The collection consists of materials pertaining to Chester and Luba Kuc's professional activities: Ukrainian folk dance, costumes, and embroidery.
UntitledThis is a typed manuscript of Ukrainian proverbs compiled by Volodymyr Plaviuk (Vladimir Plawiuk). Many have handwritten notes next to them, corrections, or translations.
UntitledThe collection consists of photographs of the event organized by the KuFC to celebrate Ukrainian Christmas in January 2019. The event was held at the Student Lounge at the Arts & Convocation Hall, University of Alberta, and was well attended by people from MLCS, Arts Centres and Institutes, and Ukrainian Canadian community. Traditional Ukrainian Christmas dishes were served and carols were sung by the participants.
UntitledOn December 5, 2013, Oleksandr Pankieiev interviewed Dr. Bohdan Medwidsky at the Kule Folklore Centre, University of Alberta. The interview covered Dr. Medwidsky's childhood in Europe, his reunion with the family at the age of 12, his "becoming" a Ukrainian, their immigration to Canada, and life and activities in various religious and community organizations, as well as the establishment of the Ukrainian Folklore program at the University of Alberta. Later, the article based on this interview was published on historians.in.ua http://www.historians.in.ua/index.php/intervyu/986-bohdan-medvidskyi-meni-i-dali-tsikavo-shcho-take-buty-ukraintsem and on Prostir http://prostir.pl/journalism/богдан-медвідський-мені-й-далі-цікав/
UntitledJars Balan interviewed several people who were crucial for the development of Ukrainian studies in Canada. Oleksandr Pankieiev recorded the interview. Jars Balan on behalf of CIUS deposited a copy of the interviews to the Bohdan Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archives.
UntitledThe collection consists of personal documents of Orest and Emilia Zarsky, community event programs and other ephemera, publications on various Ukrainian and religious topics, badges and banners, an embroidered tray, and wedding clothes and items.
UntitledThis collection consists of materials collected by Ashley Halko-Addley for her graduate research project, Waxing Away Illness, at the University of Alberta. In 2018, Ashley conducted interviews and observations of the wax ceremony in Saskatchewan and Alberta. This collection consists primarily of transcripts, audio recordings, and fieldnotes, with select supplementary materials.
A supplementary website was created by Ashley Halko-Addley. The website highlights some of the participants and important selections from their interviews. The website can be accessed here: https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/waxingawayillness/
UntitledThe collection consists of essays and questionnaires created by Natalia Booyar as part of her assignments for the Ukrainian Folklore courses at the University of Manitoba.
UntitledThis collection includes essays on Ukrainian customs in Canada, korovai as a folk art, and the Ukrainian Museum of Canada. Also included is an article review.
UntitledA collection of course work by Mark Bandera including book reviews, annotated bibliographies, and essay on topics such as folklore, folksongs, tsymbaly, and bandury.
UntitledThe collection consists of three photographs from the unveiling of Kule Theatre at Grant MacEwan University event.
The collection consists of posters, programs, brochures, periodical publications related to various events and organizations in the Ukrainian Canadian community in Edmonton. Collected by Roman Soltykewych and Orest Soltykevych. The collection is organized into the following series:
- Plast Functions 1956 -1978
- Exhibits 1967 - 1974
- Taras Shevchenko Functions 1952 - 1980
- Religious Occasions (Christmas near end) 1951 - 1987
- Dancing Concerts 1960 - 1990
- Out-of-Towner's in Edmonton 1969 - 1990
- Political Functions (Jan. 22 near end) 1951 - 1979
- Ukrainian Festivals 1951 - 1979
- Ukrainian Cultural Functions 1962 - 1980
- Festivals with Ukrainians & Other Ethnic Groups 1961 - 1974
- CYMK 1956 - 1981
- Concerts out of Edmonton by non-Edmontonians 1961 - 1976
- Live Ukrainian Theatre 1964 - 1977
- Phonograph recordings
- Portraits
- Maps
The collection consists of letters from Nick Ruptash family in Ukraine (Kitsman' district of Chernivtsi region) to Canada.
UntitledThe collection consists of various certificates granted to Peter and Doris Kule: those awarded for their work in the community, as well as professional and educational ones.
UntitledThis collection includes analyses on the wax ceremony performed by Ukrainian Canadians as folk medicine as research for her Master's thesis at the University of Alberta.
UntitledThe collection consists of essays and supporting material collected by Frank Fingarsen while taking Ukrainian Folklore courses at the University of Alberta.
UntitledThis collection includes an essay written by Greg Robinson for the course Ukrainian 499.
UntitledThe collection consists of a Musical CD by the New Melody Kings titled "There's Something in the Wind". There is also a three page background story of the New Melody Kings written by Jerry Ozipko, and a one-page brief biography.
There's Something in the Wind
(Seven Selection EP)
©2016 STUDIOOZ Productions EP-01
Recording Engineer - Mike Brazeau, Reel Audio Productions
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Ne Teper Polka/"Not Now" (Polka) 2:29
(Traditional Ukrainian Song) -
Shchos Nam Viter Naviva/"There's Something in the Wind" (Polka) & Arkan (Ukrainian Hutsul Dance) 3:06
by Jerry Ozipko (2015) -
Chowen Ketaietsia/"The Rocking Boat" (Waltz) 3:33
(Traditional Ukrainian Song) -
Chorney Ochi/"Dark Eyes" 2:34
(Traditional Ukrainian Romance Song) -
Siyanka/"Sowing Wheat" (Kolomyjka) & Arkan (Traditional Hutsul Dance) 3:05
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Mazurka(Traditional Polish Dance) 3:52
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Hopak/"Cossack Dance" 1:55
(Traditional National Dance of Ukraine)
The collection consists of an interview with Ukrainian Canadian artist and iconographer Pavlo Lopata conducted by Maryna Chernyavska on October 25, 2017 at the Kule Folklore Centre, University of Alberta.
UntitledThe collection consists of personal documents of Anna and Wasyl Kuryliw, family photographs, correspondence between Wasyl and Anna, and other materials.
The film Chapters & Verses: Action Bill's Walk through Life - a documentary about Wasyl Kuryliw directed by his daughter Oksana Kuryliw and produced by Oksana Kuryliw and John Leeson is also part of this collection. Other materials include: Sonia Holiad's introduction to the premier screening of the film on September 12, 2017 at the Spadina Theatre at Alliance Française in Toronto; photographs of the Edmonton screening of the film, on October 27, 2017, and a poster of the event; and poems by Ivan Franko handwritten by Wasyl Kuryliw, which he used to take with him to work around 1965-1974 in Sudbury.
Anna Kuryliw's wedding dress with the veil is also part of this collection, as well as the wedding photograph of Wasyl and Anna. There is also a photo print of 4 women (Anna among them - 3rd from the left) with a sewing machine, which was bought by Vasyl and sent to the Old Country with the proposal to Anna to marry her. Her wedding gown was sewn with it.
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