While staying at home and taking COVID-19 precautions enjoy a free online film “Ukrainer. The Movie.” It explores the rich diversity of Ukraine from the Black Sea to Chornobyl and from the Carpathian Mountains to the Donbas. The film consists of six stories that reflect an ordinary day of Ukraine created by unusual Ukrainians.
All of us at the Ukrainian Institute of America hope that this note finds you and those close to you healthy and safe and as well as can be expected in light of the global outbreak of the novel coronavirus and its related illness, COVID-19.
The wellbeing of our members, guests, employees, community and neighborhood are of utmost importance to us. As a result, out of an abundance of caution consistent with the recommendations of local and state health officials as well as those of the CDC, we have made the decision to close our building and exhibits to the public immediately, with the hope of reopening sometime in April. We will be actively monitoring the situation in the coming days and weeks and will keep all of you apprised of any major developments or changes.
In the interim, our staff members will be working from home and will continue to be available to answer your calls and emails and any questions you may have.
The Ukrainian American Youth Association (CYM) of New York/School of Ukrainian Studies, located in the heart of the East Village in Manhattan, organized an important fundraising event on Saturday, February 29, 2020. The fundraiser was organized by the Parents’ Committee and was seeking donations to support their cultural programs and upkeep of its facility.
On this day, six years ago, the most tragic episode of the Revolution of Dignity began in Ukraine
Between the 18th to the 20th February 2014, peaceful protestors were brutally killed on Institutska Street, Maidan Nezalezhnosti and the surrounding area in Kyiv. Several dozen people went missing, more than a thousand were injured, and hundreds were arrested and tortured by the regime of the then-President Viktor Yanukovych.
The Curtis Alumni Council announced the 2019 Alumni Award honoree, Solomiya Ivakhiv (Violin ’03). Solomiya received the award—which recognizes outstanding and long-term service to and involvement in Curtis, as well as outstanding achievement in or contribution to the music profession—at the Alumni Reunion this past October.
Art at the Institute was pleased to present Frontline / Peace Life, an exhibition of photographic portraits by J.T. Blatty, chronicling a generation of volunteer soldiers of the war in eastern Ukraine and their stories of a return to a marginalized existence, “peace-life,” as the war moves into its sixth year without resolution. The exhibition opened on January 16, 2020 and will continue through March 8, 2020.
Born on this day in 1722, he was educated at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. Hryhoriy spent over 10 years in Kharkiv, teaching poetics, syntax, Greek, and ethics. After his dismissal from the college he abandoned any hope of securing a regular position and spent the rest of his life wandering about eastern Ukraine. Financial support from friends enabled him to devote himself to reflection and writing. Most of his works were dedicated to his friends and circulated among them in manuscript copies.
Today, November 23, 2019, marks the Holodomor Remembrance Day and the 86th anniversary of the Holodomor. Since 2006 it takes place every year on the fourth Saturday of November. On this day people in Ukraine and all over the world are lighting candles in memory of those killed during the genocide of 1932-33.
In 1932-33, Moscow’s Stalinist regime deliberately starved millions of Ukrainians to death in a man-made famine. Known as the Holodomor, the Ukrainian term for killing by starvation, the famine stands as one of the most horrendous genocides of the 20th century.
Ukraїner is a media initiative launched in 2016. Without any financial support, the group of enthusiasts started to explore different corners of the country from the Black Sea to Chornobyl, from the Carpathian Mountains to the Donbas. The intentions of
As we look towards the holiday season, it’s important to not forget about an amazing day solely dedicated to giving back: #GivingTuesday. It is celebrated on Tuesday following Thanksgiving.