Shortly after russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine started Maarit Tymchyshyn, a Ukrainian-Canadian artist in Winnipeg, posted a personal essay called “Too Foreign For Home”. It’s a really powerful piece that resonated with us, so we wanted to share it with our audience.
Read MoreHere’s how you can support Ukraine through donations and actions. We talk with Vince Rees of Cobblestone Freeway and Zoya Kostetsky of Prairie Clay to hear about their fundraising efforts.
Read MoreOnce upon a time, there were four girls who lived abroad, and they got matching tattoos. But not just any tattoos — Ukrainian tattoos that have meaning much deeper than the skin. In this post, we tie our tattoo design (we’re two of those girls, by the way) into Ukrainian symbolism and explain the meaning behind common shapes and colours.
Read MoreIn Lviv and Chernivtsi, we had the opportunity to dance with a few different groups, including Yunist, the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, the Lviv College of Culture and Arts, and the Honoured Bukovyna State Ensemble of Song and Dance. While sharing our experiences dancing in these next two cities we wanted to figure out a way to tie it all together so we decided to share our “lessons learned” from each place.
Read MoreFor many of us, starting to Ukrainian dance wasn’t really a choice — our parents put us in it when we were young, and that was it. But soon, we made the decision to stay in dance. So what makes this hobby so intriguing? What keeps people involved for decades on end?
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