Hi I urgently need to speak to Natalya Malyar who I believe is in London. Her birthday is 27.11.1984. If anyone knows her please ask her to call me on 07866 097906.
I'm an Ukrainian Artist living in London and would like to organise an exhibition of Ukrainian art in 2010. I welcome all who fit the description "Ukrainian Artist" to participate in the organisation of the event. I also would like to invite All sponsors interested in promoting contemporary Ukrainian culture to join the project. Please contact me at Ivan@biluta.com Comments and suggestions are also welcome.
Hi Volodymyr Komarnytskyy Thanks for beautiful photos collection on www.cerkva siye they are absolutely amazing. I do come to the church quite often, however had miss this year Xmas and looking at your photos they give me chance to be there. I'm studying Fine art at Middlesex University in London, started this September and hopefuly will finish it in 2010. I do oil paintings,most of them portrait and you can look at my website: www.pavliv-tokarska.com I wonder if we can meet in the future and perhaps organise some sort of exhibition at the Ukrainian Club on Holland road or bring some art into live of Ukrainian community here in any other suggested way. Huge thanks you for updated website of the church and your wanderful work. Nadiya.
I am delighted to find the photos and information on the web about the Ukrainian community in London. The parish pastor of the Holy Family gave me the cerkva website and I've viewed the photos of Holy Communion, parish events, Lviv, etc. I'm amazed how the parish has grown with the influx of new blood from Ukraine and adjoining countries. My family lived in London from 1986-2000 while my husband was employed with INMARSAT, an international satellite communications company. Our two children grew up in London. We were American citizens closely affiliated with the American School of London, INMARSAT family network and the Ukrainian community in London.
I must say my 10 year old had somewhat of an identity crisis, asking me many times, "Since we're living in London and we have a Ukrainian heritage and American citizenship how do we fit into England?" He could handle the duality of a Ukrainian heritage and American citizenship while in the States but how didwonderful intriguing England fit into all this? My beautiful "transplant" resolved his identity with the help of the wonderful British Ukrainian people who would have invite us for Easter and other holidays when we were so very homesick for our Ukrainian family.
To be honest there were very few small children in Holy Family in 1986. (My teenage daughter fared better because there were teenagers who showed her London. She never felt alienated in London, as many American teenagers can be. She had her roots, her "nashe" realigned very nicely in London.)
Except for the lack of small children at the Cathedral, the YKY was very strong and I found my frienships through the Artists Group, being elected president of the Group at one point. Dr. Cymbalisty and his excellent work in drawing in the somewhat younger generation, the lectures, and all the visiting scholars from Ukraine and the diaspora at YKY was my lifeline.
However, we were not "connected" by the web and actually in 1986 there no printed lists of parishioners or even YKY members etc. We could say it might have been due to inefficiency or the very intelligent solution of no records in a world where many of the Ukrainians in the western world still had relatives in Ukraine. Therefore, the "Exiled" in the title of the Church.
Some of my fondest memories are of London's Ukrainian events and the lasting friendships I made then.
Times have changed all for the good and it's so very heartwarming to see that the Ukrainian community in London is so global and technologically astute. I truly am amazed. Thank you for this windfall, on a very early morning when I looked up the cerkva web here in Washington.
Amazing to find your name in the messages! How are you? I would love to get in touch. Just recently I came back from the USA since I visited my relatives in New Jersey. Please contact me. My email is nin.och.ka@hotmail.co.uk. We worked on some art shows together with Dr Cymbalisty.
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