We were able to create cyber "bookshelves", ie. a published online database of different collections of books and CDs, separated by subject, author, etc. My task for Tuesday is to create Mazeppa, Chernobyl, and CUCS bookshelves that I can add to the blog. This is an incredibly useful tool for collecting and sharing source material. Dr. Hlynka and I also discussed the value of Ukrainian artistic and cultural contributions supported by the Ukrainian Canadian community, versus the value of the patronage of Ukrainian artists by others. For example, the Burliuk exhibit featured currently at the Winnipeg Art Gallery is sponsored by the Shevchenko Foundation, and it's wonderful that this kind of thing can exist in the venue that it does, but music artists like Valentin Silvestrov are commissioned by orchestras all over Western Europe - as he was in Munich and Vienna - or the cultural phenomenon of Mazeppa existing as a cultural icon in France for much of the nineteenth-century. This was a conversation about what the world does with Ukrainian culture, and what we think about it, what we enjoy about it and how it provokes us.
Victoria and I discussed the direction of the CUCS blog and established that the priority is to make it match the web site, so I will attend to next week as well. As far as new posts are concered, the CUCS blog will be a sister site for the CUCS website, so it will not be a daily blog like this one.
Next week I will have office space at the CUCS and will be spending time cataloging a collection of CDs featuring Chernobyl tracks - created by artists outside the Ukrainian and Ukrainian Canadian communities - on my librarythings.com bookshelf.
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