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НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ • Червень-Липень 2026 29 Branch 56 Undertakes Annual Library Project ДІЯЛЬНІСТЬ ВІДДІЛІВ І ЧЛЕНКИНЬ • BRANCH & MEMBER NEWS Every year, the members of Branch 56 in North Port are enlist - ed by Library Exhibits Committee chairperson Slava Stefanyshyn to educate the southwest Florida community about Ukrainian Easter traditions, art forms, and crafts. She recruits multiple li - braries in Sarasota and Charlotte Counties to allow her mem - bers to embark on this task. Branch 56 president Bohdana Puzyk assists the committee by conducting pysanka workshops. This year, the library display cases were decorated in March and April. Art, crafts, embroidery, and literature from our members’ private collections were used to create the dis - plays. Informative cards were included to educate the public and also subtly advocate for modern-day Ukraine. Bohdana Puzyk’s numerous pysanka demonstrations in area libraries support that mission. Ukrainian Easter eggs, or pysanky, are decorated by applying melted beeswax with a stylus, known as a kistka, that is tradi - tionally heated over a candle. The wax is applied to the eggs as they are dipped in a series of increasingly darker dyes. Because the burning of candles and open flames are pro - hibited in public buildings in Florida, Bohdana conducts her demonstrations by presenting pysanky in progressive stages of their completion. She explains each phase of the wax-re - sist process to attendees, answering questions about this an - cient Ukrainian art form, which is believed by archeologists and historians to date back thousands of years to Ukrainians’ ancestors, the Trypillians. With the expansion of the Byzan - tine empire and the introduction of Christianity in Ukraine in 988 AD, the previously pagan tradition of creating pysanky acquired Christian symbolism, which was used to teach our ancestors about that faith. Patricia Zalisko , Press Secretary, Branch 56, North Port, FL Photo: Diane Mitrano, Adult Services Librarian, Jacaranda Library Branch 56 president Bohdana Puzyk giving a pysanka demonstration at the Jacaranda Library in Venice, FL. Photo: Roxolana Saciuk One of the Branch 56 spring library displays at the North Port Library.
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