PREVIEW OF EVENTS (06/15/03)

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Thursday, June 12 - Sunday, June 29

NEW YORK: LaMaMa Experimental Theater and Yara Arts Group present "Swan," a new theater piece based on Oleh Lysheha's eponymous Ukrainian poem, performed in English in a translation by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps. The theater piece, which opens on June 12 and will run through June 29, is created by director Tkach, designer Watoku Ueno, musician Paul Brantley, vocalist Meredith Wright, video director Andrea Odezynska and actors Andrew Colteaux and Soomi Kim. Performances: Thursday-Sunday, 8 p.m.; matinee, Sundays, 3 p.m. Tickets, $15. La MaMa is located at 74 E. Fourth St.; telephone, (212) 475-7710; website, www.brama.com/yara.

Saturday, June 21

NEW YORK: Yara Arts Group presents "Kupala in the Garden," contemporary signers, musicians, performers and artist react to pagan rituals, songs, art and anarchy. The program is free and will be held at La Plaza Cultural Garden, East Ninth Street and Avenue C. Website, www.brama.com/yara.

Sunday, June 22

CHICAGO: The Foundation for the Advancement of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Illinois invites the public to a reception and luncheon at the Ukrainian Cultural Center, 2247 W. Chicago Ave. for scholars from the 22nd annual Conference on Ukrainian Subjects, which is titled "Ukraine Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow." The conference is being held at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, on June 16-21. For more information, call Prof. Dmytro Shtohryn at (217) 356-9195. On June 22, the main speakers at the conference will be Ivan Drach, poet and member of Parliament of Ukraine, and Dmytro Pavlychko, poet and former ambassador of Ukraine to Slovakia and Poland. For reservations for reception and luncheon, at $50 per person, call Raisa Bratkiv, (847) 477-2150.
EMLENTON, Pa.: All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church Camp will celebrate its 25th anniversary on the campgrounds. The day's activites commence with the celebration of the hierarchical divine liturgy at 11 a.m. and the blessing of icons. The dining hall will serve delicious Ukrainian and American foods from 1 p.m., while the Ukrainian Marketplace will feature handicrafts from Ukraine, religious articles, icons and a display and sales of Ukrainian postal stamps. The anniversary program and concert will take place at 3:30 p.m. Music will be provided all day by Mickey's One-Man Band. Sports activities available all day include softball, basketball, volleyball and swimming. Free admission and parking. For more information call the camp manager, Stephen Sheptak, (724) 867-5811.

Saturday, June 28

CHICAGO: A literary evening devoted to the works of Ivan Bahriany, a prolific writer, journalist and political leader whose works are now being published in Ukraine, is being sponsored by the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art and the Ukrainian Language Society (TUM). The featured speaker will be O. Konowal, who organized Bahriany's extensive correspondence with prominent Ukrainian leaders and literary figures in two volumes, published by Smoloskyp in Kyiv last October. The two-volume. "Correspondence," as well as other publications, will be available for purchase. Bahriany, whose works were translated into English, French, German, Spanish and other languages, was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature.

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