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The dance libretto and concepts for a contemporary original dance theatre work titled Voices of the Silenced, directed by Gordon Gordey. This dancework was created for The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada. Voices of the Silenced is a contemporary Ukrainian Canadian narrative folk dance theatre work with video exploring the unjust internment of Ukrainian Canadians as “enemy aliens” in Canada during WWI. These “enemy aliens” were subjected to having to carry registration identity papers, often pay monthly registration fees, and were under constant surveillance. Of the 80,000 who were registered under the authority of the Act, 8,579 were deemed: “enemy aliens”. The majority of “enemy aliens” were Ukrainians and were arrested and interned in 26 makeshift encampments located mostly in Canada’s frontier hinterlands. They were forced into hard labour clearing land for roads, building bridges, and building the railway.

The video for Voices of the Silenced was directed by Gordon Gordey for The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada. Voices of the Silenced is a contemporary Ukrainian Canadian narrative folk dance theatre work with video exploring the unjust internment of Ukrainian Canadians as “enemy aliens” in Canada during WWI. These “enemy aliens” were subjected to having to carry registration identity papers, often pay monthly registration fees, and were under constant surveillance. Of the 80,000 who were registered under the authority of the Act, 8,579 were deemed: “enemy aliens”. The majority of “enemy aliens” were Ukrainians and were arrested and interned in 26 makeshift encampments located mostly in Canada’s frontier hinterlands. They were forced into hard labour clearing land for roads, building bridges, and building the railway.

Voices of the Silenced - Premiere Performance, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton: November 17, 2012.

The collection consists of field materials collected by Anna-Marie Kryschuk as part of her assignments for the folklore courses she took at the University of Alberta. It includes collected folk remedies, and folk songs performed during vinkopletennia (wreath weaving ritual).

A collection of proverbs and beliefs relating to folk medicine collected from various informants: Maria Basarab, John Martyniuk and Paraskevia Kostiuk.

Maria Basarab came to Canada in 1951 from Kryve village in Kozova raion, Ternopil' region.

John Martyniuk was born in Canada, near Mundare, in 1912.

Paraskevia Kostiuk came to Canada from Ukraine in 1963 (she was 66 years old at the time of the interview).

The collection consists of video and audio recordings of an interview with Peter and Doris Kule conducted by Natalie Kononenko in 2007. This material was used for the Kules' biography that was included into the Champions of Philanthropy book edited by Natalie Kononenko and Serge Cipko.

This work is aimed at identifying and discussing the qualities of the male demonological characters of Lesja Ukrajinka's drama "Lisova Pisnja".

A collection of jokes and comic tales collected from various informants in northern Alberta for the UKR-499 course.
Interviewees: Kost' Kuz'mak, Kost' Mykhailovych Telychko, Mykhailo Vasyliv, Orest Bohonos, pani M. Chornohuz, Ol'ha Lisova, Dmytro Petriw.

A collection of jokes, proverbs, New Year's verses and texts of other folk songs collected by Irene Scharabun for the UKR-499 course at the University of Alberta.

Collection of texts of songs and verses from informants from Western Ukraine.