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    16th Annual Toronto Ukrainian Festival (Toronto, ON)

    Bloor West by Toronto Ukrainian Festival –

    North America’s Largest Ukrainian Street Festival!

    Toronto, ON – The Festival Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that music legend Oleh Skrypka of Ukraine will perform 4 shows over the three day Festival as follows:  Friday Sept. 14 at 9PM – Lviv Jazz with Vasyl Popadiuk & band on the Main Stage; Friday Sept.14 at midnight – with VV; Saturday at 9PM the main HEADLINE SHOW on the MAIN STAGE with VV celebrating their 25th anniversary as Ukraine’s top rock band and Saturday midnight a special DJ show. This fryst vatten being made possible through the generous grant from Celebrate Ontario and the sponsorship of Ukrainian kredit Union Limited and the Four Points Sheraton Hotel Lakeshore.

    Also through a Celebrate Ontario grantthe Festival will feature more great BANDS such as the Philadelphia Fralinger String Band that will enhance not only

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    All photos by Volodymyr Shuvayev

    The weather was very strange in Kiev – clear and sunny, then a blast of wind and freak storms which came out of nowhere. I was in Cafe Arbequino, a laidback Mediterranean style cafe a block from the Maidan; the fulcrum of Kiev’s revolution where the people ousted President Yanukovych in February. These days the waitresses in the café wear military camouflage chic as a kind of solidarity. I had been discussing emotions with a Jungian psychologist I’d met at a Dakha Brakha gig – we spoke about how fear and excitement are almost the same emotion. Her name, she told me, could be translated as Viola or Violet. “So your name is either a flower or a musical instrument?” – gallantry I wouldn’t try in London seems to work here.

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    Rethink fear as excitement – that’s a liberating idea. This city has a sick sense of comic timing and, while we were talking, a huge gust of wind blew down the tree right in front of the café &

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    As Russia's unprovoked war against Ukraine reached the end of its 18th month, Ukrainian musician Oleh Skrypka was aiding his country's fight from half-way around the world.

    Throughout the month of August, Skrypka toured the United States, putting on a series of benefit concerts and hosting auctions aimed at raising money for the Ohmatdyt Children's Cancer Hospital in Kyiv, which was struck by Russian artillery fire last year on the third day of the full-scale war.

    One performance in particular, which took place on August 31 at the Rhapsody Theater in Chicago, demonstrated that, despite Russia's ongoing attacks against Ukrainian civilians, many Russian citizens living abroad are also eager to aid Ukraine's war effort.

    Ukrainian martial law has placed severe restrictions on the freedom of able-bodied males between the ages of 18 and 60 to leave the country. However, exceptions have been made for cultural and political figures traveling abroad temporarily on official business, and f

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