The East Coast Ukrainian Festival featured food, music, dance and crafts at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 on the Halifax waterfront on Sunday. - Bill SpurrChurch Brewing: where the customers are the congregation and the choir | SaltWireThe first East Coast Ukrainian Festival was held at the Canadian Museum of Immigration in Halifax on Sunday, organized both as a fundraiser to help fight the war in Ukraine, and to acknowledge support from the local community.
“We need to save our language, our art, our way of being, which people are fighting and dying to protect, and that’s why you’re here. You came here to support that, to donate, so we can support that and save lives,” Olha Khaperska, vice-president of the Nova Scotia chapter of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, told a full house that included a large contingent from Moncton’s Ukrainian community.
Holding a loaf of koravai, a large braided loaf bread that signifies welcome, Khaperska said the congress wants to emphasize to people who have arrived in Canada from Ukraine since the war started that they are welcome here.“We’ve had fires here, floods and hurricanes, but we haven’t had bombs on our streets, and we haven’t had an evil dictator threaten us,” Savage said. “We cannot get tired of supporting Ukraine. We all play a part, even us here in Halifax.
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