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Easter pysanky workshop in Thunder Bay uses artform to show resilience as Ukraine, its culture under attack

Easter pysanky workshop in Thunder Bay uses artform to show resilience as Ukraine, its culture under attack

CBC
Friday, April 15, 2022 4:35 PM GMT

People in Thunder Bay, Ont., gathered earlier this month for a special workshop on pysanky — or Ukrainian Easter eggs — and this year's session took on new meaning as the participants turned to the artform to channel resilience.

As they huddled around tables, with candles burning in the centre, some chatted while others stayed focused on the task at hand.

Coffee, freshly baked Ukrainian bread and the smell of blown-out candles filled the air as they worked away at their pysanky.

"You end up with a magical piece of art," said Cathy Paroschy-Harris, as she carefully melted away beeswax from everyone's eggs in a little toaster oven.

Cathy Paroschy-Harris, one of the workshop teachers and organizers, shared that the tradition each Easter has always been special. But this year's event was particularly emotional for her, on many levels.

"My mom recently passed away, and her dying wish when she passed away was — she was in a long-term care home — and she asked that my sister and I make pysanky for all the staff," she explained while holding a pysanka she had made with her mom over 20 years ago.

"So it turned out that my sister ended up making two dozen … and we were labelling them and packaging them up, and it wasn't until we were finished with the last package that she took her last breath. So the pysanky meant a lot, and still do," she said as her eyes welled with tears.

But the workshop also took on new meaning this year as the war in Ukraine continues — it's been two months since Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops over the border.

The annual workshop usually raises funds for the Chaban Ukrainian Dance Group in Thunder Bay, but proceeds this year are going toward humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.

Those at the workshop also sported shirts that read "Stand with Ukraine," and some wore blue-and-yellow ribbons over their hearts.

LISTEN | Pysanky workshop celebrates Ukrainian culture in Thunder Bay:

"There's still a lot of fear and disbelief in some respects. But we try and celebrate the religious occasions like Easter, as we normally would," said Walter Warywoda, president of the Thunder Bay branch of the Ukrainian League of Canadians.

Paroschy-Harris said volunteers were baking Paska bread, a traditional braided Ukrainian bread, until after midnight the day before the workshop as part of the fundraiser.

"To be able to share the richness of both the cuisine, the arts, the heritage … so people have an understanding and an appreciation of it, because I think that's what helps us all respect each other more," she said. "And pysanky is a very, very important part of Ukrainian culture."

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