Ukrainian folk arts program offered at the Grazhda

JEWETT, N.Y. - A rich and varied program of Ukrainian folk arts, held under the auspices of Music and Art Center of Greene County, is being offered as part of the summer program at the Grazhda.

Among the workshops offered are four one-week courses in the following:

• pysanky (Ukrainian Easter egg decorating) and ceramics, with New York-based artist Sofika Zielyk, instructor, July 31- August 4;
  
  
• embroidery, with Lubow Wolynec, curator and librarian at the Ukrainian Museum and Library of Stamford, Conn., instructor, August 7-11; and,
  
  
• gerdany (bead necklace stringing), (instructor to be announced), August 7-11.

In addition, a two-week Ukrainian folk-singing program, under the direction of Anna Bachynska, will be held on July 31-August 11.

For additional information and to register for the workshops and the children's folk-singing program, contact the respective instructors: Ms. Zielyk, 212-533-6419; Ms. Wolynec, 203- 327-7899 (work); or Ms. Bachynska, 718-271-987.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, June 11, 2006, No. 24, Vol. LXXIV

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