Easter breads, eggs, and installations

A fair-township will emerge on Kyiv’s Cathedral Square. From April 21 to May 2, the National Kyivan Cave Historical-Cultural Preserve will host a charitable Eastertide fair called Easter Day Basket. The festivities are being organized by the preserve and the Synodal Information and Education Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The event is chiefly aimed at popularizing the traditions of Christ’s Resurrection celebration and making a nationwide fund-raising effort to save the children in bad need of expensive surgery. The fair will be set up on Cathedral Square in front of the Assumption Cathedral. It will be composed of little wooden houses in which one will be able to buy Easter-related items. However, according to the organizers of this, second in number, charitable fair, Easter Day Basket is supposed, first of all, to inform all those who will be visiting the Lavra about the importance of Easter and to conduct educational work among both believers and non-believers. The star attraction of the Easter Day Basket fair will be baking a huge, almost 2 meters high, paska (Easter bread) weighing about 500 kilograms. The paska will be made by the best bakers of the private company Live Bread Bakery. When the Easter bread is ready, it will be blessed by His Beatitude Volodymyr, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine. The fair’s program will also include master classes in Easter egg dyeing and planting the Easter Day Tree. All those who wish to do so will be able to feast their eyes on an inimitable Easter egg installation displayed by the Kyiv-based Tetiana Myronova Gallery.