[aaus-list] Save the dates: Ukrainian cultural double-header April 24-25

[ajmotyl at andromeda.rutgers.edu]

SAVE THE DATES: Ukrainian Cultural Double-Header in New York

Friday, April 24, 2009, 7-9pm
The Ukrainian Museum
222 East 6th Street
Admission: $15; $10 for members and seniors; $5 for students; reception
follows. Reservations accepted.
Information: 212-228-0110; www.ukrainianmuseum.org.

Featuring poetry by Virlana Tkacz, Vasyl Makhno, and Orest Popovych; prose
by Askold Melnyczuk, Alexander Motyl, and Marko Robert Stech; and films by
Irene Zabytko, Max Orlowsky Hoffman, and other Ukrainian filmmakers.

Saturday, April 25, 2009, 6-8pm
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street
Cover charge: $10; includes one free drink. No reservations accepted.
Information: 212-989-9319; www.corneliastreetcafe.com.

Featuring poetry by Dzvinia Orlowsky and Angelo Verga; prose by Askold
Melnyczuk, Alexander Motyl, and Irene Zabytko; and music by Yeezhak and
Julian Kytasty.

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Julian Kytasty is a composer, singer, and bandura and flute player.
Vasyl Makhno is a Ukrainian-language poet and author of 38 Poems about New
York and Other Things, Cornelia Street Cafe, and the play, Coney Island.
Askold Melnyczuk is the award-winning author of What Is Told,
Ambassador of the Dead, and The House of Widows. Alexander Motyl is the
author of Whiskey Priest, Who Killed Andrei Warhol, and the forthcoming
Flippancy and The Jew Who Was Ukrainian. Dzvinia Orlowsky is a Pushcart
Prize-winning poet and author of A Handful of Bees, Edge of House, Except
for One Obscene Brushstroke, and Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones. Max
Orlowsky Hoffman is currently a junior at Thayer Academy in Braintree, MA;
he has started his own mini-production company, Blackbird Productions.
Orest Popovych is the translator of V. Makhno's poetry into English. Marko
Robert Stech is the author of Holos/Voice. Virlana Tkacz is founding
director of the Yara Arts Group, a resident company at La MaMa
Experimental Theatre in New York. Angelo Verga is the author of 33 NYC
Poems, A Hurricane Is, and Praise for What Remains; his poetry has been
translated into Ukrainian by V. Makhno and A. Motyl. Yeezhak is an indie
rock band featuring Mark Andryczyk and Yaryna Yakubyak. Irene Zabytko is
the award-winning author of The Sky Unwashed, When Luba Leaves Home, and
the forthcoming My Chornobyl and She Was Exotic and Strange and director
of Epiphany at Chornobyl and the forthcoming Life in the Dead Zone.

Books will be available for author signings.