UOC-USA designates November as "Famine Commemoration Month"

SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. - The month of November has been designated by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. as "Famine Commemoration Month," as the world remembers the 70th anniversary of the deaths of millions of Ukrainians.

To mark this solemn anniversary, the Office of Ethnic and Cultural Affairs is presenting an art exhibition of the graphic art of Mykola Bondarenko. His series of linocuts, "Ukraine 1933: A Cookbook," will be on display for the entire month of November in the rotunda and library of the Consistory Building of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A., located at 135 Davidson Ave., Somerset, N.J. 08873.

The exhibition opening will be held on Sunday, November 2, at 5 p.m. Refreshments will be served after a short talk on the Famine-Genocide and the artist and his work.

Other commemorative events during the month of November include:

• Friday, November 7, at 7:30 p.m. - "Tears of the Mother of God," a folk tragedy and prize-winning play by Ulas Samchuk, depicting life during 1932-1933 in Ukraine, presented by the Lviv State Drama Theater at the Ukrainian Cultural Center. Tickets: $25; students, $15 (available at the Consistory Offices).
  
  
• Sunday, November 23, at 10 a.m. - hierarchical divine liturgy, memorial panakhyda, memorial dinner and program at St. Andrew Memorial Church and at the Ukrainian Cultural Center.

For information and directions, contact Natalia Honcharenko at (732) 356-0090, ext. 17.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, November 2, 2003, No. 44, Vol. LXXI

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