{"id":372,"date":"2014-08-18T07:51:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T07:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/?p=372"},"modified":"2014-08-22T00:38:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T00:38:54","slug":"anniversary-ukrainian-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary of Ukrainian Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;381&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; border_color=&#8221;grey&#8221; img_link_large=&#8221;yes&#8221; img_link_target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]Deakin Edge at Federation Square in Melbourne was brought to life with splashes of wondrous colour, lively music and harmonious voices. Ukrainian dance and song was the feature of the performance program on Sunday, 17th August 2014 to celebrate the <a href=\"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/23rd-anniversary-of-ukrainian-independence-day-celebrations\/\">23rd year of Ukrainian Independence<\/a> and honour the 200th Anniversary since the birth of Taras Shevchenko, a highly regarded Ukrainian poet and artist.<\/p>\n<p>Verchovyna were very proud to perform at this special occasion in front of a packed gallery which included the Hon. Matthew Guy MLC \u2013 Minister for Planning and for Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship, the Hon. Nicholas Kotsiras \u2013 former Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship, Telmo Languiller MP \u2013 Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition and Multicultural Affairs, and Stefan Romaniw OAM \u2013 Chairman of the Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Glory to Ukraine and to its beautiful culture![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;]<div class=\"gap\" style=\"line-height: 35px; height: 35px;\"><\/div>[vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;384&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; border_color=&#8221;grey&#8221; img_link_large=&#8221;yes&#8221; img_link_target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;382&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; border_color=&#8221;grey&#8221; img_link_large=&#8221;yes&#8221; img_link_target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;373&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; border_color=&#8221;grey&#8221; img_link_large=&#8221;yes&#8221; img_link_target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deakin Edge at Federation Square in Melbourne was brought to life with splashes of wondrous colour, lively music and harmonious voices as we celebrated the 23rd year of Ukrainian Independence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-3","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verchovyna.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}