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Yara's Language Access Publications
FEATURED PROJECTS:
Yara's 2024 in photos
UKR Co-Lab
Join us for a new series UKR Co-Lab where we test new work & collaborations. Stay to meet the artists and each other. Bring your friends.
UKR Co-Lab #11
coming in September
more info
Going on the road !
Chicago, IL
November 14-16, 2025
TICKETS
info & pictures from NY
| program | press release La MaMa
Ukrainian Cultural Festival
Yara Arts Group presents:
New Approaches to
Ukrainian and Chinese traditional music with Jullian Kytasty and Min Xiao-Fen
Plus new music and poetrywith
Chinese- American poet Alvin Eng and Virlana Tkacz. NY poets read translations of traditional poetry and their own reflections.
Tuesday, Oct, 2025 at 7 PM
Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, NY
Ukrainian Cultural Festival
Yara Arts Group presents:
ZHADAN & FRIENDS 2025
new poetry by Serhiy Zhadan
and translations (bilingual event)
Bob Holman, Wanda Phipps, Olena Jennings and over twenty other poets
respond with their own work to bilingual readings of Serhiy Zhadan.
Plus, songwriter Susan Hwang sings her songs based on Zhadan’s poems.
More on event
Tuesday, Oct, 2025 at 7 PM
Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, NY
Our second volume of
Serhiy Zhadan's
selected poems in English
"How Fire Descends"
WORLD PRESS and PRAISE
Ukrainian Weekly
Finalist for PEN POETRY AWARD | on ZHADAN
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Bookshop.org | Amazon | Barnes&Noble
More on Yale University Press: website link
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Now in Stores!
Les Kurbas &Ukrainian Avant-garde Theatre
link to free online catalog
links to
KURBAS virtual events
Yara's 3 Brothers
Join the bandura master and singer Julian Kytasty as he performs the Ukrainian epic accompanied by illustrated imagery by puppeteers Linda Wingerter and Tom Lee.
& the Koliadnyky of Kryvorivnia
virutal event
more on Koliada
plus videos from previous years
program
Hutsul Embroidery
watch Yara's new traditional arts virtual event link here
see Yara's previous Hutsul arts events
Mariupol:
Diaries of War & the Tree of Life\ Performance at Howl March 15-24,2024press on performances | info & pictures​FESTIVALS:press release Bohemia National Hall, June 17, 2024 Jersey City Theater Center, June 18,2024
Sounding the Resonant Path
Puppetry Performance Installation
about the cosmos
created by Yara's puppeteer Tom Lee
New York Times review
Nov 2 to 5, 2023
La MaMa's Puppet Festival 66 E 4th St NYC
more on Yara`s puppets
Poetry in Performance Videos: playlist link
(one Yara actor read one Ukrainian poem in English)
Ukrainian Culture in America: playlist link
(season 1 featuring artists from 1920s to 1990s)
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Poetry in Performance page
Yara's Youtube Channel
Threads
Exhibition in Chicago at UIMA
Aug 26 - Oct 27, 2023
read more & photos
Art exhibition photos
Book launch photos
Opening exhibition photos
Lesia Ukrainka's
"Forest Song" Series
Yara's Forest Song 1994
Fire Water Night 2013
Virtual Forest Song 2021
A Thousand Suns 2021
About these shows with creators +video links Lesia Ukrainka
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