www.ukrweekly.com Published by the Ukrainian National Association Inc.. a fraternal non-profit association! crainian Weekl ї Vol. LI No. 26 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 26,1983 25 cents famine committee Ukrainian fests herald summer in Canada, U.S. in D.C. launches Kingston's Folklore `83 Jersey's Ukrainian Festival media campaign by Mykbailo Bociurkiw KINGSTON, Ont. - During the summer, Canada's HOLM DEL, N.J. - New Jersey's Garden State Arts by Andrij BUyk Ukrainian communities corr/e alive with festivals. Celebra­ Center was the site of the ninth annual Ukrainian festival on tions of past, present and future take place across the country Saturday, June 18. WASHINGTON—The Washington from early May to late October. From the Ukrainian Pysanka Over 10,000 festival-goers attended the one-day festival arm of the National Committee to Festival in Vegreville, Alta., to Metro International Caravan despite the hot and muggy weather conditions which had Commemorai: Genocide Victims in in Toronto, Ukrainians gather from all parts of North plagued the Eastern Seaboard for days. This year's Garden Ukraine this week launched its media America to sample Ukrainian food, to gaze at numerous State festival was in very many ways similar to other relations campaign. The committee sent exhibits and to dance to some of the best Ukrainian music the Ukrainian festivals held in Canada and the United States. a letter to each of the 13 New England country has to offer. Ukrainian merchants from every corner of the continent lined reporters and editors bound for the The 1983 summer program of festivals kicked-off on the festival grounds with their booths, selling everything from Soviet Union, urging them to use their weekend of June 10-12 in Kingston, Ont. — a small historic "Kiss me, i'm Ukrainian"T-shirtstothelatestalbumsfromthe "Yankee ingenuity" jo uncover "the city located on the shores of Lake Ontario at the entrance to Ukrainian recording industry. For the connoisseur of world's most hideous cover-up — the the Rideau Canal. Kingston was the site of the 12th annual Ukrainian food, the festival offered several stalls serving murder by starvation of 6-8 million Folklore Festival, a multicultural event sponsored by the every size and shape of varenyky and holubtsi. Ukrainians during the 1932-33 drive to Kingston and District Folk Arts Council. Throughout the day, an entertainment program was held collectivize Ukraine." Folklore follows much the same concept as the Metro on the main square of the festival grounds. Performing at "This genocide against the Ukrainian Toronto International Caravan. Local ethnic communities regular intervals were the Lyman Ukrainian Dance Ensemble people continues today, although the sponsor "pavilions" located in halls and schools scattered from Maryland and the four-member Boys from Lviv band. methods are more subtle," the letter across the city. Each pavilion features music, cultural displays said, describing the policy of Russifica- food bistros and.performances. (Continued on page 5) tion. , - . Fsstivabgoers are required to, pur­ The media relations effort will con­ chase a "passport" to gain entrance to tinue with the preparation of a press each pavilion. Upon arrival to a release about the letter that will be sent pavilion, the passport is stamped with a to the majority of news media represen­ "visa," making the booklet a unique tatives headquartered in the nation's souvenir of the festival. capital. The press release will be follow­ This year, Folklore '83 featured 23 ed by phone calls to key media persons pavilions. Located at the corner of at which time "we will push hard for North and Bagot Streets, St. Michael's interviews, stories, anything we can Ukrainian Catholic Parish sponsored get," said Natalie Sluzar, Washington the Kiev Pavilion. Visitors to Kiev were committee coordinator. treated to Ukrainian food and refresh­ The 13-member delegation from the ments; a display of Ukrainian arts and New England Society of Newspaper crafts in the church hall; and an out­ Editors left yesterday for Helsinki and door cabaret featuring the Bayda Song Moscow. The delegation will attend a and Dance Ensemble of Toronto, the U.S.-Soviet newspaper conference in Voloshky Vocal Ensemble from Osha- Leningrad set up by the Soviets in wa, Ont., musicians from Toronto's return for a similar visit to New En­ exclusive Ukrainian Caravan Restau­ gland last year. The title of the confe­ rant, and dancers from the St. Mi­ rence is "A Search for Ways to Over­ chael's Parish School of Ukrainian come Confrontation Between the Soviet Dance. Union and the United States of America and to Prevent the Threat of Nuclear A few blocks away on Cowdy Street, War: What Editors Can Do." Follow­ the Ukrainian Canadian Club of ing the conference, the American dele­ Kingston sponsored the Lviv Pavilion gation will be broken up into three in the Frontenac School. Now in its groups, with one visiting Kiev and the third year of operation, Lviv, like Kiev, others visiting the capitals of Lithua­ seemed to be among the most frequent­ nia and Georgia. ed pavilions of Folklore '83. Large Editor and Publisher magazine re­ crowds during each performance left ported that the American delegation, "to only standing room for those arriving get a broauer and deeper look at and late. ' understanding of the real Soviet people, Headlining the performance schedule has requested meetings with some top at Lviv were the Rusalka Dancers of Soviet officials, home visits with average Burlington, Ont. The 25-member dance Soviet citizens, plus tours of collective group adds Folklore to its growing list farms, department stores, churches, a of out-of-town appearances which ballet studio and a journalism school." includes: Pittsburgh, California, and In its letter to each member of the Toronto. Among selections from the American delegation, the Washington troupe's repertoire performed at Folk­ branch of the National Committee to lore were the hopak, "Un^er the Cherry Commemorate Genocide Victims in Tree," hutsulka, and "Povzunets." Ukraine said, in part: Members of the group videotaped "We realize your mission involves several of their performances in order to discussions about what editors can do review their mistakes and improve on to avoid nuclear war. And we wish you technique. jMykhaiio Bociurkiv well in these discussions. We pray that The Lviv Pavilion was once again the (Continued on page 14) (Continued on page IS) A leaping Kozak dancer at the recent Kingston Folklore festival. 2 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 1983 m No. 26 Dissident profile. Afghans force ceasefire in key valley ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A land 29-year-old commander of insurgent mine planted by insurgents in the forces in the valley, recently told a Sergei Paradjartov: eastern Pakita province of Afghanistan correspondent from The Economist killed a top Defense Ministry official that guerrillas now control the Panjshir and nine other people traveling in an air unchallenged. jailed filmmaker force van, reported United Press Inter­ Since the Soviet invasion of the JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Although national. country in 1979, Soviet and pro-govern­ award-winning Soviet filmmaker Mohammad Shafiq Ahangar, a De­ ment forces have been unable to dis­ Sergei Paradjanov was born in fense Ministry secretary, was killed with lodge the insurgents from the valley, a Georgia of Armenian descent, it can his son whe,n the mine blew up their van force estimated to number 5,000 to be argued that his mid-1960s Ukrai­ on June 9,.rebel sources said. They said 7,500 guerrillas. In April 1982, about nian-language classic, "Shadows of three guards, four air force officers and 30,000 Soviet and government troops Forgotten Ancestors,"and the subse­ the driver were also killed. invaded the valley with"air support by quent trouble it has caused him, The sources also said that during the MIG jets and Hind MI-24 helicopter make him eligible for inclusion in the first week of June, Afghan guerrillas gunships. annals of Ukrainian dissent. killed 21 Soviet and 18 government The Soviet assault did well at first, The film, a haunting and lyrical troops in fierce clashes in Baghlan but the advance was then forced back. interpretation of the mystical aspects province in northern Afghanistan bor­ The valley floor is about 8,000 feet of Hutsul mountain culture, was dering the Soviet Union. above sea level, and the mountains that based on Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky's The news comes amid reports that the line it reach 16,000 feet. Guerrilla book of the same name. What's Soviets had asked for and were granted positions high in the hills could not be more, Mr. Paradjanov first ran afoul a ceasefire in the strategic Panjshir reached by Soviet fire, and the insur­ of Soviet authorities when he refused valley, which begins some SO miles gents used Dashaka heavy machine to dub his Ukrainian-language films north of Kabul and runs northeast guns, anti-aircraft guns and Sam-7s to into Russian. For this he was labeled Sergei Paradjanov through the mountains of the Hindu shoot down enemy helicopters. The a Ukrainian nationalist. Kush. mountains are so high that guerrilla In addition, Mr. Paradjanov lived fewer than 16 international film Earlier reports had suggested that the gunners sometimes fired from above to in Ukraine and sent his son to a prizes. ceasefire came about because local knock out Soviet aircraft flying below Ukrainian school. In 1965 and 1969 Back in the USSR, however, Mr. residents were tired of the yearlong them through the valley. he signed petitions in defense of Paradjanov's fortunes were turning. Soviet offensive and wanted time to By December, the Economist report­ persecuted Ukrainian intellectuals Both Khrushchev and Shelest were tend their crops.