{"id":129105,"date":"2022-11-29T18:14:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T23:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=129105"},"modified":"2022-11-29T18:14:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T23:14:27","slug":"in-ukraine-photography-exhibit-in-prince-rupert-shows-beauty-pre-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/in-ukraine-photography-exhibit-in-prince-rupert-shows-beauty-pre-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;In Ukraine&#8217; photography exhibit in Prince Rupert shows beauty pre-invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Opening this weekend, \u201cIn Ukraine\u201d is a Prince Rupert Ukrainian Society photography exhibit that shows the beauty of pre-invasion Ukraine.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Originally started as a Ukrainian Club in the 1990s, the society was officially established as a non-profit following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOne of my cousins had connected with me and asked me what would it entail for one of their children to come to Canada,\u201d Kate Mierau-Beer, president of the society, said on the inspiration to establish the society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mierau-Beer said that they then started a process that lasted from March to July to bring her family to Prince Rupert. Which they have since done for several other families.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, the society works to provide a space for both Ukrainian Nationals and Canadians of Ukrainian descent to practice their traditions and keep their culture alive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mireau-Beer explained that \u201cIn Ukraine\u201d is meant to showcase the natural and cultural beauty of Ukraine prior to the invasion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SERHII<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the photographer, is currently living in western Ukraine and has provided 13 photographs for the exhibit, which will be on sale throughout the month of December at the Ice House Gallery.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Along with the photographs, there will be calendars and<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">pysanky eggs, traditional Ukrainian easter eggs, available for purchase.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The opening of the exhibit will run from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. on Dec. 3, though the exhibit will run for the entire month at the gallery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CFNR story with Kate Mierau-Beer below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening this weekend, \u201cIn Ukraine\u201d is a Prince Rupert Ukrainian Society photography exhibit that shows the beauty of pre-invasion Ukraine.\u00a0\u00a0 Originally started as a Ukrainian Club in the 1990s, the society was officially established as a non-profit following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February.\u00a0 \u201cOne of my cousins had connected with me and asked&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":129160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[21197,6225,3456,20291,21196,12763,12765],"radio":[13054],"origine":[280,13049,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129105"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129365,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129105\/revisions\/129365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129105"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=129105"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=129105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}