Maiete Veselu Vdachui Vmiiete Spilkuvatys'z liud'my? Tsikavytes' istoriieiu I kul'turoiu. Picture of 2 Ukrainian women in a corn field.
Edmonton, Jubilee Auditorium, 25th anniversary tour, 40 dancers with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, 2nd copy: at O'Keefe Centre, Toronto 40 dancers and 25 musicians.
Poster for Ukrainian Shumka Dancers Canadian tour 1991. Edmonton Jubilee Auditorium.
Director's comment on the Sumka Remembers Dance - Ukrainian Canadian internment
Video performance excerpts for a contemporary original dance theatre work titled Shumka Remembers, conceived and directed by Gordon Gordey. Video excerpt contains commentary from Gordon Gordey at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, Alberta, Canada. This dancework was created for The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada. Shumka Remembers 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.
9th Anniversary of Ukrainian Dancing Schools in Concert, list of schools and instructors provided.
A Heritage Festival Associated Event, Edmonton Convention Centre.
