Yara Arts Group stands in solidarity with all those seeking justice and equality
and those speaking out against police brutality and discrimination in all its forms.
FEATURED PROJECTS
Yara Arts Group at 30
Yara Arts Group's 30th Season:
June - Aug 2020
Special Virtual Poetry & Music Events
May 2020
Yara's 30 Quarantine House Party
April 2020
Zhadan & Friends: 2020 virtually
December 2019
Koliada & Music from the Carpathians
Opera GAZ & Winter Songs on Mars
at La MaMa New York
Yara and UECC Jenkintown present:
FOLK DANCER: Vasile Avramenko
This immigrant from Stebliv brought
Ukrainian dance to New York in 1929.
Yara’s Virlana Tkacz tells his story, and talks to archivist Mike Andrec about recordings used in his dance classes and Yuri Shevchuk about Avramenko's hand in the first Ukrainian talking pictures. program & press release
Link to virtual event
Special sponsors: Ukrainian Community Foundation and Ukrainian Self Reliance FCU.
Avramenko
Yara and UECC Jenkintown present:
BANDURIST: Zinoviy Shtokalko
This immigrant from Berezhany brought the Ukrainian epic song tradition to New York in the 1950s and developed it in the1960’s.
Yara’s Virlana Tkacz tells his story, while Julian Kytasty,a master bandurist, shares Shtokalko's recordings and plays work influenced by him.
Link to video of virtual event
Special sponsors: Ukrainian Community Foundation and Ukrainian Self Reliance FCU.
Yara and UECC Jenkintown present:
FOLK FIDDLER: Pawlo Humeniuk
This Ukrainian immigrant from Pidvolochysk, was known as “The King of Ukrainian Music” in the 1920s. Yara’s Virlana Tkacz talks to folklorist Iryna Voloshyna about his recordings and the US Orchestra in Kyiv which is inspired by his repertoire today. program & press release
Link to video of virtual event
Special sponsors: Ukrainian Community Foundation and Ukrainian Self Reliance FCU.
Lysheha
“The production of Swan is a virtuoso translation of Lysheha’s text – it is not simply a literary translation into English, but rather a translation of poetry into the languages of music, light, image, movement of the human body, human voice…."
Dzvinka Matiash, in Kyiv’s Komentar
Yara and UECC Jenkintown present:
POETRY AS THEATRE:
Oleh Lysheha's "Swan"
Yara has created several theatre pieces based on poetry by Oleh Lysheha, including: “Swan” (2003). Director Virlana Tkacz talks with participants and shows video clips.
program & press release
Link to video of virtual event
Special sponsors: Ukrainian Community Foundation and Ukrainian Self Reliance FCU.
ZHADAN & POETS
link to: video of virtual event
with Dzvinia Orlowsky, Wanda Phipps, Olena Jennings & Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler. Program link
ZHADAN & JAZZ
link to: video of virtual event
with Anthony Coleman, Fima Chupakhin, Bob Holman & Yara actors Program link
Zhadan
Times Literary Supplement: "World-class poet" "masterfully translated"
What We Live For, What We Die For Selected Poems by Serhiy Zhadan, translated by Virlana Tkacz & Wanda Phipps. (Yale University Press, 2019) More on book and how to order
Yara's Opera GAZ with Nova Opera
December 19, 20 & 22, 2019 photos
La MaMa in New York City program
9/17/2019: VIENNA photos
6/11/2019: Ukrainian premiere Franko Theater in Kyiv
11/11/2018 worksho[ at the “Kurbas: New Worlds” Art Arsenal in Kyiv
Yara presents:
Koliada and Music from the Carpathians
with the Koliadnyky from the village of Kryvorivnia who sing traditional winter songs ("Koliada") and play the brilliant “troista” instrumental music from the Carpathian Mountain in Ukraine
in New York Dec 2-30, 2019
