Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 6850 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| 50TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT OF THE UKRAINIAN YOUTH ASSOCIATION IN BRADFORD | 1998 | 1998-11-21 |
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Details
Original Format: VHS Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Genre: Documentary Subject: Celebrations/Ceremonies Arts/Culture |
| Summary This film documents a concert to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Bradford branch of the Association of Ukrainian Youth (Spilka Ukrayinskoyi Molodi - abbreviated transliterally as CYM) held in the main hall at the Bradford Ukrainian Cultural Centre on Legrams Lane. It was made by the Ukrainian Video Archives Society (UVAS) and is credited to them. It is in colour with sound, and the main language is Ukrainian with some English. It is a final edited version including various camera angles edited together for a professional result. |
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Description
This film documents a concert to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Bradford branch of the Association of Ukrainian Youth (Spilka Ukrayinskoyi Molodi - abbreviated transliterally as CYM) held in the main hall at the Bradford Ukrainian Cultural Centre on Legrams Lane. It was made by the Ukrainian Video Archives Society (UVAS) and is credited to them. It is in colour with sound, and the main language is Ukrainian with some English. It is a final edited version including various camera...
This film documents a concert to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Bradford branch of the Association of Ukrainian Youth (Spilka Ukrayinskoyi Molodi - abbreviated transliterally as CYM) held in the main hall at the Bradford Ukrainian Cultural Centre on Legrams Lane. It was made by the Ukrainian Video Archives Society (UVAS) and is credited to them. It is in colour with sound, and the main language is Ukrainian with some English. It is a final edited version including various camera angles edited together for a professional result.
The film begins with a credit to UVAS and stills of the logo of the 50th anniversary of CYM, overlaid with a recording of the song Mnohaya Lita (Many Years). The mayoral party are seated, and there are views of the hall, including an anniversary cake. The concert begins with an introduction in English and Ukrainian by Vlodko Karpynec.
The concert is a mix of arts and literary performances by current and past CYM members, awards and speeches. Most of the people taking part are second and third generation Ukrainians and CYM members, the branch having been established by the first generation (their parents and grandparents). The Mayor of Bradford is in attendance.
Of particular note is an embroidered banner which is used to decorate the curtains at the back of the stage. This was made by CYM members to represent their groups and various traditional Ukrainian motifs.
UVAS notes: dancers Krylati girls, older, boys; CYM singers, Lord Mayor in attendance
Context
CYM (Ukrainian Youth Association / Spilka Ukrayinskoiy Molodi) in Bradford was founded on 29 August 1948 and named 30 June 1941 branch in commemoration of Ukraine’s Declaration of Independence on that date. The first chair was Stefan Nakonechnyj. Bradford was one of the very early CYM branches, as the organisation was only set up in the UK up on 1 July 1948, when Myroslaw Szawrytko (the authorised UK representative of CYM Central Executive), Mychaijlo Hryniuk and Ihnaty Fedzyniak created a...
CYM (Ukrainian Youth Association / Spilka Ukrayinskoiy Molodi) in Bradford was founded on 29 August 1948 and named 30 June 1941 branch in commemoration of Ukraine’s Declaration of Independence on that date. The first chair was Stefan Nakonechnyj. Bradford was one of the very early CYM branches, as the organisation was only set up in the UK up on 1 July 1948, when Myroslaw Szawrytko (the authorised UK representative of CYM Central Executive), Mychaijlo Hryniuk and Ihnaty Fedzyniak created a CYM organisational centre at a PoW camp in Tattershall, Lincolnshire. This built on an underground Ukrainian liberation movement established in the 1920s by Mykola Pavlushkov which was resurrected in the Germany displaced people’s camps in 1946. The first general meeting of CYM in Great Britain was held on 16 January 1949, when the first Nation Committee for CYM in the UK was elected.
In common with other branches of CYM, Bradford has a four-tier membership structure: Sumeniata (youngest children), Yunatstvo (children and teenagers), Druzhynnyky (young adults) and Seniors (adults). CYM branches organise educational meetings for younger members which focus on Ukrainian history and culture and Bradford is one of the branches with strong tradition of performing arts groups such as choirs, folk dance groups and musical groups. In 1958 Petro Wasylyk set up a dance group and Wolodymyr Parfaniuk set up a string orchestra (first mandolins then guitars) which was directed by Jaroslaw Hawryliuk. In 1959, a drama group was established by W Bukowskyj and M Hryniszak. In 1960, chess and table tennis clubs were set up and a newsletter ‘Nash Druh’ was set up and edited by M Mykolyshyn. In 1962, a wood carving group was set up by V Rybczyn then Mr Panchak. Around 1962, Mrs E Jakowiw and Mrs M Salamacha set up an embroidery group. In 1963, the dance group was reorganised and renamed Krylati, choreographed by Ostap Buriak until his death in 1995. In 1996, an a cappella of bandurists was set up by Vera Tymczyzyn assisted by Halyna Zamulinska. CYM Bradford also plays an active part in community life and leads on several significant community occasions including providing the guard of honour for the plashchenycha (icon of Jesus Christ) in the Ukrainian Catholic Church at Easter, the commemoration of Battle of Kruty (29/30 January 1918), the Declaration of Ukrainian Independence 30 June 1941, and the feast of St Michael Archangel (8 or 21 November). It also manages to persuade St Nicholas to visit every year to give out gifts to children. |
