ET CETERA
University Daily Kansan, April 4, 1985
Kate Wozniak/KANSAN
Michael Palij, former librarian for the Slavic department,
will be displaying his collection of Ukrainian eggs in the lobby.
of Watson Library for about two weeks. The delicate, ornate eggs symbolize new life and the arrival of spring.
Ukrainian eggs symbolize Easter
By BETH REITER Staff Reporter
According to folklore, decorated eggs can conquer the bring abundant crops and help raise high-quality maids.
Decorating eggs, a traditional Ukrainian folk art, greets Easter with symbols of health and prosperity.
Before the Christian era, the delicate, mosaiclike Ukrainian eggs symbolized new life and the beginning of spring, said Michael Palij), former librarian for the Slavic department.
Palii's collection of real and wooden Ukrainian eggs will be displayed in the lobby of Watson Library for about two weeks, he said. The collection also contains greeting cards, embroidery and vases.
"IT IS BEAUTIFUL and I thought it should be displayed," said PaliJ, a native of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. "There are students here from other places who may not have seen them. Now they have the opportunity to see how beautiful they are."
Paliij said he had been collecting eggs since the 1950s. His collection contains about 20 eggs, some of which were brought from Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Others were bought in Minneapolis, New York and the Kansas City area.
Most Ukranian eggs cost about $5.
However, the more elaborate, intricate eggs can be slightly more expensive.
New symbols of the resurrection and the hope for a better world were drawn on the eggs after the advent of Christianity. The
'It is beautiful and I thought it should be displayed.'
Michael Palij, former librarian for the Slavic department
eggs, called pysanky, also symbolize God's protection of people from fire and lightning. The word "pysanky" means to write.
OTHER SYMBOLS ARE wheat, which represents a bountiful harvest, and a cross, which represents the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus.
forests, deer or other mountain animals. Corn or wheat may have been drawn on the eggs made by those in the plains.
Ukranians pass along the egg decorating tradition from mother to daughter, Palij said. The patterns also are passed from generation to generation. Each generation works to perfect the beauty of the ancient art.
The patterns of the eggs differ from region to region, Palij said. In the Carpathian Mountain region, the pattern may contain
He said, "It is the custom in Ukraine during the Easter season to exchange or to present pysanky as a gift to friends and relatives."
UKRAINE BORDERS ROMANIA and the Black Sea in the southern part of Eastern Europe. Ukraine has a rich agricultural region much like Kansas, Palij said.
The eggs are decorated by writing the design directly onto the egg with a fine-point stylus dipped into wax. Another tool sometimes used is a kistka, which is a brass cone mounted on a stick.
The eggs are bathed in dyes, first in the lightest color used, such as yellow, and are given additional dye baths to create certain tints. Each tint is covered with wax, and the process of waxing and dyeing is repeated to make darker colors.
The eggs usually are not emptied because the contents eventually dry up, but sometimes they are emptied through pinholes.
Warming the egg to melt the wax and polishing the egg are the finishing touches. The egg also may be varnished for protection and shine.
Plays present a potpourri of ideas about human race
by JEANINE HOWE Staff Reporter
Psychologists and sociologists constantly strive to understand the human race. And through the dramatic medium, this year's "Pot-Pourri Productions" attempts to unravel some of the complexities that surround humans.
Violence and the disintegration of the family unit are just two of the issues addressed in "Pot-Pourri Productions," which features six plays.
KU students will direct and act in five of productions. The Thunderbird Theatre from Haskell Indian Junior College will present "Whispers from the Outside" April 14.
Student directors were responsible for selecting the plays, casting the shows, supervising the rehearsals and staging the productions.
ALL PRODUCTIONS WILL be at 8 p.m. in the Inge Theatre in Murphy Hall. Tickets for the individual productions are on sale at the Murphy Hall box office. Public tickets are $3 and tickets for KU students are $1.50 with a student ID. Tickets for senior citizens and other students are $2. All seating is general admission.
"Warrior on the Edge of Time" and "Dealing with Extra Time" will be presented Tuesday. Christy Taylor, a Manchester, England, graduate student who conceived the two dance dramas, will direct the performances.
TAYLOR SAID, "ALTHOUGH the people appear to look different on the surface — the tribes have different movements, lifestyles and cultures — down deep they are the same."
In "Warrior on the Edge of Time," 11 people will tell a story through body movement, music and a few words. Taylor said the story was about two conflicting Indian tribes, Etim, which means time, and Cepas, which means space.
The Etim tribe wears warm-colored costumes of reds and oranges, and the Cepas tribe wears cool-colored costumes of greens, blues and purples, she said. The Etim tribe dances are angular and jerky movements
and the Cepas dances use curvy and circular movements.
A warrior named Stimapea, an anagram for Estim and Cepas, shows the two tribes that their future can be bright because time and space work together, as the tribes should.
After the performance and an intermission, "Dealing with Extra Time" will be performed. Taylor said the dance number is a comedy in which the performers use different objects, such as a chair or a basketball, in their dances.
"EXTREMITIES" BY WILLIAM Mastrosimone will be performed Wednesday. Bill Trotter, St. Louis graduate student and director of "Extremities," said the play dealt with how a woman overcame an attempted rape.
"It its violent. There are some very graphic things in the show," Taylor said. "It deals with the rape issue and the savagery of human beings."
"The American Dream" by Edward Abee will be presented Thursday, Jeanne Klein, Livonia, Mich., graduate student and director of "The American Dream," said the play portrayed the disintegration of the American family through comedy and satire. The film will be produced because the family presented in the play was not the typical American family.
"THE FAMILY IS striving to get satisfaction for what they want or what is missing in their lives," Klein said. "They are responsible for the disintegration."
"Artickhe" by Joanna M. Glass, will be "performed Friday. Frank Mack, overland Park senior and director of the contem-
ford play and the play compared to artickhe."
"An artichoke is a very eccentric vegetable; it is not one of your essential foods. It takes forever to get to its heart." Mack said, "It helps people getting to people's heart."
"Entertaining Mr. Sloane" by Joe Orton will be performed Saturday, Oscar Quiros, Lawrence graduate student and director of "Entertaining Mr. Sloane," said the comedy showed people struggling to make something of their lives.
"It is about survival in our modern capitalistic society," he said.
Sunsplash tour comes April 21 to Hoch
Tickets on sale tomorrow for the Sunsplash U.S.A. concert April 21 at Hoch Auditorium.
The Sunsplash U.S.A. tour features four reggae artists or groups: Third World, Dennis Brown, Gregory Isaacs and Lloyd Manning. The concert comedian from Jamaica, also will perform.
Seats for the show, which begins at 7 p.m.
and should last about $3\frac{1}{2}$ hours, are $13.50
and $18.90.
Tickets are available at the SUA box office in the Kansas Union and at Omni Electronics. 541 Fireside Court, and through Dial-A-Tic, 816-756-7676.
KU students receive a $1 discount with student IDs when tickets are purchased at the SUA box office. One ID is needed for each discount ticket purchased, but the ID holder does not need to be present at the time of purchase.
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