{"id":3285,"date":"2009-06-01T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress2\/the-embassy-event\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T18:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:45:06","slug":"the-embassy-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/the-embassy-event\/","title":{"rendered":"the Embassy event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ukemb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-6210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ukemb-1024x686.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ukemb-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ukemb-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ukemb-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ukemb-1200x803.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>Here is the Embassy of Ukraine in Canada&#8217;s write up about last Friday&#8217;s event:<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">On May 29, 2009 an evening with Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, award-winning children\u2019s author on Canadian-Ukrainian history, took place at the Embassy of Ukraine in Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">The Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada Ihor Ostash greeted the Canadian-Ukrainian author and congratulated her with awarding of the Order of the Pricess Olha by the President of Ukraine Viktor Yuschenko.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">Marsha discussed her challenges as a Canadian Ukrainian fiction writer: the startling racism and roadblocks she has faced, as well as acceptance in unexpected circles. She also gave a brief reading from an upcoming novel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">The guests had an opportunity to ask Ms. Forchuk questions about her profession as a writer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">The talk was made possible by a grant from The Writers&#8217; Union of Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts National Public Readings Program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%;\" align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">The event was sponsored by Ukrainian School of Lesia Ukrainka, Ukrainian Heritage School of Ottawa, Pokrova Ukrainian Arts Network, Ukrainian Youth Association- \u041ettawa Branch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mfa.gov.ua\/data\/upload\/news\/canada\/en\/24562\/ostash_800.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mfa.gov.ua\/data\/upload\/news\/canada\/en\/24562\/marsha_800.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the Embassy of Ukraine in Canada&#8217;s write up about last Friday&#8217;s event: On May 29, 2009 an evening with Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, award-winning children\u2019s author on Canadian-Ukrainian history, took place at the Embassy of Ukraine in Canada. The Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada Ihor Ostash greeted the Canadian-Ukrainian author and congratulated her with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/the-embassy-event\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;the Embassy event&#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":[262,1],"tags":[405,1045,539],"class_list":["post-3285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","category-uncategorized","tag-author-visits","tag-embassy-visit","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285","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=3285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6211,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions\/6211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}