PREVIEW OF EVENTS (04/11/99)

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Wednesday, April 14

NEW YORK: The World Federation of Ukrainian Women's Organizations is hosting a talk by Oksana Horbunova, representative of La Strada-Ukraine, on the topic "International Trafficking of Ukrainian Women." The talk will be held at the Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Ave., at 6:15 p.m. There will be a showing of the documentary film "Bought and Sold" at 5:30 p.m. prior to the talk.

Saturday, April 17

WASHINGTON: The documentary "Eternal Memory: Voices from the Great Terror" will be shown at 7 p.m. at Georgetown University Law School, 600 New Jersey Ave. (corner of Massachusetts Avenue), Moot Court Auditorium. (The school is two blocks from Union Station.) Immediately following the screening there will be a panel discussion with David Pultz of Wellspring Films Ltd. and other participants to discuss the human rights issues raised at the end of the film. "Eternal Memory" is being screened as part of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival traveling festival on opening night. For information call Andrea Holley, (202) 544-6070.
PASSAIC, N.J.: The Ukrainian American Youth Association Parents Committee is holding a Spring Fling Dance-Zabava at the Ukrainian Center, 240 Hope Ave., starting at 9 p.m. Music will be by Dunai from Toronto. Tickets at the door: $18/single, $35/couples, student under 18, $10. For advance tickets, at $15 each, and table reservations call Orest Rusynko, (973) 340-9551.
KENMORE, N.Y.: The Ukrainian Students' Association at the State University of New York in Buffalo is sponsoring the "Echoes of Ukraine" concert program, featuring the Desna dance ensemble of Toronto. The concert will be held at St. John's Ukrainian Ctholic Church, 3275 Elmwood Ave., at 4 p.m. Tickets: $9, adults; $8, seniors and students. For more information call Erika Cherko, (716) 645-2494.

Saturdays, April 17 and 24, Monday, April 19, and Wednesday, April 21

TORONTO: St. Vladimir Institute is presenting a four-part workshop on the art of constructing the traditional Ukrainian sorochka (shirt) and serdak (wool jacket). Anna Kulczyka of Chicago, embroiderer and costume specialist, will show how to cut and design a customized shirt and jacket and teach unique embroidery stitches. The weeklong workshops will be held at the institute, 620 Spadina Ave. Fee: $90 for the entire series and $35 for all kits. For further information or registration call (416) 923-3318.

Monday, April 19

NEW HAVEN, Conn.: The Yale-Ukraine Initiative and the department of history at Yale University are holding a lecture by Dr. Frank Sysyn, director of the Peter Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical Research at the University of Alberta, Edmonton. The lecture, "Grappling with the Hero: Hrushevskyi Confronts Khmelnytskyi," will be held at the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St., Room 401, at 4 p.m. For more information call (203) 432-1300.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute is holding a lecture by Lucan Way, consultant, World Bank, Washington, on the topic "State Building and the Political Economy of Intergovernmental Finance in Post-Soviet Ukraine." The lecture will be held in the HURI seminar room, 1583 Massachusetts Ave., at 4-6 p.m.

Tuesday, April 20

WASHINGTON: "Treading Water: State-Building and Intergovernmental Finance in Post-Soviet Ukraine" is the title of a seminar to be held at 3:30-5:30 p.m. at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies. Featured speaker is Lucan Way, consultant to the World Bank, Washington. The seminar will be held in the fifth floor conference room at the Woodrow Wilson Center, 1 Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Please bring photo ID to comply with security requirements for admission. For information call (202) 691-4100.

Thursday, April 22

NEW YORK: The Harriman Institute at Columbia University is holding a lecture by Volodymyr Kulyk, Institute of Political and Ethno-National Studies, National Academy of Ukraine, titled "Ukrainian Nation-Building: Between Achieving and Pretending." The lecture will be held in Room 1219 of the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, 420 W. 118th St., at 12:15-2 p.m. For more information, call the Harriman Institute, (212) 854-4623, or visit their website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/REGIONAL/HI/home.html.

Saturday, April 24

NEW YORK: "Music at the Institute" presents "Anthologies - Vocal Works of Mykola Lysenko (1842-1912)" with Oksana Krovytska, soprano; Charlene Marcinko, mezzo-soprano; Yaroslav Hnatiuk, baritone; and Thomas Hrynkiw, pianist. The concert will be held at the Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 E. 79 St., at 8 p.m. For additional information call the institute, (212) 288-8660.
NEW YORK: The New York Bandura Ensemble, under the direction of Julian Kytasty, musical director, presents "A Spring Concert" featuring performances by all three branches of the NYBE - Astoria, New York City and Yonkers. Solo performers will include: Mr. Kytasty, Alla Kutsevych, NYBE instructor; and special guest artist from Kyiv, Roman Hrynkiv. Mr. Hrynkiv is one of the foremost bandura virtuosos in Ukraine, instructor at the National Academy of Music of Ukraine (formerly the Kyiv Conservatory), composer, Merited Artist of Ukraine since 1997 and associated Artist of the International Menuhin Foundation since 1994. Mr. Hrynkiv is also a designer of experimental new models of banduras, and plays an instrument of his own handiwork. His repertoire includes original compositions, Ukrainian folk music, classical pieces arranged for bandura and his own jazz improvisations. He is currently in the New York area to participate in a recording with legendary jazz guitarist Al Di Meola. The concert will be held at 136 Second Ave. at 5 p.m.

Monday, April 26

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, as part of its seminar series, is holding a lecture by Tomas Rosen, Ph.D. in Slavic philology, University of Uppsala, and visiting scholar, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, on the topic "Problems of Dating and Locating Medieval Slavic Translations." The lecture will be held in the HURI seminar room, 1583 Massachusetts Ave., at 4-6 p.m.

Friday-Monday, April 30-May 3

CHICAGO: Jacques Hnizdovsky's woodcuts and linocuts will be on exhibition and for sale at William Greenbaum Fine Prints at the Chicago International Antiques and Fine Art Fair, Merchandise Mart. Hours: Friday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; and Monday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. For more information call (800) 677-6278.