Author: Orysia Paszczak Tracz

It started out so innocently. A person on a Ukrainian Facebook page was traveling to Ukraine for the first time, and asked what gifts to bring to her family. The suggestions came fast and furious, some practical and worthwhile, some outdated and even bizarre. Somewhere along the way, someone replied, mentioning “Uki,” “Uke” and “Ukie”...

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WINNIPEG, Manitoba – Shevchenko Year culminated in Winnipeg on March 8, with a gala concert, as the Ukrainian community in Manitoba celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth of Taras Shevchenko (1814-1864). Shevchenko was an artist, a writer, a fighter for human rights – and Ukraine’s greatest poet. His influence on the Ukrainian nation was...

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All went black. In that second, I felt I would burst a vessel in my brain. The absurdity of what I heard really caught me off guard. I attended the showing of “Music of Survival,” a new documentary on Ukrainian history and culture of the 20th century. It was fascinating and very well researched and...

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It would not be an exaggeration to say that almost every Ukrainian child in the world knows at least one Taras Shevchenko poem set to music. It could be “Zapovit” (Testament), “Dumy Moyi” (My Thoughts), or “Reve ta Stohne Dnipr Shyrokyi” (The Wide Dnipro Roars and Moans). For most children it would probably be “Sadok...

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The year 988, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, “chaiky,” Ivan Mazepa, Shevchenko, Kobzar, “Pershoho Lystopada” (November 1), Kruty and January 22, 1918. These are the bare minimum dates and names that any Ukrainian kid remembers from Saturday Ukrainian school, or “Ridna Shkola.” Yes, January 22, 1918 – the first Ukrainian Independence Day, the Fourth Universal, the Ukrainian National...

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