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Volume 10, Issue 18, Week of May 6, 2013
Saskatoonʼs REAL Community Newspaper
Being Framed
We will be running fashion pages one week per month. In this edition, fashion is on pages 11-13 (photo by Tyler Harris)
Vesna Festival to celebrate 40th anniversary in style Joelle Tomlinson Saskatoon Express
Festival board and asked to join the team. She happily signed on. This year, she is in charge of the marketing. arla Shynkaruk-Adamko can “I was away for 12 years, so you kind remember how she felt when she of forget. It was out of sight, out of mind,” found out she would be dancing at said Shynkaruk-Adamko. “My mom has Saskatoon’s Vesna Festival 27 years ago. lived here all along, so she would mention “I felt like I made the bigs,” she said. when Vesna was coming up, and I would “It was big-time getting to dance at Vesna, get that sense of nostalgia, that ‘Oh I miss and for the first time, too. It’s just a totally that’ feeling. So when I came back and was different experience as a performer. It’s a asked to be on the board, it was an honour. cabaret and the audience is really close to It was that feeling I had all those years ago you. As a performer, you really feel and as a dancer once I actually went to the feswork off the audience’s energy; they’re all tival and remembered how unique it was.” really encouraging and clapping, so it was This year’s event marks the 40th ana dream come true as a dancer.” niversary of the festival. The theme is a Now Shynkaruk-Adamko will be Reunion to Remember, and Shynkarukwatching her own two children dance in Adamko says she hopes that this year’s Saskatoon’s biggest celebration of Ukrai- festival brings together alumni and former nian culture. After moving back to Saska- members of the board. toon from Edmonton last year, Shynkaruk“We want it to be like a reunion. We Adamko was approached by the Vesna want people to come back and feel the
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way I did after returning,” said Shynkaruk-Adamko. “We’re trying to reach out to alumni through things like Facebook, and I’m spearheading a campaign to contact all the former board members. There are about 130 of them. This was really important to me because it’s not just about the board now; there are all these people before us who made the festival the success it is now. It’s important to appreciate that.” Along with cultural dances, music and entertainment, the festival offers Ukrainian food and an artisan market with art pieces from across Canada. Vesna is recognized as one of Canada’s biggest and longestrunning Ukrainian festivals. Shynkaruk-Adamko moved to Baltimore in 1999, then to Edmonton, and back to Saskatoon in 2012. She was involved in the Ukrainian communities everywhere she moved, but says there is something
special about the Saskatoon brand of Ukrainian spirit. “It was never the same. I was always kind of waiting for that Vesna experience, that Saskatoon Ukrainian community, and it never happened,” said Shynkaruk-Adamko. “So it was interesting for me to see that it’s not like this everywhere. Obviously, I’m biased a little bit because I grew up here, so it’s my Ukrainian family. But the organization level here, the camaraderie and the event are all second to none.” The Reunion to Remember Vesna Festival will take place on Saturday, May 11, at TCU Place. Doors open and entertainment begins at 6 p.m. Tickets are rush seating. Adults are $30, plus service charges, youth ages 13 to 18 are $15, and children 12 and under are free. For more information, or to reserve a table of eight for $35, plus charges, call the Vesna ticket hotline at 306-2207470 or email@vesnafestival.com.