2000: THE YEAR IN REVIEW: A look at the cultural scene: from art to the theater (01/07/01)

2000: THE YEAR IN REVIEW

A look at the cultural scene: from art to the theater

The arts scene, as it was covered in The Weekly, has been been rich and varied in this first year of the new millennium. Among the highlights of the year were the following, listed by category.

Art

Paintings and drawings by Vasyl Hryhorovych Krychevsky (1873-1952), originator of a native modern expression in architecture, as well as key instigator of a native arts and crafts movement in Ukraine, were exhibited at The Ukrainian Museum in New York from December 5, 1999 to March 26, 2000.
Five luminous paintings by the 19th century Ukrainian artist Maria Bashkirtseva (1860-1884), a member of the Ukrainian aristocracy who studied at the Academie Julian in Paris, were included in a major exhibition "Overcoming All Obstacles: The Women of the Academie Julian" at New York's Dahesh Museum from mid-January to May 13.
Bold geometric oils by artist Arcadia Olenska-Petryshyn (1934-1996) and her major works - oversized renditions of trees, plants and cacti foliage - were shown with a group of oils and life-size painted papier-mache figures created by her younger sister, artist/journalist/publicist Chrystya Olenska (1941-1979), at the Ukrainian Institute of America on February 12-27.
Large abstract paintings with the texture of ancient mosaics by artist Christina Saj of Bloomfield, N.J., showing contemporary interpretations of Biblical themes, were exhibited at Columbia University's Union Theological Seminary on February 1-25. Ms. Saj also took part in the New Jersey segment of the off-beat summerlong CowParade public art exhibition with the entry "Moon-net at Giverny."
An exhibit of paintings by Volodymyr Kovalchuk, stage designer originally from Ukraine and currently from Canada, opened at the Ukrainian Institute of America on March 28, concurrent with a reading by Ukrainian American poet and writer Yuriy Tarnawsky, from his book of poems "Yikh Nemaye" (They Don't Exist).
The work of Jurij Solovij, regarded as the most forceful and singular promoter of modern art among Ukrainian émigré artists after World War II, opened in New York on April 15 at the Ukrainian Institute of America. On view were some 100 paintings, including works from the artist's "Thousand Heads" series.
Kyiv's Center for Contemporary Art, under the direction of Yuri Onuch, held a series of international exhibitions, among the most successful of which was the Warhol exhibit held May 5 through June 4, with works on loan from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, marking the first time that the pop art artist's work, who came from a Ruthenian (Ukrainian) immigrant family, were shown in Ukraine.
Works by Alexandra Exter, the Polish-born artist who founded the Circle group of avant-garde artists in Kyiv in 1914 and organized a studio dedicated to the study of Ukrainian folk embroidery, ornamentation and painting, were included in the Guggenheim Museum's exhibition "Amazons of the Avant-Garde" that opened September 8 and runs through January 7, 2001.
The work of painter, graphic artist and ceramist Halyna Mazepa (1910-1995) - art pieces deeply imbued with her love for Ukrainian historical, folkloric and literary themes - was exhibited at The Ukrainian Museum in New York from September 17 to November 26.
"Gold of the Nomads: Scythian Treasures from Ancient Ukraine," the first major exhibition of Scythian art in over 25 years and the first to come to the United States since Ukraine achieved independence, featured objects drawn from four museum holdings in Ukraine as well as excavated finds representing recent discoveries within the last decade. The exhibit was curated by Dr. Ellen D. Reeder, deputy art director of the Brooklyn Museum, with Dr. Gerry Scott III, curator of ancient art at the San Antonio Museum of Art. Contributing essays to the exhibition catalogue were Dr. Lada Onyshkevych of the Walters Art Gallery, with essays from Ukraine by Svitlana Korestka and Olena Pidvysotska. The exhibit was organized by Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore and the San Antonio Museum of Art in Texas. It was shown in San Antonio, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in Baltimore and at the Brooklyn Museum; it will be on view the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and the Grand Palais in Paris next fall.
In conjuction with the opening of two exhibits in New York featuring Scythian artifacts, Motrja P. Fedorko of the The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art in San Antonio, Texas, wrote an article for The Ukrainian Weekly (December 17 issue) comparing the two overlapping exhibits: "The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures from the Russian Steppes," which opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on December 11, two days before the "Gold of the Nomads" exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The Met exhibition included a number of gold objects of Ukrainian origin, loaned to the Met by the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
This year's Easter egg exhibition at The Ukrainian Museum in New York, dedicated to contemporary artisans who have been instrumental in preserving, revitalizing and popularizing the Ukrainian pysanka, ran from April 2 through the end of June and featured the work of Yaroslava Surmach Mills, Luba Perchyshyn, Zenon Elyjiw, Tania Osadca, Sofia Zielyk, Ihor Slabitsky, and Yaroslava Bachynsky and her daughters Romana and Natalka. Demonstrations of batik-style decorating were given at the museum on April 22 by artisans Anna Gbur and Emily Robbins, as well as Sofia Zielyk, who also demonstrated her craft on ABC-TV.
The John Elder Gallery of Manhattan ran a group show in May that included steel works by artist Christina Shmigel of St. Louis, Mo., showing traditional blacksmithing techniques in non-traditional applications.
The Ukrainian-Canadian Art Foundation in Toronto, established in 1975 by Mykhajlo and Yaroslava Szafraniuk, celebrated its silver anniversary, marking 25 years of activity in the support and promotion of Ukrainian art in Canada and beyond. The celebration commenced on November 11 with the preview of the "Foundation for the Future" exhibit.
Ukrainian Brazilian artist Oxana Narozniak participated in the international art exhibition "Progress of the World's Women," which opened at the United Nations on June 5 as part of the U.N. "Women 2000" conference.
An exhibit covering all periods of New York caricaturist Orest "Gogo" Slupchynskyj's life's work, chronicling the politics, culture and day-to-day life of the post-war Ukrainian diaspora, was exhibited in Washington in November.
Ukraine's participation in the 49th Venice Biennale, to be held from June 6 to November 4, 2001, was announced by the Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine on September 8, with Evhen Karas, as official government representative, and Yuri Onuch, curator for the presentation. Although Ukrainians have previously exhibited at the Biennale, this will mark the first time that Ukraine will take part officially in the event as an independent country and artists will participate as Ukrainians.

Dance

Modern dancer/choreographer Katja Pylyshenko Kolcio of New York premiered a new work "Bread With Honey: An Evening of Dance and Music," combining full-bodied dance movement with live bandura music by Julian Kytasty and electronic effects by Alexander Kytasty, at the Bridge for Dance Studio in New York on January 14, 22 and 29.
Presenting the music, songs and dances of Central and Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, from August to May, the Duquesne University Tamburitzans were assisted during the 2000-2001 season by seven performers of Ukrainian descent - Jessica Craig, Justin Greenwald, Matt Haritan, Dana Holmshek, John R. Sergeant, Elizabeth Skalyo and Michael Weigand.
The ALLNATIONS Dance Company, with Sophia Janusz Pachecano, associate director, included four Ukrainians in its international make-up. Dancers Andrij Cybyk of New York, Anna Mikhaylenko of Kharkiv and Ganna Makarova of Odesa performed in a concert in New York on October 21.
"Ancestral Voices," a bilingual (Ukrainian-English) dance-theater piece based on Ukrainian poetry and folk songs, directed by Michael Flohr, premiered at INSIDE art gallery in Cleveland on June 29.
Maxim Belotserkovsky, Irina Dvorovenko and Vladimir Malakhov, American Ballet Theatre's trio of principal dancers from Ukraine, who were highly praised by critics during the ABT spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House, won glowing accolades during the fall engagement at City Center in November. Reviewers also pointed to the work of ABT corps de ballet member Vladislav Kalinin and composer Dmitry Polischuk, who wrote the score for Robert Hill's ballet "Baroque Game."
The Dance Theater of Harlem gave several critically acclaimed performances in September of the highly popular "Firebird" Suite choreographed for the company in 1980 by John Taras, associate artistic director of American Ballet Theatre (now retired). Mr. Taras shared the position of balletmaster of the New York City Opera with George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins from 1960 and later rejoined ABT.
JulieDance, a non-profit charitable organization, based in Midland Park, N.J., co-sponsored three special children's cancer benefit performances with the internationally acclaimed Donetsk Ballet from Ukraine in New Jersey in December.

Literature

"The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha," a book translated into English by Mr. Lysheha and Dr. James Brasfield, and published by Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Press, was this year's winner of the prestigious PEN Literary Award for Poetry in Translation. Presentation of the award was held May 15 at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center in New York.
First-generation Ukrainian American author Irene Zabytko's critically acclaimed first novel, "The Sky Unwashed," a poignant story of villagers who defied the forced evacuation of their town after the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, was nominated for the American Library Association's notable books of the year group and selected for Barnes & Noble's "Discover Great New Authors" series. The book, which was reviewed by The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and the Denver Post, appeared as a publication of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, N.C. and in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Ltd.
Larissa Szporluk's collection of short lyric poems "Isolato" was awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize for 1999 by the University of Iowa Press.
Two of Ukraine's prominent contemporary writers -Yuri Vynnychuk and Yurii Andrukhovych, in the United States as writer-in-residence and Fulbright scholar, respectively, at Penn State University - did readings from their works in a bilingual program held in Toronto (October 14) and in Philadelphia (November 19) in an evening titled "Literaturnyi Mist: Ukraina-Ameryka," which also featured Prof. Michael Naydan of Penn State University, translator of the works of both authors into English, and actor Michael Bernosky, in scenes from recent English-language translations of both authors' prose works. The writers also appeared in engagements at Columbia University and the Shevchenko Scientific Society in New York.
The Fulbright-Margolin writing prize for Ukrainian authors, the first of its kind, was established as part of the Fulbright scholarship program between Ukraine and the United States, beginning in the 2000 academic year. The award is meant to encourage and support the growth of a new generation of Ukrainian writers and intellectuals, improve relations between the literary and critical communities in Ukraine and the United States, and provide an impetus for the publication and discussion of outstanding works from Ukraine in both countries. The $20,000 award will be made each year and will alternate between the categories of fiction and non-fiction; it is to be awarded by the Fulbright Office in Kyiv, with an essential component of the award to be undertaken in the United States.

Music: choirs

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of its founding, the Dumka Chorus of New York presented a concert of Ukrainian classics and folk music under the direction of Vasyl Hrechynsky in the Cooper Union's Great Hall on April 9. Volodymyr Grishko, a soloist at the Metropolitan Opera and Kyiv's National Opera of Ukraine, was guest artist.
Toronto's award-winning Vesnivka choir, under the direction of founding conductor Halyna Kvitka Kondracki, took part in the Canadian Broadcast Corp. Choral Competition in February, traveled in July to Linz, Austria, where it won the silver medal in the first Choral Olympics, and performed a series of concerts in the Czech Republic.
The famed Veriovka troupe of Kyiv, under the direction of Anatoly Avdyevsky, a folk-oriented collective that combines choral singing, dancing and instrumental music as part of its repertoire, went on its second cross-country tour of the United States with stops in Canada this fall, winning great favor with audiences and critics across the country. Unlike the earlier tour in 1996, which included compositions by Russian composers, this production was an all-Ukrainian creation.

Music: concerts

The "Music at the Institute" series at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York, Mykola Suk, artistic director, opened with the concert "Ukrainian Themes in Western Music," with Wendy Waller, Juliana Osinchuk, Serhiy Kryvonos, Natalia Khoma and the Laurentian String Quartet; followed by "Piano Works for One, Two, Three, Four, Five & Six Hands," with Jerome Lowenthal, Carmel Lowenthal, and Mr. Suk; "Anthologies - Johannes Brahms: Sonatas for Violin and Piano," with Yuri Mazurkevich, violin, and Volodymyr Vynnytsky, piano; "Concert of Chamber Music," with Norma Fisher and Mr. Suk, piano, and the Vanguard Chamber Players; "Iryna Arbatska and Oleksander Havrylyuk: First Prize Winners of the Third International Piano Competition in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz (Kyiv, 1999)," "The New York Vocal Arts Ensemble," concluding with "The Kipnis-Kushner Duo."
The 18th summer season of the Music and Art Center of Greene County, with Dr. Ihor Sonevytsky, music director, and Volodymyr Vynnytsky, artist-in-residence, featured a stellar cast of musicians at this summer's concert series held at the Grazhda in Jewett Center, N.Y.: Natalia Khoma, cello; Volodymyr Vynnytsky, piano; Alexander Slobodyanik and Laryssa Krupa, piano; Anna Bachynska, soprano, and Roman Tsymbala, tenor; Solomia Soroka, violin; Myroslav Skoryk, composer; and Marianna Vynnytsky, singer/vocalist.
Myroslav Skoryk's Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Symphony Orchestra, as performed by Volodymyr Vynnytsky and the Livonia Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Volodymyr Schesiuk, had its world premiere on May 13 in Michigan and was also performed with the Scottsdale Symphony Orchestra, with Messrs. Schesiuk and Vynnytsky, on October 30 - November 1 in Arizona.
The German-based composer/cellist Dorian Rudnytsky's "Costa Blanca Suite," a composition for violoncello and orchestra in three movements, premiered in Spain on April 19 for the bicentennial celebration of the Spanish coastal towns of Altea and Calpe that it celebrated.
Adrian Bryttan led the New Jersey Youth Symphony in a unique performance of Act I from Wagner's "Die Walküre" on May 13 at Rutgers University's Nicholas Auditorium, earning plaudits for the performance in Classical New Jersey and from the Wagner Society of New York.
The Washington Group's Cultural Fund, in cooperation with the Embassy of Ukraine, launched a series of benefit concerts, starting October 3, at the Rosslyn Spectrum Theater in Arlington, Va., with the aim of raising funds for the procurement of musical instruments for the Lviv Conservatory. Among performers this season were pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky and musicians from the Washington Opera Orchestra; violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv and pianist Christina Anum-Doroshenko; and cellist Natalia Khoma and Mr. Vynnytsky.

Music: performers

Pianist Vitaliy Samoshko was on a world concert tour as laureate of the 1999 Queen Elizabeth International Music Competition of Belgium, making his New York debut at The Metropolitan Museum on March 6.
Cellist Natalia Khoma and pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky performed in New York's Steinway Hall on June 22 as part of a televised concert series featuring 12 artists to be broadcast in Japan.
Concert pianist Roman Rudnytsky, as part of his global tour, was on a concert tour of West Africa, where he gave nine recitals in six countries of the Francophone area under the sponsorship of the U.S. embassies in those countries.

Music: opera

New York City Opera diva Oksana Krovytska gave a concert at the Ukrainian Institute of America on May 21 to benefit the Institute's Crown Jewel Endowment Fund and the Daria Hoydysh Endowment for the Arts, offering music by Ukrainian composers as well as sonnets and arias that included Cio-Cio San's entrance aria from "Madama Butterfly," her starring City Opera vehicle for four seasons. This summer Ms. Krovytska sang concerts at the Renata Scotto Festival in San Remo and Albissola on the Italian Riviera, followed by a fall engagement in Montreal where she sang the leading role in Janacek's "Katya Kabanova," for which she received glowing reviews. Among her other appearances were with the Colorado and Flagstaff symphonies, as well as performances with the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee and the Palm Beach Opera in Florida.
Bass Stefan Szkafarowsky, who has emerged as one of America's important artists, performed this year at leading venues around the globe, including performances in Verdi's "Aida" with the New Jersey Performing Arts Center Opera Hall on March 17 and 19.
Baritone Oleh Chmyr appeared in solo recital at Carnage's Weill Recital Hall in a program of European vocal miniatures, with Volodymyr Vynnytsky at the piano, on May 30.
Michael Didyk, leading tenor of the National Opera of Ukraine, made his New York debut in November with four appearances as the Duke of Mantua in the New York City Opera production of Verdi's "Rigoletto" and was commended by The New York Times' Bernard Holland for "the most confident Verdian style."

Music: jazz

The "Chicago Jazz and Blues" festival performance, presented as part of the Kyiv Committee of the Chicago Sister Cities International Program's musical exchange for the annual Kyiv Days festival held May 24-29, featured renowned Chicago artists, the Orbert Davis Quintet and Lynne Jordan and the Shivers, who performed three concerts in Kyiv, including an outdoor concert for 500,000 fans that garnered nationwide television, radio and print coverage.
Canadian-born jazz virtuoso John Stetch, whose style and compositions have been described as post-Bop with classical influences, debuted his sixth CD "Heaven of a Hundred Days" with a three-man band at the Greenwich House Music School in Manhattan on October 19 before leaving for concerts in Philadelphia and Washington and a cross-Canada solo tour. Mr. Stetch was recently named to the Steinway Artists roster.

Recordings, publications

The performances of world-renowned Ukrainian pianist, Lubka Kolessa (1902-1997), were issued in a three-CD set titled "Lubka Kolessa Legacy" by the Doremi firm of Toronto as part of the label's Legendary Treasures series.
Artem Vedel: Divine Liturgy and 12 Sacred Choral Concerti," the first published edition of the composer's (1767-1808) autographed manuscript, came out as a result of the efforts of the Ukrainian Music Society of Alberta and the Friends of the Vedel Project in Toronto. A book launch for the publication was held November 12 in Edmonton.
A cassette commemorating the legacy of tenor Clemens Andrijenko (1885-1967) was reissued by the singer's daughter, pianist and educator Kalena C. Andrienko of Munich, Germany, from discs cut in the years 1927-1956.
The 40th anniversary of the death of Roman Sawycky Sr. (1907-1960), prominent western Ukrainian pianist of his generation, teacher and co-founder of the Ukrainian Music Institute of America, was marked in western Ukraine on January 22 with a special broadcast dedicated to his life and work.
A new recording by Winnipeg-based singer Alexis Kochan and her ensemble Paris to Kyiv, titled "Prairie Nights and Peacock Feathers," was released on October 5, with a concert at Winnipeg's Pantages Playhouse Theater.
New York's Experimental Bandura Trio of Michael Andrec, Julian Kytasty and Jurij Fedynsky debuted the trio's first CD featuring bandura music from Shtokalko to Stockhausen with a March 29 concert in the loft apartment of Tom O'Horgan, producer of the ground-breaking Broadway shows "Hair" and "Jesus Christ Superstar."

Photography

An exhibit of 150 rare photographs by Tania D'Avignon showing contemporary life in Ukraine - landscapes, portraits, patriotic scenes in Kyiv, Chornobyl devastation, Carpathian village festivities - was held at the Ukrainian Institute of America from June 10 to 18.
A monthlong exhibit of the photographs by Wilton S. Tifft on Ukraine and Ukrainians was on display at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station, Texas, as part of the "Ukraine: Its Traditions and Culture" event held at the library on November 4.

Theater

Virlana Tkacz's Yara Arts Group staged two new theatrical works at the La Mama Experimental Theater in New York: "Circle," in April, a piece which in expressing the Buryat notion that the spirit is constantly with us, blends East-meets-West idealism, Buryat performance styles and Mongolian throat singing; and, premiering on December 21, Yara's 10th theater piece "Song Tree," based on ancient pre-Christian winter songs (koliadky and schedrivky), in which mythical spirits descend on a woman who has buried herself in work and science. The latter was a joint collaboration of Yara Arts Group and artists from Ukraine, with video by Andrea Odezynska and music by Maryana Sadovska, Yaryna Turianska and Eugene Hutz.

Broadway shows, musicals

Jeremy Kushnier, star of the now-defunct Broadway show "Footloose," was one of the leads in a new musical "The Rhythm Club," playing in Washington and scheduled for Broadway in February 2001.
Singer/dancer/actress Christina Pawl (Pawlyshyn), who appeared for two years in the Tony Award-winning production of "Cabaret," switched from Broadway to Greek tragedy to perform in Denver as a member of the chorus in Sir Peter Hall's production of the Greek myth "Tantalus," a monumental work presented in 10 new plays with drama, music and dance.

Film/video

The French film "Est-Ouest," set in Kyiv and Odesa and featuring Ukrainian actor Bohdan Stupka in a supporting role, was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Film category.
During the Academy Awards presentations on March 26, telecast by ABC, the Motion Picture Academy paid tribute to the late Hollywood director Edward Dmytryk.
Actor Bohdan Stupka of Kyiv (currently Ukraine's Minister of Culture), portrayed Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, leader of the Zaporozhian Host, in the Polish film production "With Fire and Sword," which was screened throughout the United States, including at the Ukrainian Institute of America in April. The film, based on the novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz, depicts the Kozak-Polish conflict that began in 1648 as a typical Kozak uprising but turned into a war of the Ukrainian populace against the Polish Commonwealth.
The world premiere of "Undefeated," a film that depicts the life of Gen. Roman Shukhevych (Taras Chuprynka), the legendary commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in guerrilla battles with both the Soviet and the Nazi forces in western Ukraine during the second world war and into the 1950s, was held in Kyiv on November 11. The film is directed by Oles Yanchuk, with the well-known Ukrainian-born Montreal-based actor and director Hryhoriy Hladiy in the role of Shukhevych.
The documentary film "Between Hitler and Stalin - Ukraine in World War II," directed and produced by Washington-based international television broadcaster Slavko Nowytski and sponsored by the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Center, entered the work print phase this spring in Toronto.
New Jersey-born Vera Farmiga, who started an acting career three years ago in Broadway and Off-Broadway productions and starred as a Celtic warrior in the television series "Roar," was featured this year in the movies "Autumn in New York" with Richard Gere and "The Opportunists" with Christopher Walken. She co-stars in four major productions scheduled for release in 2001 - "Fifteen Minutes" with Robert De Niro and Edward Burns, "Dummy" with Adrien Brody and Milla Jovovich and "Dust" with Joseph Fiennes and Adrian Lester, as well as ABC-TV's new interpretation of the classic tale "Snow White."

Television and entertainment industry

Martha Stewart's popular CBS morning show featured a segment on Ukrainian paska making on April 17, with Ukrainian culinary expert Lubow Wolynetz of the Ukrainian Museum of the Ukrainian Catholic Diocese of Stamford, Conn., and The Ukrainian Museum of New York, and Cecilia Daciuk of the Stamford Seminary.
The Canadian/Ukrainian co-production "Virsky - The Spirit of Ukraine," produced by Toronto KINOFILM studio, Myroslava Oleksiuk-Baker, producer/director, aired on September 7 and 8 in Toronto on public broadcast channel WNED, the premiere arts-oriented TV channel, to launch its annual fall membership drive.
A television series on the Ukrainian diaspora, part of the extended video film festival "Our Blossom - Across the World" on the same subject, was broadcast on the Ukrainian government network UT-1. The program, "Foundations," hosted by Khrystyna Stebelska, was a presentation of submissions by the Ukrainian diaspora as well as archival material of the Soviet era. The series was developed by the Institute of Diaspora Studies, chaired by Ihor Vynnychenko.

Fashion/design

Top Versace model Richard Gladys, 25, whose face and figure appear in top fashion magazines around the world, was selected No. 5 of the 25 Top Male Models by models.com, placing him among the male models who rule the current campaign, editorial and advertising market. Mr. Gladys is affiliated with ID Model Management of Manhattan.
Backed by 18 years' experience as a designer and merchandiser for several distinguished firms, Stefan Hankewycz of Bayside, N.Y., opened his own company - Stefano Peruzzi Inc. - to create and sell top-quality Italian-made leather apparel and accessories.
Ukrainian American designers Renata Bokalo and Roman Luba and their associate Stephanie Pesakoff chose Manhattan's trendy Meatpacking District for the site of their new Auto boutique, offering the work of several hand-picked designers. The new boutique received attention in more than a dozen New York publications, including The New York Times.
Ukrainian Canadian artist John Jaciw's design of a new 25-cent coin, titled "Ingenuity," was selected, as one in a series of that denomination, by the Royal Canadian Mint in a ceremony held on February 4.

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