National Days & Anniversaries
Ivana Kupala, 7 July 2019
A midsummer greeting, and a note on the fern flower that nobody has ever found.
National Days & Anniversaries
Independence Day and the other dates in Ukraine's calendar, each read against the state of the country in that year.
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Constitution Day, 28 June 2019
A greeting for Constitution Day, kept to the anniversary itself.
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Vyshyvanka Day 2019
On the third Thursday of May the office looks different, and a garment does something a logo never could.
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Easter, 28 April 2019
An Easter greeting, and a note on the plate that goes to the neighbour.
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International Women's Day 2019
A greeting, and a thought about the difference between a day that celebrates and a day that acknowledges.
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Unity Day, 22 January 2019
A greeting for the day, and a note on the human chain.
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Christmas, 7 January 2019
A Christmas greeting, and a note on the carollers who now knock on apartment doors instead of village gates.
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New Year 2019
Fifteen New Years here, and the discovery that a foreigner eventually acquires a second set of holidays without giving up the first.
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St Nicholas Day, 19 December 2018
A greeting for the morning when children find something small under the pillow, and a word for the people who arrange it for children who have…
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Holodomor Remembrance Day, 24 November 2018
A day for the names that were recorded and the ones that were not.
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Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2018
A language day greeting, and the dictation that half the country writes at the same time.
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Knowledge Day 2018
The year the New Ukrainian School reform reached the first grade, and a generation started under a different curriculum from the one their older siblings had.
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