Small excurs from Toronto’s exhibitions December 2019

December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 Helen Polishuk

At the end of the year, we always summarize the past .
Now it’s time to show and analyze the past year.
As a whole, it is much more successful for me then 2018 year.

I participated in several exhibitions and it was successful.

I’m talking about my work and participation in exhibitions.

I have already gained strength again to leave the Toronto with a large exhibition next year.
I accept invitations from you )) worldwide .
I am interested in exhibiting my new works, getting to know artists and seeing new cities in the world.
I hope that next year it will come true.
If you have any suggestions, send me email here.

I know that you really like my movies about Toronto art shows and exhibitions.
Films where I show various types of fine art presented at exhibitions in Toronto.
Therefore, I again uploaded by here the last film I edited, which presents various works by Canadian artists from several exhibitions.

This is a wonderful work done by acrylic and/or oil.

I tried to show you the versatility of the work.
I like that all the techniques of the artists are mixed here in one exhibition.
The exhibitions shows as rich, heterogeneous.

It must be emphasized that the organizers of the exhibitions gave artists the freedom to carry out their designs.
I think you will notice it.

I will continue to try to publish more interesting films about Toronto exhibitions more often.
Yours

Helen

Women and Flowers

March 8, 2018March 8, 2018 Helen Polishuk

Women and Flowers………

Women…….Flowers……

Today the post is only about this.
If anyone is not interested, please go yourself out and do not read.

Today is the Spring Festival. Look at the date of this post and you will understand everything.
But I’m crying………

I got up very early today, looked out the window.
On the street a gray fog, full of snow, melts snow from the roofs. Under the feet of a puddle of melted water.
And on this day for more than a hundred years in this territory of the planet created a holiday….spring holiday.
This holiday was not created here,created in Moscow, Clara Zetkin (first lady), led by some active group of women to the square and trying to convince that women need equal rights with men.

And gradually, over the next few years, a holiday was created for women. This is the day among the gray winters, when men congratulated their close women, gave them attention and flowers.

I will not prove that she is right or not
I describe today.
This holiday gradually became one of the big and important days of the year in East Europe.
Then this holiday from Eastern Europe moved to other countries.
Depending on the number of emigrants from eastern Europe, it began to celebrate in Asia, China, America and the Middle East.
On this day, flower traders win million-dollar profits.
Specially for this day, flowers are being grown for sale.
Can you imagine how much fresh flowers are bought?

For a long time I did not live in Kiev, I came by traveling.
And this is the first March holiday, I’m celebrating here in Kiev, for the last ten years.
And I’m crying.
Everything changes. The country changes. The system is changing.
Why do I pay?
Because today is the last time this day is officially celebrated in Kiev. Since next year it has been officially canceled.

Yesterday I had a lot of transport. And I saw people everywhere in the city, with flowers. Women carrying flowers.
Carrying flowers in their hands, in handbags. Women bring tulips or roses or flowerpots.
Women yesterday were dressed unusually sedately and neatly, a little tinted and each proudly carried flowers home.
Later it turned out that the working day was shortened.
I still have before my eyes these women in flowers everywhere, in the metro ,shuttles,buses,traines.

And yesterday it was amazing.
Flower shops have a choice of different types of flowers, different prices.Men run …with flowers…AMAIZING..

Why do I cry?
Women of this country need a flower festival.
Let it be, does not go away.
The women of this country are very hardworking and devoted.
Women of this country for many centuries gave birth and brought up children in difficult conditions.
They were leveled by rights and allowed to work for lower salaries.
The women of this country carved machines, trains and flew into space.
They were taught how to survive … maybe it would be better to give them more protection?
Protection for them and their children?
After all, these women are statistically (large number) educating children themselves and without a husband (the percentage of divorced in the country is high)

Very bitter, to tears, for everything that happens in this country…..
Poverty, lack of rights. Poverty and poverty……
And as an indicator of all this, the holidays are being canceled.
Forcibly erased culture … history … some traditions.
Bind it to politics and situation…..ostensibly so it is necessary…….
But it’s hard to see…….
I do not believe that next year men will stop giving flowers to women on March 8.
I do not believe that the holiday will cease to exist.
It is a pity that we can not choose the time ….
It is a pity that the story is altered by itself.
It is a pity that women, previously oppressed in this country, remain oppressed and now

I’m not Jewish or a feminist.
I’m a woman … just a woman … a woman … and that’s it.
All the photos with flowers in this post I give to the women reading this post…….
With spring you, my dear… and let in your life there will be many colors !!!!many flowers with love!!!

First day of spring

March 1, 2018March 1, 2018 Helen Polishuk

Today is first day of spring.But if you look out of the window or see the weather forecast for the whole week, it seems January or February.

Of couse, this is the whim of spring. Warm does not want to come, playing with us.
In our region, in Ukraine, in recent years this is a frequent occurrence.

Got janitors work on those days
I came to my parents before a heavy snowfall and during the period of its beginning I left.
I fell into the wind with a frost of -20 and snow.
It was awesome.
All became white. Move and can not be seen around anything.

But you have to move, you can not stand……
The wind blows from the feet, hits the face and clogs the snow in the eyes.
When I was already driving in the electric train, the wind whipped through the windows.

Arriving two hours later in Kiev, I discovered ocean of snow and quietly. The silence and white color….
In the morning, I already took pictures when cars were dug out and buses started to walk along the avenue.
But the snow is still coming)))
Snow does not want to stop at all……
The impression that the sky has made a hole and snow is falling…..falling……falling.

But today is first day of spring/….or 29 february….. ))

Really, I’m set for spring

And what will happen next? But there will be spring……

And I know that even in this weather everything comes to life …

There will be spring, sun, heat. This white fluffy snow will grow and we will undress and substitute our bodies under the sun.

Maybe it will happen not so quickly, gradually…..
But it will be soon…..
But for now enjoy this spring whim…)))
This miracle of nature…..
This feminine innocence, when, after a warm winter, early in the spring, cold came again, it began to snow and became frosty.
Enjoy…….just enjoy ))))

Venice 2018

February 19, 2018February 19, 2018 Helen Polishuk

Venice … how much in this word……
Everyone who has visited this small ….country….. can talk about it.
I’m not an exception……
I’m one of those who set foot on the damp stone floor of this island….
and…… I felt it, plunging on February 13, 2018 in the fireworks of his last day of carnival…..
I’m one of those who came there with curiosity and left, pierced with love for this city…

When among the gray raw February you find time to go somewhere … this good idea …. but if it’s Italy ….. hahaha … it’s already warmer and more interesting … and if it’s Venice ….. this general brain burst…..
Do not believe me?
February is wherever you live in the northern hemisphere, it’s a very frostbitten month. It’s a mixture of the whims of winter with warmings and drops … but it’s windy and damp dark, boring days that you just need to survive …. to wait for the sun and light.

My trip in Italy was 12-13 February.
It was imagine one of these dark damp wind days. Our bus threw us out (our group of tourists) a few kilometers from Venice. We came to a windy moorage, which did not promise us anything remarkable. The only thing that lived in us, like faith, is information about that , that in Venice there is a carnival and today is the last day of the carnival.
Yes, we were all covered by the dream of visiting him, but had no idea what it was.

The ship that was waiting for us was not that special.

And we sailed into the dream……
The first houses that we were met were distinguished by their uniqueness …. and it was already interesting
Not one house in Venice does not repeat the second.

And now my leg rushes to this unusual island …
I immediately got into an amazing world …….
This is a world in which life in its laws is cooled and replaced by fireworks of flowers, fantasies, emotions and beauty ….

The first thing that rushed on eyes was a merchant girl who painted her face with a mask.
We, the visitor was difficult to understand … but in memory it rushed …. so I took a picture ..

It was early morning and I noticed that many right on the move are wearing suits.
Still there were many photographers who ran for separate stylishly dressed in striking costumes characters.
I also began to catch up with such people … and all day I was tagged selfie with such characters … it’s the whole area … where people walked dressed in masks and unique costumes.
It’s just a brain explosion !!!!!

That’s wonderful!

This is a unique miracle.
I made a selfie with these people, enjoyed the amazing mystery of their images.

And this island was filled with the sun…..
It appeared through gray clouds and shone brightly on carnival costumes….

It is fireworks of colors and emotions….

There were tourists who specially came to the island this day, went to a modest studio, where they rented suits and changed clothes, walked around the squares of Venice.

But there were also local residents who dressed and worked as guides. This one was our guide.

Closer to noon, the main square was replete with bizarre dresses.
And a little later they merged with tourists, and it was difficult to catch them in a crowd of people
Separately, I want to tell you that this carnival is the departure of winter and the beginning of a new period. It’s a luxury. This left us this island from its ancient rules of existence.
It is a symbol of the departure of one and its change into another.

This is the moment of change……

And then the houses shone brightly too….
I do not know what ended the carnival.

Probably, was a grand firework.
We had a limited time.

We arrived early, so we had to leave early.
But the taste …. but the brightness …. but these moments ….. they stayed ..
It’s like a long-playing candy …. it can not be naked ….
Therefore, Venice … I just flipped through the photo …. And she took me with memories … and I’m writing about her.
Yes, she was raw …. Yes …. she does not fit me in the climate … Yes, I was cold … and I was scared all of the dampness in the down jacket ..
I stepped over puddles of seeping water through the stone block of the square ..
Live in fear .. that someday you will be flooded … or live, enjoying every day and minute … live brightly .. beautifully … proudly ….
Everyone to choose ..

I’ll come to this city again ….

The end of the January

January 26, 2018January 26, 2018 Helen Polishuk

The end of the most festive month of the year,the end of January.
There is no other month for Ukrainians to celebrate so long.

As you guessed, I’m in Ukraine.

I arrived at the beginning of the month to spend Christmas with my old parents.
I’ve been arriving for several years for this holiday and the opportunity to be around my parents.

There is no greater good and pleasure, like being a little little girl in a middle-aged.

I would like to say a little about the country(Ukraine) itself and my impressions.
Not easy for Ukraine now.
Very difficult time. A lot of unemployed, a lot of poor. There is no medicine and no help for the elderly. They are restored, but very slowly. Of course, expensive food and the necessary things.

Like anyone who believes in the best, I believe that this will change.
But for the age of my parents this will not happen.

I visited the Carpathians, just like six months ago.
I come to grief to enjoy all the beauty of nature and clean air. But most of all I enjoy the purity of the souls of the people living there.
In the village where I lived, the doors do not close at night.
And there is no crime.

In Kiev, as in the capital, it is much more difficult to live.

Now I’m completely engrossed in work and contracts with sponsors for the development of the film.

I was lucky. I found people who believed in me and helped me.
Tomorrow an important meeting will be held with people about whom the film will be about.
I’m worried. I have to prove to them that my robot is necessary to them and interesting.
That I need their help and support.

The sweep and fear seize me.
It is always, before a new beginning.
Two feelings:no strength and no fear.
And then, as I’m fooling around, I accelerate and start working.

Such a mixed month full of vanity and tranquility, holidays and work, uncertainty and firmness
Incredibly productive month.

I feel that it is tender, now disobedient, now broken, then concentrated, then powerless….
It’s ok, everything will be all right!
The main thing is that I love everything I do……

November 4th

November 4, 2017November 4, 2017 Helen Polishuk

Thank you for waiting for my publications in blog.
It is very difficult to write on the road .
And it’s nice to see 2760 unread mails on the blog after a 1.5-month break.

I’m slowly re-reading them all and will answer as far as possible.

Thank you for suggestions for cooperation and useful links what you share to me.
I will take into account all your suggestions.
They became very interesting. I will use and analytics of the site to improve it and sources.

Your opinion is very important for me.

Please,do again.

Yes,my blog is practical more than artistic.Thank you Annetta for filling that.I told a year ago how I started creating my website. It was absolutely new for me.
I tried to find my own business, which would be interesting to me.That year I did not imagine that I could write in English, becаuse my assessment in the Toronto language school was average.
But I wanted to overcome this fear.
I started writing by a small sentences .
I’m not trying to correct the mistakes of those first posts. On the contrary, they show how I have changed.
Just read my first blog posts and you will receive this confirmation.

I had a goal to convey to you,my audience, my understanding of what is happening to me and around me.
And it seems to me that I have reached the goal 🙂
Your letters say that you understand how I delicately convey the events and how I correctly notice the details.
You learn from my blogs, see them useful and useful.
I’m glad to see you and thank you for this.

…….,,Whats up! Exceptional blog! I favor the method
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Many thanks until this well-arranged document relating to How to learn to separate necessary from unnecessary -!
Available on the market I have been on the search for.,,………………..

Thanks for such praises in my address.
I will continue to work for you.

Many people write to me, who are just starting to open their blog. They ask questions about coding in the websites.
I answer:I’m not a programmer. I never studied programming and did not try.
Everything I do, I just read. I ask people around me and use the platform WORDPRESS.

This is not advertising. …..and not advice.:))
It’s really what I’m doing.
If you have any advice for me, send me,please.
I read all the letters that come to me.

I will try to further excite you with my new publications.

Have a good rest and best wishes from me……………………………………..

Who loves theater like me?

May 10, 2017December 11, 2017 Helen Polishuk

Let’s speak?

Are you love, standing in front of the mirror, curling, read a monologue?I was.It was forty years ago.
I loved my childhood.
My childhood passed everything in the theater.
We with my girlfriend have thought up and have made school theater.
It lasted for some years and after graduation closed.
I was playing there.

After forty years again I am in theater.I talk,then did not want play again.I saw many people,who still artist.I am artist,but last year I like not change and do not play like artist, and be myself and share my wisdom.

I came to the theater ,, Zagrava,,.

This is amateur theater in Toronto.
I heard about this theater, but today he has become a part of me.
The theater ,,Zagrava,, exists since 1953.
It was created by Ukrainian emigrants ,who came to Canada after the Second World War.

Ukrainian Drama Theatre,, Zahrava,, is an all-volunteer community theatre that was founded on June 5, 1953 in Toronto, Ontario by Volodymyr Dovhan.

History of the Theatre ,,Zahrava,,

The theatre’s repertoire included many Ukrainian classics, such as: Prokuror Dalsky, Advokat Martian, Motria, Myna Mazaylo, Suyeta, Kassandra, Ukradene Shchastia, Boyarynia; and European classics such as Charlie’s Aunt, Anouilh’s Jeanne d’Arc, Ibsen’s Ghosts, Gogol’s Marriage, Goldoni’s Servant of Two Masters and others. More modern works included: Moral Pani Dulskoyi, Kuriyer UPA, Taborova Kozulka (also presented as Hrikhy Molodosti), Prolisky, Ksantypa, Zavtra Znovu Ziyde Sontse, Korol Striltsiv, Neskoreni, Yuda Iskariot, Triumfalna zhinka, Nelehalka, etc. Works were specially written for the ensemble: Yevshan Zillia, Viva Boyko, Tanok Voli.

The productions took place on Toronto’s stages and then in various cities of Canada and the United States. The group has won many awards such as: best leading/supporting actors/actresses, best performance of the festival, best Canadian play, best costume design.

Josef Terlicki, who became Artistic Director in 1988 after the death of Volodymyr Dovhaniuk, directs ,,Zahrava’s ,, productions. Directors from Ukraine, Fedir Stryhun and Inna Pavlyuk, have worked on a Master Class basis with the group.

In 1990 the ,,Zahrava,, Ensemble conducted a two-week tour of the Ukraine, where it put on 21 productions in 14 days. Also in the 1990s ,,Zahrava ,,put on several dramatic montages for various community events.

Over the past few years, the ,,Zahrava,,has made a number of premieres and has fundamentally become the cultural center of the Toronto ukrainian community.
It is hard to survive in a new world, but there is an.

The last successor, the “Spills/Proliski”, was a success in Toronto and Montreal.
Now several new premieres are preparing.
I will write about them.

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