Vyshyvanka Day Festivities in Streets of Charlottetown to Celebrate Ukrainian Culture

Vyshyvanka Day festivities in streets of Charlottetown to celebrate Ukrainian culture

The festival was created in 2006 by Lesia Voroniuk after she and some classmates wore traditional embroidered shirts, or vyshyvanka. The festival soon caught on with many Ukrainians.

Ukrainians in Sudbury mark Vyshyvanka Day

Decorating the trident in Hnatyshyn Park with flowers and ceremonial towels on Thursday in recognition of Vyshyvanka Day are, from left, Steve Dubnewych, Lydia Katulka, Natalia Kolomyitchouk and Taras Martin. Each year on the third Thursday of May, Ukrainians around the world celebrate their culture and nationhood through gatherings, displays, and donning traditional garments like the vyshyvanka, an embroidered shirt.

A worldwide online flashmob in honor of the holiday of national dress unites Ukrainians around the world.

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Celebrations will kick off in Charlottetown this weekend for Vyshyvanka Day, which highlights Ukrainian heritage and culture. Tetiana Rymska, a UPEI business student and activist, said this is a somewhat new holiday. “Vyshyvanka is absolutely important, and everybody thinks that this is some sort of very old celebration, but it’s not,” she told CBC’s Island Morning.  “It is quite a recent celebration in Ukrainian history, and actually the girl w…

Festive events for the Day of Embroidery in Pervomaisk. Photo: Executive Committee of the Pervomaisk City Council Festive events were held for the Day of Embroidery in Pervomaisk, May 15, on the central square named after Taras Shevchenko. This was reported by the Executive Committee of the Pervomaisk City Council. It is noted that as part of the program, a fashion show with dance elements was held with the participation of creative teams from t…

Today, May 15, Ukraine celebrates Vyshyvanka Day. In Kharkiv, on this occasion, about a hundred citizens marched through the city center with a 50-meter towel, which, activists say, is a symbol of unity. Kharkiv residents walked from the Shevchenko monument to the “Everything for Victory” tent on Freedom Square. We will tell you the details below. “We do this every year on the third Thursday of May and throughout the war. For 11 years now, we ha…