Ukrainian Folk Dance Party with The Kubasonics
Date: Jun 4
2:00 pm
- 3:30 pm
Where: Level 3 Atrium
Put on your dancing shoes and join Kubasonics for a Ukrainian folk dance party! Participants will learn traditional social dances at this live music fun family-friendly event.
No dance experience needed!
Cost: $12 per person, 10% discount for Rooms Members.
About the Performers:
Kubasonics are arguably Newfoundland and Labrador's finest Ukrainian band. This award winning group combines top-flight musicianship spiced with quirky humour, a dizzying array of exotic traditional instruments, and an eclectic high-energy stage show. They have also delighted audiences with their folk dance and musical instruments workshops at festivals across Canada. Their entertaining mix of traditional Eastern European dance grooves and unexpected splashes of hybrid musicality is an experience not soon to be forgotten.
Events & Programs
Join us each day for an interpretive guided tour in one of our galleries. From the story of the Cod fishery to visiting a current art exhibition to a Family Rainbow tour, there is something for everyone.
Each tour is approximately 30 – 40 minutes and is included in the cost of admission. Free for Rooms members.
Fishing for Cod
For centuries, fishing for cod has played a vital role in the lives of the peoples of Newfoundland and Labrador. Generations of fishing men, women and children made use of the land and sea to sustain them and spent their lives “making fish”.
Please join us for a conversation with Sophie Angnatok, an Inuk throat singer and drum dancer from Nain, Nunatsiavut.
Sophie has been practicing the art of throat-singing and traditional Inuit drumming for 20 years and plays an active role within her local urban Inuit community.
Learn about her love of Inuit culture, the knowledge she shares in the community, her relationship with The Rooms, and her experiences in the Inuit drum dance group, Kilautiup Songuninga (Strength of the Drum).
Sophie performed for the Canadian Prime Minister during the Truth and Reconciliation apology for Labradorimut, the Governor General of Canada, and the Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador. In 2024, she was the inaugural recipient of the Chris Brookes Memorial Award for “artists effecting positive change in the world”.
This is a free event but a ticket is required. Please reserve your free ticket online or by calling (709)757-8090.