Pysanky: Ukrainian Easter Egg Dyeing Workshop
Pysanky: Ukrainian Easter Egg Workshop with Artisan Bozena Hrycyna
Date: Friday, March 22nd 2:30 pm and 6:30 pm
Learn how to make beautiful pysanky, easter eggs in the traditional Ukrainian style, using aniline dyes.
Learn about this ancient and beautiful way of ushering in spring and the techniques necessary to transform a plain egg into an intricate colourful object of hope. Participants will be introduced to the symbols, cultural context, and lore behind this ancient craft, while also gaining the practical skills of applying wax with a stylus, dyeing, and revealing their egg design.
All materials will be provided (eggs, aniline dyes, beeswax, etc.) Pysanka kits and individuals tools will also be available for purchase (proceeds will go to the non-profit arts organisation, Folk Camp Canada).
Beginner level.
Family friendly.
Ages 8+ (children to be accompanied by an adult)
2.5 hrs
Cost: $45
Date: Friday, March 22nd 2:30 pm and 6:30 pm
Learn how to make beautiful pysanky, easter eggs in the traditional Ukrainian style, using aniline dyes.
Learn about this ancient and beautiful way of ushering in spring and the techniques necessary to transform a plain egg into an intricate colourful object of hope. Participants will be introduced to the symbols, cultural context, and lore behind this ancient craft, while also gaining the practical skills of applying wax with a stylus, dyeing, and revealing their egg design.
All materials will be provided (eggs, aniline dyes, beeswax, etc.) Pysanka kits and individuals tools will also be available for purchase (proceeds will go to the non-profit arts organisation, Folk Camp Canada).
Beginner level.
Family friendly.
Ages 8+ (children to be accompanied by an adult)
2.5 hrs
Cost: $45
Facilitator Bio:
Bozena Hrycyna is director of FOLK CAMP, an organisation connecting people with the folk arts, crafts, music, and land based traditions of Eastern Europe in the Canadian context. As co-founder of the Kosa Kolektiv, Bozena has collaborated with many talented and skilled artists, musicians, and community organisations in Ontario (and across Canada) to promote the richness of Ukrainian and Eastern European cultures, and to facilitate meaningful connections for people (cross-culturally and within their own lineage). Bozena is an amateur singer, embroiderer, weaver, pysanka maker, and textile craftsperson, actively learning and sharing these artforms from her Ukrainian/Ruthenian heritage. She has taken workshops and travelled extensively in pursuit of deeper understandings of these and other folkways, and apprenticed to the land, spending the last five years on a homestead near Wilno, Ontario. She currently divides her time between the Ottawa Valley, and teaching on the road.
Bozena Hrycyna is director of FOLK CAMP, an organisation connecting people with the folk arts, crafts, music, and land based traditions of Eastern Europe in the Canadian context. As co-founder of the Kosa Kolektiv, Bozena has collaborated with many talented and skilled artists, musicians, and community organisations in Ontario (and across Canada) to promote the richness of Ukrainian and Eastern European cultures, and to facilitate meaningful connections for people (cross-culturally and within their own lineage). Bozena is an amateur singer, embroiderer, weaver, pysanka maker, and textile craftsperson, actively learning and sharing these artforms from her Ukrainian/Ruthenian heritage. She has taken workshops and travelled extensively in pursuit of deeper understandings of these and other folkways, and apprenticed to the land, spending the last five years on a homestead near Wilno, Ontario. She currently divides her time between the Ottawa Valley, and teaching on the road.
