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Concert — Night Songs from a Neighboring Village

Village on An-sky's Ukrainian ethnographic itinerary, 1912-1915.

Friday, February 12th, 7pm

"Night Songs from a Neighboring Village" brings together two musical traditions that have existed side by side in Ukraine for centuries, influencing each other profoundly. Join us for an evening of East European Jewish and Ukrainian music and song, presented comparatively by two of the finest performers in both traditions: internationally acclaimed Yiddish singer and klezmer multi-instrumentalist/composer Michael Alpert and internationally renowned singer/composer/master of the Ukrainian bandura, Julian Kytasty.

The program draws from the rich legacy of Ukrainian folk and liturgical song, the virtuosic art of the bandura (Ukrainian harp-lute), klezmer music, Yiddish folksong, and the music of the Hasidim. A first version of "Night Songs" was created to accompany the "Tracing An-sky" exhibition at New York's Jewish Museum. Since 1993, Alpert and Kytasty have performed the program internationally as a duo, in the company of other musicians, and in an ensemble version with the Brave Old World klezmer band and the Canadian-Ukrainian group Paris-to-Kyiv.

Admission (includes reception): $15; members, seniors: $10; students: $5.
RSVP 212.228.0110 or send an email to info@ukrainianmuseum.org. Reservations are recommended.

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The Ukrainian Museum
222 East Sixth Street
(between 2nd & 3rd Avenues)
New York, New York 10003

http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/

Book launch and talk – Blood in the Borsch
"Blood in the Borsch," an illustrated talk on contemporary Ukraine by Natalka Husar and Janice Kulyk Keefer, and book launch of their double album: "Burden of Innocence," illustrated with works by Ms. Husar, and "Foreign Relations," poetry by Ms. Kulyk Keefer (2009, Rodovid, Ukraine). Friday, February 19 at 7:00 p.m.
Admission (includes reception): $15; members, seniors: $10; students: $5. RSVP 212.228.0110 or send an email to info@ukrainianmuseum.org. Reservations are recommended.

The Ukrainian Museum
222 East Sixth Street
(between 2nd & 3rd Avenues)
New York, New York 10003
Tel: 212.228.0110
Wed-Sun 11:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Film — Kinofest NYC

Kinofest NYC: Feb 25 – 28, 2010 (opening night reception)
Tickets: $10 ($8 advance purchase), $24 festival pass
Purchase tickets online or at the Museum during gallery hours.

Kinofest NYC is an inaugural film festival that celebrates independent cinema from Ukraine and other post-Soviet bloc countries. The festival is a new voice in the New York cinema community that features films and filmmakers emerging from the memory of the Iron Curtain. Opening night guests include Jonas Mekas, founder of Anthology Film Archives, who will present his autobiographical film Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, and Annette Michelson, Prof. Emeritus of NYU Cinema Studies. The four-day, 6-session event will include feature documentaries, shorts and animations with presentations by filmmakers and guest speakers. All films are in English or contain English subtitles.

Thursday, February 25, 7 p.m.
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas, 1971, 88min, 16mm). Opening night reception: meet the director Jonas Mekas, founder of Anthology Film Archives and Annette Michelson of NYU Cinema Studies

Friday, February 26, 7 p.m.
The Fourth Wave (Viktoria Melnykova 2008, 80 min, Ukrainian w/English subtitles). Film introduction and Q&A led by Dr. Yuri Shevchuk, founder of the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University

Saturday, February 27, 5 p.m.
Animations and Film Shorts by Young Ukrainian Filmmakers. Guest presenter Bohdana Smyrnova, graduate of Kyiv's Karpenko-Kary film school and a student at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts

Saturday, February 27, 8 p.m.
Power Trip (Paul Devlin, 2003, 85 min, Georgian w/English subtitles). Bonus short: Update from Georgia's Rose Revolution. Film introduction and Q&A led by guest presenter and filmmaker Paul Devlin

Sunday, February 28, 2 p.m.
· solidarity. (Joan Schimke and Eva Nagorski, 2005, 21min).
Meet Eva Nagorski at the Q&A
· A Lesson of Belorusian (Mirosław Dembiński, 2006, 55min, Belarusian w/English subtitles)

Sunday, February 28, 5 p.m.
· Pictograph (Mišo & Lida Suchý, 2007, 21min, Ukrainian w/Eng subtitles)
· I Am a Monument to Myself (Dmytro Tiazhlov, 2009, 55min, Ukrainian w/English subtitles)
· A Parched Land (Taras Tomenko 2004, 25min, no dialogue)
Film introductions and Q&A led by Prof. Alexander Motyl of Rutgers University

For more information, go to the KinofestNYC.com website

  The Museum’s film series is supported in part by
  the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

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The Ukrainian Museum
222 East Sixth Street
(between 2nd & 3rd Avenues)
New York, New York 10003
Tel: 212.228.0110
Wed-Sun 11:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Exhibition — Fine Art / Folk Art: A Dialogue (extended!)

Fine Art / Folk Art: A Dialogue examines the profound influence of Ukrainian folk art on the fine art created by some of Ukraine's best known and highly regarded artists. The exhibition includes 70 paintings, sculptures, watercolors, and woodcuts by such prominent artists as Alexander Archipenko, Jacques Hnizdovsky, Oleksa Hryshchenko (Alexis Gritchenko), Vasyl H. Krychevsky, and Oleksa Novakivsky, along with a selection of folk art items from the Museum's extensive collection: embroidered shirts, plakhty (wraparound skirts), complete folk costumes, a traditional headdress, a kilim, and an assortment of ceramic and carved-wood pieces and pysanky (Ukrainian Easter eggs).

The Ukrainian Museum
222 East Sixth Street
(between 2nd & 3rd Avenues)
New York, New York 10003
Tel: 212.228.0110
Wed-Sun 11:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Exhibition — The Gift of Art: Major Gift of Arcadia Olenska-Petryshyn Paintings

Member preview Sunday, December 13; opens to the public Wednesday, December 16.

The exhibition spotlights Dr. Wolodymyr Petryshyn's gift to the Museum of 45 works by his late wife and recognizes her importance to the cultural life of the Ukrainian community. Nearly all the Museum's holdings of Olenska-Petryshyn's works are included in the exhibition, along with four paintings on loan from the estate of her mother, Maria Olenska.

The Gift of Art is one in a series of exhibitions honoring the generosity of donors who have enriched the Museum's collection with substantial gifts.

The Ukrainian Museum
222 East Sixth Street
(between 2nd & 3rd Avenues)
New York, New York 10003
Tel: 212.228.0110
Wed-Sun 11:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Exhibition — Ukraine–Sweden: At the Crossroads of History (XVII–XVIII Centuries)

Ukraine–Sweden: At the Crossroads of History (XVII–XVIII Centuries) was shown in 2008–2009 at the National Museum of Ukrainian History in Kyiv to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Swedish–Ukrainian alliance, the Battle of Poltava and the death of Hetman Ivan Mazepa. The exhibition received widespread acclaim and won second prize among all Ukraine's exhibitions in 2008. The king of Sweden traveled to Kyiv for the exhibition's opening.

In the July 9 Wall Street Journal article by Adrian Karatnycky and Professor Alexander J. Motyl, the authors argue that, to this day, Hetman Mazepa and the Battle of Poltava are a thorn in Russia's side. They conclude that "the contemporary battle over the meaning of Poltava is as significant as the Battle of Poltava was three centuries ago."

Ukraine–Sweden: At the Crossroads of History will become a living historical document demonstrating to the American public and the younger generation of Ukrainian Americans that the battle to preserve Ukraine's independence was already being fought, by Hetman Mazepa and his troops, 300 years ago.

The Ukrainian Museum
222 East Sixth Street
(between 2nd & 3rd Avenues)
New York, New York 10003
Tel: 212.228.0110
Wed-Sun 11:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.