[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.

Poetry by Virlana Tkacz, Vasyl Makhno, and Orest Popovych; prose by Askold
Melnyczuk, Alexander Motyl, and Marko Robert Stech; and films by Olenka
Denysenko, Lesya Kalynska, Max Orlowsky Hoffman, and Irene Zabytko.

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.

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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Olenka Denysenko is a NYC-based filmmaker and director of The Summons.
Lesya Kalynska is an award-winning filmmaker, director of The
Balloonist and In the Land of the Lost Crusaders, and founder of the
Pomegranate Images film company. 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 a
junior at Thayer Academy in Braintree, MA, and founder of 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. Angelo Verga is the author of
33 NYC Poems, A Hurricane Is, and Praise for What Remains; his poems have
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.