This film documents Bradford Ukrainian community’s commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the death of Taras Shevchenko. The event was a concert held in the main hall at Bradford Ukrainian Cultural Centre, and featured a range of performances including dancing, choirs, music and poetry. It also includes a very short piece documenting a meeting held at the club, and an interview with Ilya Dmytrov, head of the Rada (National Council) of the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain (AUGB)...

This film documents Bradford Ukrainian community’s commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the death of Taras Shevchenko. The event was a concert held in the main hall at Bradford Ukrainian Cultural Centre, and featured a range of performances including dancing, choirs, music and poetry. It also includes a very short piece documenting a meeting held at the club, and an interview with Ilya Dmytrov, head of the Rada (National Council) of the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain (AUGB) in response to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The film was made by the Ukrainian Video Archives Society but does not include a credit to them. The language of the film is Ukrainian with occasional instances of Ukrainian. The first section of the film documents a meeting of the Bradford Ukrainian community held in the hall at Bradford Ukrainian Cultural Centre. The film begins abruptly, part way through the meeting where people are voting. The footage shows first and second-generation Ukrainians seated and walking around in the hall. The reason for the meeting and the vote are unclear. This section ends at 53 secs. The second and main element of the film begins at 54 secs and records a concert held in the hall at Bradford Ukrainian Club to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the poet Taras Shevchenko. Performances include Dobrova mixed choir from Bradford; speeches about Shevchenko by various first-generation Ukrainian men in Ukrainian (one is Dr Sviatomyr Fostun and the other is unidentified); poetry recitals; a biography of Shevchenko read in English by second generation man; performance by the Kobzar Brotherhood bandura capella; performance by Boyan male voice choir from Nottingham conducted by Myroslav Buchok and accompanied on piano by Maria Buchok; performance by Trembita (Oldham) / Dibrova (Bradford) mixed voice choir; closing speech by Mr Parafiniuk, head of the Bradford Branch of the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain in which he thanks everyone and reads a list of credits. This section ends at 2 hrs 20 mins 53 secs. The next section starts at 2hrs 23 mins 42 secs and is an interview conducted by Wolodymyr Demtschuk with Ilya Dmytrov, head of the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain. The interview concerns the recent Chornobyl disaster and the AUGBs response. This section, and the film, finishes at 2 hrs 52 mins 10 secs.