Thursday, April 13, 2023
VOLUME 5 I ISSUE 42
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Easter Pysanky explores traditions
Taylor Weaver Meridian Source
Leya and her older sister, Shay, had a blast decorating Easter eggs at the Lloydminster Museum and Archives on Sunday afternoon as part of Easter Pysanky festivities. TAYLOR WEAVER EDITOR
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Taylor Weaver Meridian Source
Randy X Bailer and the boys from Punch Drunk Cabaret blew the roof off the Vic Juba Community Theatre last Thursday night to a room of enthusiastic rock fans. The band first played in the Border City at The Root in 2017 and still has fond memories of playing there.
It was a sea of colour at the Lloydminster Museum and Archives as Border City residents of all ages got in the Easter spirit with dipdyed and traditional Pysanky eggs. Kids ages three to eight had the opportunity to dip-dye and decorate hard-boiled eggs, and anyone over the age of nine was able to use the traditional kistka tool and create unique Pysanka. “Pysanky is the traditional Ukrainian Easter egg,” said Beth Bernard, events planner at the
Lloydminster Museum and Archives. “It’s an art form that’s been around for something like 1,500 years; they’ve been doing it for a very, very long time. “With Pysanky, it’s basically a wax-resist technique,” she added. “You use a special tool called a kistka and you layer beeswax over the dye, so it’s a beeswax layer, then a dye layer, a beeswax layer, a dye layer. “At the end, you take all of that wax off of your egg and all of the different colours underneath are revealed.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 2