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Shevchenko Foundation The premier, national, charitable foundation for Ukrainian-Canadian arts, heritage and culture since 1963

Your donation to the Shevchenko Foundation ensures that Ukrainian culture, language, literature, history and arts have the opportunity to continue to grow and flourish. With your help Ukrainian Canadians can fulfill their aspirations and dreams to the development and benefit of all Canadians. Donations to the Foundation are carefully invested as part of a strategic wealth management plan directed by a committee of experienced and responsible investment professionals. All donations receive an Income Tax receipt and donors are acknowledged in the Foundation’s Annual Report.

Join Ukrainian Canadian artist Lesia Maruschak in Toronto for a conversation about her artist’s book, TRANSLATIONS 19,54...
10/15/2026

Join Ukrainian Canadian artist Lesia Maruschak in Toronto for a conversation about her artist’s book, TRANSLATIONS 19,546, VOL. I.

Grounded in testimony, the book addresses the ongoing trauma of Ukrainian children deported and/or forcibly displaced since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. It places these experiences within a longer history of genocidal violence, including the Holodomor.

The Shevchenko Foundation supported the book’s creation through a grant and is honoured to facilitate its presentation to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, where it will support teaching and awareness of contemporary Ukrainian issues.

Presented by The Shevchenko Foundation in partnership with the University of Toronto’s Petro Jacyk Central and East European Resource Centre and the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.

📅 Thursday, October 29 | 2–3:30 p.m. ET
📍 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
120 St. George St., Toronto

Register: https://libcal.library.utoronto.ca/calendar/8054/translations

10/14/2026

Looking back on a September weekend that brought Ukrainian culture to the heart of Toronto! 💙💛

Congratulations to the organizers, volunteers, performers, and community partners behind the BWV Toronto Ukrainian Festival. Your dedication creates a place to celebrate our traditions, discover Ukrainian artistry, and share our culture with neighbours and visitors alike.

The Shevchenko Foundation is proud to support the festival and the people who bring it to life. Thank you to everyone who helped make this year’s gathering possible!

Enjoy a few highlights from the celebrations!

10/13/2026

What does the bandura carry? For Oleh Mahlay, it holds Ukrainian history, family memories, and a responsibility to keep the tradition alive.

We caught up with the Musical Director and Conductor of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus of North America at the Toronto Ukrainian Festival on Bloor, where the Shevchenko Foundation supported the chorus’s participation.

Hear Oleh reflect on the instrument’s meaning, then experience its sound in person at the chorus’s upcoming Ukraine Lives! concert.

October 17, 2026 · 7 p.m.
St. Paul’s Bloor Street, Toronto

Tickets and details: https://bandura.org/ukraine-lives-tour/

So much of community life depends on someone choosing to contribute: an evening spent volunteering, knowledge generously...
10/12/2026

So much of community life depends on someone choosing to contribute: an evening spent volunteering, knowledge generously shared, a donation, an invitation that makes someone feel welcome.

This Thanksgiving, we’re grateful for the people behind those gestures. The volunteers who bring us together. Those who keep our language, customs and traditions part of everyday life. The artists who give expression to our stories and offer new ways to understand them.

To our donors and supporters, thank you for your trust in our mission and your commitment to Ukrainian Canadian culture.

As we gather with family and friends, we also hold the people of Ukraine and its brave defenders in our thoughts and prayers. Their resilience and sacrifice remind us of the value of human dignity and freedom.

Wishing you and yours a blessed and happy Thanksgiving!

With gratitude,
The Shevchenko Foundation

An album that gives belonging a voice. A collection preserved for future generations. A scholarship that gives a student...
10/09/2026

An album that gives belonging a voice. A collection preserved for future generations. A scholarship that gives a student room to focus.

These are some of the ways your support takes shape.

In 2025–26, the Shevchenko Foundation reinvested more than $2.1 million in Ukrainian Canadian arts, heritage, education and community life:

• $1,465,842 in Project Grants
• $106,250 in Community Relations
• $575,704 through Donor-Designated Funds

Behind these figures are people creating, learning, preserving and sharing. Together, their work keeps culture accessible, meaningful and growing.

Help make the next creative idea, learning opportunity or act of preservation possible. Support the Shevchenko Foundation!

10/07/2026

Before the performance, there is the rehearsal: voices coming together, songs taking shape.

In Train to Lviv, Edmonton-based singer-songwriter Marissa K Music explores her experience as a Canadian-Ukrainian, blending Ukrainian folk influences with her own piano-pop sound. Memories of a journey through Ukraine became a personal exploration of heritage and belonging.

Marissa shared this glimpse behind the music following her summer tour across Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbia and Saskatchewan.

Supporting artists gives them space to express their relationship with culture in ways that are distinctly their own. These individual voices deepen our understanding of one another and contribute to a cultural life that continues to grow.

Help the next story find its audience. Support the Shevchenko Foundation.

Discover Train to Lviv at:
https://www.marissakmusic.com/music

Culture survives because someone chooses to carry it.A writer tells the story.An artist reimagines it.A teacher passes i...
10/05/2026

Culture survives because someone chooses to carry it.

A writer tells the story.
An artist reimagines it.
A teacher passes it on.
A family keeps the tradition.
A community creates space for it to continue.

Maria Reva’s words capture something essential about cultural preservation: heritage stays alive through people.

That is why supporting Ukrainian Canadian artists, organizations, and communities matters. We are not only preserving what came before us. We are helping create the conditions for culture to keep evolving, reaching people, and being carried forward.

Help keep Ukrainian Canadian culture living, growing, and creating.
https://sholink.to/Ways-to-Give

10/02/2026

After three and a half years in Kyiv, Patricia Maruschak is bringing her experience home.

The Shevchenko Foundation’s new Executive Director has spent her career in international development and humanitarian assistance, most recently helping Ukrainian children return to school safely.

While in Ukraine, she saw how culture continues to flourish, even through immense challenges. Supporting Ukrainian Canadian culture here at home connects that experience with a community she has been part of her whole life.

Get to know Patricia in her own words. Join us in welcoming her to the Foundation!

Today, we join Canadians in marking the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day.We honour the chi...
09/30/2026

Today, we join Canadians in marking the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day.

We honour the children who never returned home from residential schools, the Survivors, and their families and communities. We recognize that the effects of residential schools continue to be felt today.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action remind us that reconciliation requires continued learning, listening, and care in how we build relationships.

As a Ukrainian Canadian foundation, we believe in a future where every person’s culture, freedom, and dignity are respected. Today, we make space to hear Indigenous voices and reflect on our shared responsibility to carry this work forward.

When Melissa Morelli Lacroix won the 2023 Emerging Writers Short Prose Competition for Ivan and Irene, the story was par...
09/29/2026

When Melissa Morelli Lacroix won the 2023 Emerging Writers Short Prose Competition for Ivan and Irene, the story was part of something larger. Inspired in part by her grandparents, it belonged to a collection she was developing about 97-year-old Ukrainian Canadian Ivan Burtney. At the time, Melissa shared that the award would help her continue working toward publication. In 2025, that larger project became the novella Adventures of Ivan. Sometimes a short story isn’t the whole story. It is where the story begins.

The Emerging Writers Short Prose Competition supports new Canadian writers exploring Ukrainian Canadian identity, culture, heritage, memory, and lived experience.

Learn more: sholink.to/Authors

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