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SUMMARY:Ode to a Butterfly - Celebrating Solomea Krushelnytska
DESCRIPTION:\nOde to a Butterfly – Celebrating Solomea Krushelnytska\nA Group Exhibition Celebrating the Life of Solomea Krushelnytska \n  \nArtists Reception for “Ode to a Butterfly” on Friday\, February 3\, 2023. \nRegister to attend at rsvp@ukrainianinstitute.org. \n  \nIn partial celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ukrainian soprano Solomea Krushelnytska\, the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations (WFUWO)\, the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations and the Ukrainian Institute of America put out an open call for visual artists to submit works inspired by the colorful life of the opera singer for an exhibition to be held at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York. \nCurated by Andrew Horodysky and Rymma Mylenkova\, PhD\, Ode to a Butterfly brings together 20 selected artists working in a wide range of media — painting\, sculpture\, photography\, assemblage\, collage\, and fiber — who are each unique in style yet collectively bold in the quest to reimagine notions of the muse\, reinventing popular motifs and metaphors\, among them portraiture\, nature\, music\, and still-life. A number of artists form literal connections to Solomea Krushelnytska’s image\, while others connect their unique pasts with their cultural experiences of the present to create works that are rich in archetypal and spiritual storytelling. \nExhibiting artists: \nErik Airapetian\nArmine Bozhko\nDaria Dorosh\nAnya Farion\nKateryna Ganchak\nAlla Guzhva\nKathie Halfin\nMaya Hayuk\nAnastasiia Kovalova\nKatrina Majkut\nRymma Mylenkova\nYevgenia Nayberg\nOla Rondiak\nChristina Saj\nUlana Salewycz\nIlona Sochynsky\nSerhiy Stepanov\nMisha Tyutyunik\nLesya Verba\nYuliya Yasenetska  \n\nAbout Solomea Krushelnytska \nSolomea Krushelnytska (1872–1952) was one of the greatest international operatic stars of the early 20th century\, a modern symbol of cultural diplomacy and trailblazer of women’s independent standing in the arts\, leading a brilliant and conscious singing career. \nBorn in the village of Biliavyntsi in Halychyna\, her formative years were filled with music – hearing folk songs sung by villagers as they worked in the fields. She first took to the stage at age 11 when her singing instantly gained her recognition. Krushelnytska’s operatic career began with her studies at the Lviv Conservatory\, where she made her debut as Leonarda in a production of Donizetti’s “La Fontina.” \nNotably in 1904\, Solomea Krushelnytska saved an Italian production of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” Studying and performing in Italy\, Krushelnytska settled in Viareggio\, on the Apennine Peninsula\, South of Genoa. From the balcony of her home\, she would marvel at the fantastic beauty of the sunset and the sea. Sources say that this reminded the singer of Ukrainian wheat fields undulating in the wind. \nFor many years to come\, Solomea would divide her time between Milan\, Lviv and numerous touring engagements\, necessary to ensure sufficient funding for her ongoing studies. Naturally\, the passion for learning along with incredible talent brought their dividends: Solomiya had performed in most famous venues all over the world\, including La Scala\, The Paris Grand Opera\, the theatres in Naples\, Warsaw\, St.Petersburg\, Rome\, Cairo and Alexandria\, among others in North and South America. \nAfter 1920\, Solomea changed her career path from opera singer to concert performer. Knowing eight languages\, and having performed over sixty roles\, she included songs of many nations in her concert programs\, but always remembered to add Ukrainian folk songs and popular works by Ukrainian composers to her vast repertoire. \nDespite the hardships the singer suffered during the Nazi and Soviet regimes\, and not being able to give big stage performances during the last decades of her life due to the Iron Curtain\, Krushelnytska has remained a great figure\, acknowledged and recognized in the world of opera music. \nSolomea Krushelnytska died at the age of 80 in Lviv\, Ukraine. A monument was erected at her grave site in Lviv\, and her home has since been converted into a museum in her honor. The Lviv Opera House\, Ukraine’s most notable theater\, is named in her memory. \n\nTo learn more about Solomea Krushelnytska\, her life\, career\, home and museum\, please visit: \nhttps://salomeamuseum.com.ua\nhttps://bit.ly/3RaoeFQ\nhttp://www.orpheusandlyra.com/krushelnytska.html \n \n
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SUMMARY:A Talk and Book Signing with Olesya Khromeychuk
DESCRIPTION:BOOKS AT THE INSTITUTE\npresents\nA Talk and Book Signing with \nOlesya Khromeychuk\, Director of Ukrainian Institute London and author of The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister\nIn conversation with Andrew Horodysky \n  \nThis event is free and open to the public. \nPlease RSVP here. \n\n\n\nKilled in action as he served in the Ukrainian Armed Forces\, Olesya Khromeychuk’s brother Volodya Pavliv died on the frontline in eastern Ukraine in 2017. As Olesya tries to come to terms with losing him\, she also tries to process the Russian invasion of Ukraine: as an immigrant living in Great Britain\, from far from the frontline\, as a historian of war\, and as a woman\, a civilian\, and a sister. \nIn this timely blend of memoir and essay\, Olesya tells the story of her brother — the wiser older sibling\, the artist and the soldier — and of his death. Deeply moving and thoughtful\, it picks apart the ways political violence shapes everyone and everything it touches and depicts with extraordinary intimacy the singular and complicated bond between a brother and sister. Olesya’s vivid writing is a personal and powerful commitment to honesty in life\, in death and in memory. \nOlesya Khromeychuk is a historian and writer. She received her PhD in History from University College London. She has taught the history of East-Central Europe at the University of Cambridge\, University College London\, the University of East Anglia\, and King’s College London. She is author of A Loss: The Story of a Dead Soldier Told by His Sister (Stuttgart: ibidem\, forthcoming) and Undetermined Ukrainians: Post-War Narratives of the Waffen SS ‘Galicia’ Division (Peter Lang\, 2013). She is currently the Director of the Ukrainian Institute London. \nMoving\, intelligent and brilliantly written\, this is a sister’s reckoning with a lost brother\, an émigré’s with the country of her childhood\, and a scholar’s with her own suddenly acutely personal subject matter. A wonderful combination of emotional and intellectual honesty. It even manages to be funny. \n— Anna Reid\, author of Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine. \nThe Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister was re-released in September 2022 with updated reflections on the current war in Ukraine with an introduction by Andrey Kurkov. \n\nFor further information\, please contact the Ukrainian Institute of America at (212) 288-8660 or mail@ukrainianinstitute.org. \n\n\n
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