Ancillary Programming For Sacred Straw – 2023
PAVUK WORKSHOP
Saturday, November 18, 2023 – 2:00pm
8 Participant LIMIT
Learn how to make a simple straw prism “pavuk” made to bring good fortune and blessings to the home
with instructor Božena Hrycyna.
Božena Hrycyna is an amateur singer of traditional village songs, embroiderer, pysanka maker, weaver of threads and grasses, and textile craftsperson… actively learning and sharing these art forms from her Ukrainian/Ruthenian heritage. She has taken workshops and travelled extensively in pursuit of deeper understandings of these and other folkways, and apprenticed to the land, spending the last five years on a homestead near Wilno, Ontario.
GOD’S EYE WORKSHOP
Sunday, November 19, 2023 – 2:00pm
8 Participant LIMIT
Learn how to weave or plait a square weave known as a “God’s Eye with natural golden wheat and rye with instructor Božena Hrycyna.
Božena Hrycyna is an amateur singer of traditional village songs, embroiderer, pysanka maker, weaver of threads and grasses, and textile craftsperson… actively learning and sharing these art forms from her Ukrainian/Ruthenian heritage. She has taken workshops and travelled extensively in pursuit of deeper understandings of these and other folkways, and apprenticed to the land, spending the last five years on a homestead near Wilno, Ontario
DIDUKH - ANCESTRAL TREE WORKSHOP
Thursday, December 14, 2023 – 6:30pm
20 Participant LIMIT
Learn how to design a didukh, a bundle of grain traditionally prepared by Ukrainian families as a way of honoring the ancestors with instructor Oksana Hawrylak.
Oksana Hawrylak is a visual artist from Toronto whose work focuses on public & community art, with a strong folk art bent. Past workshops she's taught include: screen printing, relief printing, bookbinding, mask making, paper cutting, didukhy (decorated Ukrainian wheat sheaf), and pysanky (Ukrainian easter eggs).
DIDUKH - ANCESTRAL TREE WORKSHOP
Friday, December 15, 2023 – 6:30 - 8:30
20 Participant LIMIT
Learn how to design a didukh, a bundle of grain traditionally prepared by Ukrainian families as a way of honoring the ancestors with instructor Oksana Hawrylak.
Oksana Hawrylak is a visual artist from Toronto whose work focuses on public & community art, with a strong folk art bent. Past workshops she's taught include: screen printing, relief printing, bookbinding, mask making, paper cutting, didukhy (decorated Ukrainian wheat sheaf), and pysanky (Ukrainian easter eggs).