{"id":761,"date":"2015-06-26T10:03:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T10:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/uje-debuts-at-mississauga-ontarios-first-ukrainian-festival\/"},"modified":"2017-08-18T19:25:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T19:25:13","slug":"uje-debuts-at-mississauga-ontarios-first-ukrainian-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/uje-debuts-at-mississauga-ontarios-first-ukrainian-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"UJE debuts at Mississauga, Ontario's first Ukrainian Festival."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>On June 20, 2015, the first Ukrainian Festival in Mississauga, Ontario was held, organized by a small committee from the Toronto Bloor West Village Ukrainian Festival. Over 10,000 people visited the fair on this beautiful Saturday, which took place in Celebration Square.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/OMD_4163.jpg\" alt=\"festival toronto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Along with non-stop entertainment, food vendors, a refreshment garden and craft kiosks, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter showcased an exhibit titled \u201cEyes of Maidan,\u201d which was featured at Toronto's Ashkenaz Festival in September 2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/uje-at-torontos-ashkenaz-festival-31-august1-september-2014\/\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/OMD_4165.jpg\" alt=\"Ukrainian Festival in Mississauga\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The exhibit was visited by many people, particularly Jews with ties to Ukraine. Helena Yakovlev-Golani, UJE Assistant Administrator, staffed the exhibit, which was open all day, and welcomed each visitor with a brief biography about photographer Alexander Sherbakov, who was born in Ukraine and lives in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Guests said they were impressed with the exhibit and were thankful that an organization such as UJE exists.<\/p>\n<p><em>Raya Shadursky, UJE Director of Operations<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos by Orest Dorosh<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 20, 2015, the first Ukrainian Festival in Mississauga, Ontario was held, organized by a small committee from the Toronto Bloor West Village Ukrainian Festival. Over 10,000 people visited the fair on this beautiful...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,19,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-fairs-festivals","category-uje-initiatives","category-outreach","primary-category-19","primary-category-uje-initiatives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4587,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions\/4587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}