Creativity with Veselovski family!

Igor and Olena’s family lives in a small village in Lviv region together with 4 children and a grandson Elijah. Despite their small income (Father works at a culture club in their village and Mother get pension), Igor and Olena made much effort to develop their children’s musical and creative potential and to support cultural development of the local community.

Mother Olena makes herself miniature national cloths for dolls. Father Igor is playing music, besides likes repairing TV-sets and bicycles. Son Pavlo (22 years) studies at the faculty of Philosophy, writes texts for songs, plays the acoustic and electric guitar. Petro (14 years) plays the synthesizer, enjoys breeding poultry. Katia (13 years) paints, does bead embroidery as well as ordinary one, sews fabric toys, plays the sopilka and models plasticine miniatures. The girl wants to study art and decour. Liuba (12 years) enjoys handcraft, baking and singing and is interested in medicine.

Living in a small village and limited financial resources do not allow the family to do more for the local community. Though, they would love to develop its creative potential and to popularize family values on a bigger level. Veselovski are unique! We want that more people find out about their creativity, and Igor and Olena want to share their talents, knowledge and values with other people in order to cultivate their love for art and cultural heritage. Therefore, we came up with a complex and interesting project and we need your support to make it happen.

Aim of the project “Creativity with Veselovs’ki” – to support development of Veselovski family’s talents  and to promote creative, cultural and spiritual growth among vulnerable youth through the story and example of one family.

What this project is about?

Stage 1 – concert and workshop by Veselovski for 20 teenagers from crisis families, parents, volunteers and other invited guests:

• All members of the Veselovski family will perform with instrumental and vocal compositions in front of invited guests ( each family member can plat a musical instrument: synthesizer, bass and solo guitar, sopilka, clarinet, accordion, drums. Some of them write song texts & music themselves).
• Mother Olena will be holding a workshop on traditional ragdolls for teenage girls from crisis families, will share her knowledge on Ukrainian traditions and culture.
• Daughter Katia will be painting a picture on canvas and she can be joined by other teens who can paint well.

State 2 – Exhibition of Veselovski’s art

The First Lviv Multimedia Library and then a Christian café in Lviv will host the exhibition of national cloths minituares made by Olena and also five pictures pained by Katia. Veselovski family won our hearts and we really want that they continue to create and inspire others.

At dobro.ua we raise funds for the purchase of materials for painting and making dolls, for transport and rent.

Support our project and we promise that there will be much fun with the Veselovski!