"Memorial Evening For Ukrainian Famine Victims"
Friday evening, November 24th, 2000
6 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Kyiv City Teachers House
57 Volodymyrska str.
Kyiv, Ukraine
"Famine" by Victor Zaretsky (1925-1990) oil on canvas, l989
Other photographs and material are available from the Ukrainian Great Famine Art Collection.
Sponsors of the Ukrainian Great Famine Art Collection include: Ukrainian Famine Researchers Association, University Gallery--Sasha Prakhova,
Majsternia Gallery--Volodymry Vestak and Iryna Olstromens'ka, ArtUkraine.com--E. Morgan Williams, Chrystia Sonevytsky-USA, Nina Marchenko, Olexander Volnenko, Volodymyr Rak, Exar Photo Shop and Gallery--Victor Gridasov.
Program consists of memorial tributes, music, and poetry, in honor of the Ukrainian victims of famines: 1922-1923, 1932-1933, and the late 1940's.
The new "Ukrainian Great Famine Art Exhibition" will also be on display. The Exhibition consists of over 100 Ukrainian artist's paintings, posters, graphics, photographs, sculptures, and other works of art in honor of the victims of the Great Ukraine Famine of 1932-1933. Artworks included are from the private collection of www.ArtUkraine.com, E. Morgan Williams and other private collections.
For further information please contact Lyuba Stasiv, Administrative Director, Ukrainian Famine Writers Association, 20B Kudri St., Kyiv, Ukraine, 269-1263 or 228-0811.
This is the first showing of the "Ukrainian Great Famine Art Exhibition" which is being organized for exhibition in Europe, the United States, Canada, Ukraine and other countries during 2002-2003, the 70th anniversary of the Great Soviet-Ukraine Famine/Genocide of 1932-1933. The Exhibition is still in the process of collecting art items for the final worldwide traveling exhibition which begins in 2002. A "Ukrainian Great Famine Gallery" is being developed on the website, www.ArtUkraine.com.
The Ukrainian Famine Researchers Association and its members research and publish books about the Ukraine famines, sponsor tributes to the famine victims, promote the building of monuments to the famine victims and other related activities. Copies of the many books published over the past 10 years by the Association, including three new ones, will be available at the Teachers House.
Photo credits
E. Morgan Williams
President
ArtUkraine.com
Ukraine Market Reform Group
Ukraine Business Development and Investment Group
Kyiv, Ukraine
380 44 212 5586 Kyiv
380 44 459 3322 Kyiv Mobile
E-Mail: morgankiev@yahoo.com
Web: www.ArtUkraine.com
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