Award-Winning Author

ALPHA OMEGA ALUMNAE   PRESENTS

 AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR

MARSHA SKRYPUCH

 “THE FORGOTTEN ONES: 

  WHOM I WRITE ABOUT”

 Wednesday, September 24, 2014 – 6:30 P.M.

Dining Hall, Holy Family Nursing Home, 

165 Aberdeen Avenue, Winnipeg

Admission: $10.00 –  Refreshments

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The recipient of numerous awards, Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch is the author of 19 books.

Her recent books are about the World War II experience and the internment of Canadians during World War I.

Her newest book is Dance of the Banished.  Among her many award-winning titles are Enough,

Stolen Child, Making Bombs for Hitler, Hope’s War,

Silver Threads, Prisoners in the Promised Land, and Last Airlift.

 

A Celebration of Taras Shevchenko

In coordination with the annual PEACEDAYS celebration in Winnipeg

a celebration of the birth of Ukraine’s greatest poet, artist, and human rights activist

TARAS SHEVCHENKO

Wednesday, September 17, 6:30 p.m., Great Hall, St. Andrew’s College,

University of Manitoba, Fort Garry Campus

Brief lecture by Dr. Myroslav Shkandrij

 

of the Department of German and Slavic Studies, University of Manitoba &
a viewing of the Taras Shevchenko 200th Anniversary Travelling Exhibit. Informal reception to follow.

 

Presented by the Taras Shevchenko 200 Anniversary Committee of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress – Manitoba Provincial Council (UCC-MPC), in collaboration with the Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies at the University of Manitoba, the Department of German and Slavic Studies, St. Andrew’s College, and the UM Ukrainian Students Association