Thank you to our amazing performers for your sincere and beautiful performances. Thank you our incredible team of rally volunteers and all helping hands for helping before, throughout, and after the event, including taking interviews, ushering in folks from the cold indoors after the location change, helping distribute candles, setting up flags, and more. Thank you for volunteering your time and willingness to help at every turn!
​A special thank you to the City of Calgary for accommodating this event indoors on such a cold night.
Our event received significant media coverage, including:
CBC https://www.cbc.ca/.../calgary-ukraine-vigil-one-year-1...
CityNews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMZSF0XxBKs
Global News https://globalnews.ca/.../calgarians-stand-in-solidarity...
Once again, we express our sincere thanks to all who attended, participated in, and made this event such a strong show of strength, resilience, and resistance. Together we are unbreakable, and together Ukraine will achieve victory!
Слава Україні! Героям Слава!.

Due to thunderstorm, we could not hold the event as planned in the park. We are particularly grateful to Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church, Calgary AB for hosting the
Ukrainians Welcome Fair and Father's Day Charity Concert, June 19
Special thank you to Fr. Roman Planchak, Chrystia Moussienko and Oksana Dawid!
A huge shout-out to Katya Urrutia Currie for choosing UCC Calgary and support for Ukraine and Ukrainians fleeing the war as part of 100 Kids Who Care Calgary! There was not a dry eye in the audience! Thank you for your compassion and generosity!

​We kindly thank from the bottom of our heart to all organizations who joined and made the Ukrainians Welcome Fair happen (in alphabetical order)
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church
Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS)
Calgary Immigrant Women's Association
Calgary Public Library
Centre for Newcomers
FHL Football Hockey Link Society
Immigrant Services Calgary
League of Ukrainian Canadian Women
Parachutes for Pets
Plast Calgary
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology - SAIT
St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Orthodox Sobor
The Immigrant Education Society (TIES)
Tryzub Ukrainian Dance Society
Ukrainians of Calgary Association
Vykrutas School of Ukrainian Dance
We kindly thank from the bottom of our heart Tim Hortons for their generous serving of coffee, hot chocolate and timbits!
We kindly thank to Kathy Bohdan from the bottom of our heart for organizing the free food for the event and to Superstore, Canadian Wholesale and Kathy Bohdan for their sponsorship to feed hundreds of people! 
We thank Merited Artist of Ukraine Ihor Bohdan for envisioning and organizing this special event to welcome Ukrainians fleeing war in Calgary and mark the Father's Day amidst the ongoing full scale barbaric attack of Russia against Ukraine. Thank you to Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church, Calgary AB for hosting the event.
Thank you to amazing talents in our community and who recently arrived from Ukraine!
Merited Artist of Ukraine Ihor Bohdan
Korinnya Ukrainian Folk Ensemble Calgary, Calgary Bandurysty - Ukrainian Youth Association - CYM Calgary
Iryna Kalinovich, Tetyana Onyshchenko, Beata Pasieka, Slava Sles & Todd Scott
Khrystyna Lyalyuk, Tryzub Ukrainian Dance Society, Vykrutas School of Ukrainian Dance
Thank you to Khrystyna Zagirska for hosting children's table and to Kathy Bohdan for donating face painting supplies and to Olena Hrytseva for supporting CYM Bandurysty costumes.
We are grateful to Echoes of Ukraine: Oleksandr Zagirskyy and Mykhailo Moussienko for video and sound support!
Thank you to Vasyl Sawchuk for his support and management of the sound side of the concert!
We thank many volunteers who supported the effort: moving many chairs and tables, translating at the pavilion, helping with children's activities and food station!

 Since the full scale war broke on February 24, 2022, UCC Calgary organized the following rallies, including a large event at the City Hall: 
February 24 - Peace Bridge; 
February 27 - Holodomor Monument; 
March 6 - Calgary City Hall, Municipal Plaza;
​April 9 - Memorial Drive 
June 4 - St. Vladimir's - Olympic Plaza - Stephen Ave
with thousands in attendance, strong political support across all government levels, comprehensive media coverage. Our youth leaders contributed greatly into planning and delivery of the events. ​We thank Her Worship Dr Jyoti Gondek and Members of City Council, MP Kmiec, MP Rempel Garner, and other MPs and MLAs who joined, Bohdan Romaniuk, Stephania Romaniuk, Ihor Bohdan, Slava Sles, Representatives of other Ethnic Communities, including from Belarus, Russia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria and other. Special thank you to ColossoVision for their generosity and support at March 6 event. 
Thank you to everyone who attended and supported!
Молимось за Україну! Ще не вмерла Україна!

October 28 is National Internment Commemoration Day in Canada. On that day we commemorate Canada’s First National Internment Operations (1914-1920). Under that policy carried out between 1914 and 1920, 8,579 men, and some women and children, were interned as “enemy aliens” by the Canadian government, acting under the authority of the War Measures Act. That number included 5,954 Austro-Hungarians, most of whom were ethnic Ukrainians. The UCC Calgary Branch hosted an Internment Commemoration at St. Stephen's Protomartyr Catholic Church on Sunday, October 24th at 6:30 PM.

Ми згадуємо національні операції інтернування в Канаді під час Першої світової війни (1914–1920 рр.). Тисячі осіб, більшість яких були українського походження, були ув’язнені в концентраційних, трудових таборах по всій Канаді. Пам'ятаємо. 
Панахида і програма пройшла в церкві Св. Стефана, у неділю 24 жовтня о 18:30. 
Livestream recording is available at the following link. Пряма трансляція була доступна за цим посиланням в YouTube: https://youtu.be/7gCEloLeDOE

The Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Calgary Branch is grateful to (alphabetically):
Fr. Michael Bomback,
Linda Buck,
Dr. Linda Dudar,
Echoes of Ukraine TV Program,
Premier Jason Kenney,
Donna Korchinski,
Fr. Roman Planchak,
Andy Sakundiak,
Minister Tyler Shandro,
Ulanna Wityk,
Fr. Patrick Yamniuk.

A special thank you to St. Stephen’s Protomartyr Ukrainian
Catholic Church for hosting the annual National Internment Day
commemoration.

Photography by Anna-Mariya Zagirska 
​

This year, November 28, 2020 is the National Holodomor Memorial Day in Canada and Alberta. We solemnly commemorate millions of victims of one of the most heinous crimes against humanity - man-made famine - the genocide of the Ukrainian people called Holodomor. The word Holodomor means to inflict death by starvation. Between 1932 and 1933, the Stalin communist regime orchestrated a famine-genocide to undermine Ukrainian nation, identity and spirit and ethnically cleanse Ukrainians from vast territories by starving millions of men, women and children. The horrendous atrocities were concealed and denied by Soviet Union and today are being denied by the Russian Federation. Putin regime not only denies the Soviet crimes, it continues the crimes against Ukraine through annexation of Crimea, political repressions, instigating the war in Eastern Ukraine with over 13 thousands killed, tens of thousands being injured and over a million who lost their homes. Today we lay a wreath in memory of millions of victims of a man-made famine genocide Holodomor, we light a candle and we continue raising awareness about the genocide, about communist crimes against Ukraine and today's Russian aggression. We thank Canada and Alberta for establishing the memorial day and recognizing the genocide.

Сьогодні Національний день пам’яті жертв Голодомору 1932-33 років, геноциду українського народу комуністичним режимом Сталіна з метою знищення української нації, ідентичності і духу. Від імені Конґресу Українців Калґарі і всієї української громади нашого міста, було покладено вінок до пам'ятника жертвам Голодомору та запалено свічку пам'яті. Голодомор був один з найстрашніших злочинів проти людства. Радянська влада заморила голодом мільйони людей. Ми поминаємо жертв і активно працюємо над поширенням історичної правди щодо геноциду. Це особливо важливо сьогодні, коли Російська Федерація, як і Радянський союз в свій час, продовжує заперечувати геноцид, що є наругою над пам'яттю мільйонів жертв і приниженням гідності Українського народу. Путінський режим продовжує злочини радянської влади проти України і в теперішній час: анексія Криму, політичні репресії, війна на сході України, тисячі вбитих, закатованих, поранених, покалічених, більше мільйона біженців, які втратили дім. І все це приховується, заперечується офіційною кремлівською пропагандою. На сьогодні Голодомор офіційно визнано геноцидом українського народу в 18 країнах світу. Канада була одною з перших країн визнати Голодомор геноцидом. Альберта, як і інші провінції, встановила День пам’яті голоду та геноциду (Голодомору) 1932–1933 років в Україні, який відзначатиметься четвертої суботи листопада щороку. Наша громада вдячна за встановлення дня пам'яті і визнання геноциду.
                                                               Вічная пам'ять! Eternal Memory!               ​