PREVIEW OF EVENTS
Friday, May 18
- NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Art and Literary Club and Mayana Gallery invite
the public to the opening of "Sacred Spring," an exhibit featuring
original artwork and reproductions which reflect themes from the Ukrainian
rite of spring. The exhibit runs through June 10. Gallery hours: Friday,
6-8 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 1-5 p.m. Mayana Gallery is located at 136 Second
Ave., fourth floor. For more information call (212) 260-4490 or (212) 777-8144.
Website: http://www.brama.com/mayana;
e-mail: [email protected].
- WASHINGTON: An art exhibit, titled "Color and Light," featuring
original works by Ukrainian artist Yuri Khymych will be presented by the
Alla Rogers Gallery, 1054 31st St. NW. The exhibit which opens May 18 will
run through June 13. An architect by training, Mr. Khymych has taught drawing
at the Ukrainian Academy of Art in Kyiv for over a generation. His art
was the subject of a recent book, titled "Masterpieces of Ukrainian
Architecture in the Artwork of Yuri Khymych." The exhibit is being
sponsored by Ihor Figlus and Natalie Jaresko. For further information call
the gallery, (202) 333-8595.
Saturday, May 19
- NEW YORK: Members of the Shevchenko Scientific Society are invited
to the society's annual meeting to be held at the society's building on
63 Fourth Ave. (between Ninth and 10th streets) at 2 p.m. At 5 p.m. the
society will hold a roundtable disucussion on the topic "The Role
of Scholarship in the Nation-Building Process in Ukraine, 1991-2001."
For more information call (212) 254-5130.
Tuesday, May 22
- NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA) and the
Ukrainian American Coordinating Council invite the public to attend a community
meeting with Myroslawa Gongadze, wife of the late internet journalist Heorhiy
Gongadze. The meeting will take place at the Ukrainian National Home, 136
Second Ave., at 6:30 p.m. For additional information call the UCCA office,
(212) 228-6840.
Saturday, May 26
- NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Society is holding a lecture by
Dr. Eleonora Solovey, Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences
of Ukraine, and currently, with the Harvard Ukrainian Reasearch Institute
on the topic "The Unknown Guest: The Fate and Leagcy of the Poet Volodymyr
Svidzinsky." The presentation will be held at the society's building,
63 Fourth Ave. (between Ninth and 10th streets) at 5 p.m. For more information
call (212) 254-5130.
Saturday, June 2
- TORONTO: The Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus, conducted by Oleh Mahlay,
will present a "Concert of Sacred Music" at Our Lady of Sorrows
Church at 8 p.m. (The church is located at 3055 Bloor St. W., one block
west of Royal York Road and at the Royal York Subway Station.) Part of
a sacred music series the concert will feature the mystical sounds of Eastern
Europe's finest church music, including works by Berezovsky, Dyletsky and
Bortniansky, along with the sounds of the bandura. Admission: free-will
offering. For more information call (905) 206-9963 or visit the website
www.bandura.org.
Monday, June 4
- SHREWSBURY, N.J.: Holmdel/ Middletown-based Branch 98 of the Ukrainian
National Women's League of America is sponsoring a panel discussion titled
"Trafficking in Women In Our Backyard" to be held at Monmouth
County Library, Eastern Branch, 1001 State Highway 35 (North), at 6 p.m.
NBC's "Dateline" video, with Maria Shriver as commentator, will
be shown. Guest panelists will be Luba Bilowchtchuk, Bozhena Olshaniwsky
and Walter Zalisko, with Anna Krawczuk, moderator. For more information
call Ms. Jacus, (732) 264-8820, or Ms. Mischenko (732) 671-1914.
CORRECTION
- The Sunday, June 10, event in Chicago's SUM Hall featuring Maria Pyskir,
author of "Thousands of Roads," a memoir of life in the Ukrainian
underground during World War II, is scheduled for 1 p.m., not 6 p.m. as
had appeared in Preview of Events (May 13). For more information contact
Roman Golash, (847) 910-3532.
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20, 2001, No. 20, Vol. LXIX
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