On Wednesday, 8 April 2026, I had the privilege of attending a Ukrainian Candle Easter Egg Painting Workshop at City University in Cyberjaya, Malaysia, as one of the Wikimedians representing Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia (WCUGM). It was hosted by the Embassy of Ukraine in Malaysia, supported by the EU Delegation in Malaysia. Pysanky as a tradition This workshop was an immersive introduction to pysanky , one of Ukraine’s oldest and most symbolically rich artistic traditions, and an occasion to consider the cultural resilience that sustains such practices across centuries of history. The word  (plural: pysanky) derives from the Ukrainian verb pysaty, meaning to write . Rather than being decorated in any casual or ornamental sense, pysanky are, in the truest meaning of the word, written upon. Each line and motif constitutes an element of a deliberate visual language whose origins lie in pre-Christian Ukrainian folk culture.…