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September 2018
Unveiling of a Multilingual Plaque Honoring Dr. Raphael Lemkin
The Ukrainian Institute of America and the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation will be unveiling a multilingual plaque (English, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Yiddish) honouring Dr Raphael Lemkin, the “father of the UN Genocide Convention,” specifically in reference to the speech he gave in New York City (20 September 1953) acknowledging the famine of 1932-33 as a Soviet genocide.
Find out more »Hard Coal, Hard Times: The Social Realist Art of Nicholas Bervinchak
Hard Coal, Hard Times: The Social Realist Art of Nicholas Bervinchak September 28 – October 21, 2018 Opening reception and presentation: Friday, September 28 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM Please RSVP to attend. Art at the Institute is pleased to present an exhibition of etchings by American artist of Lemko ancestry, Nicholas Bervinchak (1903-1978). Executed mostly during the Great Depression and into the following decade, these prints document the miners, tools, working conditions, and family life surrounding the isolated anthracite…
Find out more »Ukrainian Booth at 92Y Street Fest
Booth #443 on Lexington Avenue and 90th/91st Streets
Find out more »October 2018
Anastasiia Podervianska: High Textile
Art at the Institute is pleased to celebrate the start to its 2018-19 season with Anastasiia Podervianska: High Textile, an exhibition of wearable and decorative fabric art by Ukrainian artist Anastasiia Podervianska. This exhibition marks Ms. Podervianska’s first showing in New York.
Find out more »From Khreshchatyk to Manhattan
RAVEL: Deux mélodies hébraïques: I. “Kaddisch” (Kaddish–Hymn of Praise), II. “L’énigme éternelle” (The Eternal Enigma); RICHARD STRAUSS: “Wir beide wollen springen” (We’re both about to leap for joy), “Wiegenlied” (Lullaby), “Schlechtes Wetter” (Terrible Weather), “Morgen” (Tomorrow), “Befreit” (Freed), “Cäcilie” (Cecily); KOS- ANATOLSKY: “Oi, ty divchyno, z horikha zernia (O, girl, kernel of the nut); SCHUMANN: Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47; YEVHEN STANKOVYCH: “From Khreshchatyk to Manhattan” for violin and piano (2018).* *World Premiere. Commissioned by Myron and Chrystyna…
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