More About Joan Brander
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Goals
- to create greater public awareness of the fascinating art of decorated eggs known as "pysanky" in Ukrainian folk-art
- to write books of interest to teachers, community leaders, and anyone interested in pysanky
Accomplishments
Author
- Select this link to see her books, eBooks, teaching aids, newsletters and video clips
Artist
- Presenter, 2008 Pysanka Symposium, Washington, DC 2008
- Visual Artist, Art Starts in Schools, Vancouver
- Hidden Passions - British Columbia Institute of Technology (2013, 2018)
- Richmond Museum
- Moncton Museum - Eggfest '97 (July 28 to August 10, 1997)
- Richmond Art Centre 2013
- Richmond Art Gallery 1980
- Richmond Art Gallery/Richmond School Board "Arts for Life" 2001
- Shadbolt Centre Seasonal Celebration 2010
- Surrey Museum "Ukrainian Spirit" 2013
- Surrey Musuem "Making a New Home: 125 Years of Ukrainians in Canada" 2016
Editor
- EGGS-aminer, a newsletter dedicated to the art of Pysanky
Awards and Mark of Distinction
- Arts Education Award, Richmond Finalist 2014
- First of-a-kind place in Library of Congress headings in bibliography classification for About the PysankaIt Is Written!
Committees
- British Columbia Ukrainian Arts Council, Vancouver
- British Columbia Ukrainian Cultural Festival, Langley
- Ukrainian Centennial Days, Plaza of Nations, Vancouver 1991 and 2000
- Canada Day at Canada Place, Vancouver 1992
- Ukrainian Showcase, Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver 1992
- Ukrainian Canadian Congress, BC Branch 2011
- 120th Anniversary of Ukrainian Settlement in Canada Celebration 2011
Director
- Ukrainian Community Society of Ivan Franko, Richmond
Charities
Media Attention
- Digital Media
Television
- CBC The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn April 18, 2019
- CBC Vancouver: our Vancouver, Easter eggs, the eastern European way, March 27, 2016
- Shaw TV Vancouver: go! March 23, 2016
- Delta Cable Communications: "Plugged IN! Pysanka with Joan Brander", Delta 2008
- Voice of America, March 19, 2008
- CityTV, Breakfast TV, Vancouver, March 22, 2005
- CTV, Vancouver, March 26, 2005
- Vancouver Cable 10 Echoes of Ukraine Easter Program: "Pysanka Workshop", Produced by Julia Stashuk, Vancouver, 1999
- BCTV, Vancouver, April 4, 1998
- Vancouver Cable 10 Echoes of Ukraine Easter Program: "Pysanka Workshop", Produced by Julia Stashuk, Vancouver, 1997
- Vancouver Cable 10 Echoes of Ukraine Easter Program: "Pysanka Workshop", Produced by Julia Stashuk, Vancouver, 1994
- Delta Cable 10 Community Events Program: "Bubblebash", Delta 1993
Radio
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- CBC The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn April 18, 2019
- CBC BC Today with Michelle Eliot April 18, 2019
- Nash Holos Interview, August 26, 2018
- Nash Holos Interview, Vancouver, April 27, 2008
- CBC, North by Northwest, Vancouver, March 19, 2004
- See also Pysanka Power Podcast below which debuted on Nash Holos Radio
- Newspapers
- The Globe and Mail : "Fire and Colour" April 11, 2020
- Richmond Review July 2, 2014
- Richmond Review August 21, 2013 [link to The Richmond Review website and
advance to page 6, or .pdf version]
- The Richmond News - March 14, 2012 [link to The Richmond News website and advance
to page A17, or .pdf version]
- Diverse, Canadian Multicultural Awareness Magazine focusing on Art + Culture + Heritage, Volume 3, Issue 1
- The Ukrainian Weekly, April 27, 2008
- Burnaby New Westminster NewsLeader, March 20, 2008
- Burnaby New Westminster NewsLeader, April 7, 2007
- Vancouver Shinpo, March 29, 2007
- Vancouver Sun, March, 5, 2007
- Burnaby New Westminster NewsLeader, April 15, 2006
- Peninsula Lifestyles, April 8, 2004
- Richmond Review, April 8, 2004
- Delta Optimist, March 27, 2004
- Richmond News, April 12, 2003
- Florida Today, April 4, 2003
- Richmond News, April 15, 2001
- Delta Optimist, March 20, 1999
- Richmond News, March 16, 1997
- Richmond Review, April 3, 1996
- Ming Pao, March 16, 1996
- Richmond News, April 19, 1995
- Richmond Review, April 19, 1995
- Vancouver Sun, April 2, 1994
- Richmond News, March 30, 1994
- Newsletters and Magazines
- Nasha Doroha, Spring 2014
- Diverse, Canadian Multicultural Awareness Magazine focusing on Art + Culture + Heritage, Volume 3, Issue 1, Summer 2011
- Ukrainian Community Society of Ivan Franko, Richmond, Volume 20, Number 3, Spring 2009
- Solovei, Volume 4, Number 2, Spring 2008
- Ukrainian Community Society of Ivan Franko, Richmond, Volume 10, Number 10, Spring 2008
- Solovei, Volume 1, Number 2, Spring 2005
- EGGS-aminer, published by Bluenose Press, Richmond, Volume 7, No. 2, July 2001
- International Egg Art Guild, No. 78, April 1998
- Ukrainian Community Society of Ivan Franko, Richmond, Spring 1994
- Contact, published by Ukrainian Canadian Congress, British Columbia Provincial Council, Vancouver
- Pysanka Power Video Clips on YouTube
- Pysanka Power Podcast
- Select this link for our links to listen to her Pysanka Power Podcast or use your favourite app
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Promoting Pysanky
- 2008 Pysanka Symposium (Washington, DC) March 8, 2008
- Malls
- Teachers, Schools, Artist in Residence
- B.C. Art Teachers' Association (1996 to 2004)
- School Districts of British Columbia
- Festivals, Multi-Cultural, and Community Events
- Arts Alive, Langley 2011
- BC Ukrainian Cultural Festival 1998 to 2004
- Chateau Whistler Resort 2014 to 2018
- Culture Days 2014, 2015
- Dragon Boat Festival, Vancouver 1996
- Eurofest, Swangard Stadium, Vancouver
- Fusion Festival, Surrey 2011 to 2012
- International Tall Ships Festival, Richmond (Steveston) 2002
- Kaleidoscope: A World in Our City, Richmond 2004
- London Farm, Steveston - 1992, 1996, 1997 (Family Farm Fair) and 2011
- Mountain Secondary School, Langley 1997 (Multicultural Night)
- Multicultural Celebration '98, Richmond - 1998
- Multifest, Richmond - 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997
- Palmer School (Community Interaction Days), Richmond 1996
- Panorama Heights Elementary School, Coquitlam 1995
- Plaza of Nations (Ukrainian Days), Vancouver 1991
- Pysanka Festival, Vegreville, Alberta 1998, 1999, 2004
- Richmond Doors Open 2014
- Richmond Nature Park, Richmond 1991
- Richmond World Festival 2017, 2018
- Rotary Club, Vancouver 1993
- Steveston Landing, Steveston - 1994, 1995, 1996
- Steveston Salmon Festival on Canada Day - 2012 to 2016
- Svitanok Performing Arts Society of BC 2002
- Ukrainian Community Society, Richmond 1995 to 1999, 2004 to 2018
- Vancouver European Festival 2007 to 2015
- Vancouver Multicultural Society of BC, Cultureshare 1997
- Vancouver Museum, Vancouver 1994, 1998
- Vegreville Pysanka Festival, Vegreville 2004
- Writers' on the Street, Vancouver 1998
- Yevshan Spring Festival, Abbotsford 1998
- Pysanka Power Podcast
- Seniors
- Courtyard Gardens, Richmond - 2006, 2011
- Fraserview Manor, Richmond - 1994
- Icelandic Care Centre, Vancouver - 1998
- Inglewood Care Centre, West Vancouver - 2000
- Kinsmen Senior Recreation Centre, Tsawwassen - 1997
- Laurel Place, Surrey - 2009
- Lions Manor, Richmond - 1996 to 2014
- Pacifica Resort, Surrey - 2009
- St. Michael's Senior Centre, Vancouver - 2000, 2001
- Corporate Events
- Churches
- Fraserview, Richmond
- Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Church, Toronto 2009
- M.O.P.S., Richmond 1995
- Reah Fellowship, South Langley MB Church, Langley 1994
- St. Joseph the Worker Church, Richmond 1995
Educational Background
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- Foam Lake Composite High School, Saskatchewan
- Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology, Toronto
- Kwantlen College, Richmond Part Time Studies
- Vancouver Community College Part-Times Studies
- University of British Columbia Real Estate Pre-Licensing Course
- H&R Block Canada, Inc.
- British Columbia Institute of Technology
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