The first Ukrainian Arts and Culture Celebration featured traditional Ukrainian dancing, music and art at the Ukrainian Cultural Centre, April 15. The Society is hosting a similar fundraising event titled the Sunflowers for Ukraine Concert on Oct. 15, 2023. (Hollie Ferguson/News Staff)

The concert’s star guest is Ukrainian soprano Nataliia Temnyk, who joined the faculty of the Victoria Conservatory of Music in the fall of 2023. She will present the works of the 19th-century Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko, and Natalka’s song from the opera Natalka-Poltavka.