This film documents a service held in Bradford Cathedral on 14 July 1991 to commemorate Captive Nations Week, and the annual Mother’s Day concert held on 10.05.1992 in the main hall at Bradford Ukrainian Cultural Centre. The film was made by the Ukrainian Video Archives Society but does not feature a credit to them. The language of the film is a mixture of Ukrainian, English, Latvian and other Baltic and Eastern European languages used during the service at Bradford Cathedral; the Mother’s...

This film documents a service held in Bradford Cathedral on 14 July 1991 to commemorate Captive Nations Week, and the annual Mother’s Day concert held on 10.05.1992 in the main hall at Bradford Ukrainian Cultural Centre. The film was made by the Ukrainian Video Archives Society but does not feature a credit to them. The language of the film is a mixture of Ukrainian, English, Latvian and other Baltic and Eastern European languages used during the service at Bradford Cathedral; the Mother’s Day concert is exclusively in Ukrainian. This film has a sound issue which begins at around 19 minutes. The following viewing notes give a brief overview of the film as further detail was difficult to produce. The Captive Nations week film is date stamped 14.07.1991 and starts with external views of Bradford Cathedral as people enter in advance of the service. The service starts with the camera focusing on the front of the church as the vicar speaks, welcoming everyone to Captive Nations week at the Cathedral. He announces that a Latvian orchestra will play as part of the service, and this is translated into Latvian by the chair of the Captive Nations Committee. The service begins with a hymn and a procession of flags down the aisle of countries in the Captive Nations Committee. Views all around the cathedral, showing the congregation, the orchestra, the Captive Nations plaque. At the end of the service the flags are paraded back down the aisle. Everyone assembles outside the church with banners, and there is a procession to the war memorial with all the flags where a wreath is laid by three Ukrainians (two second generation young women accompanied by Zenon Lastowiecki). The Mother's Day concert starts at 1 hr 12 mins 03 secs. Bohdan Sweryt, Director of Bradford Ukrainian School, introduces the concert and provides all the links between performances. The stage is decorated with a banner which translated into English from Ukraine reads as Sincere Greetings to Mothers. The performances are almost exclusively by third generation Ukrainian children. The first performance is a poem recited by a third-generation girl who steps out from a choir of children assembled on the stage, all of whom are dressed in Ukrainian embroidered shirts and blouses (vyshyvanky). The choir sings two songs. This is followed by a reading by a second-generation woman, possibly Olha Stepovanna, about the importance of motherhood. This is followed by a dance performed by a group of girls, a poetry recital by three girls and one boy; mixed choir of children; hopak performed by boys and girls; poetry recital by two girls; poetry recital by five girls; mixed choir of children; a dance performed by a group of girls; a kolomeyka dance performed by girls and boys; a mixed choir accompanied by Maria Danylczuk on piano. The concert closes with everyone standing to sing the Ukrainian national anthem, and then the curtains close. The concert ends at 2 hrs 27 mins 26 secs.