrainian Catholic University Lviv
Russia’s war against Ukraine has affected Ukrainian society in its entirety, Ukrainian Greek and Roman Catholics being no exception. Both churches have mobilized all their efforts to overcome the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and to provide various assistance to the military. Russia regards them as foreign bodies on the territory of the russkii mir, agents of the “global West.”
Therefore, their existence is under the same threat of elimination as anything else related to Ukrainian identity as such. Ukrainian Catholics, however, face other unique challenges. The Holy See’s position on Russia’s war against Ukraine, and relations between Rome and Moscow, have provoked a heated debate in Ukrainian society and within both churches.
This lecture will analyze the threats and consequences of the war for the Catholic community in Ukraine.
This presentation will be online only.
𝙍𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙫𝙞𝙖 𝙕𝙤𝙤𝙢: https://tinyurl.com/344bers4
𝗔𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗶 𝗕𝗮𝗯𝘆𝗻𝘀𝗸𝘆𝗶 completed his doctorate in theology at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv (UCU) in 2020 and is currently a lecturer and researcher at its Institute of Church History. Previously he spent two years in Toronto as a research fellow at the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies. He is the author of The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church: A Short History (2022) and co-author, with Vadym Adadurov and Oleksandr Zaitsev, of a forthcoming book on the image of Andrey Sheptytsky in Ukrainian diaspora historiography and journalism.

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
