PREVIEW OF EVENTS (05/28/00)

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Saturday, June 3

BETHESDA, Md.: The Taras Shevchenko School of Ukrainian Studies in the Washington Metropolitan Area invites interested parents and children to attend an open house at the Westland Middle School located at 5511 Massachusetts Ave. Join us for coffee, visit classrooms, meet teachers and parents, pre-register for 2000-2001. The school meets Saturdays at 9 a.m.-1 p.m. during the school year. Classes are offered for kindergarten through Grade 11 ("matura") and for English-speaking students. Call Theodore Caryk, (301) 840-1713, or Halyna Breslawec, (301) 983-0152, with questions.
GLEN ECHO, Md.: The Slavic Male Chorus of Washington will perform a program of folk songs at the Folklore Society of Greater Washington's 23rd Annual Washington Folk Festival, Glen Echo Park, 7300 Macarthur Blvd., at 6:15-7 p.m. The concert will feature selections from Russian, Ukrainian, Slovak and Serbian folk traditions. The 25-member chorus, which has been singing together for more than 12 years, is under the direction of Gregory Oleynik.

Sunday, June 4

MINNEAPOLIS: The public is invited to an Immigration History Research Center's open house at the Elmer L. Anderson Library, University of Minnesota, to be held at 1-5 p.m. The Friends of the IHRC will host a celebration of the center's move to new quarters; included will be tours of the IHRC office and storage caverns, entertainment by ethnic musicians and dancers, showing of a new video about the IHRC's work, and a dessert buffet of ethnic pastries. A short program will be presented at 3 p.m. Visitors are encouraged to wear ethnic costumes. For more information call (612) 625-4800, e-mail [email protected], or visit the website: http://www.umn.edu/ihrc/.

Friday, June 9

NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Institute of America invites the Ukrainian community to an exhibit of photographic essays by creative photographer and photojournalist Tanya D'Avignon. Featuring 150 pieces, the exhibit will offer an insight into contemporary life in Ukraine spanning a time period shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union through transition to the present day, following the establishment of an independent Ukrainian state. The exhibit will be on display at the institute, 2 E. 79th St., through Sunday, June 18. An opening reception will be held on Friday, June 9. at 6-9 p.m.; gallery hours: noon-6 p.m. daily (closed on Monday). For further information call (212) 288-8660.

ADVANCE NOTICE

Wednesday, June 14

EDMONTON, Alberta: St. Vladimir's College, an accredited boarding high school of the Ukrainian Catholic Rite in Roblin, Manitoba, will appear, as part of its yearly concert tour, at St. Josephat's Cathedral Auditorium, 10825 97th St., at 8 p.m. The concert program will feature religious hymns, Ukrainian folk songs as well as Ukrainian folk dance. For additional information call the college, (204) 937-2173.

Friday, June 16

CALGARY, Alberta: St. Vladimir's College, an accredited boarding high school of the Ukrainian Catholic Rite in Roblin, Manitoba, will appear, as part of its yearly concert tour, at the Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Assumption, 611 Seventh Ave. NE, at 7:30 p.m. The concert program will feature religious hymns, Ukrainian folk songs as well as Ukrainian folk dance. For additional information call the college, (204) 937-2173.