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Summertime Dreams, a lullaby for the war-torn children of the world, is an international collaboration directed by Shumka’s Gordon Gordey, choreographed by Viktor Lytvynov of the National Children’s Theatre of Kyiv, and sung by Junetta Jamerson of the Black Pioneer Heritage Singers with Winnipeg’s Alexis Kochan. This moving piece is danced by the Shumka Dancers to a sound score of traditional lullabies, Gershwin’s Summertime, and actual battlefield engagement soundscape provided by Edmonton Garrison soldiers.

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New Works Fund

This fund was established on the occasion of Shumka’s 50th anniversary - with seed contributions from Sid and Nellie Braaksma, Barbara C. Poole through the Edmonton Community Foundation, and two anonymous-donor families - to support the creation of new dance works by the Ukrainian Shumka Dancers.

Your donation to Shumka’s New Works Development Fund will be used to:

  • Research and develop artistic and cultural content for Shumka’s new works;
  • Develop the talents of dancers who will perform the new works;
  • Provide specialized training opportunities for dancers who aspire to perform with Shumka;
  • Provide employment opportunities for artists who create and stage the work that Shumka performs (musicians, costume and set designers, stage technicians and others);
  • Create and produce original music for Shumka’s new works; and,
  • Design and produce costumes for Shumka’s new works.