Throughout the decades of captivity in the USSR, Ukrainian diaspora activists continued to have an active community and public life abroad and contributed to culture. Dozens of choral, dance, and theatre groups are known to have portrayed the real Ukraine to the world, an alternative to the one the Kremlin allowed to be shown. All of these groups have impressed audiences not only with the quality of their artistic performance but also with the magnificent Ukrainian folk attire that was frequently ordered from Oleksandra and Fedir Brazhnyk.
Fedir and Oleksandra Brazhnyk, who celebrated the beauty of Ukrainian folk costumes all over the world, are from Medvyn. For 40 years, they not only created costumes and theatre sets in their workshop in New York but also engaged in the Ukrainian national struggle, bringing awareness to the world about the Russian occupation of Ukraine. Once they even fooled the KGB and brought Ivan Dubynets’s book about the Medvyn uprising to Ukraine.
Their incredible story deserves to be heard, so we have embodied it in our exhibition and the booklet and we are looking forward to presenting it to the audience. The event will be attended by the authors of the exhibition, researchers, and Fedir Brazhnyk’s closest relatives. And, like in the good old days, there will be a sound of our Ukrainian bandura.
The presentation will take place in Bohuslav city on Monday, 20 November.
For security reasons, we will inform you about the time and place of the presentation personally.
To participate, you need to pre-register here: https://forms.gle/Vot3tQ2hbzyjQywPA
Participants will receive a free booklet created for the exhibition.
Welcome ‘coffee break’ for all attendees.
Co-hosts: NGO “Around Us. UA”, the educational initiative “Medvyn. Uprising”, Bohuslav Volunteer Headquarters with the support of the “Partnership for a Strong Ukraine” Foundation.
