Fifty years of All of Baba’s Children: A Symposium

Saturday, July 11, 2026
8:00am to 5:00pm

Allard Hall

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Published in 1977 and never out of print, All of Baba’s Children by Myrna Kostash is a landmark work of Canadian nonfiction. Launched during Canada’s embrace of multiculturalism, it gave voice to the Ukrainian Canadian experience on the Prairies and established Kostash as one of the country’s most original narrative voices.

Fifty years later, the Faculty of Fine Arts and Communications and the Ukrainian Resource and Development Centre at MacEwan University invite you to a symposium celebrating Myrna Kostash and the enduring impact of her work. Together, we will reflect on how All of Baba’s Children continues to resonate - exploring heritage, identity, public memory, reconciliation, and ties with 21st-century Ukraine.

In 2024 Kostash's twelfth book, Ghosts in a Photograph that chronicled her family history in Ukraine and Canada was awarded the Shevchenko Foundation's Kobzar Literary Award.

Allard Hall

11104 104 Avenue NW
Edmonton, AB, T5K 1M9