PREVIEW OF EVENTS
April 2-26
- WASHINGTON: Jen Ferguson, a New York painter who has worked and exhibited
in Woodstock, N.Y., Paris, Los Angeles and Virginia, will exhibit her new
work, "Strange Worlds," at the Washington Arts Club in a solo
show curated by Dr. Eric Denker, curator of prints drawings at the Corcoran
Gallery and lecturer at the National Gallery, and Maureane O'Shaugnessy,
gallery director, Washington Arts Club. Stories and imagery from her Latvian
relatives have inspired much of Ms. Ferguson's work, which depicts architecture
in various states of decay and renewal. Washington, city of monuments,
will be an ideal setting for her latest group of exquisite paintings. "Strange
Worlds" will be on view at The Arts Club of Washington, McFeely Gallery,
April 2-26. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, April 3, at
6:30-8:30 p.m. The Arts Club of Washington is located at 2017 I St. NW;
telephone, (202) 331-7282. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.;
Saturdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.; the gallery is closed on Sunday and Monday.
Saturday, April 5
- CHICAGO: The Chicago Business and Professional Group is sponsoring
a presentation by Lidia Wolanskyj, publisher of Eastern Economist, titled
"In the Shadow of Iraq: Old Europe, New Europe and Ukraine."
Ms. Wolanskyj, who is responsible for one of the most authoritative business
publications in Ukraine, will discuss the impact of the war in Iraq on
Ukraine's economic and political aspirations and plans for greater integration
into the European Union. The presentation will be held at the Ukrainian
Institute of Modern Art, 2320 W. Chicago Ave., at 7 p.m. Refreshments and
socializing will follow the presentation. Admission: $10, members; $15,
non-members and guests. For additional information call (847) 359-3676.
- BUFFALO, N.Y.: A Ukrainian Artifacts Roadshow and Expo, sponsored by
the Niagara Frontier Council, League of Ukrainian Catholics, will be held
at the Our Lady of Perpetual Help church hall, 1219 Abbott Road, Lackawanna,
N.Y., at noon-4 p.m. Featured will be demonstrations of Ukrainian folk
arts - beadwork (gerdany), embroidery, pysanky, and weaving. Lubow Wolynetz
of the Ukrainian Museum and Library of Stamford in Stamford, Conn., will
be present to appraise Ukrainian and Eastern European artifacts that attendees
are encouraged to bring in. There will also be ethnic food, a Ukrainian
café, as well as Easter baked goods for sale by members of the Children
of Chornobyl Relief Fund. Donation: $2; proceeds to benefit the building
fund of the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in Kyiv. For additional information
call Dora Horbachevska, (716) 675-3417 (evenings), or e-mail dora [email protected].
Sunday, April 6
- NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh) is sponsoring a
roundtable on the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933 with Jaroslaw Pelensky,
W.K. Lypynsky East European Research Institute, European Research Institute
of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, chair, and participants:
Mark von Hagen, Columbia University; Taras Hunczak, Rutgers University,
Stanislav Kulchytskyj, Institute of History of the National Academy of
Sciences of Ukraine, Daria Darevych, York University, Canada, Wsewolod
Isajiw, University of Toronto, Larissa Onyshkevych, NTSh, and Mykola Soroka,
University of Alberta. The roundtable will take place at 2 p.m. at the
society's building, 63 Fourth Ave. (between Ninth and 10th streets) at
5 p.m. For more information call (212) 254-5130.
Monday, April 7
- STANFORD, Calif.: Dr. Yuri Scherbak, Ukraine's Ambassador to Canada,
will address the topic "Ukraine: Geopolitical Challenge for the 21st
Century," as part of seven distinguished lectures in the series titled
"Ukraine: Emerging Nation." The lecture, sponsored by the Center
for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at the university, will
take place at SIEPR Conference Room A, Landau Economics Building (corner
of Galvez and Serra streets), beginning at 4:15 p.m. For additional information
access http://www.stanford.edu/dept/CREEES/UkrainianStudies.html,
or call the center at (650) 723-3562.
- CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) will
host a lecture by Andrew Savchenko, visiting scholar at the Watson Institute
for Intergenerational Studies, Brown University, and Eugene and Daymel
Shklar Fellow at HURI, on the topic "The Ties That Bind: What Keeps
Independent Belarus in Russia's Orbit?" The lecture will take place
at 4-6 p.m. in the Seminar Room of the institute, 1583 Massachusetts Ave.
Directions may be found on the website www.huri.harvard.edu.
Call the institute, (617) 495-4053, for more information.
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30, 2003, No. 13, Vol. LXXI
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