PREVIEW OF EVENTS (05/16/99)

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Tuesday, May 18

DETROIT: The School of Business Administration at Wayne State University is holding a symposium on Eastern European business titled "Eastern Europe at the Dawn of the New Millennium: Political, Economic and Social Transformation Experiences." The symposium will be hosted by the Center for International Business Studies in conjunction with the Detroit Regional Chamber's International World Trade Week program. It will be held in the Adamany Library on the main campus of Wayne State University at 10 a.m.-5 p.m. For additional information or to RSVP, contact Prof. Atilla Yaprak or Irene Mokra, (313) 577-4842.
CHICAGO: The Ukrainian National Museum of Chicago is holding an exhibit titled "The Woman as Guardian of Ukrainian Culture," to run concurrently during the 25th Ukrainian National Women's League of America Convention to be held in Chicago. The exhibit will be opened by Ludmila Protasova, acting consul general of Ukraine, at 6:30 p.m. The exhibit will run through June 25. For more information call the museum, (312) 421-8020.

Friday, May 21

NEW YORK: The Mayana Gallery, in association with M. James Fine Art invites the public to an exhibition of recent paintings, multi-media works and sculpture by an international group of award-winning artists, among them Chinese artists Lee Ching Man and Li Wai On, American artists Amy Kasai and Dixie Salazar, and Ukrainian Brazilian sculptor Oxana Narozniak. The exhibit opens with a reception on May 21 at 6:30-9 p.m. The exhibit will be on view through June 2. Currently, on view at the gallery, are works by watercolor master Dong Kingman and his student Lauren Barnes. For further information call the gallery, (212) 777-8144 or (908) 725-5322. The gallery is located at 136 Second Ave., fourth floor.

Saturday, May 22

JOHNSON CITY, N.Y.: The Lysenko Choral Ensemble of Toronto, under the direction of Alla Shklar, will make its American debut performance at St. John Ukrainian Orthodox Church singing the divine liturgy of St. John Chrysostom as composed by Valerij Kikta. The new liturgy, which premiered in Edmonton in 1994, weaves traditional Ukrainian liturgical music with unique and contemporary harmony. Mr. Kikta, a former student of Stanislav Liudkevych and Semen Bohatyrov, is best known in North America for his oratorio "Sacred Dnipro," which was performed in 1996 by the Canadian Ukrainian Opera Association at Massey Hall in Toronto. The special liturgy begins at 10 a.m.

Sunday, May 23

NEW YORK: The Ukrainian National Association District Committee of New York is holding a presentation titled "The Ukrainian Press in the U.S.: Do We Need It?" by Roma Hadzewycz, editor-in-chief, The Ukrainian Weekly. The talk will be held at the Shevchenko Scientific Society, 63 Fourth Ave., at 1:30 p.m.
NEW YORK: Marta Sawycky, director of Music and Me, will present the interactive children's story "Ripka" (Turnip) at the Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 E. 79th St., at 2-5 p.m. Refreshments will be provided. Donation: $15 per family, non-members; $10 per family, members. RSVP to the institute by May 20 by calling (212) 288-8660.
SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J.: The divine liturgy of St. John Chrysostom by contemporary Ukrainian composer Valerij Kikta will be heard at a special hierachal divine liturgy to be concelebrated by Archbishop Antony of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. and Bishop Yurij of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada at St. Andrew the First-Called Apostle Ukrainian Orthodox Memorial Church at 10 a.m. The liturgy will be sung by the Lysenko Choral Ensemble of Toronto under the direction of Alla Shklar.
NEWARK, N.J.: Ukrainian National Women's League of America Branch 86 invites the public to the exhibition and sale of bas-relief works in wood by artist Zenon Holubec, which will take place at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church hall, Sanford Avenue and Ivy Street, at 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Sunday, May 23

LAKE SAN MARCOS, Calif.: Concert pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky and the Leontovych String Quartet - Yuri Mazurkevich, violin; Yuri Kharenko, violin; Borys Deviatov, viola; and Volodymyr Panteleyev, cello - will perform in the Lake San Marcos Chamber Music Society concert series in a program of works by Weber, Brahms and Franck. The performance will be held at the Lake San Marcos Recreation Lodge, 1105 La Bonita Drive, at 2:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 26

TORONTO: St. Vladimir Institute is holding a lecture titled "The Nobility: The Forgotten Class of Ukrainian Society," by assistant librarian Roman Velitchko. The lecture will be held at the institute, 620 Spadina Ave., at 7-9 p.m. Fee: $10. For more information call (416) 923-3318.

Friday, May 28

TORONTO: St. Vladimir Institute and the Canadian Lemko Association invite the public to an exhibition of paintings by artist Pavlo Lopata titled "Farewell Exhibition: Toronto, Canada - Gorlice, Poland." On the occasion of the exhibition, 58 paintings on the theme of churches of Lemkivschyna from the private collection of the Ivan Popiel family are being donated to the Archival Museum of the Ukrainian Orthodox Eparchy of Przemyszl (Peremyshl)-Nowy Sancz in Gorlice, Poland. The exhibit opens May 28 at St. Vladimir Institute, 620 Spadina Ave., at 7 p.m., with guest speaker the Rev. Bohdan Sencio. Admission: $5. For additional information call Mr. Lopata, (416) 767-6111.

Sunday, May 30

ROCHESTER, N.Y.: The documentary film "Stolen Years," which focuses on Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's reign of terror through the eyes of 11 purge victims, will be aired in the Greater Rochester area on PBS affiliate WXXI at 11 p.m. It was under Stalin that an estimated 20 million people perished in a series of purges, arrests, executions, artificial famines and deportations to desolate regions and forced labor camps. The film is a co-production of The Blackwell Corp. and The Evans-McCan Group. Inquiries may be addressed to WXXI TV programming director, (716) 258-0244.

ONGOING

CHICAGO: The installation of mixed media paintings, quotations and prayers by painter Elena Diadenko titled "From the Outside Looking In," is on view at Columbia College, Hokinhall, 623 S. Wabash Ave. The exhibit, which opened May 14, will be on view through May 30. A recent immigrant from Ukraine, Ms. Diadenko questions why people who consider themselves good, kind and religious have so much trouble getting along with other people who consider themselves good, kind and religious in the U.S.

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