“None of the sculptors since Rodin made a greater impact in his time like Archipenko. It was in the first decade of his artistic life that he created new laws of modern sculpture and rose in art history as a leader of the art revolution and drew in many others.”
42 Annual Saint George Ukrainian Festival will take place in New York on May 18 – May 20, 2018.
ATO participants and athletes, with the support of the Kyiv City Association of ATO Veterans, are organizing a cycle tour “Chumak Way to North America” with a length of more than 10,000 km, which will take place from May 2018 to August 2018, through 25 states and provinces, namely : California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Ontario, New York, Quebec, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland and DC.
Voice of America published a video coverage about the Ukrainian Institute’s mission and its 70th Anniversary. [Video in Ukrainian]
6sqft about the Ukrainian Institute’s building.
The Chornobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on April 26, 1986 at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. The detonation was caused by a systems test that was conducted by poorly-trained personnel. Human error led to the worst nuclear disaster in the world.
On Friday, April 20, 2018, Film at the Institute presented a North American Premiere of Legends of Carpathians. An action and history film about Oleksa Dovbush, a heroic outlaw with excellent fighting skills and a gift to predict the future.
This June “We Are One” has organized a volunteer trip to a small town in Central Ukraine. Their mission is to bring native English speakers to an English summer camp and work with students learning English as a second language. “We Are One” organization is searching for highly motivated volunteers who love to travel and are passionate about working with kids.
Today, April 17, we celebrate the birthday of Dr. Lubomyr Romankiw, an IBM digital pioneer and one of the most distinguished Ukrainian Institute’s members. As a 1986 IBM Fellow and researcher at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown
Did you know that a significant collection of Ukrainian books arrived at the New York Public Library? Ottendorfer Branch has received over one hundred contemporary titles in Ukrainian. Lyubka and Saramago, Izdryk and Modiano, LeGuin and Hawking, J K Rowling and Orwell are all together on the shelves of the first floor of a library where Brecht once spoke.