PREVIEW OF EVENTS
Sunday, February 6
- WASHINGTON: The Washington Group Cultural Fund, in cooperation with
the Embassy of Ukraine, invites the public to an encore performance by
Mariana Sadovska, who will perform ancient folk songs from various regions
of Ukraine. The audience will be able to meet the artist at a reception
following the performance. The concert will take place at the Lyceum, 201
S. Washington St., Old Town Alexandria, Va. Admission: $20; students, free.
The premises are handicapped accessible. For more information, contact
Svitlana Fedko Shiells, (703) 506-4745.
Thursday, February 10
- NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University will screen
"A Friend of the Deceased," a full-length feature film by Viacheslav
Khrystofovych (1993). This fiction crime story, with screenplay by the
renowned Andriy Kurkov, invites the public to take a sober view of Ukrainian
society as it enters the first days of the Yushchenko presidency. Introduction
by Dr. Yuri Shevchuk, lecturer of Ukrainian language and culture, Columbia
University. The film will be shown in the original Russian-language version,
with English subtitles, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 717, Hamilton Hall. The screening
will be followed by a discussion. For more information or to RSVP, contact
Diana Howansky, (212) 854-4697, or [email protected].
Tuesday, February 17
- NEW YORK: Yara Arts Group and the Bowery Poetry Club present Serhiy
Zhadan, one of hottest young poets writing in Ukraine today, who will read
his new work. Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps who are translating his new
work into English, will read their translations. Time: 7 p.m.; place: Bowery
Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (at First Street) The event is free. For information
call Yara, (212) 475-6474, or e-mail [email protected].
For more information and updates visit www.brama.com/yara.
Saturday, February 19
- NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Society invites the public to a
literary evening featuring the renowned Polish poet Dr. Anna Frajlich-Zajac,
recipient of the Polish literary prize of the Koscielski Foundation of
Switzerland (1981) and lecturer in Polish, Slavic department, Columbia
University. Introductory remarks and Ukrainian translation of selected
poems will by Prof. Vasyl Makhno. The literary evening will take place
at the society's building, 63 Fourth Ave. (between Ninth and 10th streets)
at 5 p.m. For additional information call the society, (212) 254-5130.
- NEW YORK: The "Music at the Institute" chamber music series
will present the Cerberus Piano Trio - Mykola Suk, piano, Byron Tauchi,
violin, and Andrew Smith, cello - in a program of works by Ildebrando Pizzetti,
Myroslav Skoryk and Anton Arensky. The concert will be held at the Ukrainian
Institute of America, 2 E. 79th St., at 8 p.m. Donation: $25; senior citizens
and students, $20. For additional information and reservations call (212)
288-8660.
ADVANCE NOTICE
Friday, March 4-Sunday, March 20
- NEW YORK: Yara Arts Group's new show - "Koliada: Winter Songs"
- will be staged at La MaMa Experimental Theater, 74A E. Fourth St. For
more information on Yara Arts Group and the events visit the website: www.brama.com/yara. For tickets to
the Koliada theater piece call La MaMa Box Office, (212) 475-7710.
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6, 2005, No. 6, Vol. LXXIII
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