annual report

Kobzarliterary award 2012DONATIONS34 |The 2012 Award’s five short-listed authors who best presentedthe theme with literary merit through fiction, non-fiction,poetry, and well-documented research were chosen anddeemed worthy by an esteemed adjudication panel of thewriters’ peers: Denise Chong; Nino Ricci; M.G. Vassanji; andRandal Maggs, also the 2010 Kobzar Literary Award winnerfor Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems (Brick, 2004). RenownedCanadian author Nino Ricci, joined by fellow HonoraryPatron Joy Kogawa, announced the 2012 Kobzar LiteraryAward winner: Shandi Mitchell for her fiction novel UnderThis Unbroken Sky, a narrative that “honours the ancestry ofmany Canadian Ukrainians,” whose “memorable charactersvaliantly face betrayal and every hardship that prairie liferenders in their search for a better life.”Among special guests present at the Awards event wereOntario’s Minister of Citizenship & Immigration Mr. CharlesSousa; Antanas Sileika, Artistic Director, Humber School forWriters; Geoffrey Taylor, Director of Authors at HarbourfrontCentre as well as authors Dr. Marusia Bociurkiw, RichardTruhlar and filmmaker Orest Sushko.“Recognized by Andrew Hladyshevsky and acknowledged byapplause from attendees, the success of the 2012 Kobzar LiteraryAward event was due, in part, to the tireless work by Dr. ChristineTurkewych, Literary Arts Director, who encourages all Canadianwriters to keep writing and all of us to keep reading books onUkrainian Canadian themes. Without a readership/market,Canadian publishers will not accept Ukrainian Canadianthemed manuscripts. Of course, no appreciation for successwould be complete without the recognition of the dedicated hardwork by the Award Ceremony Committee with Chair, Mrs. AllaShklar, and seventeen professional “literati with white roses”:Irene Bilaniuk; Odarka Chudoba; Sonia Holiad; Irene Hordienko;Dr. Christine Kowalsky; Winn Kuplowsky; Oksana Kuryliw;Nadia Luciw; Daria Olynyk; Olesia Romanko; Liijanna Shklar-Kushnirenko; Sonia Solomon; Lesia Stefaniw; Zenia Turkewych-Miner; Krystina Waler; Karen Yarmol-Franko; and OksanaZakydalsky.” (John Pidkowych, The New Pathway)The Foundation extends its gratitude to the event’s corporatesponsors for their generous support of the Kobzar LiteraryAward: Ian Ihnatowycz and Dr. Marta Witer; the TemertyFamily Foundation; Mitchell, Bardyn & Zalucky LLP,Buduchnist Charitable Foundation, Ukrainian Credit UnionLtd., as well as donors Mr. & Mrs. Erast Huculak, Eugeneand Renata Roman from Rosewood Estates, John Warburg,Turner & Porter Funeral Directors, and Nell Nakonecsznyfrom Winnipeg. All proceeds from the award ceremony eventare directed to the Kobzar Literary Awards Endowment Fundwhich supports full tuition scholarships at the annual HumberCollege Writers’ Workshop in Toronto. These scholarshipsassist novice Canadian writers in completing their manuscriptsfor publication.“I believe that this Kobzar award enables our Ukrainian roots,heritage, culture, experiences and essence to be communicatedthrough the literary word. Many years ago, I clearly rememberreading references to Ukrainians in the novels of MargaretLaurence and the effect that reading those words had on me. Asa Ukrainian, seeing and reading these references provided visualproof that an established Canadian author had noticed and beenaffected by the Ukrainian experience. ....There is a vast collage ofaccumulated experiences which offers writers a huge palette ofopportunities to incorporate in their work. .......Supporting thisaward and raising awareness about it, within both the Ukrainianand Canadian communities, needs to be translated into acommitment which results in action on both a personal andorganizational level. We all need to learn about, support andpromote the Kobzar Literary Award in order to foster, maintainand promote the vast and profound legacy that Ukrainianshave contributed to our chosen land, Canada.”Daria Olynyk, TorontoFor more details go to:www.kobzarliteraryaward.comAnderst, Aretta $100Andreychuk, Senator Raynell $100Anonymous $2,000Atomic Heating & Cooling Ltd $100Bagan, Dana & Moris Ilyniak $200Balan, Boris & Olga Andriewsky $500Baziuk, Dr Natalia $100Bidiak, Chrystyna & Taras $100Bilaniuk, Irene & Dozio $200Bubna, Michael $100Buduchnist Credit UnionCharitable Foundation $3,800Chemerynsky, Irene $100Chemerynsky, Lesia $100Chornopyski, Petrusia $100Chudoba, Audrey Daria $200Cikalo, Helen $100Coba, Olenka & R $100Diakowsky, Daria $100Diakun, Myroslava & Michael $200Dozorsky, John & Olga $500Dzulynsky, Orest & Tetiana $100Fedewicz , Irene $100Fenner, Dianne $200Franko Enterprises Ltd $500Franko, Ivan & Karen Yarmol-Franko $200Gluskin Sheff & Associates Inc $800Griffin, Darka & Tim $500Grod, Paul & Adrianna $300Hetmanczuk, Alexandra & Victor $200Hordienko, Alexander & Irene $200Hornich, Dr Adrian & Irene $200Huculak, Erast & Yarmila $5,000Ihnatowycz, Ian & Marta Witer $13,500Jacyk Foundation $800Jaremus, Joanne $100JCT Management Inc $13,500Jemetz, Alexandra & Alex $200Kachor, Sophia $250Kinasevych, David & Halyna $100Kolos, George & Chrystyna $200Komarnicky, Ihor & Oksana $500Kondracki, Dr Michael& Halyna Kvitka $200Kuch, Olga $100Kudryk, Walter and Christina $200Kuplowska, Olga M $300Kuplowsky, Winifred & Walter $1,233Kuryliw, Oksana $100Lebed, Dr Andrey & Lydia $300Lishchyna, Victor $1,233Lomaga, Andriy & Marusia $200Luciw, Nadia & Walter $200Masnyk-Duvalko, Katya $100Masri, Dr Sam $200Medwidsky, Dr Wolodymyr& Switlana $200Melnyk, Roman & Tanya $200Moroz, Dr Irene $100Moskaliuk, Wiktor & ChristinaKowalsky $200Nahirnyj, Olga & B Chuma $200Nakoneczny, Nell A $1,800Ochrym, Alexander $200Oleksiuk, Myroslava $100Olynyk, Mark & Daria $200Onyschuk, Bohdan & Tania $200Ostapchuk, Nadia $200Perun-Chepesiuk, Halyna $200Petruck, Bill & Lesia $200Pityk, Ross $200Potichnyj, Zenon & Sonia $500Prociw, Orest $100Prokopetz, Dr Sonia $100Revutsky,Iryna & Alex Tyssiak $200Rewa, Dr George & Oksana $200Ricana Management $200Rohatyn-Wasylyk, Oksana $100Roman, Eugene & Renata $3,000Romanko, Olesia $100Rudnicky, Andre $100Semeniuk, Alexandra Y $100Shelegey, Dr Michael P $200Shepherd, Larrie & Mika $200Shklar, Dr Jerry & Alla $500Shlapak, Fred & Irene $700Snihura, Dr Nestor & Luba $200Snihura, Taras & Ulana $200Solomon, Sonia $100Soroka, Ivan & Marusia $100St Barbara’s Pharmacy Ltd $100St Vladimir Institute $800St Volodymyr Cultural Centre(Oakville) Inc $500Stefaniw, Myron & Lesia $100Sushko, Orest $100Syniura, Ola $200Szyptur, Ann $100Teply, Larysa S $100Tregobov, Rhea $100Turkewych, Anne $250Turkewycyh, Christine $200Turkewych, George $100Turner & Porter FuneralDirectors Ltd $2,500Ukrainian Credit Union Ltd Toronto $3,800Volinets, Irene & Gord Schieven $200Waler, Dr O R $500Wanio, Tanya $100Warberg, John $3,000Wasley, Olenka & Roy $200Witer, Andrew & Vera $1,000Wrzesnewskyj, Borys $700Wynnyckyj, Prof Iroida & John $100Yurcan, Marta & Walter Daschko $200Zak Foundation $1,000Zakydalsky, Oksana $200Zalucky, L Eugene & Vera $1,233Zatka, Mr & Mrs $100| 35