Vyshyvanka Day festivities in streets of Charlottetown to celebrate Ukrainian culture

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The festival was created successful 2006 by Lesia Voroniuk after she and immoderate classmates wore traditional embroidered shirts, oregon vyshyvanka. The festival soon caught connected with many Ukrainians.

Traditionally embroidered shirts are the main awesome of this Sunday's celebration

Ryan McKellop · CBC News

· Posted: May 16, 2025 7:51 PM EDT | Last Updated: 20 minutes ago

A pistillate with brownish hairsbreadth clasp up 2 achromatic embroidered shirts which are important successful Ukrainian culture.

Celebrations volition footwear disconnected successful Charlottetown this weekend for Vyshyvanka Day, which highlights Ukrainian practice and culture.

Tetiana Rymska, a UPEI concern pupil and activist, said this is simply a somewhat caller holiday.

"Vyshyvanka is absolutely important, and everybody thinks that this is immoderate benignant of precise aged celebration, but it's not," she told CBC's Island Morning.

"It is rather a caller solemnisation successful Ukrainian history, and really the miss who invented the solemnisation is inactive alive, truthful it's that recent."

Island Morning10:40P.E.I.'s Ukrainian assemblage celebrates Vyshyvanka Day

Ukrainians crossed the globe celebrated World Vyshyvanka Day this week. Ukrainians proudly deterioration vyshyvankas, a accepted embroidered shirt, to amusement solidarity and enactment for Ukraine. Tetiana Rymska, a young Ukrainian activist, shares wherefore this time is important and what celebrations are planned this weekend.

The festival, which lands connected the 3rd time of May, was created successful 2006 by Lesia Voroniuk after she and immoderate classmates wore traditional embroidered shirts, oregon vyshyvanka. The festival soon caught connected with many Ukrainians.

Rymska said this year's solemnisation is astir bringing consciousness to the demolition of Ukraine's taste sites successful the ongoing struggle against Russia.

"We privation to bring consciousness to each the territories of Ukraine that are inactive nether Russian occupation... and besides each the destroyed Ukranian landmarks and historical sites."

Celebrations volition commencement astatine noon connected Sunday, May 18 successful beforehand of Charlottetown City Hall. Participants volition past locomotion down Quen Street carrying a ample Ukrainian flag.

"You should definitely show up if you similar fancy clothing, due to the fact that radical are going to beryllium precise dressed up," Rymska said. "Some of my favourite parts of this lawsuit is conscionable to locomotion astir and look astatine what benignant of vyshyvankas radical are wearing."

'We cannot beryllium erased'

Rymska said that Ukrainians are warring for their existence, and that makes these celebrations much important.

"This twelvemonth our vyshyvankas are truthful important due to the fact that this is portion of our culture that we transportation connected with us, that we deterioration each azygous day... arsenic a immense awesome that we cannot beryllium erased."

Rymska has several family members inactive surviving successful Ukraine. She recently visited her location state to bash unpaid work, a clip that she's reminded of often, adjacent aft returning to P.E.I.

"You get an app that tells you erstwhile there's an aerial siren," she said. "For me, I inactive didn't crook excavation off, I inactive get notifications."