"Ukrainian Day" at United Nations features Christmas program

UNITED NATIONS - As part of the celebration of the winter holidays, the United Nations hosted a Ukrainian Day on December 19, 2002. According to the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the U.N., this is the first time that a full day at the United Nations has been dedicated to Ukrainian culture. During the day, a group of children from Philadelphia performed a traditional Christmas "vertep" to the accompaniment of the women's quartet Holubka. In the evening, the Dumka choir from New York City performed a program that included carols and schedrivky in the main hall of the United Nations. Also part of the evening program were Alla Kutsevych, Halyna Tsikhotska, and the duos of Lida and Gabriela Oros, Yulianna and Ivan-Yulian Slutsky, and Nadia and Natalia Pavlyshyn. Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate, who had arrived the day before in New York for a private visit in the United States, was a suprise guest at the performance of the children's vertep. At the end of the program, he was invited onstage to be photographed (center) with the vertep performers.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, January 5, 2003, No. 1, Vol. LXXI

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