From UNIAN:
“The 15th Vyshyvanka Day is
being marked with a focus on ethnic music and environmental protection issues.”
International Vyshyvanka Day celebrates
Ukraine's unique embroidered outfits that have long become one of Ukraine's
trademarks. Vyshyvanka Day was first celebrated in 2006 on the initiative of
Lesia Voroniuk, a student at Chernivtsi University. The idea started off as a
student event to honor Ukraine's heritage and promote traditional Ukrainian
values and symbols among the youths. To relate to the event, on a particular
day, participants were invited to sport vyshyvankas at the university.
Borsch to become Ukraine's
intangible cultural heritage – culture minister. The event went viral and
rapidly gained recognition across Ukraine, eventually sparking the move to mark
Vyshyvanka Day at a national level and beyond, on the third Thursday of May. On
this day, people show off their vyshyvankas at work, in class, and in the
streets. Traditionally, festivals, dance shows, marches, and art contests are
organized in Ukraine and beyond.
This year, the Day is marked with
a focus on Ukrainian ethnic music and environmental protection issues. Each
region's vyshyvankas have their peculiar symbols and traditional colors used.
For example, residents of Poltava region fancy white embroidery, in Bukovyna
they tend to go for bright colors, while Ternopil people prefer vyshyvankas
with black ornaments. These days, Ukrainians wear vyshyvankas, as a symbol of
their national identity, at many state and religious holidays, political and
cultural events, and special family celebrations – baptism ceremonies,
weddings, and birthday parties. Today, artists, athletes, politicians and even
Hollywood celebs show increasing interest in Ukrainian vyshyvankas.
^ I saw some of these when I was
in Kyiv. ^
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