On May 24, we celebrate the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture, the day of commemoration of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Slavic educators who translated church books into Church Slavonic and created the Cyrillic alphabet for the Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian, Montenegrin languages and our Ukrainian language. We have used this alphabet for more than a thousand years, it is the motley of our cultural heritage, and our modern culture emerges from it.

This holiday symbolizes the civilizational triumph of Slavs, and their national identity, it unites society and joins each of us to cultural heritage. Literacy and culture are interrelated and inseparable concepts. They are an indicator of nationality, an important part of the identity of Ukrainians. Today, more than 250 million people in Eurasia use Cyrillic as their national alphabet.

The Department of Digital Art honored the memory of the founders of Slavic writing and literature with a master class on lettering. The associate professor of the Department, Inga Yermak, held a workshop and a mini-lecture on the peculiarities of techniques, writing styles, and materials used to create handwritten fonts, on the importance of not only language but also the preservation of the pearls of writing, concentrated in words and phrases that convey the indomitability of the soul of the Ukrainian nation, the strength of spirit, show our values, engraved in the words: Will, Struggle, Freedom, Love.

For the master classes, the students chose quotes from prominent Ukrainians and created lettering art.

06.06.2023