PREVIEW OF EVENTS (06/22/03)

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

ONGOING: June 12-29

NEW YORK: La MaMa Experimental Theater and Yara Arts Group present "Swan," a new theater piece based on Oleh Lyshcha's Ukrainian poem. This original theater piece is created by director Virlana Tkacz, designer Watoku Ueno, musician Paul Brantley, vocalist Meredith Wright, video director Andrea Odezynska and actors Andrew Colteaux and Soomi Kim. It is performed in English in a translation by Ms. Tkacz and Wanda Phipps. Performances: Thursday-Sunday, at 8 p.m. plus matinee on Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets: $15. La MaMa is located at 74 E. Fourth St., tel.: (212) 475-7710; website: www.brama.com/yara.

Saturday, June 28

NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh) is holding a four-part presentation on the topic "The State of Relations between Ukraine and the Diaspora," featuring the following scholars from Ukraine: Oleh Romaniv, NTSh president, Lviv; as well as Ihor Vynnychenko, Kyiv; Volodymyr Vyatrovych, Lviv; and Oleksander Sych, Ivano-Frankivsk. The conference will be held at the NTSh building, 63 Fourth Ave. (between Ninth and 10th streets) at 5 p.m. For additional information call, (212) 254-5130.

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.

Saturday-Sunday, July 5-6

KERHONKSON, N.Y.: An exhibit of pysanky and ceramics by Sofika Zielyk will be on view at the Soyuzivka Estate's Main Building and Library. For more information call (212) 533-6419.

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