Art & Spirituality Workshop: Ukrainian Easter Eggs (Pysanky)
Sun, Mar 13
|UUCGL (lower level)
New Art & Spirituality Workshop series begins! We’d like to begin by creating pysanky together. A pysanka (Ukrainian: писанка, plural: pysanky) is a Ukrainian Easter egg, decorated with traditional Ukrainian folk designs using a wax-resist method.
Time & Location
Mar 13, 2022, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
UUCGL (lower level), 101 Forest Ave, Swampscott, MA 01907, USA
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New Art & Spirituality Workshop series begins!
Ukrainian Easter Eggs (Pysanky)
We are excited to announce a new Art & Spirituality Workshop series for adults beginning roughly once a month on Sundays after church, as a way to share art-based spiritual practices with each other and with the greater community.
We’d like to begin with a pysanky program on March 13th at 1:30pm. We will meet downstairs in the lower-level, large middle classroom, to create pysanky together. A pysanka (Ukrainian: писанка, plural: pysanky) is a Ukrainian Easter egg, decorated with traditional Ukrainian folk designs using a wax-resist method. It is a wonderful spiritual practice and a small way to honor the Ukrainian people now. The practice of decorating eggs with nature symbols predated Christianity as a spring ritual, and then later became an Easter practice through a process of religious syncretism. The dye we will use can stain clothes,…