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.
UntitledChester 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.
UntitledThis item is an oil painting on canvas
UntitledThis item is an oil painting on canvas
UntitledVarious paintings and a drawing of the Kazymyra family. Includes 1 pastel drawing, 3 oil paintings, and 1 unfinished oil study.
UntitledPastel 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.
The main part of the sub-series constitutes numerous M. Bilas’s letters to Chester and Luba Kuc (1984-2004). The subjects of these letters are the artist’s works, his daily life, social and political news, and his plans for exhibitions in Canada. There is also a small number of letters from other individuals to Bilas and the Kucs in both Ukrainian and English. Chester and Luba Kuc sent a number of parcels to Bilas with tools for his artistic work, as well as food, and the collection contains orders and invoices with detailed lists of their contents.