Ukrain­ian Asso­ci­a­tion of South Africa wel­comes you to come and enjoy every­thing the Ukrain­ian cul­ture has to offer at the excit­ing III Ukrain­ian Fes­ti­val!

Where: Knorhoek Wine Farm, Stel­len­bosch
When: 10 Novem­ber 2019
What: Ukrain­ian music, food, craft, and danc­ing!
Entrance fee: R40, kids for free

The fes­ti­val will be a fun-filled day with loads of activ­i­ties, enter­tain­ment, and spec­tac­u­lar foods. A true excit­ing Ukrain­ian atmos­phere will be cre­at­ed to enter­tain all.

The event is orga­nized with the sup­port of the Embassy of Ukraine to the Repub­lic of South Africa and Knorhoek Wine Farm.

Ukraine has lots to offer!

WHAT TO EXPECT:
The best of our cui­sine: varenyky (piero­gi), borsch, and best of cakes by Ukrain­ian Bak­ery!

Tsym­baly play­er from Ukraine
For the first time in South Africa, tsym­baly play­er Petro Skazkiv comes all the way from Ukrain­ian! Tsym­baly is the Ukrain­ian ver­sion of the ham­mer dul­cimer that was com­mon instru­ment in Ukraine since the 9th cen­tu­ry. See Petro Skazkiv play­ing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7lhH4LGl8Q

Sci­ence show with the Drag­on by Katery­na
Learn about sci­ence with Ukrain­ian sci­en­tist Katery­na. And enjoy spe­cial kids pro­gram with mas­ter­class­es on Ukrain­ian dolls mak­ing, bread-birds paint­ing, food cook­ing and many more!

Namys­to wine by Quoin Rock
This label cel­e­brates the bead­ed neck­laces (namys­to), one of the old­est forms of women’s orna­ments in Ukraine. More about Namys­to: https://quoinrock.co.za/namysto-wines/

Dyvy­na folk singers
Folk ensem­ble “Dyvy­na” from the Donet­sk region will share some folk tunes and involve every­body in social danc­ing!

Ban­dura played by Nadia Pry­i­mak and Svit­lana Neil
Ban­dura, also called kobza, a stringed instru­ment of the psaltery fam­i­ly con­sid­ered the nation­al musi­cal instru­ment of Ukraine. It is used chiefly to accom­pa­ny folk music. The mod­ern ban­dura has an oval wood­en body; a short, fret-less neck attached to the sound­board in an off-cen­ter posi­tion and 68 chro­mat­i­cal­ly tuned tre­ble strings stretched over the sound­board. See Nadia Pry­i­mak play­ing https://youtu.be/vUU8Ykhfy2s

Pop-Folk/Rock-Folk music by Svit­lana Sheremet and Anton­i­na Darienko

Hopak per­formed by Olek­sii Ischenko
A Ukrain­ian folk dance orig­i­nat­ing as a male dance among the Zapor­izhia Cos­sacks in the 16th cen­tu­ry, but lat­er danced by cou­ples, male soloists, and mixed groups of dancers. The Hopak is often pop­u­lar­ly referred to as the “Nation­al Dance of Ukraine”. See Olek­sii danc­ing at SABC3 stu­dio: https://youtu.be/5gYRkGCU1v0

Petrikiv­ka paint­ing by Tatiana Hurn

(or sim­ply “Petrykiv­ka”) is a tra­di­tion­al Ukrain­ian dec­o­ra­tive paint­ing style, orig­i­nat­ing from the vil­lage of Petrykiv­ka, where it was tra­di­tion­al­ly used to dec­o­rate house walls and every­day house­hold items. The ear­li­est known exam­ples of this style date from the 17th cen­tu­ry, but it con­tin­ues to thrive and devel­op as a mod­ern art form. Recent­ly Tatiana Hurn has paint­ed in Cape Town a super-sized mur­al (150 m²) of Ukrain­ian light­house from Crimea in Petrykiv­ka style.
Ukrain­ian Folk Songs and a poem by Taras Shevchenko – Per­for­mance of chil­dren from Ukrain­ian Sun­day School https://www.uaza.co.za/ukrainian-school/

The event is kid-friend­ly and dogs are wel­come (on a leash, of course)

So bring your friends and fam­i­ly and enjoy a fun-filled day with the Ukrain­ian Asso­ci­a­tion of South Africa at Knorhoek Wine Farm!
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