Planted will be for sale at the Wishme Makers’ Market in Selkirk on Saturday, November 26, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m at the Gordon Howard Centre (384 Eveline Street) as part of the Holiday Alley winter festival.
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This year’s dance recital season in Manitoba hit different. Here are two organizations I know through Ukrainian dance, a hobby turned passion that changed my life, that you can donate to in support of Ukraine.
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In May 2021, Diana Stevan released her novel Lilacs in the Dust Bowl, which follows her grandmother’s story immigrating to Canada from Ukraine.
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While there are many reasons I fell in love with dance — the people you meet, the places you travel to, the dance steps you learn — music is what really set the hook for my interest in Ukrainian dance, and therefore my love of Ukrainian culture.
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The kitchen is a magical place.
It’s where food is cooked up, where everyone seems to gather — no matter how many people there are and no matter how much space outside of the kitchen there is — and it’s also where, at least in my house, I review classic Ukrainian polkas with family.
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The new year is almost here.
And if you believe in the magic of repeating numbers, 2020 is going to be a good one.
And if you don’t, 2020 is still going to be a good one.
At the start of this year, I put up the post “Why I glare at you when you whistle indoors: A guide to Ukrainian superstitions.” And it’s time for round two.
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Six months ago, a mysterious Instagram and Facebook account started popping up on my feed: Rodovid Academy of Ukrainian Dance.
“Do you want to be a better Ukrainian dancer?”
“Do you want to take your dance career to the next level?”
“Do you want to improve your dance lexicon?”
Yes, yes, and yes.
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The Google rabbit hole is one of my favourite places.
A few months back, I was looking for information about the lizhnyk, a traditional wool blanket from the Hutsulshchyna region of Ukraine. In January 2018, I was in Yavoriv, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast and visited the home of a craftswoman who makes these blankets, and though I took some notes, I still wanted more info (and also was probably procrastinating doing something).
So I searched around online a bit, and I came across an article with video and photos on a website called Ukraïner. After learning more about the lizhnyk, I dove deeper into Ukrainer’s site—I was hooked. And you will be too.
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