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Koliada: Winter Songs Music from the Carpathians -- 15 tracks of ritual winter songs and instrumental music Koliada is a winter ritual that now coincides with Christmas, but long pre-dates it in some parts of Eastern Europe. High in the Carpathian Mountains, in the Hutsul villages where the oldest songs are preserved, Koliada is considered to be the most important event of the year. Spring and the harvest will not come unless the songs are sung in every household. This recording also features brilliant instrumental music from the Carpathian Mountains. Produced by the Koliada musicians and Yara Arts Group, New York, 2012. $15.00 + shipping. For more information

BOOKS

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MODERNISM IN KYIV Jubilant Experimentation edited by Irena R. Makaryk and Virlana Tkacz University of Toronto Press, 2010 over 680 pages, 21 color illustrations and over 300 black and white photographs purchase from University of Toronto Press or amazon.com 20 articles by leading scholars in the fields of art, city history, cultural policies, dance, film, graphics, literature, music and theatre, as well as excerpts from such primary sources as poetry and diaries More information and Reviews

LISA AND HER DREAMS by Ivan Malkovych paitings by Zhenia Gapchinska translated by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA Publishers, 2012 28 pages, 12 color paintings $20 For children ages 5 to 105 More information

KYRGYZ EPIC THEATRE IN NEW YORK Photogrpahs by Margaret Morton edited by Virlana Tkacz University of Central Asia, Kyrgyz Republic 44 pages, 26 color plates, $20 photographs of: Janyl Myrza and Testament Yara Arts Group and Sakhna Theatre La MaMa Experimental Theatre, March- April, 2007 catalog to exhibit at: Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, June 5-21, 2008 text in English and Kyrgyz More information

IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT Bilingual Anthology of Ukrainian Poetry translated by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps as performed by Yara Arts Group introduced by Natalia Pylypiuk compiled and edited by Olha Luchuk Sribne Slovo Press over 800 pages, 16 pages of color photos. $70.00 with shipping over 100 poems by 37 Ukrainian writers, Lesia Ukrainka’s verse play The Forest Song, as well as traditional songs, epics, and incantations. from classics such as Taras Shevchenko and Pavlo Tychyna, to contemporary poets like Oleh Lysheha and Oksana Zabuzhko, as well as the newest wave -- Andriy Bondar and Serhiy Zhadan More information

SHAKESPEARE IN THE UNDISCOVERED BOURN Les Kurbas, Ukrainian Modernism, and Early Soviet Cultural Politics by Irena R. Makaryk University of Toronto Press, 2004 257 pages, 43 photos. Special Yara price $40.00 + shipping Runner up for the prestigious Raymond Klibansky Prize for the best book published in English in the humanities in Canada More information and reviews

SILENT PICTURES RECOGNIZE THE WORD by Wanda Phipps Chapbook -- Part of the second Dusie Kollectiv Project, 2007 Special Yara price $5.00 + $1 shipping a hand-made book with 12 poems by Wanda Phipps, a founding member of Yara "These are a few images that haunt me. These are a few photographs that speak to me."

THE ENCHANTED DESNA by Alexander Dovzhenko translated by Dzvinia Orlowsky Marshfield, MA: House Between Water Press, 2006 61 pages. Limited paperback edition of 300. $14.00 + shipping "Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest film directors of all time, Dovzhenko was also an important literary stylist whosee lyrical prose has remained laregely unknown to readers outside of Ukraien. Dzvinia Orlowsky's subtle and nuanced translation leaves the reader feeling his story was born speaking English." -- Askold Melnyczuk "These stories are at once lusty, earthy, vivid -- and infused with shape-shifting volatility and mysticism. Dzvinia Orlowsky has captured a voice that is both plainspoken and full of awe." -- Melanie Drane

SHANAR Dedicaiton Ritual of a Buryat Shaman in Siberia by Virlana Tkacz, Sayan Zhambalov and Wanda Phipps with photographs by Alexander Khantaev New York: Parabola Press, 2002 192 pages, 175 color photos. Special Yara price $30.00 + shipping Winner of the prestigious Translation Award from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry and the 2002 Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Book on Religion More information and reviews Lectures and photo exhibits

TEN YEARS OF POETRY FROM THE YARA THEATRE WORKSHOPS AT HARVARD -- twenty of the best Ukrainian poems from the Yara Workshops in award-winning translations by Virlana Tkacz & Wanda Phipps. The hand-made book is designed by Carmen Pujols. Each book is numbered and signed by the person who assembled it. LIMITED NUMBER AVAILABLE For more information

DVDs

A LIGHT FROM THE EAST -- Amy Grappell's 54-minute documentary of how Yara artitsts witnessed the fall of communism during their first theatre performaces in Ukraine summer of 1991 SIGMABLEYZER in association with STRIKE PRODUCITONS Produced by Amy Grappell and Christian Moore Edited by Kyle Henry & Leah Marino Written & Directed by Amy Grappell $25.00 + shipping. "Personal, historical, political, I loved it." -- Richard Linklater

THE WHISPERER -- Andrea Odezynska's 30-minute documentary explores her journey to a small village in Western Ukraine where an unexpected encounter with Baba Anna, the village healer, changes the course of Andrea's life forever. Directed by Andrea Odezynska Edited by Kathryn Barnier Produced by Andrea Odezynska & Kathryn Barnier with support from the Yara Arts Group, 2005 $20.00 + shipping. "I really, really loved this film. It is so personal and yet universal. I love films that start out seeming like they are about one thing, here Ukraine's musical culture and then become something else..." -- Vincent Lo Brutto, author of Stanely Kubrick: A Biography, The Encyclopedia of American Independent Filmmaking, Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures

CDs

Mariana Sadovska BORDERLAND -- Mariana Sadovska sings Ukrainian traditional songs of farewell, immigration and Midsummer Night in her unique manner. She is accompanied by Anthony Coleman on piano, Doug Wieselman on clarinet, Robert Juan Rodriguez on drums, Frank London on trumpet and Brad Jones on bass. 12 tracks include wedding song, laments, ballads and incantations EVOE, 2005. $18.00 + shipping.

SING TILL THE SUN SETS -- Folk Ensembles from the Aginsk-Buryat Region of Siberia 31 tracks include songs, hymns and yoxors sung by the "Sokhor" Ensemble of Tsagaan-Chelutay village, "Tumen Zhargalan" Ensemble of Aginsk and "Onon" Ensemble of Tokchin village. Global Village Music, New York, 2001. $15.00 + shipping. For reviews and more information

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A HUNDRED YEARS OF YOUTH -- A Bilingual Anthology of 20th century Ukrainian Poetry. Compiled and Edited by Olha Luchuk and Michael M. Naydan. Lviv: Litopys, 2000. 880 pages. $45 + shipping. Includes 30 translations by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps: Lesia Ukrainka's The Forest Song (Excerpts) Pavlo Tychyna's "Pastels," "Dawn" "Terror," "Lull" and "Test" Volodymyr Svidzinsky's " The Pendulum Is Tired…" and "Tired; Leaning on the Hills" Mikhail Semenko's "Village Landscape" Oksana Senatovych's "Wife of an Artist" and "Pear" Mykola Vorobyov's "Searches for Balance" and "Cage - Balcony - Frost - Dream" Vasyl Holoborodko's "Her Name" Mykola Miroshnychenko's "The Stars" Oleh Lysheha's "Song 212" Mykola Riabchuk's "To Think About Eternity" Natalka Bilotserkivets' "May (Excerpt)" and "Knife" Ludmyla Tadan's "India Ink" and "The Blues" Oksana Zabuzhko's "Letter from the Summer House" Yuri Andrukhovych's "Library" Victor Neborak's "Flying Head" and "Fish" Yurko Pozaiak's "Come See Me Tomorrow" Attila Mohylny's "Beatles" Anka Sereda's "In Our Blood" and "I Don't Want To Be a Poet" Review of book in Ukrainian --- More Information in English ITEM CURRENTLY SOLD OUT

INDIA INK -- Poetry by Ludmyla Taran Six poems translated from the Ukrainian by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps and one by Michael Naydan. Published by Corvus Albus Press, Kyiv, 1998. 12 pps, 4"x7". $5.00 ITEM CURRENTLY SOLD OUT "Deep, evocative and souldful. Ludmyla Taran's collection of poems can nourish the soul." -- Ulana & Taras Snihura, Zdorov Magazine, Toronto Dec. 12, 1999

EIGHT NOTES from the BLUE ANGEL by Marjana Savka translated by Askold Melnyczuk Medford, MA: Arrowsmith Press, 2007 12 pages. Limited paperback edition of 150. $5.00 + $1 shipping Eight poems by Ukrainian poet Marjana Savka from Lviv. These poems were performed at Yara's kolo nas #15 at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York on June 24, 2007. ITEM CURRENTLY SOLD OUT More information on the event

MARIANA SADOVSKA: Songs I Learned In Ukraine -- 18 tracks of wedding, lullaby and spring calling songs Mariana Sadovska learned during her travels through the villages of Ukraine. The New York Times wrote: "Sometimes a musician has such an inborn desire to communicate that her message naturally becomes universal... such is the case with the Ukrainian singer Mariana Sadovska" Global Village Music, New York, 2001. $15.00 + shipping. For more information ITEM CURRENTLY SOLD OUT

URAGSHA -- Instrumental and Vocal Music from Buryatia and Mongolia 20 tracks include epic songs, hymns, yoxors and throat singing. Global Village Music, New York, 1999. $15.00 + shipping. For reviews and more information ITEM CURRENTLY SOLD OUT

SONG TREE Poltava: "Drevo" Group from Kriachkivka & Polissia: Singers from Svarytsevychi, Zelen & Lisove -- 27 tracks of village singers singing ballads, wedding and other ritual songs. Recorded in Poland where it was issued as "Budemo wesnu spiwaty," 2001. $15.00 + shipping. ITEM IS CURRENTLY SOLD OUT

GOGOL BORDELLO - Voi-La Intruder -- Transylvanian Avant-Hard 10 tracks from the band that brought you Ukrainian Gypsy Punk Cabaret Sunken Bell Records, New York, 1999. $15.00 + shipping. ITEM IS CURRENTLY SOLD OUT

CHORNYI POTIK [BLACK STREAM] -- Three Encounters with the Music of Precarpathia 30 tracks of traditional music from three villages in Western Ukraine recorded by Yaryna Turianska in 1996. Caravan CD, Kyiv, 1999. $15.00 + shipping. ITEM CURRENTLY SOLD OUT

KARPATIA -- Ukrainian traditional music of the Boykos, Lemkos and Hutsuls 32 tracks of traditional music from three groups of people who live in the Carpathian Mountains in Western Ukraine recorded by Yaryna Turianska. Caravan CD, Kyiv, 2003. $15.00 + shipping. ITEM IS CURRENTLY SOLD OUT

BERVIN BERVINKOVI -- Ukrainian traditional vocal music from the village of Potichok in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. 33 tracks of traditional songs from the winter rituals, spring dance songs and wedding songs sung by women from a village called "Little Creek" in Western Ukraine recorded by Yaryna Turianska English translations by Viralna Tkacz and Wanda Phipps included in booklet. Atlantic Records, Kyiv, 2004. $15.00 + shipping. ITEM CURRENTLY SOLD OUT

KOSMACH MUSICIANS -- Ukrainian traditional Hutsul music from the village of Kosmach 29 tracks of traditional instrumental and vocal music from the Carpathian Mountains in Western Ukraine recorded by Lesia Turianska. English translations by Viralna Tkacz and Wanda Phipps included in booklet. Atlantic Records, Kyiv, 2004. $15.00 + shipping. ITEM CURRENTLY SOLD OUT

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