PREVIEW OF EVENTS (01/31/93)

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Friday, February 5

COLUMBUS, Ohio: The Ukrainian Students Club at Ohio State University and the Ukrainian Cultural Association of Ohio are jointly sponsoring a performance of the musical ensemble Fata Morgana to be held on the university campus. The show is at 9-11:30 p. m. and will be at the Distillery, 1896 N. High St. For further information contact Katya, (614) 294-1978, or Bohdan, (614) 294-1737.

Saturday, February 6

YONKERS, N.Y.: The Organization for the Defense of Lemkivshchyna invites the public to a Valentine Dance, with music by Crystal, to be held at the SUMA center, 301 Palisade Ave., beginning at 9 p.m. Donation: $10; students, $7. Proceeds will go to the Ukrainian Relief Fund. For further information or tickets, contact Steve Howansky, (203) 762-5912, or George Kowalczyk, (914) 476-5549.
PARMA, Ohio: St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral is holding its annual "Poltavsky Vechir" in the church hall. Cocktails begin at 6 p.m. The dance begins promptly at 9:30 p.m. Entertainment during dinner and music for dancing will be by Fata Morgana. For further information and for tickets, contact Vera Kap, (216) 864-5828.

Sunday, February 7

LECANTO, Fla.: A Country, Western Bluegrass Music Show will be held at Cowboy Junction, Highway 44 and Junction 490, with recording radio star Buddy Max and The Cowboy Junction Band, to benefit the students and the Ukrainian studies program at Harvard University. The show is free, but a donation will be accepted and every penny will go to benefit the program.

Tuesday, February 9

WASHINGTON: The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation invites the Ukrainian community for a meeting and discussion with visiting Ukrainian parliamentarians Ivan Zayets, chairman of the National Council, and Oleksander Kotsiuba, chairman of the Commission on Legislation and Lawfulness. The meeting will take place at 7 p.m., at the Holy Family Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine, 4250 Harewood Road. For more information, please contact the foundation, (202) 347-4264.

Wednesday, February 10

WINNIPEG: Orysia Tracz will be guest speaker at the Alpha Omega Alumnae St. Valentine's membership meeting which is open to the public, to be held at the Investors Syndicate Ltd., Head Office, Third Floor Reception Area, 447 Portage Ave. (Portage and Memorial), at 7 p.m. Ms. Tracz's topic is "Songs Your Mother Should Never Have Taught You? Erotic Symbolism in Ukrainian Folk Songs." The presentation will be supplemented by audio tapes.

Saturday, February 13

PHILADELPHIA: A Ukie singles Valentine Party will be held at Ulana's, 205 Bainbridge St., Society Hill (one block south of South Street), beginning at 9, p.m. Meet, mingle and dance to top Ukrainian and American sounds. A delicious complimentary buffet will be served. For more information, call (215) 922-4152.

Sunday, February 14

CHICAGO: The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art presents a concert by the piano duo Valentina Lisitsa and Alexei Kuznetsoff in a program of works by Chopin, Shostakovich, Liszt and Rachmaninoff to be held at the UIMA, 2320 W. Chicago Ave., at 2 p.m. The concert is being held in memory of Dr. Stefan Wojtowycz, benefactor and member of the UIMA board of directors.

Tuesday, February 16

EDMONTON: The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies seminar series presents Ioan Rebosapca, professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Bucharest, and currently visiting professor at the Department of Slavic and East European Studies at the University of Alberta, who will speak on "Ukrainians in Romania" (in Ukrainian). The lecture will be held in the Heritage Lounge, Athabasca Hall, at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, February 19

NEW YORK: Pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky will hold a master class as part of the Music at the Institute series to be held 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 E. 79th St. Admission is free.

Sunday, February 21

WARREN, Mich.: The Ukrainian Selfreliance Michigan Federal Credit Union and the Ukrainian National Association Detroit District Committee invite the public to attend an estate planning and life insurance seminar conducted by Andrew W. Mychalowych, partner in the law firm of Haliw, Siciliano, and Mychalowych, and Robert M. Cook, director of insurance operations for the Ukrainian National Association. The seminar will be held at 3 p.m. at Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic Grade School, 29500 Westbrook. Admission is free.

Sunday, February 28

BOSTON: The Ukrainian Medical Association of North America, New England Chapter, invites the public to a lecture by Dr. Juriy Savyckyj who will speak on "Psychiatric Medicine in Ukraine," to be held at the John Hancock Conference Center, 40 Trinity Place; (Exit 22 off the Mass. Pike - Prudential Copley Square), at 4:30 p.m. The presentation, to be supplemented by a slideshow, is an account of the speaker's fact-finding lecture tour of Ukrainian psychiatric hospitals and offers observations on aspects of Ukrainian society from a psychiatric perspective. Admission: voluntary donation to be applied for the advancement of psychiatric medicine in Ukraine. Refreshments will be served.