Poster advertising for a dance workshop in Ukraine. Workshop to take place July 1-29, 1996. Workshop offered by the Alberta Ukrainian Dance Association and the Institute of Ukrainian Folk Dance.
Part 1: Real name was Supyniuk; born on September 13, 1895 in Bukovyna; he is Orthodox; his brother was by that time already in Canada; upon arrival he settled in Regina and on August 1, 1913 started working; Prosvita was founded in 1920; literary nights; WWI - internment of Ukrainians; he went to Medicine Hat; working for farmers, working on CPR in Regina; Lapchuk; Narodnyi Dim - the original one; Communists harming them; George was a Head of the Prosvita and played tsymbaly; Petro Demchuk (??); Orthodox Church; Svystun; UNO; Het’mantsi were not present in Regina; Strilets’ka hromada.
Part 2: Strilets’ka hromada; immigrants after WWI; his wife - Anna Zavaliuk (??) born in Canora in 1906; her parents came to Canada in 1903; Ukrainian life and education; WWI, internment of Ukrainians; she moved to Regina in 1921 after marrying George; weekly plays; Svystun organizing people and raising money.
This publisher also has a number of other items in another collection: https://archives.ukrfolk.ca/surma
This publisher also has a number of other items in another collection: https://archives.ukrfolk.ca/surma-2