Take a tour of the Ukrainian Institute of America as part of the 17th Annual Open House New York Weekend, America’s largest architecture and design event.
OHNY Weekend (October 19-20, 2019) at the Ukrainian Institute of America
Korinya: Ukrainian Folk Band going on its first North American tour
Do not miss them in your city!
Adam Higginbotham’s (“Midnight in Chernobyl”) interview on NPR’s “Fresh Air”
Journalist and The New York Times bestselling author Adam Higginbotham (“Midnight in Chernobyl”) who presented his book at the Ukrainian Institute of America was interviewed by Terry Gross today on NPR’s “Fresh Air.” You can listen to the interview on the WNYC website.
Ukraine’s National Youth Soccer Team Wins 2019 FIFA U20 World Cup
Congratulations to Ukraine’s under-20 national soccer team that on June 15 in Poland defeated South Korea, 3–1, in the 2019 FIFA U20 World Cup finals, winning the first-ever gold in this tournament for Ukraine.
UIA 2019-2021 Election Results
We congratulate all of our newly-appointed Officers and welcome our newly-elected Directors.
Congratulations to Ukrainian-Austrailian author Lesa Melnyczuk, PhD for being the 2019 The Independent Publisher Book Award gold medal recipient
Congratulations to Ukrainian-Austrailian author Lesa Melnyczuk, PhD for being the 2019 The Independent Publisher Book Award (the “IPPYs”) gold medal recipient for her book Holodomor: Silenced Voices of the Starved Children in the European region, non-fiction category.
A collection of forty stories told from first-hand experiences of the Ukrainian terror-famine of 1932-33 by survivors who later migrated to Western Australia, Holodomor: Silenced Voices of the Starved Children is edited by Lesa Melnyczuk-Morgan, PhD and Philip Webster, and published by Carina Hoang Communications (Subiago, Western Australia).
New Website from The Ukrainian National Women’s League of America
Soyuz Ukrainok Ameryky – The Ukrainian National Women’s League of America announcing the launch of their new website on Monday, April 15th. The website features a history of the organization, news articles and all of the projects in which they are engaged in the sphere of social welfare, culture and education.
Documentary «Human with a Stool» goes on a tour across the cities of the US
«Human with a Stool» – an adventure documentary film about the last trip of a traveler and director Leonid Kanter. In 2004, in the casual Kyiv apartment, a group of film students came up with a simple but insane adventure «With a stool to the ocean»: to bring four wooden stools to the shores of four oceans.
The film documents the final, fourth trip to the Pacific Ocean, which lasted a year. Leonid recorded everything that surrounded him, and turned his life into cinema. Having returned to Ukraine travelers were met with war.
The documentary «Human with a Stool» should have been a manifesto for eternally strong human dreams and its powerful actions toward them. However, life itself changed the scenario.
Kyiv Chamber Choir returns to North America in May of 2019
Conductor Mykola Hobdych and the world-renowned Kyiv Chamber Choir return to North America in May of 2019, for concerts in high quality musical venues in both the United States and Canada. They will perform in New York, Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland, Hartford, Detroit and Rochester as well as in Toronto.
Congratulations to Yuriy Tarnawsky on his achievements and induction into New Jersey Institute of Technology’s NCE 100 Hall of Fame
Yuriy Tarnawsky, who graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from Newark College of Engineering in 1956 and a PhD in Linguistics from NYU in 1982 is a writer and linguist who is also former electronics engineer and computer scientist for IBM Corporation. Tarnawsky is one of the founding members of the New York Group, a Ukrainian émigré avant-garde group of writers, and co-founder and co-editor of the journal New Poetry, as well as member of Fiction Collective, a collaborative of innovative US writers. He has authored more than three dozen books of fiction, poetry, plays, translations and criticism in both Ukrainian and English. His works have been translated into nearly a dozen languages.