My "Auspicious" Beginnings as an Artist

My cousin is visiting from Israel.  We are getting together for lunch at my mother's house.

We have been talking about what's happening in Ukraine and although our family, both on my mother's side and my father's side, come from shtetls there, they didn't leave Ukraine to find a better life in Canada.  They left Ukraine to stay alive.  My great grandfather on my father's side was murdered in a pogrom.   Although on my mother's (and my cousin's) side no one we know about was murdered in the pogroms, their flight from Ukraine was a question of survival.

In anticipation of our lunch meeting today, I was looking for this:

This is an interview with Rachel Bardenstein, came to Canada before my mother's family.  The interview was conducted by Rotem circa 1994.

So now I come to the "artistic" part.  While digging through old paperwork, I came across my Grade Three - Four report card.  Note the marks for Arts and Crafts.

  

Enough said...