Pysanka: Easter Egg Charitable workshop

Name: Pysanka: Easter Egg Charitable workshop
Start: 2025-04-03T17:30:00-05:00
Location: 496 Olsen Blvd, College Station, TX 77845, United States

Schedule

Thu, 03 Apr, 2025 at 05:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

496 Olsen Blvd, College Station, TX 77845, United States | College Station, TX

For more than 10 years, an independent and sovereign nation, Ukraine, has been dealing with an invader. We hope to fight through art, educating the wider American public on Ukraine's vast and unique cultural heritage by honoring the tradition of writing Pysanky.
INTEREST FORM https://forms.gle/1CMu2DySh9SgLsgY9
cost: $25 adults, $15 students, children $10 (participating Family will get a discount)
All proceeds would benefit "United Hearts" ( https://ukrheart.org.ua/), a nonprofit in Ukraine with a wide variety of projects.
=== About Pysanka ===Pysanka is the name of an intricately decorated Ukrainian Easter egg created using a wax-resist technique, the earliest samples of which date back to the XI-XIII centuries. The word "Pysanka" is akin to the Ukrainian word "писати" (pronounced pih-s-a-t-ih) which means "to write" in Ukrainian.
The designs adorning the eggs are rich in symbolism, and therefore, the eggs are often "written" with messages of love, prosperity, peace, and hope.
Legend tells the story of a monster, the personification of evil, in the Carpathian mountains.
in that story, the more pysanky people make, the tighter the chains are wrapped around the monster, keeping it at bay so that it doesn’t destroy the world