FEATURED PROJECTS
Yara Arts Group at 30
Yara Arts Group's 30th Season:
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June 2020
Special Virtual Poetry & Music Events
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May 2020
Yara's 30 Quarantine House Party
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April 2020
Zhadan & Friends: 2020 virtually
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December 2019
Koliada & Music from the Carpathians
Opera GAZ & Winter Songs on Mars
at La MaMa New York
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Yara and UECC Jenkintown present:
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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.
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Special sponsors: Ukrainian Community Foundation and Ukrainian Self Reliance FCU.
Humeniuk
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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:
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POETRY AS THEATRE: Oleh Lysheha
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.
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Special sponsors: Ukrainian Community Foundation and Ukrainian Self Reliance FCU.
ZHADAN & FRIENDS 2020 (VIRTUALLY)
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Friday, April 24, Poets: recording
with Dzvinia Orlowsky, Wanda Phipps, Olena Jennings & Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler.
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Saturday, April 25, Jazz: recording with Anthony Coleman, Fima Chupakhin, Bob Holman & Yara actors
click links above for recordings of events
Zhadan
Times Literary Supplement: "World-class poet" "masterfully translated"
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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
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December 19, 20 & 22, 2019 photos
La MaMa in New York City info
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
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Yara presents:
Koliada and Music from the Carpathians
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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
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