THE BEST VOLUNTEERS...AND THE RETURN OF THE COSSACKS!

NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK, APRIL 15 - 21

  

Oseredok has the best volunteers! Whether coming for their shift in the Boutique, picking up boxes of stuffed envelopes to deliver to the post office, or meticulously sorting through boxes of donated documents, our volunteers do so with extraordinary dedication.
Some proudly call their volunteer work "my job", others say "I just love being here at Oseredok".
Whatever the reasons driving them to be here or to answer a call for assistance, we are truly and humbly grateful for them!
In the course of a year approximately 60 volunteers spend over 2,000 hours helping Oseredok with workshops, exhibits, receptions, collections management, building maintenance, and so much more!
They help get every job done, and they make every job easier!
We salute their dedication and their incredible spirit of volunteerism!

Дякуємо!

 LEGACY OF THE COSSACK ELITE

A repeat performance, this exhibition highlights some unusual artifacts in Oseredok's collection from the 17th and 18th centuries. Cossack society of that time was made up of various social classes. At the top of the social structure was a wealthy and powerful political elite called the Cossack starshyna. Its tastes permeated the arts, literature, music, education, customs and manners, including fashion. Legacy of the Cossack Elite places textile design within the context of the clothing of the period, reflecting on secular life and religious ritual of the time.

WITH ALEC IN MIND
Kegan McFadden
April 21 to June 9, 2012

Related to an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, this show consists of a series of images on postcards referencing the life of Alex Tabolotney, McFadden's great uncle, who was murdered in 1995. The images represent an exploration of family memories, moments in time from family albums.

The book With Alec in Mind is available at Oseredok Boutique!


COMING SOON TO OSEREDOK BOUTIQUE...
Flash Ukraine's Euro 2012 colours with the coolest UEFA Euro 2012 stuff!
From the official Ukraine UEFA Euro 2012 Capitano soccer ball (in two sizes!) to officially licenced t-shirts showcasing Ukraine's participating Euro 2012 stadiums!
PLUS! Backpacks, markers and lunch boxes featuring Euro 2012 mascots Slavek and Slavko! These make great graduation or birthday gifts for your kids or grandkids!
Coming soon, in limited quantities!

OF BOOKS AND EASTER CELEBRATIONS

BOOK LAUNCH TONIGHT!
Serge Cipko,
Ukrainians in Argentina, 1897 - 1950: Making of a Community

Thursday April 12, 2012 at 7:00pm
184 Alexander Ave. East, Winnipeg

Dr. Serge Cipko

Published in 2011 in Edmonton by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) in association with the Shevchenko Scientific Society of Canada, the book examines the contributions of immigrants to Ukrainian cultural, political, religious and social life in Argentina. It also provides insights into ties with Ukrainian communities in other countries.

Dr. Serge Cipko is coordinator of the Ukrainian Diaspora Studies Initiative at CIUS at the University of Alberta.

Sponsored by Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre and The Department of German and Slavic Studies, University of Manitoba.

The book will be available for purchase!


EVERYTHING FOR ВЕЛИКДЕНЬ!
 

Oseredok Boutique has what you need for your Easter celebrations!

Make your Easter кошик especially beautiful with a hand-embroidered Easter rushnyk - many designs, colours and sizes to choose from!

Find a fresh, new pysanka for yourself or to give as a gift! Pysanky by Katya Trischuk, Iris Evankewich, Michele Kotak, and others! Add a little something special to your table! Easter themed serviettes, specially-made "prayer" beeswax candles, a new свічник, or beautifully hand-painted serving bowls and platters from Victoria Ceramics! And don't forget to get your Pysanka Cookies by Krystyna's Kitsch-N...delightful and delicious, and more fun than a chocolate bunny!

OSEREDOK IS CLOSED GOOD FRIDAY APRIL 13,

OPEN SATURDAY APRIL 14 FROM 10am TO 4pm.

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Христос Воскрес! Воістину Воскрес!

Please accept our most heartfelt Easter greetings!

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)

OF WINNERS, PYSANKA WRITERS, AND POETS

2012 SUPERBOWL RAFFLE TICKET WINNERS

A great big Superbowl-sized "ДЯКУЄМО" to everyone who sold and bought raffle tickets in our 2012 Super Bowl Raffle, in support of Oseredok!

2012 OSEREDOK SUPERBOWL RAFFLE WINNERS

February 5, 2012

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FIRST QUARTER SCORE:

Correct – No Winner

Reverse – No Winner

SECOND QUARTER SCORE:

Correct – M. Pawlyshyn - $100

Reverse – D. Bousquet - $25

THIRD QUARTER SCORE:

Correct – M. Paetsch - $100

Reverse – M. Karpa - $25

FINAL SCORE:

Correct – M. Kulyk - $200

Reverse – A. Hawaleshka - $25

BECOME A PYSANKA WRITER...sure you can!

Go on - admit it! You've always been intrigued by how those pysanky (Ukrainian Easter eggs) are made.

And you've always wanted to try your hand at making one, but didn't know where to start!

Here's the perfect opportunity!

OSEREDOK BOUTIQUE is Winnipeg's best source for all your pysanka-writing supplies. We carry a full supply of dyes (in every color of the rainbow), beeswax, kistky, a great selection of design books to inspire you, and more! 
Open Monday through Saturday from 10am to 4pm.

PYSANKA
Talisman, Decorative Art, Identity Marker

ERIN MOURE, Poet
Launch of The Unmemntioable

Join us for the launch of The Unmemntioable

a new book of poetry by Erín Moure

with an evening of varied voices on Ukrainian identity and experience in poetry and film

Each poet and filmmaker will briefly present their work, followed by an open discussion of ideas on home, identity, experience and displacement.

Moderated by Dr. Alison Calder.

March 3, 7:00 p.m.

Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre

184 Alexander Ave. East

Erín Moure is a Montreal poet, essayist and translator of poetry from Galician, French, Spanish and Portuguese. She has published 16 books of poetry and a book of essays in English, and poems, reviews and essays in many countries. Her new work, The Unmemntioable, is an investigation into subjectivity and experience in Ukraine and Alberta.

Alison Calder is an award-winning poet and eco-critic, specializing in prairie literature and regionalism. Her book Wolf Tree won the Manitoba Book Award for best first book and best book of poetry, and was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award and the Pat Lowther Award.

Maurice Mierau is a Winnipeg writer, editor and teacher. His first book of poems is Ending with Music, and his second book, Fear Not, won the ReLit Award for poetry in 2009. He is past president of the League of Canadian Poets.

John Paskievich is an award-winning Ukrainian-Canadian documentary filmmaker and photographer. His 2001 film My Mother’s Village delves into the experience of Ukrainian-Canadian identity and displacement, and his short film Ted Baryluk’s Grocery won a Genie Award in 2006.

SPRING IS IN THE AIR

Oseredok Boutique is gearing up for its first big event of 2012 - SPRING FAIR! and JEWELRY SALE!

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

Featuring artisans and jewelry-makers MARIYA, PATTY M. KIW, and DANGLE-ICIOUS DESIGNS!

Plus - lovely ideas for home decor, everything you need for your Великодний кошик (Easter basket), and wonderful gift ideas for showers, weddings, and graduations!