The Past Month

It’s  always hard to write about what happens to you.My past month was very active.And I THANK for everything what happens with me in June 2017.

The Past Month

I went through five festivals in a row, and I sustained their intensity.
It’s harder than just working.
Summarizing, I will say that they are very different and can not be compared.

 

Some events were followed by others.
I’m very tired this month.
There were many interesting discoveries, such as the extraordinary beautiful Scarborough became for me with interesting streets near the waterfront, the promenade itself with gorgeous sandy beaches and numerous parks.

I am amazed by the friendliness, hospitality and friendliness of people in Scarborough.
This is ridiculous, but for each inhabitant of this district there are two dogs.
Imagine, evening, walks the hosts with their pets. Everyone has one, two. And the owner and pet proudly walk. In the cars next to the owner or in the back seat is a huge dog.
It’s fine!
Another happened to me an intendant
.I handed out flyers and invited to watch the movie in Scarborough Civil Centre near the subway.

I approached the passers-by, often the Chinese and gave them a flyer.
The answer was:
-I do not know English. I do not speak English!
It was amazing to me. They walk, live in modern apartments, pay rent, pay high bills and do not know the language.
For me it was a shock.

My second discovery was #Luminato 2017.I know that a few years ago this festival was created by a fanatically loving art woman.
This festival is now the most striking event of the summer.
Not only actors, artists or creators are invited to it, it is a mix of the most modern trend in art.

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The right choice of teams gives us, the viewers a full picture of the changes in all areas of art.
And so it’s great to see the  best groups,artists on the stage of this festival.

I enjoyed the performances of two Italian clowns, who for an hour held the audience, fascinating them with very simple stunt tricks.

I listened to the lyrics of a very interesting song #Simpson

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Then I immediately got to the Aboriginal Festival, and then wonderful things began to happen to me.
I just remembered that a year ago I was in Fort York and dreamed of working here.
And a year passed, and I am among the assistants at this festival.

I spent three days in a team where everything was so hormonal. Thanks to its organizer Gabi.

Through our tent passed up to a thousand schoolchildren. Here Fort York ran in our masks, with flags and first aid bags.

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And nearby there were other performans,very similar to our day of Ivan Kupala. By the way, this holiday was held on the most active day of the year, the day of solar fullness.

Whether from the amaizing team,or from the sun, or from children, I came home charged and very active, although I stood in the rain and did not rest for nearly 6 hours in a row.

I spent two days in the act…ART in the PARK.

It’s different representations, activities and activities in various parks of the city.
This is a new direction. Even younger.

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And if I liked Etobicoke’s park activity, where Mayor of Etobicoke came, conducted the orchestra, where a lot of people were sitting on the grass and listening to beautiful music,….. then the second one, in a tiny park under high-voltage wires, I did not like
.I did not like North York activity in the park,becouse was not interested in the activity itself.
Drumming into the drums is still nothing. But bring the wool and weave on the street in the tent, litter. Bind the trees with threads …
Maybe I did not get to this level of grounding, but I understand that this is garbage.

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And if this is a woman’s development, it should not be done in nature,should be in class, indoors.
But it was. I leave photo about it.

And that’s not it!!!!!
I was a film filming, a wonderful team, a magnificent Allen, two madly crazy days spent together.
I worked for the first time as assistant director, second director, #AD.
I wrote a shooting list and call list.
I did not work as a AD before, for me it was the first time.It was fun.

 


……….Armed with the knowledge of my specialty, I have to shout at the trial and watch everything, I came …
Imagine me, not liking the noise at all, never raising my voice at anyone, and shouting !!!!!🙂
……….All turn around……..
I’m screaming:
-Attention!!!

Everyone was silent, turned to me.
And I’m quiet. 🙂
                     – Acting!!!!
And the director to me (Allen):
-Please, be silent, do not speake, be silent………………
For me it was a lesson.
The difference between Ukrainiane and Canadian in the filming process.

Here was such a busy last month.
Because I was silent on this page.
Because I stopped in drawing.
Now I’m catching up to everything.

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,,The past month has driven me to the up of the roof of my dreams.
Please, just do not fall.,,  (Helen Polishuk) July 2017

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One day off between festivals

So we are already in June.
Today is just such a time ,when one festival has already ended (Inside Out) and the second one has not yet begun(Scarborough).

Between two

One day off between festivals

It’s hard to describe yet the feelings of last festival.
Before the eyes of the petty-bourgeois, that the mixed feeling of understanding of everything.

I really liked the film about the singer Chavela.

This is documentary chronicles singer Chavela Vargas’s turbulen life.

Dramatic life randing from an affair with Frida Kahlo to Vergas’s stuggles with alcoholism and violence.Archival footage of performances and interviews with Chavela herself,her directors Catherina Gund and Daresha Kyi describe about a decidedly complicated women,an irreplaceable artistic force and lesbian icon whose voice manifests hearbreak,defiance and ultimate triumph.

I second time faced with the this singer and her history .
For the first time, it was 2012, the summer when she died.
I found out about her death in Facebook and listened to her songs.And posted in my page video with her.
I was struck by her deep head and manner of singing songs.
I spent the whole day listening to some of them on video and peering into the face of an old singer in a pancho with gray hair and a manlike look.
I remembered it.
And here again meeting in it……

 

 

The next unforgettable film was a film ,,A Million Happy Nows,,.

Canadian Premiere

Carier of famous soap operas actress Lainey Allen(Chappell) has came to end,just she won a Daytime Emmy.

Allen retiers and with her publicis and partner Eva Morales heads to a beach house on the California coast.

Their dream life has barely begun when a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s sets them on a new and unexpected

path.

 

The terrible truth about the disease makes everyone feel bad.

The film is the best film of this festival.
Spectators applauded standing and I cried.
I realized in a new way how difficult this disease is and how difficult it is for the family to cope with it.
Very beautiful filming and I was surprised that the director was talking about inexpensive funding, based on the fact that there are few locations.

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The truth of modern life says:
Live for today
Appreciate today

 

 

The next festival will be Scarborough Film Festivale from 6 to 11 June.

I’m waiting for it with impatience and I will tell about it on my page too.

Movies…….. movies…….. movies……….

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Frames, beautiful shooting, dramatic plot-all this is related to my work
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What is summer?

Repent I write this post, time changes, the time of the year and month is changing.
The calendar takes us to the summer.
And what is summer?

What is summer?

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This is 92 calendar summer days.
It’s warm long sunny days.
This is the night filled with the scents of the grass and the singing of birds at dawn.

Summer is always a lot of activities and entertainment.
I chose for this summer a lot of  film festivals and filled all the days of summer.

Only in summer I want to wander around the city and look in the windows
of shops.
Only in summer I want sit in  cafe with a cup of coffee.
Only in summer I want take my dog  Cindy and walk with her in the park to meet the joyful faces of passers-by.

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What you can doing in summer?

Just nothing.

Put your head under the sun and sit as the old man screwed up his eyes, basking in the sun.

These old men remind me of buds of flowers, inclined to the sun.
They are filled with energy.

They are gaining energy for the winter.

In the summer birds sing exceptionally beautifully.
They have a special period, they are busy with chicks.
Their songs become sonorous and long.
Their melodies are endless and pleasant.

During the breeding period, they become attentive and caring.

And still I like flowers.
Endless number of different colors present in the flowers.
I really love the gentle lilies of the valley, but in the summer I admire the red peonies and poppies.

And what smell stems from the flowering of bird cherry and lime?

And now in result  of connect everything  together I get…….summer.

A wonderful summertime.

 Already tomorrow….
It’s summer already.

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I wind up my alarm clock in the early morning, so it’s still early, at dawn, to walk barefoot on the grass with the dew.

And then I cook coffee and with my favorite cup sit on the step and start to dream and plan, collect the coming day.

I wish you all a warm and happy summer!

My advice in the financial crisis in the country

Write this post I started after today’s news in the newspapers about the real estate crisis in Toronto and Ontario.

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We talked about the collapse of our mortgage company and what can we expect from this?

The absolute truth that the crisis has not touched the whole of Canada.
For this thanks to the division of Canada into independent provinces.


And the crisis did not begin today, it has been marching for more than two years and was seen by unexpected dismissals of workers and the closure of large companies.
It was noticeable for a number of stops of financing for non-profit organizations.

And the government is struggling with the situation
The main thing is not to interfere with them
They have already raised the tax on the purchase of real estate by foreigners in Ontario.
They take steps, do them very carefully and reluctantly spread out.

I remember….
We wrote at the studio pilots in late 2016 and one of these pilots was about the
 crisis of real estate.
The pilot did not pass  🙂
The project was closed  🙂

There are other symptoms, but I will not list them.

We are already in it, today.
I drink coffee today morning and there is a crisis.

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How to live, what to do, what is my decision or vision?

The crisis was more than two years ago.
Then various TV shows were on TV. I watched one of them and remembered.
The presenter asked one of the best realtors in North America about his attitude to the real estate crisis.
The question was asked this way:
-,,What if the crisis has come?,,

He replied:
-,,If the family lives in a big house, two generations-adults, a father’s faamily and a son’s family. They are cramped. Something must be decided.

Two options for this case.
One option is to sell the property and split.
The second option is to overstay or rebuild in the light of the new situation-to change toilets, to expand the area of the house.
I choose the second. In a crisis not to change the property, stay in the same and improve its quality.,,
I absolutely agree with him
.

Resale will additionally disproportion in the sale / purchase and intensify the crisis.
In addition, the purchase of property will not be identical to the previous one, but will be a step worse. And this is lower quality and not worth risking.
Maybe in general very bad options. The truth is that everything around is collapsing and options for a good choice will not be cheap. The difference will be obvious.

You do not rise so, but go down.
The crisis increases the difference between buying and selling and if you take a mortgage, it increases the cost of your mortgage
.

I analyze my practice and the situations that I have experienced over my years. This happened to me in the Middle East, in Ukraine, in Canada.

My advice, how to protect yourself from the crisis:

1.If the currency of the country falls by 30% is a sign of trouble. Red light,,dangerous,,,,be careful,,

Banks in such a situation are in danger, your loans and deposits are also at risk.

If you did not take your deposits before the crisis, if you do this during crises, you break the balance sheet and exacerbate the crisis./Thank you for being real estate course 🙂 /

2.Do not sell anything from your main property.
If you did not do it before the crisis, in a crisis this is a big risk.
Not to resell property- is a big mistake if you did not do it before the crisis.
Do not transfer excess , accumulated money in real estate is a big mistake if you do that with open new morgage.
During the crisis it is good to rent out.
The rental price will rise and will be adequate to the crisis.

3.To buy something from the real estate for the formed big money, the capital,in another place.Make something different this time.Do not gamble in the market, if you are not a professional player….
 Do something,what give you money outside places of risk ( real estate,banks,deposite).Do your money in services and educations.

It will help you survive the crisis and have an independent capital.
These are my observations and my advice.

 

 

 

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P.S.It’s very nice to receive such letters, they make me work.
Thanks you

 

Who loves theater like me?

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.

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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.

 

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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,,

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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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Where an artistic person will show all his talents-in the theater

Theater….Theater…Theater


Today we will talk about the theater.
The conversation will be long.
The modern world is changing very fast even yesterday we used fixed telephones.
Today we are connected with the whole world through the Internet in seconds.
Telegraph and cable communications were not popular.
Today much changes. It came to the movie, which is filmed in the pavilions mostly on the green screen for imaging

3D effect.It touched galleries that are more popular online.But today I’ll talk about the theater.
From the classical, theater has changed to dancing theater and musical.

 

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A documentary theater appeared.


Actors tell on stage about events, give interviews, reports, show protocols and acts, statistical tables.
The performance is composed in the form of monologues or dialogues.

Verbatim.WHAT IS “VERBATIM”

Verbatim theatre is a form of documentary theatre which is based on the spoken words of real people./https://www.theatrefolk.com/blog/classroom-exercise-verbatim-theatre/


The “Verbatim” technique – a creative group chooses a topic, and begins a survey of those real people,
Which it was decided to interview for this performance.
Very important questions. Questions are the beginning of the future concept of the play.
Actors with voice recorders record interviews, rehearsals are brought not only by interpretation of interviews, but also by scenic characteristics of the character.
Next – work on the play and play.

There are physical theaters as innovation.

As an example, we can say about the Meyerhold Theater/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vsevolod_Meyerhold/ , the Antonine Artou Theater/https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Artaud/ .Pantomimes are included as opposed to movement.

Also the performans is accompanied by a Dance of Contemporary.In Europe, the physical theater is integrated with the verbatim and the DV8 company represents it.

A new drama is a new trend, a new kind of theater

This combination of relevance and modern language/http://www.inyerfacetheatre.com/archive8.html/
Its representatives are Mark Ravenhill/
Mark Ravenhill /, Sarah Kane /https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Kane/

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A separate stream can be called theaters-performances

Such a performance is played on a non-standard site and the actor lives by this performance
Spector of this kind may not have dramaturgy.
It can be a plastic performance, a performance of live music.
During the performance, interaction with the viewer, installations, modern technologies
.

Always such performances carry an experiment.

Can you combine fiction and reality?
Yes, if it’s performance
.

A separate direction of the performances is storytelling

Begin as a tale. As a narrative.They are based on fairy tales, legends, myths or stories from life
Consists of three components-it’s a story, narrator and listener
.

As an example, the PiG Pen Theater /http://www.pigpentheatre.com/

Well, the performance-installation is built in general on acting, not on the stage or dramaturgy
Combined with 3D projections, halograms
Live pictures are created, where the actor as an object.
This is such a legalization, calls, this form of performance
.

Well, it becomes completely new when the audience is sitting in the hall all in headphones and listening to the sounds that the actor creates on stage.

Separately I want to tell about a new direction, which is connected with the new theater, the theater from Slovenia

Carmina Slovenica./https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmina_Slovenica/

https://www.carmina-slovenica.si/en/stage-production/fortuna_fauvelu_ne_bo_par1/

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The main means of expression is voice and sound.

You still say that the theaters have not changed?
Have changed and very much.
No one is interested in the classical staging theater where the actors stand and talk. Such theaters do not collect spectators, exist as amateur ones and quickly disappear
or death.

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A few news from festivals, which I attend this spring

This spring my life is very tense.
I draw and show my work on
www.saatchiart.com/helenpolishuk and www.artfinder.com/helen-polishuk

I attend many exhibitions and get to know the cultural life of Toronto.But I’m also a participant of two huge festivals in Toronto 2017.I will tell you about this in detail.

A few  news from HOT DOCS Festival 2017

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Runs from April 27 to May 7….Canadian International Documentary Festival

Today after the publication of the article I go to the festival.Started  with ,,Bee Nation,,

about Students in Saskatchewan trying to make their way to the national championship.D:Lana Slezic/Canada/78 min/Worlds Premiere

A lot of interesting films this year:,,Whitney,,Can I be me,,,,d:Nick Broomfield,Rudi Dolenzal/UK/100 min/Canadian Premiere

Bill Nye:,,Science Guy,,D:David Alvarado,Jason Sussberg/101 min/International Premiere

My eye noticed two films:

Mr.Gaga D:Tomer Heymann/Israel/Sweden,Netherland/2015/100 min

The foremost artistic genius of modern dance,Ohad Naharin is one of the most visionary and provocative choreographers in the world.Film look at his work,his process and unique life story.He puts a lot of pressure on his company to be the best.

A few- news from festivals, which- I attend- this spring

Another intertsting film for me:

,,I called him Morgan,,D:Kasper Collin/USA/2016/92 min/PG

Recruited by Dizzy gillespie at the age of 18,jazz musician Lee Morgan had all the promise of a legend-until he was shot dead by his wife Helen on a snow night in February,1972 during a gig in New York City.Film is hybrid between a music doc and a true crime story.Film captures the unique spirit of the era and evokes both the cool and the cold of this life tale of jazz,love and murder

 

A few news about Luminato 2017 Festival

This festival is always waiting impatiently in Toronto.

A _few _news _from_ festivals, which_ I_ attend_ this_ spring

This year he is full of dance debut productions.
The whole world seemed to connect theater and dance
.

I will still write about my impressions, but looking through the trailers, I settled on these novelties

Akram Khan,,Until the Lions,,

Award-winning choreographer and dancer Akram Khan realise the Sanskrit epic poem The Mahabharata to contemporary dance and live music with exploring the physical expression of gender.

A fe news from festivals, whichI attend this spring

 

 

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As he prepares a new dance version of the Indian classical stories,he explains why he has put women centre stage

 

Also Canadian unique ,,King Arthur’s Night,,

A few news from festivals, which I attend this spring

Refined,brutal,crude and tender King Arthur’s Night is a radical re-examination of the creative process and a kick in the knees to our assumptions about difference.This ambitious work of theatre and music is co-created by Nail McNeil,an artist living with Down Syndrome,with Marcus Youssef and James Long and Canadian alt-sonstress Veda Hille.

A few- news from festivals, which I attend- this spring

Many are waiting this year for the  Luminato festival of arrival Hip Hope Dance Theatre with worshops and lot of public projects….

,,Ghost Rings,, performed june 20-22  /pop concert/

Ian Kamau June 24

………………
This does not end with my news, just a small announcement today

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Happy birthday, our Queen!

April 21, the most crowned woman of the world Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her birthday.
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Queen Elizabeth II stands before a portrait of her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria.Photographed at Rideau Hall,The Residence of the Governor General.Ottawa,Ontario,July 1,2010.
64 years she is Queen of Great Britain.Great role of Her Majesty The Queen in the history of Canada.For more than sixty-four years Queen Elizabeth II has served our country with wisdom and dedication.
On September 9,2015 she become the longest-reigning monarch of the modern era.She will surpass the reign of her great-great-grandmother,Queen Victoria (1837-1901 ).
Happy-birthday-our-Queen!
The Canadian Diamond Jubilee portrait of Her Majesty The Queen is unveiled at Buckingham Palace,June 6,2012.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II,Queen of Canada,is the sixth sovereign since Confederation in 1867.
Quuen Elizabeth was the first to be proclaimed independently Sovereign of Canada in 1953, following her accession to the Throne in 1952, and the first to bear the title Queen of Canada.
The Royal Arms of Canada (coat of arms ) are the arms of Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Canada. A symbol of sovereignty,they are used on buildings,official seals,currency,passports,publications,proclamations and as rank badges of some members of the Canadian Armed Forces.
Happy-birthday, our-Queen!
Queen Elizabeth II reviews an R.C.M.P.guard of honour at Depot Division.Regina,Saskatchewan.May 2005.
Canada’s maple leaf flag was proclaimed by Queen Elizabeth II to take effect on February 15,1965-the day it was first raised over Parliament Hill in Ottawa and in thousands of communities from coast to coast to coast.
During Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II stay on the Throne, 13 ministers changed, two of whom were born under her government.
Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh this year will celebrate the  70 anniversary of the wedding.
Her Majesty  Queen Elizabeth II is a big fan of the series ,,Game of Thrones,, and ,,Downton Abbey,,.
She loves dogs ,horses and fond of horse riding.
Queen Elizabeth II starred in the movie herself more than 120 times.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II remains the most famous and popular monarch in the world.
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Queen Elizabeth II acknowledges the public on the grounds of Government House.Halifax,Nova Scotia.June 30,2010.
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Queen Elizabeth II attends the International Fleet Review honouring the Centennial of the Royal Canadian Navy.Halifax,Nova Scotia.June 29,2010.
Because she is – the Queen!
Educated, ironic, magnificent!
……..On his accession to the Throne, she says:
        – The journey to the West Indies..Climbed a tree and then I was told that the King, my father died… I am heiress!
– Get down, Your Royal Majesty, on the ground!
Came down from the tree I am Queen!…….
Happy birthday, our Queen!
Happy Birthday !!
Happy birthday, our Queen!
Materials:A Crown of Maples.2015 edition.Department of Canadian Heritage.Quebec.2015

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