Ukrainian Canadian Professional & Business Association
of Calgary

Upcoming Events


Dinner Meeting / Awards Night

Please confirm your attendance at this dinner meeting before Tuesday September 21
by email ucpba@yahoo.ca or calling (403) 670-5477

Cancellations may be made up to 11 am September 21. Unless there is a bona fide mitigating reason, the Association reserves the right to invoice a "No Show" fee of $30 to those who reserved, but failed to show up.

SPEAKER: Marsha Skrypuch
DATE: Thursday September 23, 2010
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
727 11th Avenue SW
TIME: 6:00 PM
6:45 PM
7:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
Program
PRICE: $30
$40
$25		 Members
Non-Members/Guests
Senior Members (over 65) and Students
Stolen Child, Marsha Skrypuch's most recent book, is the moving story about 12- year-old Nadia Kravchuk, who has immigrated with her parents to Canada. Nadia is a Lebensborn girl, kidnapped for her “Aryan looks” by the Nazis in their frenzy to build a master race. Her fierce determination to uncover her past against incredible odds is revealed in this novel, which is written for children ages 9-12.

Marsha Skrypuch has a passion for writing about history that has been shoved under the carpet. She wrote Enough, the first commercially published children’s book set during the Holodomor (Stalin induced famine in Ukraine). Turned down by many publishers who considered the topic too “controversial” for children, Enough was published in 2000 by Fitzhenry & Whiteside and is still popular a decade later. When it came out, Marsha received hate mail and death threats. In 2008, Ukraine President Victor Yuschchenko bestowed upon her the Order of Princess Olha for her writing about the Holodomor.

Casino Fundraiser

DATE: Saturday December 10, 2010
Sunday December 11, 2010
PLACE: Cash Casino
4040 Blackfoot Trail SE
TIME: 11:15 AM
6:15 PM		 Day Shift
Evening Shift

Recent UCPBA Calgary Events

Second Annual Calgary/Edmonton UCPBA Golf Tournament

(Organized by the Ukrainian Canadian Professional & Business Association of Calgary)

Saturday July 24, 2010

The Nursery Golf and Country Club near Lacombe, AB

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

With Special Performances by

Suzirya Ukrainian Dance Theatre

Tryzub Ukrainian Dance Ensemble

DATE: Thursday June 24, 2010
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
Valhalla Hall
727 11th Avenue SW
TIME: 6:00 PM
7:00 PM
8:00 PM
8:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
Entertainment
Business Meeting
PRICE: $30
$40
$25		 Members
Non-Members/Guests
Senior Members (over 65) and Students

Dinner Meeting

SPEAKER: Father Peter Babej
TOPIC: His Recent Tour of the Holy Land
DATE: Thursday May 27, 2010
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
727 11th Avenue SW
TIME: 6:00 PM
6:45 PM
7:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
Program
PRICE: $30
$40
$25		 Members
Non-Members/Guests
Senior Members (over 65) and Students

Dinner Meeting

Outstanding Community Service Award Night - ANDRIY HLADYSHEVSKY

SPEAKER: Andriy Hladyshevsky
DATE: Thursday April 29, 2010
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
727 11th Avenue SW
TIME: 6:00 PM
6:45 PM
7:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
Program
PRICE: $30
$40
$25		 Members
Non-Members/Guests
Senior Members (over 65) and Students

Dinner Meeting

SPEAKER: Bohdan Romaniuk
TOPIC: Unlocking the Secrets of “The Matrix” -- How to Protect Your Nest Egg (and Even Prosper) in the Golden Age of Central Banking, Market Manipulation and State-Engineered Bubbles
DATE: Thursday March 25, 2010
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
727 11th Avenue SW
TIME: 6:00 PM
6:45 PM
7:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
Program
PRICE: $30
$40
$25		 Members
Non-Members/Guests
Senior Members (over 65) and Students

Dinner Meeting & Trade/Work Fair

DATE: Thursday February 25, 2010
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
727 11th Avenue SW
TIME: 6:00 PM
6:45 PM
7:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
Program
PRICE: $30
$40
$25		 Members
Non-Members/Guests
Senior Members (over 65) and Students

Ukrainian businesspersons and professionals will showcase their business or profession at this meeting. Our guest presenters will give brief talks during the Program portion of the meeting starting at 7:30 pm and will also show displays during the cocktail hour.

Dinner Meeting / Family Night

TOPIC: The Best of the Internet: An Evening of Fun, Fascination, Entertainment and Humour
DATE: Thursday January 28, 2010
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
727 11th Avenue SW
TIME: 6:00 PM
6:45 PM
7:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
Program
PRICE: $30
$40
$25
$12.50 		Members
Non-Members/Guests
Senior Members (over 65) and Students
Children (under 12)

PLAST / UCPBA MALANKA

DATE: Saturday January 16, 2010
PLACE: Calgary Petroleum Club
319 - 5th Avenue SW
TIME: 5:30 PM
6:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
PRICE: $175
$130
$100		 Per person ($90 Tax receipt included)
Seniors
Students
Guest Headliners will be Merited Artist of Ukraine Vasyl Popadiuk and Suzirya Ukrainian Dance Theatre. The MC will be Angela Knight of the CBC Radio Eyeopener and the band will be Zolota Bulava from Montreal.

Ukrainian Festival of Carols

DATE: Sunday December 13, 2009
PLACE: St. Stephen Protomartyr Ukrainian Catholic Church
4903 – 45th Street S.W.
TIME: 7:00 PM

Holodomor Commemoration

In memory of the 7 million people who perished as a result of Stalin's withholding of grain and food in 1932 and 1933.

DATE: Saturday November 28, 2009
PLACE: St. Vladimir's Cultural Centre
411 Meredith Road NE
TIME: 11:00 AM

Dinner Meeting

SPEAKER: Dr. Bohdan Harasymiw (via Webcast from Edmonton)
TOPIC: The New Cold War
DATE: Thursday November 26, 2009
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
727 11th Avenue SW
Tivoli Room
TIME: 6:00 PM
6:45 PM
7:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
Program
PRICE: $30
$40
$25		 Members
Non-Members/Guests
Senior Members (over 65) and Students

Film Screening

Film: The Soviet Story
DATE: Wednesday November 25, 2009
PLACE: Plaza Theatre
1133 Kensington Road NW
TIME: 7:30 PM

Film Screening

(This film was produced with funding support from the UCPBA of Calgary.)
FILM: Okradena Zemlya
DATE: Sunday November 22, 2009
PLACE: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Hall
704 – 6 Street NE
TIME: 3:00 PM

Dinner Meeting

SPEAKER: Hon. Genia Leskiw – MLA, Bonnyville – Cold Lake, Chair - Advisory Council on Alberta-Ukraine Relations
(via Webcast from Edmonton)
TOPIC: "Ukrainian women in politics; The Advisory Council on Alberta-Ukraine Relations
DATE: Thursday October 29, 2009
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
727 11th Avenue SW
Tivoli Room
TIME: 6:00 PM
6:45 PM
7:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
Program
PRICE: $30
$40
$25		 Members
Non-Members/Guests
Senior Members (over 65) and Students


Dinner Meeting and Student Scholarship Awards Night

TOPIC: Town Hall Meeting (following Award of Student Scholarships).
DATE: Thursday September 24, 2009
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
727 11th Avenue SW
Tivoli Room
TIME: 6:00 PM
6:45 PM
7:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
Program
PRICE: $30
$40
$25		 Members
Non-Members/Guests
Senior Members (over 65) and Students

First Annual Calgary/Edmonton UCPBA Golf Tournament

(Organized by the Ukrainian Canadian Professional & Business Association of Calgary)

Saturday July 25, 2009

The Nursery Golf and Country Club near Lacombe, AB

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

DATE: Thursday June 25, 2009
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
Valhalla Hall
727 11th Avenue SW
TIME: 6:00 PM
7:00 PM
8:00 PM
8:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
Entertainment (Barvinok, Jr. Tryzub, Yalenka)
Business Meeting
PRICE: $30
$40
$25		 Members
Non-Members/Guests
Senior Members (over 65) and Students

UKRAINIANS AT ART!

4th Annual UCPBA/ACUA

ART SHOW AND SALE

Delectable Appetizers!

Thursday, May 21, 2009
6 - 9 p.m.

Danish Canadian Club 727 – 11 Avenue SW

Non-Members $25        Members $20        Senior Members/Students $15

Dinner Meeting

SPEAKER: Christy Daniels
TOPIC: The Partnership Between YMCA Calgary and YMCA Ukraine
DATE: Thursday April 23, 2009
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
727 11th Avenue SW
Tivoli Room
TIME: 6:00 PM
6:45 PM
7:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
Program
PRICE: $30
$40
$25		 Members
Non-Members/Guests
Senior Members (over 65) and Students

Casino Fundraiser

DATE: Tuesday April 7, 2009
Wednesday April 8, 2009
PLACE: Stampede Casino
421 - 12th Avenue SE
TIME: 11:15 AM
6:15 PM		 Day Shift
Evening Shift

Dinner Meeting

SPEAKER: Bohdan Romaniuk
TOPIC: The Wizard of Oz Redux: A Parable for Modern Times
DATE: Thursday March 26, 2009
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
727 11th Avenue SW
Tivoli Room
TIME: 6:00 PM
6:45 PM
7:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
Program
PRICE: $30
$40
$25		 Members
Non-Members/Guests
Senior Members (over 65) and Students

Dinner Meeting

SPEAKER: Dr. Ivan Kropyvnytskyy
TOPIC: The Ukrainian Surgeon: a Journey from Medicine to Health.
DATE: Thursday February 26, 2009
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
727 11th Avenue SW
Tivoli Room
TIME: 6:00 PM
6:45 PM
7:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
Program
PRICE: $30
$40
$25		 Members
Non-Members/Guests
Senior Members (over 65) and Students

Dinner Meeting

TOPIC: The Best of the Internet: An Evening of Fun, Fascination, Entertainment and Humour
DATE: Thursday January 29, 2009
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
727 11th Avenue SW
Tivoli Room
TIME: 6:00 PM
6:45 PM
7:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
Program
PRICE: $30
$40
$25		 Members
Non-Members/Guests
Senior Members (over 65) and Students

UCPBA/PLAST MALANKA

DATE: Saturday January 17, 2009
PLACE: Calgary Petroleum Club
319 - 5th Avenue SW
TIME: 5:30 PM
6:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
PRICE: $175
$100		 Per person ($90 Tax receipt included)
Students & seniors

Ukrainian Festival of Carols

DATE: Sunday December 7, 2008
PLACE: Assumption Church Hall
704 - 6th Street NW
TIME: 3:00 PM
PRICE: $10

Dinner Meeting and Awards Night


SPEAKER: Lubomyr Markevych
TOPIC: Progress in Getting the World to Recognize the Holodomor as a Genocide.
DATE: Thursday November 27, 2008
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
727 11th Avenue SW
Valhalla Hall
TIME: 5:45 PM
6:20 PM
7:00 PM
7:30 PM		 Cocktails
Annual Student Scholarships Presentation
Dinner
Speaker
PRICE: $30
$40
$25		 Members
Non-Members/Guests
Senior Members (over 65) and Students

Dinner Meeting

SPEAKER: Andriy Semotiuk
TOPIC: Uniting Ukrainians in the Entertainment Industry:
The Hollywood Trident Foundation Experience
DATE: Thursday October 23, 2008
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
727 11th Avenue SW
Tivoli Room
TIME: 5:30 PM
6:00 PM
6:30 PM
7:15 PM		 Cocktails
Business Meeting - Bylaws
Dinner
Speaker
PRICE: $30
$40
$25		 Members
Non-Members/Guests
Senior Members (over 65) and Students

Dinner Meeting

SPEAKER: Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk - Professor, Royal Military College, Kingston, ON.
Chairman, Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association
TOPIC: “Soviet War Crimes and the Diaspora: What is To Be Done?”
DATE: Thursday September 25, 2008
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
727 11th Avenue SW
Tivolli Room
TIME: 6:00 PM
6:45 PM
7:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
Speaker
PRICE: $30
$40
$25		 Members
Non-Members/Guests
Senior Members (over 65) and Students

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

DATE: Thursday June 26, 2008
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
Valhalla Hall
727 11th Avenue SW
TIME: 5:30 PM
6:00 PM
7:00 PM
8:00 PM
8:30 PM		 Membership Sales & Registration
Cocktails
Dinner
Entertainment
Business Meeting
PRICE: $30
$40
$25		 Members
Non-Members/Guests
Senior Members (over 65) and Students

UKRAINIANS AT ART!

3rd Annual UCPBA/Alberta Council For Ukrainian Arts

ART SHOW AND SALE

Thursday, May 29, 2008
6:30 - 9:00 p.m.

St. Vladimir’s Cultural Centre
404 Meredith Road N.E.

20 Artists!

Special Guest - Khrystyna Kohut - UCAMA

Delectable Ukrainian Appetizers!   Cash Bar by TYC!

Non-Members $20       Members/Seniors/Students $15


Dinner Meeting

SPEAKER: Dr. Peter Neweduk
TOPIC: Health Care: Private and Public; Perspectives from the Front Line of Family Medicine.
DATE: Thursday April 24, 2008
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
727 11th Avenue SW
Tivolli Room
TIME: 5:30 PM
6:15 PM
7:00 PM
7:45 PM		 Cocktails
SPECIAL MEETING - New Bylaws
Dinner
Presentation
PRICE: $25
$35
$20		 Members
Non-Members/Guests
Senior Members (over 65) and Students

Dinner Meeting

SPEAKER: Bohdan Romaniuk
TOPIC: CRASH OR BOOM? WHAT’S IN STORE IN 2008 AND HOW TO PROFIT WHATEVER THE OUTCOME
DATE: Thursday March 27, 2008
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
727 11th Avenue SW
Tivolli Room
TIME: 6:00 PM
6:45 PM
7:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
Presentation
PRICE: $25
$30
$20		 Members
Non Members
Seniors (over 65) and Students

Distinguished Lecturer Series

“AN APOLOGY OVERDUE?”

SPEAKER: Lubomyr Luciuk, Ph.D.
TOPIC: Recognition, Restitution and Reconciliation for Canada's first national internment operations.
DATE: Saturday March 1, 2008
PLACE: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Hall
704 – 6 Street NE
TIME: 4:00 PM

Dinner Meeting

SPEAKER: Lubomyr Markevych
TOPIC: THE EVOLVING RUSSIA - UKRAINE RELATIONSHIP. WHY SIZE STILL MATTERS
DATE: Thursday February 28, 2008
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
727 11th Avenue SW
Tivolli Room
TIME: 6:00 PM
6:45 PM
7:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
Presentation
PRICE: $25
$30
$20		 Members
Non Members
Seniors (over 65) and Students

Dinner Meeting

SPEAKER: Lloyd Sereda
TOPIC: THE FOREIGN WORKER PROGRAM AND HOW IT PERTAINS TO UKRAINIANS
DATE: Thursday January 31, 2008
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
727 11th Avenue SW
Tivolli Room
TIME: 6:00 PM
6:45 PM
7:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
Presentation
PRICE: $25
$30
$20		 Members
Non Members
Seniors (over 65) and Students

Ukrainian Festival of Carols

DATE: Sunday December 9, 2007
PLACE: Orpheus Theatre
SAIT Campus
1301 - 16 Avenue NW
TIME: 6:30 PM
PRICE: $10

Dinner Meeting

Film: Eternal Memory: Voices from the Great Terror
TOPIC: The Holodomor
DATE: Thursday November 29, 2007
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
727 11th Avenue SW
Tivolli Room
TIME: 6:00 PM
6:45 PM
7:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
Presentation
PRICE: $25
$30
$20		 Members
Non Members
Seniors (over 65) and Students

Narrated by Meryl Streep, this award-winning documentary examines the Stalinist purges and terror in the former Soviet Union during the 1930s and '40s. An estimated twenty million people lost their lives; some in labor camps, others starved in state-induced famine, and many others executed for "crimes against the state."

Focusing on Ukraine, this film incorporates historical footage, interviews with witnesses and survivors, and commentary from public officials, and historians, including former U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, Roman Szporluk of Harvard University, and Robert Conquest, author of The Great Terror: A Reassessment.

Ukrainian Famine Genocide Commemoration

Remembering the 7 to 11 million who were killed because of deliberate starvation.

DATE: Saturday November 24, 2007
PLACE: St. Vladimir's Cultural Centre
411 Meredith Road NE
TIME: 11:00 AM
A traditional Ukrainian Memorial Service (Panakhyda) and wreath laying ceremony will be followed by a brief program.

Distinguished Lecturer Series

“Famine Diaries - the Incredible Story of Gareth Jones – The Man who Knew Too Much”

SPEAKER: Nigel Linsan Colley (England)
TOPIC: The role played by Gareth Jones (Nigel Colley's great uncle) in first breaking the subject of the Famine in Ukraine in the western media.
DATE: Sunday November 18, 2007
PLACE: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Hall
704 – 6 Street NE
TIME: 7:00 PM
PRICE: Free

Gareth Jones was one of the few journalists in the world who reported the truth about the genocide in Ukraine.

The family has a great website "Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones – Hero of Ukraine (1905-1935) which you can check out at http://www.colley.co.uk/garethjones/

Dinner Meeting

SPEAKER: Ginny MacDonald and Walter Prystajecky
TOPIC: The 2007 UCC International Observer Mission in Ukraine
DATE: Thursday October 25, 2007
PLACE: Danish Canadian Club
727 11th Avenue SW
Tivolli Room
TIME: 6:00 PM
6:45 PM
7:30 PM		 Cocktails
Dinner
Presentation
PRICE: $25
$30
$20		 Members
Non Members
Seniors (over 65) and Students

Casino Fundraiser

The UCPBA of Calgary raise funds by occassionally providing volunteers to work casinos. The gaming proceeds earned enable us to provide student scholarships, to help finance the operation of many of our community organizations, and to fund community projects.

If you would like to volunteer to work one of the day (11:15 am - 7 pm) or evening (6:15 pm - 2 am) shifts during this two day event, please email info@ucpbacalgary.ca

DATE: Thursday October 18, 2007
Friday October 19, 2007
PLACE: Elbow River Casino
17th Avenue and Macleod Trail South
TIME: 11:15 AM
6:15 PM 		Day Shift
Evening Shift

Election in Ukraine

September 30, 2007

UCPBA Calgary members will be in Ukraine serving on the UCC International Observer Mission