Holodomor Education Week

Help Make Holodomor Education Week a Success!

Toronto – 17/11/2008 – The League of Ukrainian Canadians (LUC), League of Ukrainian Canadian Women (LUCW) and Ukrainian Youth Association (UYA) are organizing Holodomor Education Week from Nov. 17 to Nov. 20, 2008 at the Ukrainian Cultural Centre on 85 Christie St. The opening ceremonies will take place on Monday, Nov. 17 at 7pm.  On 18 – 20 November, the event will be open to the public from 10am to 9pm. 

Dave Levac, MPP for Brant, James Bezan, MP for Selkirk-Iterlake and Borys Wrzesnewskyj, MP for Etobicoke Centre will attend Holodomor Education Week and address the public at the opening ceremonies.  They will highlight their personal experiences in dealing with this genocide and express the need for further recognition of the Holodomor as genocide.  In addition, LUC and LUCW will announce their new Holodomor Education project under the name, Let’s Build 1000 Holodomor Monuments. 

Holodomor Education Week will feature a Holodomor-inspired movie festival, art work and poster-art from Ukraine, children’s watercolour art, and information kiosks representing a variety of organizations.  The centerpiece of Holodomor Education Week will be a Canadian-made exhibit on the Ukrainian genocide – Holodomor: Genocide by Famine.

In an effort to promote the concept of Holodomor Education Week among GTA elementary schools and high schools, the organizers believe that this Week will deliver the message to the public that recognition of the survivors, studying about and honouring those who perished in the Stalin-orchestrated genocide against Ukrainians, is the right and essential thing to do.

On the open request of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress to organize Holodomor Awareness Week, LUC, LUCW and UYA have responded with a plan for Holodomor Education Week.  These organizations will offer their gratitude to members of the Provincial and Federal Parliaments, other officials and trustees, who have contributed to the ongoing process of including the Holodomor in the Ontario school curriculum and mainstream Canadian discourse. 

Holodomor Education Week is without charge and open to the public. 

            For more information, please contact Orest Steciw or Volodymyr Paslavskyi, or the League of Ukrainian Canadians, National Executive at 416-516-8223 or at luc@lucorg.com. A detailed schedule for this event will be posted on www.lucorg.com as soon as it is available.

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