JUNE 3 - 4, 2017 CALGARY UKRAINIAN FESTIVAL programme guide CALGARYUKRAINIANFESTIVAL.CA ВІТАЄМО! WELCOME! SPONSORED BY: CALGARY UKRAINIAN FESTIVAL 2017! On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Calgary Ukrainian Festival Foundation I would like to welcome you to the EIGHTH Annual Calgary Ukrainian Festival! What a wonderful journey our Festival has been over the past 8 years. From Calgary’s June snow to extreme heat, our show always continues. We now average over 650 extremely talented performers from across Canada, presenting the best in Ukrainian song, dance and instrumental artistry. Our collection of Ukrainian vendors from across the country continues to expand, bringing everything from traditional painted ‘pysanky’ to the newest Ukrainian fashion trends. Of course, don’t forget the food. Returning after a 3-year rotation, back again is Ollies Homestyle Catering. If you want to feel like you are sitting at Baba’s kitchen table, you ВІТАЄМО! have come to the right place. So why stop there right? Our 2017 Festival has an entirely NEW event. The Ukrainian Festival “After-Hours”. Ever wonder what happens after the last stage show ends Saturday? The after party begins. There is a very different menu being offered at After-Hours. Ukrainian style ‘Street Food’, not seen or served here in Canada. The music will continue to play. Our performers will be out of their stage costumes, back into street clothes. The dance floor is open to all. Come spend the evening with those you saw on stage and meet a new friend. Not to worry, tables will still be there to enjoy the new food, and all the finest in Ukrainian beer and vodka. It is a true Ukrainian style beer gardens, but right here in Calgary. The NEW Festival ‘After- Hours’. Admission is FREE!! Memories are forever. WELCOME! There are 9 notable individuals that work tirelessly with me on all the planning that goes in to everything that you see at our Festival. I am honored to introduce to you: Lysia Smandych – Vice Chairman / Stage Program Artistic Director Mike Ilnycky – HR Director / Fundraising Director Austin Weleschuk – Venue & Vendor Director Bohdan Tyrawski – Controller Jordan Biss – Marketing & Promotions Director Michael Chez – Zabava Director Wendy Wasylciw – Secretary Karen Uhryn – Operations Director Larisa Kotelko – Logistics Director (our newest team member!) Over 125 years ago the very first documented Ukrainian immigrant landed in Canada. It was a long journey by ship, followed by back breaking manual labor, breaking ground and building a homestead. All of this in the search for a better life for their families in a new world. Today we honor and commemorate their passion and endurance by continuing to practice all the customs and traditions that make up our Ukrainian heritage. What you see before you at our Festival is what was passed to us through the generations. We carry it forward with pride in honor of their memory. Your Festival journey starts right here. Raise a traditional toast to your neighbor sitting next to you. “На здоров’я” (Na zdorovia) To your health! The stage lights will brighten, the music will start to play. Now let the show begin! Chris Gnyra Chairman - Board of Directors Calgary Ukrainian Festival Foundation SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS ПІДТРИМКИ й ДАРИ Ukrainian Canadian Professional & Business Association of Calgary Sponsor of the Alberta-Ukraine Genealogical Project table at this year's Festival. Вітаємо! www.ucpbacalgary.ca Ukrainian Canadian Professional & Business THE CALGARY UKRAINIAN Association of Calgary CULTURAL FOUNDATION Sponsor of the EXTENDS GREETINGS TO EVERYONE ATTENDING THE 8TH ANNUAL Alberta-Ukraine CALGARY UKRAINIAN FESTIVAL! Genealogical Project table at this year's Festival. Вітаємо! We congratulate the Festival Board of Directors on another job well done! www.ucpbacalgary.ca Email: [email protected] CULTURE - КУЛЬТУРА OUR CANADIAN UKRAINIAN LEGACY 125 YEARS LATER served with the 47th Infantry Battalion, and eventually was promoted to the rank of corporal. Corporal Konowal earned the Victoria Cross for his actions from 22 to 24 August 1917 while leading his section in overcoming German resistance on Hill 70, near Lens in France. During these operations, Konowal himself killed at least 16 In 1891, the first Ukrainian of the enemy. Arriving at one of his immigrants arrived on the shores battalion’s objectives, he realized of Canada and these pioneers, that a machine gun was holding their children and descendants, up the right flank of the Canadian numbering some 1.3 million attack. Konowal assaulted the today, have left a profound mark German position, killed the crew on Canada. These Canadian of the machine gun, and returned Ukrainians helped develop an with the gun. The next day he enriched Canada through their attacked another machine gun industriousness, rich cultural FILIP KONOWAL emplacement, and killed three heritage, religious beliefs and Filip Konowal was a highly of the enemy before destroying values, dedication to family, decorated Ukrainian Canadian the position and the gun with community, and the stewardship of soldier. He is the only Eastern explosives. Corporal Konowal the land. European recipient of the then continued his advance until As the Ukrainian immigrants Victoria Cross, the highest he was severely wounded. When took their first steps on the award for gallantry in the face of he had recovered, Konowal was Canadian soil, they were leaving the enemy given to British and for a time assigned to the Military the foundational footsteps for Commonwealth forces. He was Attaché at the Russian Embassy in their children and their future also entitled to the Cross of St London, England, before enrolling generations to come. In honour of George, 4th Class. as a sergeant with the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force. the many thousands of Ukrainian He was born in Kutkivtsi, Ukraine immigrants and their Canadian in what was then Imperial Russia He died in Ottawa, Ontario on 3 Ukrainian descendents, the Calgary on 25 March 1887 and came to June 1959 and is buried at the Ukrainian Festival is proud to be Canada about 1913. Having been Notre Dame Cemetery, in Ottawa, a part of the Canadian Ukrainian trained as a bayonet instructor, Ontario. imprint and its part in celebrating he enlisted in the Canadian 125 years of Ukrainians in Expeditionary Force in 1915, Canada.” with a subspecialty in Neuro- ophthalmology. The world’s first neurologist in space, Dr. Bondar is globally recognized for her contributions to space medicine. On the space shuttle Discovery mission STS 42 in 1992, Dr. Bondar conducted scientific experiments in the First International Microgravity Laboratory. This research has been DR. ROBERTA BONDAR published in peer-reviewed medical Roberta Bondar was born in Sault research journals. VERA LYSENKO Ste. Marie, Ontario, on December For more than a decade at NASA, Vera Lysenko (Vera Lesik) was a 4, 1945. Her father is of Ukrainian Dr. Bondar headed an international writer and social activist. She was descent and her mother is of space medicine research team, born and raised in a multi-ethnic English descent. Bondar, as a continuing to find new connections working-class neighbourhood in child, enjoyed science. She loved between astronauts recovering Winnipeg, Manitoba. the annual science fairs at her from the microgravity of space and classes, and her father built a lab in neurological illnesses here on Earth She was one of the first Ukrainian- the basement where she frequently such as stroke and Parkinson’s Canadian women to complete conducted experiments. disease. Dr. Bondar’s techniques a university degree, going on to work as a teacher, journalist, social She graduated from Sir James have been used in clinical studies historian, playwright, poet, and Dunn High School in Sault Ste. at BI Deaconess Medical Center, translator. Her fist, book, Men in Marie, and holds a Bachelor of a teaching hospital of Harvard Sheepskin Coats (1947), was the Science in zoology and agriculture Medical School and at the first English-language history of from the University of Guelph University of New Mexico. Ukrainians in Canada written by a (1968), a Master of Science in Throughout her career, Dr. Bondar Ukrainian-Canadian. In addition experimental pathology from the has maintained a deep interest in to Yellow Boots, her other fiction University of Western Ontario our own natural environment, and work is Westerly Wild. Lysenko (1971), a Doctor of Philosophy in has spoken to diverse scientific, also authored numerous articles, neuroscience from the University corporate and environmental essays, and short stories. of Toronto (1974), and a Doctor of organizations about social Medicine from McMaster University responsibility and our environment. By the diaspora, she is considered (1977). She was Chair of the Working to be a social activist, a translator, a historian and a pioneer to She is a holder of the NASA Space Group on Environmental Education Ukrainian women. Medal and inducted into the for Ontario. All recommendations of International Women’s Forum Hall the working group were accepted of Fame and Canadian Medical Hall by the Minster of Education of Fame for her groundbreaking and implemented to strengthen research in space medicine, in environmental education for addition to other 24 honorary elementary and secondary school. doctorates from Canadian and American universities. She holds medical licenses in New Mexico, Ontario and is a Canadian Board Certified Neurologist CULTURE - КУЛЬТУРА images and was patterned on the Disney Studio’s process. Based on its demonstrated potential, he was joined by physicist Wein to participate in its further development and to encourage experimentation by animators from the National Film Board. This technology, designed originally to make computers easier to use, is considered classic in the animated film industry, and inspired many JOHN SOPINKA to pursue careers in animation. John Sopinka was a Canadian The technology was used to lawyer and puisne justice on the create Peter Foldes’ 11-minute Supreme Court of Canada, the film “Hunger” for the National Film first Ukrainian-Canadian appointed Board, which in 1974 won the jury to the high court.