Ukrainian-American Heritage Foundation receives state grant for dance workshop

LEHIGHTON, Pa. - The Ukrainian-American Heritage Foundation of the Lower Anthracite Region, based in Schuylkill County, Pa., was recently awarded a grant from the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts Regrant Program to support its annual Ukrainian Folk Dance Camp and Workshop. The camp, held annually during in July at the Ukrainian Homestead in Lehighton, Pa., attracts over 75 children and young adults.

Grant money will be used to bring in special guest instructors, David Woznak of the Kashtan School of Ukrainian Dance in Parma, Ohio, and Andrij Dobriansky of the Syzokryli Ensemble of New York.

The PPA program is a partnership initiative between local arts organizations and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency. State government funding for the arts comes through an annual appropriation by Pennsylvania's General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts. PPA is administered locally by the Berks Arts Council.

For information about the workshop, contact Dr. Paula Holoviak via e-mail, [email protected]; or phone, (570) 708-1992.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, October 27, 2002, No. 43, Vol. LXX

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