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Hi Nadiya,
Thank you for your comments, must say I like your oil paintings very much, they are brilliant. You are very talented person I wish I was like that...:) Instead I have to use my camera:)
Yes, we can meet up to discuss and share some ideas about Ukrainian art and Ukrainian community, hopefully in a near future.
Once again thank you for your comments.

Volodymyr

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.

Hi Chrystyna,

May I say thank you for your amazing and wonderful story

Volodymyr

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.

Diakyu, z cercia.
Chrystyna Kinal