See the following for details on the Cleveland Cultural Gardens Federation’s Spring Dinner and Installation:

Spring Dinner & Installation, CCGF, Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Spring Dinner Menu and Directions to Restaurant--2010

• Community clean-up at the Garden with assistance of the Parma, Ukrainian scouting community on May 2
• Planting of summer flowers in the Garden, organized by the Ukrainian Women’s League (UWL), branch #8
• Sold Lesya Ukrainka cards and netted $1200 towards restoration of the Lesya Ukrainka statue in the Garden, on September 19th
• Planted 200 tulip and daffodil bulbs in the Garden on November 8 by members of UWL, branch 8.
• UWL, branch 8 contracted with the Intermuseum Conservancy Association (ICA) to restore the Lesya Ukrainka statue so that it can be rededicated on the 50th anniversary of the statue’s dedication, September 11, 2011.  $4000 deposit  made December 1, gets ICA started
• Helped organize the Cleveland Cultural Gardens Federation’s annual holiday dinner in Little Ukraine, Parma, at Shynok Ukrainian restaurant.  Provided the “Kashtan” Ukrainian Dance troupe for a performance at the event, December 8.
• Applied to Holden Parks Trust for funding of the Lesya Ukrainka restoration on December 14th
• Mailing to Ukrainian Credit Union members on Lesya Ukrainka’s birthday with a sample card brought in $1300 towards the restoration effort by March 1, 2010.
• Future projects, in random order, are additional lighting for the Garden, water for irrigation, and exploration of hosting One World Day in 2011 on the September 11, 2011 anniversary of the Lesya Ukrainka statues dedication in 1961.
• See the Card entry on the www.culturalgardens.org blog/news pager for pictures and information on the cards for sale to support the Ukrainian Cultural Garden’s restoration.

Submitted by Ms. Dozia Krislaty, President, Branch #8 of the Ukrainian Women’s League.

Get great looking cards featuring photos of the renown Ukrainian-American sculptor, Alexander Archipenko, and Ukrainian sculptor Mykhailo Chereshniovsky in the Ukrainian Cultural Garden.  Buy them and support the restoration of the Ukrainian Cultural Garden by contacting the Ukrainian Women’s League of America, Branch 8, president Dozia Krislaty at 216-857-4878 or <dkrislaty@aol.com>.  Thumbnail versions of part of the larger photos follow:

Ukrainian political activities, writer, poet, critic, journalist and economist

Bronze sculture by renown Ukrainian sculptor, Mykhailo Chereshniovsky--1961

Taras Shevchenko--founder of modern Ukrainian literature, poet, and humanist

Volodymyr the Great converted the Kievan Rus to Christianity, beginning the Eastern Slavic period of Christianity

Stay tuned for details on the June, 2010, piano concert of Chopin music, outdoors in the Polish Cultural Garden, marking the dedication of Chopin’s restored  bust and Chopin’s belated (March 1, 1810), 200th birthday celebration.  See the Polish Cultural Garden’s page on www.culturalgardens.org for details and a photo of the new bust.

Chopin Bust Dedication and Piano Concert–June, 2010