The collection consists of photos and video footage from the event of the re-naming and additional gift by Drs. Peter and Doris Kule held in the Timms Centre, University of Alberta on 6 September 2006. Recognizing the contribution Ukrainian folklore plays in the development and preservation of Ukrainian culture and heritage, the Kules made another substantial gift to the University of Alberta in September 2006. To honor the Kules’ vision to see the centre expand and grow as a leading entity, the centre was renamed the Peter and Doris Kule Centre for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore at a ceremony attended by several dignitaries including Dr. Indira Samarasekera, UofA President, and Dr. Daniel Woolf, Dean of Arts.
With this gift, the Kule Centre Endowment and the Kule Fellowship Endowment was established. Funds from the interest generated from these endowments is used for research projects, scholarships, publications and teaching. The Centre has been able to expand beyond Ukrainian Folklore to include Canadian Folklore studies, filling a much needed resource void in Western Canada.
Kule Folklore CentreCanadian Ukrainian organizations' briefs and recommendations pertaining the Ukrainian language and culture development in Canada.
The series contains materials about history of education in Western Canada
Various materials related to bilingual education in Alberta including newspaper clippings, conference proceedings, curricula, educational materials, official letters, documents, research studies, and legal materials on equality rights.
The collection consists of materials related to Chester and Luba Kuc's professional and social life. It includes materials representing dance groups founded or taught by Chester; photographs of Ukrainian costumes and dances; concert programs, music scores of Ukrainian songs, a collection of Ukrainian postcards, and some self-published educational materials of the Ukrainian youth organizations.
Kuc, Chester and LubaChester Kuc organized the Ukrainian Shumka Dancers group in the latter months of 1958. Their first public performance took place at the first "Ukrainian Autumn Festival of Songs and Dances" on October 29, 1960. The series contains a program of the first Shumka performance and its other concerts, as well as promotional booklets, newspaper clippings of publications about Shumka. There is also a manuscript of the "Origins of Shumka" research project conducted by Joy Muller and Associates LTD in 1990.
Collection of Ukrainian postal cards, predominantly with greetings from different people to Chester and Luba Kuc.
This collection consists of five oil paintings by Wadym Dobrolige.
Dobrolige, WadymThis item is an oil painting on canvas
Dobrolige, WadymThis item is an oil painting on canvas
Dobrolige, WadymVarious paintings and a drawing of the Kazymyra family. Includes 1 pastel drawing, 3 oil paintings, and 1 unfinished oil study.
Bucmaniuk, Julian
Pastel drawing on paper of Dmytro Kazymyra as a young boy, undated, unsigned.
Unfinished study of Nadia and Marta Kazymyra. Oil based house paint on canvas board, dated, unsigned.
