PREVIEW OF EVENTS
Saturday, December 19
- NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Engineers' Society will host its traditional
"Yalynka" celebration together with the Ukrainian Medical Association
of North America and the Ukrainian Institute of America. Members, their
families, friends and the Ukrainian community are cordially invited to
join in the festivities, which include a musical Christmas program followed
by refreshments. The "Yalynka" will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the
Ukrainian Institute of America, 79th Street and Fifth Avenue. Admission:
$25; $15, seniors. For more information call Alex, (973) 777-7346.
- NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Society will host the presentation
of a book of plays titled "6x0" by Ukrainian American avant-garde
poet and writer Yuri Tarnawsky. Taking part in the presentation will be
Dr. Tamara Hundorova, senior research fellow, Shevchenko Institute of Literature,
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, and Fulbright visiting scholar, Columbia
University; and Dr. Larissa M.L.Z. Onyshkevych of the Princeton Research
Forum, first vice-president, Shevchenko Scientific Society. As part of
the presentation there will be a video featuring selections from the staging
of a play by Mr. Tarnawsky as directed (and simultaneously filmed) by Montreal-based
Gregory Hlady. Mr. Tarnawsky is member and co-founder of the New York Group,
a member of the Writers' Union of Ukraine and of the Fiction Collective.
Apart from the plays that form "6x0," he is the author of 12
published collections of poetry and three novels. Mr. Tarnawsky writes
in both Ukrainian and English and has numerous translations (from Spanish,
German and English; and from Ukrainian into English) to his credit as well
as articles on literary themes. The presentation will be held at the society's
building, 63 Fourth Ave., at 5 p.m.
- WASHINGTON: The Taras Shevchenko School of Ukrainian Studies will hold
its annual St. Nicholas play at Westland Middle School, 5511 Massachusetts
Ave., Bethesda, Md., at noon. The "heavenly office" will open
at 11 a.m. Donations: $3 adults, school children, free. There also will
be a book bazaar. For further information call (301) 840-1713.
- CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich.: The Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus will appear
in concert at the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts, located on M-59
and Garfield, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $23, adults; and $21, students and
seniors; are available by calling Macomb Center Box Office, (810) 286-2222,
or Ukrainian Future Credit Union, (810) 757-1980. The program is sponsored
by the Ukrainian Future Credit Union.
Sunday, December 20
- NEWARK, N.J.: St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic School is holding
its annual Christmas concert at St. John's Church, 719 Sandford Ave., at
1 p.m. All are invited to come and celebrate this holy and joyous season
of Christmas. For more information, call the school, (973) 373-9359.
- PASSAIC, N.J.: The Plast Ukrainian Youth Organization, Passaic branch,
invites all children, young and old, to a Christmas play followed by a
visit from St. Nicholas at St. Nicholas School Hall, 212 President St.,
at noon. The "heavenly office" will open at 10 a.m. (Please mark
packages clearly.)
- NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in the U.S. is holding
a lecture (in Ukrainian) by Natalia Chechel, docent/lecturer, Karpenko-Karyi
Theater Institute, Kyiv, and Fulbright visiting scholar, on the topic "Principle
of Aesthetics in the Theater of Les Kurbas." The presentation will
be held at the academy's building, 206 W. 100th St., at 2 p.m.
- CHICAGO: An event commemorating the 125th anniversary of the Shevchenko
Scientific Society (NTSh) will take place at the Ukrainian Cultural Center,
Oakley Boulevard and Chicago Avenue, at 1:30 p.m. Prof. Leonid Rudnytzky,
president of the NTSh, will deliver the keynote speech. There will be six
other brief scholarly presentations as well as an exhibit of the NTSh publications.
Snacks and refreshments will be served. Admission: $10. All are welcome.
For more information call (773) 489-1339, daytime, or (773) 384-7559, evenings.
Monday, December 21
- NEW PALTZ, N.Y.: A concert featuring Volodymyr Panteleyev, cello; Artur
Girsky, violin; and Volodymyr Vynnytsky, piano; will be held at the Mohonk
Mountain House, Lake Mohonk, at 9 p.m. The program includes Rakhmaninoff's
Elegiac Trio for violin, cello and piano and works of Chopin as performed
by Mr. Vynnytsky. For further information call (914) 255-1000.
Friday, December 25
- VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.: The Rev. Taras Lonchyna will celebrate a traditional
Ukrainian Catholic liturgy on Christmas Day at 3 p.m. in the chapel of
the Church of the Holy Family. The church is located at the corner of Great
Neck Road and First Colonial Road. For more information call Olga Cehelska,
(757) 496-3560.
Thursday, December 31
- EAST HANOVER, N.J.: The Orden Khrestonostsiv Plast Fraternity is holding
a New Year's Eve Ball at the Ramada Hotel, to benefit the Vovcha Tropa
Plast Camp. Music will be by Vodohray. Dinner will be at 7:30 p.m., followed
by dancing starting at 10 p.m. Evening attire. Tickets: $85, includes dinner,
ball, and open bar; $50, ball and open bar; $35, ball only (youths under
21). For room reservations and tickets call the Ramada, Route 10, (973)
386-5622. Reservations should be made by December 19.
- JERSEY CITY, N.J.: The Ukrainian National Home, 90-96 Fleet St., invites
the community to its New Year's Eve dance, to be held at 9 p.m.-1 a.m.
Music will be by Lviviany. Admission: $20 per person. For additional information
and reservations call Mary, (201) 656-7755.
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13, 1998, No. 50, Vol. LXVI
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