2023
Gloria Bradley's garage sale brings in the first 2900 CAD — everything started there
Where it started
Gloria Bradley's garage sale brings in the first 2900 CAD — everything started there
UAFestUkrainian Festival of Lanark
A festival in Carleton Place and its whole digital contour: a trilingual site, a CRM, an archive, a platform for other towns
live · Invents, builds and keeps the entire digital side: site, CRM, mailings, archive, grants, press · since 2023
What it is
A Ukrainian festival in Carleton Place, Ontario. It started with a garage sale in the spring of 2023 — 2900 CAD collected, and that money grew into the first festival on 5 November 2023 in the town arena. A whole machine grew after it: uafest.ca in English, Ukrainian and French, a CRM holding participant applications, volunteers, mailings and finances, a four-year photo archive, and the multi-tenant UAFest.Network platform so another town can raise the same kind of festival.
How it went
05.11.2023
The first festival in the Carleton Place arena
19.08.2024
A legal entity appears — Ukrainian Community of Lanark County, an Ontario non-profit corporation (OCN 1000983432)
03.07.2025
UCLC registers for HST
13.09.2025
The 2025 festival and the first mobile guide on uafest.com — tabs with the programme, menus, map and sponsors
10.07.2026
The festival's shared archive — 2350 files, around 60 GB — moves to its own Google Drive, sorted by year
11.08.2026
The CRM goes live at uafest.ca/crm: applications, contacts, mailboxes, participants, letters
13.09.2026
The 2026 festival in Riverside Park, 12:00-18:00
17.09.2026
The 2023-2026 photo archive is catalogued: face recognition, series, a "Who is in the photo" screen in the CRM
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