The powerful music and human rights project Daughters of Donbas – Songs of Stolen Children is set to tour Scotland this month. Highlights include performances at Celtic Connections on 28 January and St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Edinburgh on 29 January.
The project is led by Ukrainian singer Marichka, winner of the Amnesty International Prize. She has been traveling back and forth between Canada and Ukraine, working on this music project that deals with the ~20,000 Ukrainian children that have been abducted from occupied regions in Eastern Ukraine and taken to Russia – and one of the few stolen Ukrainian children who managed to escape from Russia, a 19 year old named Liza will be part of the tour (she sings too).
Daughters of Donbas Scarboroug Folk Fest
Jan 28 Glasgow Celtic Connections Jan 29 Edinburgh St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral Jan 30 St Andrews University
and they’ll also be at WOMADelaide in Australia in March (Peter Gabriel’s famous music festival) and Jan 27 in London Theatreship
Lisa, who sings and plays flute, is now 19 (and was 16 when she was taken from Mariupol). She kept a diary of her time in Russian camps.
<img src="https://www.mtlblog.com/media-library/a-large-billboard-in-the-shape-of-a-man-holding-up-a-hand-as-though-to-eat-a-hot-dog-from-it-but-the-hot-dog-is-missing.jpg?id=59883463&width=1200&height=800&coordinates=132%2C0%2C132%2C0"/><br/><br/><p>Whether it's Chez Ben's neon hotdog in Granby, the Big Bagel proudly hanging outside Saint-Simon Bagel, or the giant Guaranteed Pure Milk bottle overlooking Montreal's rue Lucien L'Allier, Quebec has some genuinely iconic food landmarks. </p><p>But when you take away the food, it's just not the same. The dangling chains of the vanished Saint-Simon Bagel and the empty base for the milk bottle show just how strange it is to see these provincial hallmarks missing their culinary elements.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
<img alt="A rural street with green grass and a blue sky with a sign for Saint-Simon Bagel missing its iconic large bagel. Right: A platform on a rooftop surrounded by skyscrapers is missing its iconic water tower in the shape of a milk bottle. " class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="cb18f0a6aafa39afadd82894acb86eb9" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" id="00d8f" loading="lazy" src="https://www.mtlblog.com/media-library/a-rural-street-with-green-grass-and-a-blue-sky-with-a-sign-for-saint-simon-bagel-missing-its-iconic-large-bagel-right-a-platfo.jpg?id=59883464&width=980"/>
<small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">Saint-Simon Bagel and Montreal's downtown would be very different without the food. </small><small class="image-media media-photo-credit" placeholder="Add Photo Credit..."><a href="https://www.saq.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Courtesy of SAQ</a></small></p><p>Rest assured, these icons haven’t been removed. But, imagining Quebec without them raises an important point about food insecurity in the province, especially as more Quebecers turn to food assistance each year.</p><p>From 2022 to 2024, the number of requests for food assistance fulfilled each month increased by 14%, reaching 2.6 million. Over four years, the number of food baskets distributed doubled, reaching 682,000. </p><p>To help, SAQ is again supporting Food Banks of Quebec (FBQ) with its annual spring campaign — back for its 17th year of getting behind the services that help Quebecers feed their families when times are tough.</p><p>For every <a href="https://sr.studiostack.com/c/link?l=1968268&s=1968260" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Origine Québec product</a> purchased between April 10 and 20, 2025, SAQ will donate two meals to FBQ. If you're inspired to contribute more, you can make a donation of your own when you check out.<br/></p>
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