SPRING IS HERE!

AND SPRING FAIR BEGINS TOMORROW!

Oseredok Boutique invites you to celebrate Spring

at its annual Spring Fair 

Friday March 23  10am - 9pm

and Saturday March 24  10am - 4pm

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FEATURING 

 artisan jewelry by

MARIYA

 PATTY M. KIW

 DANGLE-ICIOUS DESIGNS

The variety of designs and styles are sure to please!

(As will the variety of pleasing prices!)

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FORGET THOSE CHOCOLATE ЗАЙЧИКИ !

Oseredok Boutique proudly presents artisan cookies from

KRYSTYNA'S KITSCH - N

the hottest-selling pysanka cookies in North America!

Each cookie is a beautifully hand-decorated work of art...made from the finest ingredients with NO ADDITIVES OR PRESERVATIVES, and NUT FREE!
A delicious alternative to those chocolate bunnies!

JUST IN! 

Oseredok Boutique carries Manitoba's largest selection of beautiful, hand-written and etched PYSANKY by Iris Ewankewich, Katya Trischuk, Michele Kotak,Veronica, and other pysanka writers... in traditional, trypillian, or contemporary motifs on pullet, chicken and goose  eggs!

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Come to Spring Fair for a great selection of traditional and contemporary embroidery - from Easter basket covers to embroidered hoodies and tshirts.

Be delighted with good things for your Easter table - Easter-themed serviettes, beeswax candles, hand-made little bowls for your salt or butter...and Canada's newest favourite cookbook

"From Baba with Love" for that perfect babka or paska recipe!

Find that just-right gift for a wedding, bridal shower or graduation!

Discover new children's toys, books and family games for March break!

Pick up a good book or a great music CD!

REMEMBER!

Oseredok members get a *15% discount on everything during Spring Fair.

(*Not including food items)

SEE YOU AT THE FAIR!

OF SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION, PYSANKA WORKSHOPS, AND SPRING FAIR

UKRAINE: Prospects for Emerging from Crisis
With Speaker MYKOLA YAKOVYNA
Sunday March 18, 2012 at 2:00 pm
184 Alexander Avenue East, Winnipeg
Sponsored by the Oleh Olzych Foundation of Canada and the Ukrainian National Federation of Canada



Mykola Yakovyna

Mykola Yakovyna is a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament, former Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism, and is the Director of the Olzhych Foundation of Ukraine.

Mr. Yakovyna has only one speaking engagement scheduled for Winnipeg - Sunday March 18, at 2:00 pm at Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre, 184 Alexander Ave. East.



PANEL DISCUSSION
Related to Chris Reid: I like to believe I am telling the truth

Featuring panelists Dr. Pauline Greenhill, Dr. Svitlana Kukharenko, and Dr. Mavis Reimer
Thursday, March 22 at 7:00 pm
Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall (3rd floor of Centennial Hall)
The University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg

Free admission and Gallery 1C03 open prior to panel event from 6:00 - 7:00 pm

This panel discussion has been organized to complement Chris Reid's current double-sited exhibition I like to believe I am telling the truth at Gallery 1C03 and Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre.


FAMILY PYSANKA WORKSHOPS

Bring your kids! Bring your friends! (Bring your Tim's and Starbuck's, too!)
Don't miss this great opportunity to learn how to write a pysanka (Ukrainian Easter egg).
Saturday March 17, 2012 from 1:30 to 4:00 pm
and
Saturday March 31, 2012 from 1:30 to 4:00pm
All supplies are provided. Children must be at least 7 years of age.
Pre-registration required. Call today - (204) 942-0128
Cost of registration: $7.00 members, $10.00 non-members

SPRING IS COMING! SPRING IS COMING!
SPRING FAIR FEATURED JEWELERS!
Meet our featured jewelers on the evening of Friday March 23!

JUST ARRIVED IN THE BOUTIQUE!



ПИСАНКИ - LEARN ABOUT THEM, MAKE THEM...OR BUY THEM!

PYSANKA
Talisman, Decorative Art, Identity Marker

A presentation by Sophia Kachor
Thursday March 15, 2012 at 7:00 pm
184 Alexander Avenue East, Winnipeg

The presentation will explore this narrative by telling the story of the designs and symbols on the pysanka from three prespectives: the original ancient pre-Christian tradition, the impact of Christianity on the tradition, and the contribution of Ukrainian Canadians to the pysanka narrative.

The presentation will be illustrated with images from Oseredok's pysanka collection.






PYSANKA WORKSHOPS

NEWS FROM THE BOUTIQUE

We are getting very excited about the upcoming SPRING FAIR March 23 and 24!
Featuring the beautiful, whimsical, dramatic and downright gorgeous jewelry of MARIYA DESIGN, PATTY M. KIW, and DANGLE-ICIOUS DESIGNS. All three jewelers will be present on Friday evening March 23 to help you in your selection!

PLUS! We will have most everything you need and want for your Easter celebrations- embroidered basket covers and pysanky, pysanka-themed dinner serviettes, artisan pysanka cookies, (yes, Odarko...cookies!)
beeswax candles and Manitoba-made honey, imported tea from Ukraine, and more!

JUST IN! We have NEW ceramic-ware - both beautiful and useful! Lovely gifts for yourself or someone special!

Honey pot

Beautiful new poppy 12" x 12" tile


DON'T FORGET that Oseredok Boutique is Manitoba's largest pysanka supply store! Whether you're a serious professional or setting out to make your very first one, Oseredok Boutique has what you need - dyes, wood-handled or delrin kistky, beeswax, templates, egg blowers and design books!
Also available now - a very large selection of beautifully written pysanky, in sizes from pullet* to goose! Including pysanky by Halyna Badulak, Master of Pysanka, Katya Trischuk, Michele Kotak,and other extraordinary писанчарки!

*A pullet egg is an egg layed by a chicken that is less than a year old. Some chefs say, that the pullet eggs are superior in taste. Two pullet eggs equal one large egg.

Open Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm!

ERIN MOURE

Last Saturday evening, March 3, Oseredok hosted the launch of Erin Moure's new book of poetry The Unmemntioable. Joining her in reading excerpts from their own, or others', writings were Winnipeg writer Maurice Mierau, and Winnipeg filmmaker John Paskievich. Poet and eco-critic Alison Calder moderated the evening's readings and discussion.

From left to right: John Paskievich, Maurice Mierau, Erin Moure



















Erin Moure reading from
The Unmemntioable

 



The discussion centred on issues of Ukrainian identity and experience in poetry and film.

Thank you to all who attended the launch, and a special thank you to Erin Moure, Maurice Mierau, John Paskievich and Alison Calder for an enlightening evening.

SATURDAY NIGHT POETRY AND A WINNING BOOK!

LAUNCH OF ERIN MOURE'S THE UNMEMNTIOABLE
AND AN EVENING OF VARIED VOICES ON UKRAINIAN IDENTITY

3, 417 television channels and nothing to watch on a Saturday night! Time for something different!

Oseredok is pleased to invite one and all to an evening of poetry and discussion Saturday, March 3, 2012 at 7:00 pm at 184 Alexander Ave. East.

Erin Moure, winner of the 1988 Governor General's Award for poetry, will present selected readings from her new collection of poems - The Unmemntionable. (Yes, you may ask her about the spelling!) The book will be available for purchase at Oseredok Boutique.

Poets Alison Calder and Maurice Mierau, and filmmaker John Paskievich will also present their work, followed by an open discussion on issues related to Ukrainian identity and experience in poetry and film.

Become enlightened! Become part of the discussion! Have a little coffee! Everyone is welcome!

AND THE WINNER IS.......

Every two years the $25,000 Kobzar Literary Award recognises literary excellence and the effective presentation of Ukrainian Canadian themes.

Last night in Toronto at the Kobzar Literary Award Gala, the award was presented to Shandi Mitchell for Under This Unbroken Sky (Penguin Canada).

Shandi Mitchell

  

This year's shortlist also included:

Larissa Andrusyshyn for Mammoth (DC Books)
Myrna Kostash for Prodigal Daughter: A Journey to Byzantium (University of Alberta Press)
Myroslav Shkandrij for Jews in Ukrainian Literature: Representation and Identity (Yale University Press)
Rhea Tregebov for The Knife Sharpener's Bell (Coteau Books)

The jury boasted significant literary muscle, with Denise Chong, Randall Maggs, Nino Ricci and MG Vassanji serving as the 2012 judging panel.

Get your copy of Under This Unbroken Sky at Oseredok Boutique!

WHAT'S NEW IN THE BOUTIQUE
A DEAL....OF COURSE!



Buy Making Bombs for Hitler at the regular price....



....get the companion book Stolen Child for only $5.00

 

Marsha Skrypuch's newest book Making Bombs for Hitler tells the story of Lida, who is abducted from Reichskommissariat, Ukraine in 1943 and forced to work for the Nazis in Germany as an Eastern Worker, or Ostarbeiter. The Ostarbeiters are subcontracted as slave labourers for both private industry and the military. They receive nominal payment, but heavy deductions are made for the starvation diet they are given and the prison-like accommodations in which they are forced to live.

Based on the true stories of surviving Ukrainian Ostarbeiters, it has only been in the last few decades that Ostarbeiters have felt comfortable enough to share their wartime experiences, as they initially feared extradition to the Soviet Union and imprisonment there after the war.

COMING SOON!

A new limited edition print by Larisa Sembaliuk-Cheladyn...WAITING BACKSTAGE
Available at Oseredok Boutique mid-March!

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!

Spring Fair and Jewelry Sale!

Friday March 23, 10am - 9pm    and    Saturday March 24, 10am - 4pm

Featuring jewelry by: MARIYA, PATTY M. KIW and DANGLE-ICIOUS DESIGNS!

Rings, bracelets, necklaces and more...in dramatic, subtle, fun, and delicious designs!

PLUS! New home and garden decor, great gift ideas for showers,

weddings, and graduations!

Everything you may need for your Великодний кошик!

PLUS! PLUS! Embroidered t-shirts, YZ Fashions embroidered rushnyky,

traditional embroidered blouses and shirts, books for summer reading,

and much more!

Members of Oseredok will get a 15% discount* on all purchases during Spring Fair

(small print here....*discount does not apply to food items)