(12 Apr 2023)
UKRAINE EASTER PREPS

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lviv, Ukraine - 7 April 2023

1. Wide of egg decorating workshop ahead of Easter
2. Various of people decorating eggs using wax
3. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Larysa Riabova, temporarily resettled from Kharkiv:
“It distracts from the war, of course, and it is for the future, a bright future. You draw and think of how to make everything beautiful. Easter is the beginning of all life.”

4. Riabova holding a colourfully decorated egg
5. Wide of workshop in progress, people decorating eggs
6. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Olga Pensko, teacher of the Children's School of Folk Arts:
"The peculiarity of designing Lemkivska pysanka (Lemkivshchana region) - the technique with which we draw from a droplet (to make tear-shaped lines). If a line is normally done using a pysachok (a special tool for drawing on Easter eggs, then instead it should be a droplet. The drop is placed and we lead it to the middle. This technique is very different from other techniques.“

7. Various of Pensko showing Pysanky technique
8. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Olga Pensko, teacher of the Children's School of Folk Arts:
“It is very soothing. It is good (for relaxation) if a person has some kind of stressful situation when they are creating an Easter egg. We highly recommend creating Easter eggs to everyone.”

9. Egg being dyed yellow in a jar
10. Various of Pensko decorating egg
11. Egg decoration being heated with candle
12. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Kateryna Kit-Sadova, wife of the mayor of Lviv:
“This is our (workshop) table, it's our work and it's being together — this has a deeper meaning, we are together, and we are one. I think that in our present time, when there is war…
(to the girl) — Oh, what a beauty, well done!
Kit-Sadova: "When there is a war, when we are all are mixed up (living in different areas) and we are driven out of our native homes, we still know how to be together and want to be together — this is the greatest holiness, I think.”

13. Eggs in basket
14. Building exterior
15. Big eggs in front of entrance
16. Rabbit depicted on egg
17. Ukrainian flag
18. Lviv street view

LEAD-IN:

People in Lviv are preparing for Orthodox Easter by decorating eggs.

The traditional techniques use wax and paint to create colourful, intricate designs.

STORYLINE:

An Easter tradition: decorating eggs.

The residents of Lviv have organised a class for people who are displaced by the ongoing war in Ukraine.

A Ukrainian craft, the technique used for painting Easter eggs is known as Pysanky.

Patterns are created by using wax and colourful dye.

For Larysa Riabova, who is temporarily living in Lviv after being resettled from Kharkiv, the workshop is some much needed respite from the fighting.

“It distracts from the war, of course, and it is for the future, a bright future. You draw and think of how to make everything beautiful. Easter is the beginning of all life,” she explains.

Decorating eggs before Easter is a regular tradition for Western Ukrainians.

Each region has its own methods.

Teacher Olga Pensko chose the Lemkivska patterns for her master class.

"The peculiarity of designing Lemkivska pysanka (Lemkivshchana region) - the technique with which we draw from a droplet (to make tear-shaped lines). If a line is normally done using a pysachok (a special tool for drawing on Easter eggs) then instead it should be a droplet. The drop is placed and we lead it to the middle. This technique is very different from other techniques.“











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