EVENTS: POETRY, MUSIC & ART

KYRGYZSTAN: Celestial Mountians Kyrgyz Epics, Traditional Music, Art and Photography February - April, 2007 Feb 23 -- Epic Songs Across the Steppe at the Ukrainian Museum in New York Feb 28 -- Sakhna Kyrgyz Epic Songs at Columbia University Mar 10 to 11 -- Exhibit of Kyrgyz Traditional Art at La MaMa Club Mar 17 -- Kyrgyz Traditional Music and Art at New York Public Library Mar 28 -- Kyrgyz Epic Theatre at Columbia Univeristy - Theatre Division Apr 3 to 6 -- Kyrgyzstan: Celestial Mountains a cluster of events in Saratoga Srpings, NY -- including photo exhibit, concerts, talks and craft bazaar Apr 13 -- Kyrgyz Epic Songs at Philadelphia Community College see also: Janyl for pictures and press on Yara's show based on Kyrgyz epic Janyl at La MaMa for more information on show in New York March 2007 Janyl Myrza for pictures from work-in-porgress in Bishkek summer 2006 The Land of Janyl Myrza for pictures from research trip in Kyrgyzstan July 2006

KOLIADA Winter Rituals in the Carpathians EVENTS in DECEMBER 2006 Dec 3 at 3PM -- Koliadnyky in Concert at Ukrainian Museum in New York Dec 8-9 at 8:00 and Dec 10 at 2 PM -- Still the River Flows Ukrainian League of Philadelphia Dec 15 at 8: PM -- Koliada on Fifth Avenue at Ukrainain Institute of America in New York Dec 16 1-4 PM -- Workshop in Winter Song Singing with Koliadnyky, Alexis Kochan and Julian Kytasty in New York Dec 17 - Jan 5 -- Koliada: Photographs by Alexander Khantaev at Spring Street Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY About the Koliadnyky of Kryvorivnia "In Search of the Hutsul Koliada of Kryvorivnia" by Virlana Tkacz PAST EVENTS Koliadnyky of Kryvorivnia in Concert at La MaMa Galleria March 16, 2005 Koliada: Winter Rituals photo exhibit and video installation at La MaMa Galleria January 15-23, 2005 Koliada theatre workshop at Les Kurbas National Theatre Center, Kyiv, Ukraine December 4-5, 2004 Koliada: Twelve Dishes information on theatre piece at La MaMa ETC March 4-20, 2005 Koliada: Twelve Dishes reviews and photographss from theatre piece at La MaMa ETC Still the River Flows installation at Ukrainian Museum December 11, 2005 - Febraury 6, 2006 Still the River Flows reveiws and photographs from installation at Ukrainian Museum

YARA IS 15 A Celebration with Two Film Premieres and Poetry in Performance at La MaMa Annex September 24, 2005 Press release and information Press and photos from the event

YARA ARTS GROUP performs InVerse: Poetry in Performance Yara actors perform Ukrainian poetry in original and in translations by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps at Harvard, July 29, 2005 with film by Amy Grappell in Hunter, July 23, 2005 with slides of Yara productions in Dutchess Community College, Nov 22, 2005 as talk with slides by artistic director Virlana Tkacz with performances by Yara Arts Group of: 20th century Ukrainian poems, 7th century Japanese women’s poetry, traditional Siberian epics, and contemporary American verse. at Soyuzivka July 6, 2003

POEMS FOR THE BOWERY Serhiy Zhadan reads at the Bowery Poetry Club while Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps read translations of his work at Bowery Poetry Club, February 15, 2005 More on Zhadan, event & poems

A REVOLUTION IN ORANGE photos by Alexander Khantaev from the 17 day non-violent struggle for democracy in Ukraine Ukrainian Museum 222 E 6th St, New York from August 24, 2005 Humanities Gallery of The Cooper Union East Village, New York February 28-March 11, 2005

KUPALA IN THE GARDEN Nights of ritual, song, art and anarchy with Yara artists: Mariana Sadovska, Akiko Hiroshima, Allison Hiroto, Iryna Hrechko, Eleanor Lipat, Jun Kim, Lya Kotys, Roksolana Luchkan, Tchan Montmory, Piroshka, Odarka Polanska, John and Stan Rublowsky, Gloria San Antonio, Olga Shuhan, Anais Tekerian, Eunice Wong Experimental Bandura Trio: Julian Kytasty, Mike Andrec and Jurij Fedynskyi with Natalia Honcharenko Budmo: Valeryi Zhmud, Roman Galynsky, Mykhailo Gnatyuk,and Petro Gorganyuk Svitanje: Kim Fechak, Sibelan Forrester, Yelena Forrester,Laura Howson, Mary Kalyna and Matalija Mijatovic Kolo Project: Katja Kolcio and many others assembled by Virlana Tkacz June 22 & 29, 2002 at La Plaza Cultural Community Garden E 9th St & Ave C, NYC plus Midsummer Night Song workshops June 15-16 at La MaMa and a concert by Mariana Sadovska June 26 at the Club at La MaMa More, plus pictures one participant on Mariana's Workshops

YARA ARTS GROUP performs excerpts from A HUNDRED YEARS OF YOUTH: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Ukrainian Poetry Yara actors perform poetry to celebrate the publication of this new award-winning book. The book, edited by Olha Luchuk and Michael M. Naydan, features the work of 100 Ukrainian poets in English translations by forty-four translators, including 30 translations by Yara's Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps at the New York Public Library at Tompkins Square October 27, 2001 More plus pictures

KUPALA: New Traditions for Pagan Slavic Midsummer Night A new look at old music and tradtions with Yara artists and friends, the Experimental Bandura Trio, Budmo Musical Group and that Hutz guy. La MaMa Galleria June 23, 2001 6th St Ave B Garden July 6, 2001 More plus pictures

MALANKA contemporary artists, writers & performers react to the pagans A weekend festival featuring: works by 18 visual artists inspired by ancient Ukrainian winter songs, special gala concert of winter songs, a reception with a food installation, a concert of new interpretations of ancient winter songs and readings of new poetry at the Ukrainian Institute of America, New York 1/2001 More plus pictures

GOGOL/HOHOL: Contemporary Artists,Writers & Performers React to the Master A weekend festival featuring: featuring works by 20 visual artists a festival of films based on his work, a concert of folk songs that inspired Gogol performed by Maryanna Sadovska, Tristra Newyear and Julian Kytasty, a performance by Yara actors of prose poems by Christine Turczyn inspired by Gogol, Eugene Hutz reading his own Gogolesque stories, Kolo Dance Project /Katja Kolcio performing a Gogol-inspired installation/movement piece and the reading of an original play inspired by Gogol's short story. Ukrainian Institute of America February 4-6, 2000 More plus pictures

HARVEST: Ukrainian Folk Song Today. A weekend festival featuring: "Sing With The Ancestors" a workshop in Ukrainian folk singing, "Ancient Song, New Voices" a concert by Alexis Kochan and Julian Kytasty and & song presentation by Maryana Sadovska, "New Music From Old Sources" contemporary bandura from Kyiv and New York with: Julian Kytasty, Roman Hrynkiw and the Experimental Bandura Trio at the Ukrainian Institute of America, New York 11/99

POETRY: INSTALLATIONS AND PERFORMANCES 19 visual artists create installations inspired by Ukrainian poems throughout three floors of a Fifth Avenue mansion, Yara actors perform Ukrainian poetry bilingually, poets read their new work Ukrainian Institute of America, January 29-31, 1999 From Curator, Reviews & Participants

THE YEAR 2020 CONFERENCE

Shona Tucker, Cecilia Arana, Xenia Piaseckyj and Tom Lee

A CELEBRATION OF THE POETRY OF OLEH LYSHEHA Poet Oleh Lysheha from Kyiv read his poetry Yara actors read translations of his work in English Mayana Galley, April 29, 1998 "A Celebration of the Poetry of Oleh Lysheha" by Virlana Tkacz

WORLD OF POETRY

Bob Holman interviews Virlana Tkacz & Wanda Phipps

TEN YEARS OF POETRY FROM THE YARA THEATRE WORKSHOP AT HARVARD an evening of poetry and music featuring Yara actors, Harvard students and bandurist Julian Kytasty to launch Yara's hand-made volume of contemporary Ukrainian poetry in award-winning translations by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps Ukrainian Institute of America, November 23, 1997 About the Book

HOT HOUSE featuring bilingual performaces of Ukrainian poetry trilingual performances of seven Japanese poems and the presentation of the 1997 Poetry Award from the Global Commitment Foundation to poet Oksana Zabuzhko from Kyiv Ukrainian Institute of America May 16, 1997

IN VERSE a retrospective of poetry and songs in Yara's productions The Washington Group's Leadership Conference, October 13, 1996

SPINNING SPELLS

Performers of Spinning Spells in Hunter, NY Zabryna Guevara, Olga Shuhan, Wanda Phipps, Shona Tucker, Andrew Pang

Poetry Project at St Mark's, November 28, 1994

SILVER THREADS

Curators and performers of Silver Threads Nadia Maryniak, Daria Dorosh, Virlana Tkacz, Richarda Abrams

also poetry readings at:

Yara Arts Group
306 East 11th St., #3B
New York, NY 10003 USA

Phone/Fax: 212-475-6474
Email: yara@prodigy.net

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