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Many thousands of Ukrainians and supporters of Ukraine and members of the general public gathered at Tumbalong Park Darling Harbour to celebrate UkiFest – Ukrainian Festival Sydney, and what a day and night it was!<\/p>\n
The biggest and best UkiFest ever, UkiFest 2026 had:<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udc9b 6 food stalls selling the most delicious Ukrainian food
\n\ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udc9b 19 market stalls offering a variety of goods and services
\n\ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udc9b A fully stocked bar selling Ukrainian style ale and Ukrainian horilka
\n\ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udc9b Over 50 entertaining performances, including performers from Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, as well as performances from Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia
\n\ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udc9b The amazing Kalush Orchestra!
\n\ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udc9b An incredible atmosphere of pride in Ukraine and Ukrainian culture<\/p>\n
What an incredible performance from our stallholders and performers!<\/p>\n
UkiFest 2026 was opened by the President of UCNSW Andrew Mencinsky and the Chair of the AFUO Kateryna Argyrou. They were joined by Bishop Mykola Cardinal Bychok, Ukrainian Ambassador to Australia His Excellency Vasyl Myroshnychenko, Federal Senator for NSW Deborah O\u2019Neill and NSW Minister David Harris, Ms Lynda Voltz MP, Councillor Lyndon Gannon, consular officials from ten countries and leaders of other ethnic communities.<\/p>\n
We\u2019d like to thank Multicultural NSW for their support; as well as the support of our Platinum Sponsors Ukrainian Youth Association (CYM) Sydney and Plast NSW; our Gold Sponsors Dooleys, McCarroll\u2019s Automotive Group and Multicultural NSW; our Silver Sponsors Ukrainian Association Cabramatta \u2013 Fairfield,, Karpaty Foundation, Matific and our Bronze sponsors Ukrainian Women’s Association Australia and the Ukrainian Studies Foundation in Australia (USFA).<\/p>\n
UkiFest 2026 couldn\u2019t have happened without an incredible organising committee. The UCNSW would like to acknowledge the outstanding achievements of the UkiFest organising committee, guided by the artistic vision of Festival Director Justin Senko and the Creative Committee. The amount of work that involves organising such an event cannot be overstated, and Justin and the committee deserve our thanks and praise. Well done to the Organising Committee of:<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udd39 Justin Senko (Festival Director)
\n\ud83d\udd39 Andrew Mencinsky
\n\ud83d\udd39 Markian Stefanychyn
\n\ud83d\udd39 Olexa Matiouk
\n\ud83d\udd39 Anastasiia Marchyshak
\n\ud83d\udd39 Olya Olkhovyk
\n\ud83d\udd39 Natalka Oleksyn
\n\ud83d\udd39 Nathan Mychno
\n\ud83d\udd39 Andrei Matiouk
\n\ud83d\udd39 Solomia Matiouk
\n\ud83d\udd39 Oleg Sapishchuk
\n\ud83d\udd39 Anton Vitaliy
\n\ud83d\udd39 Nika Kovalenko
\n\ud83d\udd39 Dan Wolody<\/p>\n
Thank you also to the following people who assisted in the delivery of UkiFest 2026:<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udd39Our Masters of Ceremony Leshia Bubniuk and Serhii Pohrebniak
\n\ud83d\udd39Backstage crew of Robert Hardy, Markian Stefanychyn
\n\ud83d\udd39Camera crew of Roman, Andrei Fedorov
\n\ud83d\udd39Weronika, Jane, Jessica and all at PM NSW and the Procrew at ICC
\n\ud83d\udd39 All our volunteers (Kat Tsysarenko, Tetiana Andriiets, Vladimir, Maryna Kramarenko, Mariia Pundyk, Taras Telnykh, Yuryj Kostirko, Jury Wowk, Anthony Burmey, Anastasiia Zakharieva, Prue Mahon, Anna Kolieda, Kseniia Rubis, Daniel Bilanovsky)<\/p>\n
We’d like to acknowledge the beautiful pysanky created by our talented local artists. This was curated\/coordinated by Natalka Oleksyn with the assistance of Linda Melnychuk Gough.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udd39Nataliia Hudenko
\n\ud83d\udd39Natalie Fallon-Zelynski
\n\ud83d\udd39Natalya Kravchenko
\n\ud83d\udd39Alena Vigovska
\n\ud83d\udd39Tetiana Koldunenko<\/p>\n
Finally, thank you to our volunteer photographers for their amazing photos:<\/p>\n
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