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The Ukrainian Institute of America was pleased to announce an installation by Waldemart Klyuzko, HOME EAST, that was on view from May 9 -11, 2015. Organized in collaboration with Yara Arts Group, this site-specific piece featured the covering of the windows of the Ukrainian Institute building on 79th Street and Fifth Avenue with red and white tape. Red and white tape is widely used to warn people of a hazard or emergency. In HOME EAST, red and white tape drew attention to the crisis in eastern Ukraine, which has become a war-ravaged zone that over one million people have been forced to flee.

Originally launched in Paris in 2010, A Night of Philosophy is a roaming event that takes place in a different major city each year. Thousands of people attended the program in London in 2013, and Berlin in 2014. Ms. Korichi, who conceived and organized the event in the above cities and cultural centers , will once again stage the upcoming creative happening – on the historic corner of 79th Street and Fifth Avenue. Highlights will include “Spinoza in Kiev,” a melodrama for two actresses, with piano improvisations, based on Bernard Malamud’s novel The Fixer, a full-text reading – in English – of the Marquis de Sade’s Philosophy in the Bedroom, and a wooden replica of the Mercury Seven space capsule serving as a stage.

The Ukrainian Institute of America and the Chopivsky Family Foundation were delighted to provide financial support for the 2015 Jessup International Law Moot Court competition team of Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University. The White & Case International Rounds of the 2015 Jessup International Law Moot Court competition took place on April 5 – 11, 2015 in Washington, D.C. It was an honor for us, especially now, at the time of the ongoing Ukrainian crisis, to support the participation of talented Ukrainian students in such a high-level international event. The Kyiv Taras Shevchenko team finished in 32nd position out of a worldwide competition of more than 540 teams.

The 6sqft, an online publication, dedicated to delivering the latest on real estate, architecture, and neighborhood news in New York City, published an article about how the Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion went from Private Home to the Ukrainian Institute of America. You

Ukrainian Institute of America is ranked as the most popular Ukrainian cultural organizations in the U.S., according to the first issue of Ukrainian Chicago magazine. The rating was based on social media scores.

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

Last call to register for advanced Ukrainian language course at the Ukrainian Institute of America. To enroll, or for more information, call 212-288-8660 or email at mail@ukrainianinstitute.org

We learn Shevchenko’s poems since childhood, we read about his hard life, about his sufferings and struggles and tears that he couldn’t hold because it was unbearable to endure everything that was happening to his dear Ukraine. Every conscious and educated Ukrainian can recite at least one of Shevchenko’s poems by heart. Each and every book that has ever been written about him says that he was one of the greatest and most outstanding figures in Ukrainian history, a hero, whose heart was beating and aching for the Ukrainian nation till it stopped. No matter how arduous it was, no matter what he was going through, Shevchenko never stopped pursuing the goal of his Fatherland’s revival. And his dream did come true.