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International Week Concert—Burdon and guests (Friday)

Burdon is Olena Yeremenko (violin, vocal), Oksana Grynko (vocal, telenka, accordion), Mikhail Kachalov (fiddle), Lubomyr Ishchuk (drums, percussion), Ivan Ohar (double bass), and Rost Tatomyr (bouzouki, vocal, hurdy?gurdy).

For Love of the World

For Love of the World, a poem by Charlotte Tall Mountain (1941—2006), inspires the 2008 concert. An artist and poet of an Iroquois Native American heritage, Charlotte is remembered as a "cultural worker" who lived to achieve social and environmental justice, liberation, equality and peace.

Burdon

For the love of family

Sponsored by University of Alberta: Vice President (Research), Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, Ukrainian Language and Literature Program, University of Alberta International, Peter and Doris Kule Centre for Ukrainian and Canadian Ethnography; Alberta Foundation for the Arts; and Ukrainian Canadian Benevolent Society of Edmonton

Burdon hails from Lviv, Ukraine. The young folk musicians formed the group in 2002 and have quickly developed their music-making to an impressive level, building up a rich repertoire of traditional tunes, rural ritual songs, old ballads and cheerful dances.

Burdon’s sound comes from traditional music from Ukraine, Hungary and Romania. Their music is based on age-old tunes in modern arrangements, which paint a vivid, dramatic world full of excitement, love, mystery and enchantment. Many of the songs are taken from the local tradition of unique ethnic minorities who live around Ukrainian-Polish-Slovakian borders: Lemko, Boiko and Hutsul. Some are from other parts of the mysterious Carpathian region, particularly from the survived Hungarian minority, Csango, living in the Romanian region of Moldva. The songs themselves are made with old and often very famous tunes, but with Burdon’s own arrangement and modern influences.

Hosted by CBC ’s Ron Wilson

For the love of community

For the third year in a row, the voice of Edmonton AM and broadcaster for 24 years, Ron Wilson will be our guide this evening.

The Honour Song Project

For the love of the earth

Honour songs use poetry to celebrate the lives, history and contributions of Aboriginal women of Edmonton. Karly Coleman, Marilyn Dumont, Mother Peace (Kristin Smith) and Anna Marie Sewell developed this poetry into a stage performance and re-imagined it as an installation of shawls.

Nunta

For the love of creativity

Unveiling original pieces just for International Week, Nunta (Romanian for ‘wedding’) is re-created every year by Alin Rogoz. With one foot in the East and the other in the West, this local multicultural band enchants with tales of gypsy caravans traveling through Spanish lands.

Swing-Out Edmonton

For the love of a good time

Swing-Out is a U of A student group that’s gonna make you hep cats get up and jive! With origins in black American culture, swing dancing and music began in the late 1920s and has become a global sensation. (www.ualberta.ca/swingout)

FiestaCubana

For the love of the sea

Jennifer and Orlando Martinez Kindelan astound audiences and students alike with their Casino-style Salsa, Rueda, Salsa Suelta, Soh, Rumba, Mambo and Cha Cha Cha. (Tel: 288-0063)

Joe Zhao

For the love of spirit

A member of the Edmonton Chinese Philharmonic at 10, Joe studied Chinese wind instruments under Sun Ji-Jiang, principal wind musician of the Dalian Singsing and Dancing Troupe. Experience the dizi (bamboo flute), bawu, wulusi and pao.

Izuba

For the love of stars

Izuba is Kinyarwanda for ‘sun.’ For the people of Rwanda, it symbolizes hope; though painful memories of genocide linger, the future is bright. Izuba will “let their light shine” with graceful dances unique to Rwanda.

Marcus Fung

For the love of nature

Playing for the power of music and positive change, Marcus is a local musician and teacher, a friend of International Week and one of our International House music coaches.

Firefly Theatre

For the love of a tree

For the third year in a row, Firefly Theatre goes “out on a limb” to transform amazement into surprise and laughter. Edmonton’s only aerial theatre performance company, Firefly features three talented aerialists: Kim Precht (rope); Lisa Bentz (aerial silks); and Michalene Giesbrecht (trapeze).

Bharatanatyam Dance

For the love of the goddess

Listen with your whole being, for every gesture of accomplished performer, choreographer and instructor Meera Varghese, will paint stories upon your heart, mind and soul. Bringing pleasure and cosmic expression, Bharatanatyam is the embodiment of music in its visual form and the most ancient of India’s classical dance traditions.

Finale

And the world was richer for her

International House residents join our performers on-stage to send us home with blessings from around the world.

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