PREVIEW OF EVENTS
Sunday, October 30
- WARREN, Mich.: The 66th anniversary banquet of the Ukrainian Graduates
of Detroit and Windsor will be held at the Ukrainian Cultural Center. Jaroslaw
Duzyj, prominent entrepreneur, community leader and benefactor, will be
honored as Ukrainian of the year, and this year's scholarship recipients
will be recognized. The reception is at 2 p.m., followed by the banquet
at 2:30 p.m., Tickets, at $35, may be obtained by calling (586) 268-8863,
(586) 758-6086, or (248) 851-7093. They may also be purchased at the Ukrainian
Selfreliance or Future credit unions.
- PASSAIC, N.J.: The New Jersey Regional Council of the Ukrainian National
Women's League of America invites the public to a celebration of the 80th
anniversary of the UNWLA to be held at noon in the church hall of St. Nicholas
Ukrainian Catholic Church, 212 President St. After the program, a light
lunch, including coffee and pastry, will be served. Voluntary donations
will be accepted at the door. For information call Ulana Kobzar, (201)
438-1252.
- SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J.: A Ukrainian Fall Festival will be held at
the Ukrainian Cultural Center, 135 Davidson Ave., at 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Featured
performers at the festivities are the Voloshky Dance Ensemble, Alla Kutsevych,
the Barvinok Dance Group and the Cheres Folk Ensemble. As part of the festival
there will be children's activities, a food court and raffle, as well as
tours of the center's museum. The Market Place will offer a cornucopia
of items: amber and beaded jewelry, Ukrainian embroidery, ceramics, pysanky,
glass art, scarves, crafts and souvenir items, as well as CDs, DVDs, videos,
T-shirts and athletic gear. Get your Christmas shopping done early by visiting
the Market Place. Admission: $5, adults; children, free. For more information
contact Luba Shevchenko, (908) 725-5322, or Olha Kryvolap, (410) 744-0168.
Monday, October 31
- CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute will host
a lecture given by Lidia Stefanowska, senior researcher, Slavic Division,
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, and Eugene and Daymel Shklar Fellow,
Ukrainian Research Institute. Her lecture, "'Return to Europe': The
Translation Projects of Lviv Ukrainian Journals in the 1930s and the Modernization
of Ukrainian Culture," will be held in the Seminar Room of the Institute
at 4-6 p.m. The institute is located at 1583 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge,
MA 02138. For more information, please contact HURI at (617) 495-4053 or
[email protected].
Saturday, November 5
- NEW YORK: Father Borys Gudziak, Ph.D., rector of the Ukrainian Catholic
University, will celebrate liturgy at St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church
at 5 p.m. A dinner in his honor will be held at 6:30 p.m. at St. George
School Auditorium, 215 E. Sixth St. Admission to the dinner is $100. Tax-deductible
checks should be made out to the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation
(UCEF). Send ticket requests to St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church, 30
E. Seventh St., New York, NY, 10003; telephone, (212) 674-1615; or to the
UCEF, 2247 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL, 60622; telephone, (773) 235-8462.
Sunday, November 6
- WARREN, Mich.: The Detroit Regional Council of the Ukrainian National
Women's League of America (UNWLA) presents the 80-70-60 Jubilee Luncheon,
a celebration of the 80th anniversary of the UNWLA, the 70th anniversary
of the Detroit Regional Council and the 60th anniversary of Our Life magazine,
at the Ukrainian Cultural Center, 26601 Ryan Road, at 2 p.m. Keynote speaker:
Iryna Kurowyckyj, president of the UNWLA; guest speaker: Anya Dydyk-Petrenko
of the Voice of America. Entertainment by the Soyuzianky Quartet (Olga
Dubrivny-Solovey, musical director); and Ostap Stachiw, soloist/bandurist.
An art exhibit will feature works by Halyna Cisaruk, Jarema Kozak, Volodymyr
Nemyra, Chrystyna Nykorak, Jurij Savchenko, Konstantyn Savchenko, Oleksander
Tkachenko and Eugenia Worobkevych. The exhibit will be on view beginning
at 1 p.m. A raffle of donated art by the aforementioned artists will conclude
the program. Tickets: $30, or $50 for sponsors, are available at both area
Ukrainian credit unions and from UNWLA members. To reserve tables for 10
call (248) 656-0306.
Tuesday, November 8
- TORONTO: The Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Toronto Branch, the Canadian
Institute of Ukrainian Studies and the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study
of Ukraine will host the annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture in Room 208N at
the Munk Center for International Studies, 1 Devonshire Place, at 5-7 p.m.
Prof. Lynne Viola of the University of Toronto will deliver the lecture,
"Before the Famine: Peasant Deportations to the North." For more
information contact the Jacyk Program, call (416) 946 8113, e-mail [email protected]
or check the website www.utoronto.ca/jacyk/.
Sunday, November 13
- CHICAGO: Meet Father Borys Gudziak, Ph.D., rector of the Ukrainian
Catholic University. A luncheon in his honor will be held at 1 p.m. at
the Ukrainian Cultural Center, 2247 W. Chicago Ave. Call your local parish
or the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation, (773) 235-8462, for ticket
information.
Sunday, November 20
- DETROIT: Meet Father Borys Gudziak, Ph.D., rector of the Ukrainian
Catholic University. A luncheon in his honor will be held at 2 p.m. at
the St. Josaphat Banquet Centre, 26440 Ryan Road, Warren, Mich. Call your
local parish or the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation, (773) 235-8462,
for ticket information.
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