{"id":10169,"date":"2025-10-30T23:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=10169"},"modified":"2025-10-30T23:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:00:49","slug":"book-talk-at-st-volodymyr-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/book-talk-at-st-volodymyr-cathedral\/","title":{"rendered":"Book talk at St. Volodymyr Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One day after the PYI conference, I traveled back to Toronto to participate in a new initiative at the Ukrainian Orthodox Church &amp; St. Volodymyr Cathedral of Toronto, organized by Artem Galchuk. It was interesting to hear the other speakers, including authors Mykola Latyshko, and Alla Topchii. I was particularly interested in Anastasia Baczynskyj&#8217;s presentation about the early Ukrainian community in Toronto. Koota Ooma was there with a wonderful array of books, including mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"704\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/blueyellow-704x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/blueyellow-704x1024.jpg 704w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/blueyellow-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/blueyellow-103x150.jpg 103w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/blueyellow.jpg 734w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How&#8217;s this for Ukrainian spirit? Between Mirka Werbowy-Onuch of Koota Ooma and myself, we&#8217;ve got the Ukrainian colours represented!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/marshavolod-1024x971.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/marshavolod-1024x971.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/marshavolod-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/marshavolod-150x142.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/marshavolod-1536x1456.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/marshavolod-1200x1138.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/marshavolod.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"704\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-30-184224-1024x704.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-30-184224-1024x704.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-30-184224-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-30-184224-150x103.png 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-30-184224-1536x1056.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-30-184344-1024x624.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-30-184344-1024x624.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-30-184344-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-30-184344-150x91.png 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-30-184344-1536x935.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-30-184344-2048x1247.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-30-184344-1200x731.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day after the PYI conference, I traveled back to Toronto to participate in a new initiative at the Ukrainian Orthodox Church &amp; St. Volodymyr Cathedral of Toronto, organized by Artem Galchuk. It was interesting to hear the other speakers, including authors Mykola Latyshko, and Alla Topchii. I was particularly interested in Anastasia Baczynskyj&#8217;s presentation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/book-talk-at-st-volodymyr-cathedral\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book talk at St. Volodymyr Cathedral&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[529,353,7,993],"class_list":["post-10169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-koota-ooma","tag-scholastic","tag-ukrainian","tag-ukrainian-orthodox-church-st-volodymyr-cathedral-of-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10174,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169\/revisions\/10174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}