PREVIEW OF EVENTS (10/12/03)

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Wednesday, October 15

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J.: The Julius and Dorothy Koppelman Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center at Rider University is sponsoring a public lecture titled "Famine-Genocide in Ukraine: The Holodomor of 1932-1933," with guest speaker Dr. Taras Hunczak, professor and former chair, department of history and political science, and former director, East European Studies Program, at Rutgers University, and special guest, Valeriy P. Kuchinsky, ambassador of Ukraine to the United Nations. The lecture will be held at 7:30-9 p.m. at the Luedeke Student Center Theater, Rider University, 2083 Lawrenceville Road; (Lawrenceville is between Princeton and Trenton on Rt. 206). A reception will follow Dr. Hunczak's presentation and the ensuing discussion. Admission is free. For additional information call the Shevchenko Scinetific Society, (212) 254-5130.

Saturday, October 18

NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Society is holding an author's evening for playwright Iryna Koval of Hartford, Conn., and Kyiv. Ms. Koval is an author of several plays that have been staged in Ukraine and Europe, among them, the play "Lev and Levytsia," which was recently staged in Great Britain under the title "Pagan Saints." The evening will be held at the society's building, 63 Fourth Avenue (between Ninth and 10th streets) at 5 p.m. For more information call (212) 254-5130.
HARTFORD, Conn.: The Ukrainian National Home invites members and guests with their families to the annual dinner-dance to be held in the main hall, 961 Wethersfield Ave., at 6 p.m. The program will include performances by the Zolotyj Promin Ukrainian Dance Ensemble and the Yevshan Ukrainian Vocal Ensemble. Dinner buffet will be followed by dancing to the tunes of the Zorepad Orchestra. Donation: $20, adults; students (up to the age of 18), $10. Tickets can be purchased from the UNHH office by calling (860) 296-5702.

Friday, October 24

TORONTO: The Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine presents a workshop titled "Institution-Building and Policy-Making in Ukraine." The workshop will be held at the University of Toronto, Munk Center for International Studies, 1 Devonshire Place, at 2-5 p.m. For additional information call the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Toronto, (416) 946-8133.

Saturday-Sunday, October 24-25

FOX RIVER GROVE, Ill.: The Ukrainian Philatelic Society of Illinois will be holding a two-day stamps and collectibles show at the Ukrainian National Museum, 2249 W. Superior St. Featured will be philately and other Ukrainian American themes; exhibits will feature a variety of collectables items. There will be a bourse, and visitors are encouraged to bring to the show items they want to identify, show or sell. Hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m., both days; admission is free.

Sunday, October 26

NEW YORK: The Dumka Chorus of New York invites the public to a musical tribute to Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko (1842-1912) - a key figure in the study and development of Ukrainian music - featuring the Dumka chorus under the direction of Vasyl Hrechynsky; special guest artist, baritone Mykhailo Kryven of Ivano-Frankivsk; and guest artists: soprano Oksana Krovytska, cellist Natalia Khoma, pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky, tenor Roman Tsymbala and baritone Oleh Chmyr-Opalinsky; with Dr. Taras Filenko, introductory remarks and National Artist of Ukraine Ivan Bernatsky, emcee. The concert will be held at the Fashion Institute of Technology, 27th Street at Seventh Avenue at 2:30 p.m. Tickets: $15; children, free. For additional information call (718) 672-9344.

Tuesday, October 28

NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Engineers' Society of America (UESA), presents, as part of its lecture series, "Water Resource Management: Theory and Projects in the Iraqi Reconstruction Project," with Dr. Eugene Z. Stakhiv, chief of planning, policy and special studies division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Institute for Water Resources (IWR), and recent interim minister and senior advisor to Iraq's Ministry of Irrigation. Sign-in and networking will be at 6:45 p.m.; the lecture will start at 7:15 p.m. The lecture will be held at the Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 E. 79th St. For more information visit www.uesa.org or e-mail: [email protected].
MONTREAL: The Faculty of Music at McGill University will present the Luba and Ireneus Zuk Piano Duo in a concert of works for two pianos, in Pollack Concert Hall, 555 Sherbrooks St. W. (Metro: McGill, or Bus Route No. 24), at 8 p.m. The program will feature the world premier of "Ancient Dances of Verkhovyna" (2002) by Ukrainian composer Yevhen Stankovych. Other works on the program are: Sonata for Two Pianos (1970) by Canadian composer George Fiala, "Hymn to a Great City (1984-2000) by Arvo Pãrt, the "Musical Offering," BWV 1079 by Johann Sebastian Bach (excerpts from the transcription for two pianos by Stefano Greco and Francesco Lotoro), and "Mazeppa" - Symphonic Poem No. 6 by Franz Liszt. For more information call the McGill University concert office (514) 398-5145 or (514) 398-4547, or visit the website www.music.mcgill.ca.