MLCS Chair Dr. Carry Smith offering her greetings.
Dr. Andrij Hornjatkevyc and Dr. Peter Rolland leading the carol
This is the sewing machine, which Wasyl bought and sent to his home village. Anna is sitting third from the left. She sewed her wedding dress on this machine and brought it with her to Canada where she married Wasyl.
A photograph of Wasyl and Anna Kuryliw. After several years of courtship by correspondence, Wasyl sponsored Anna's arrival to Canada, and they got married immediately following her arrival in 1936.
This is a poster of the Edmonton premier of the Chapters & Verses documentary held at St. John's Institute on October 27, 2017. Oksana Kuryliw and John Leeson were in attendance to introduce their documentary and answer questions after the screening. The event was organized by the Kule Folklore Centre and Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.
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.
Video performance excerpts of Vechornytsi-Life is a Cabaret edited in 2013 featuring live performances with orchestra and on stage projected video. Six cabaret style contemporary original dance works are featured to upbeat re-envisioned folk songs in a pop style including the classical style Melodia by Ukraine composer, Mykola Skoryk. These danceworks were created for The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada.
