AUUC Community Concert at Heart of the City Festival

The Association of United Ukrainian Canadians is an organization with strong and durable roots in the people and history of Canada promoting Arts, Culture, Dance, and Language. They are the offspring and heir to those beginnings that grew out of the early formative years of community development and the struggle to survive.

Association of United Ukrainian Canadians

Heart of the City ends on a high note at the historic Ukrainian Hall with lively
music, high energy dance and exquisite costumes.

Ukrainian Cultural Centre

The festival ends on a high note at the east-ends historic Ukrainian Hall with lively music, high energy dance and exquisite costumes at the Ukrainian Hall Community Concert and Social. This annual favourite, produced with the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians, features the Barvinok Choir, Dovbush Dancers and the Vancouver Ukrainian Folk Orchestra.
Cultural speaker and practitioner Bob Baker (S7aplek) of the Squamish Nation will open the concert which will include musical guests Tzimmes and poet Diane Wood. Tzimmes is a unique group that presents Jewish music with songs ranging in style from European Klezmer to Mid-Eastern Sephardi to North American Folk. New settings of traditional repertoire alternate with original creations which reflect an ongoing integration of new materials.
Diane Wood, DTES resident, artist, poet and community activist, will read "100 Years of Struggle"; by the late Sandy Cameron, historian, poet, visionary and conscience of a community who was deeply involved in the Downtown Eastside. Although Sandy Cameron died in 2010, the Heart of the City Festival continues to follow his guiding words "Memory is the mother of community."
Following the concert, light refreshments will be served and guests will have the opportunity to mingle, listen to live music and visit the display of items commemorating the 20 th anniversary of the Heart of the City Festival as well as special items from the Ukrainian Hall’s many collections.
For more information visit us at: auucvancouver.ca

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