Ukraine-Heritage, Spirit and Future

To mark its 20th Anniversary, and to help strengthen Ukraine’s cultural legacy, in 2022, the Foundation ran a program of awards designed to recognize and celebrate exceptional talent in performing artists 35 years and under, by offering ten awards of $10,000 each to young Canadian performing artists of Ukrainian heritage and ten awards of $10,000 each to young Ukrainian citizens who have been recently displaced.

Laureate Illia Bondarenko (Kyiv) plays Piece for Illia by Ryuichi Sakamoto in the rubble of a school destroyed by Russian missiles in Zhytomyr