About us
Yuri Bilinsky
Yuri Bilinsky is the founder of Save Your Granny’s Language and Culture, a Ukraine-based project dedicated to preserving the richness of regional Ukrainian dialects and oral traditions – heritage endangered by generational rupture, rural depopulation, and, more recently, war-related displacement. Supported by Ukrainian Canadian charities, the project provides stipends to Ukrainian youth for producing videos that replicate dialects and folklore in their full original detail, including pronunciation, vocabulary and stylistic features no longer widely transmitted within families or local communities. Through this work, Bilinsky aims to return disappearing dialects and folk traditions to active use among younger generations of Ukrainians. He is also the Managing Editor of New Pathway – Ukrainian News, a Ukrainian newspaper based in Toronto, Ontario.
Yuri Bilinsky
Yuri Bilinsky is the founder of Save Your Granny’s Language and Culture, a Ukraine-based project dedicated to preserving the richness of regional Ukrainian dialects and oral traditions – heritage endangered by generational rupture, rural depopulation, and, more recently, war-related displacement. Supported by Ukrainian Canadian charities, the project provides stipends to Ukrainian youth for producing videos that replicate dialects and folklore in their full original detail, including pronunciation, vocabulary and stylistic features no longer widely transmitted within families or local communities. Through this work, Bilinsky aims to return disappearing dialects and folk traditions to active use among younger generations of Ukrainians. He is also the Managing Editor of New Pathway – Ukrainian News, a Ukrainian newspaper based in Toronto, Ontario.
Ruslana Lotsman
Dr. Ruslana Lotsman is a renowned Ukrainian folklorist, ethnomusicologist, educator, singer, and Merited Artist of Ukraine. She is the founder and artistic director of the Centre of Ukrainian Song “Folk Philharmonic” in Kyiv and has dedicated her career to preserving, teaching, and promoting authentic Ukrainian folk singing traditions. As project manager of Save Your Granny’s Language and Culture, she leads the program’s work in Ukraine, coordinates regional mentors and youth participants, and helps develop the project’s methodology for transmitting dialects and folklore to younger generations.
Ruslana Lotsman
Dr. Ruslana Lotsman is a renowned Ukrainian folklorist, ethnomusicologist, educator, singer, and Merited Artist of Ukraine. She is the founder and artistic director of the Centre of Ukrainian Song “Folk Philharmonic” in Kyiv and has dedicated her career to preserving, teaching, and promoting authentic Ukrainian folk singing traditions. As project manager of Save Your Granny’s Language and Culture, she leads the program’s work in Ukraine, coordinates regional mentors and youth participants, and helps develop the project’s methodology for transmitting dialects and folklore to younger generations.