Events
Virtual events, 2022
Julian Kytasty: Master Bandura Player
Fall, 2022 - Four part series
Four virtual events on Julian Kytasty, a master bandura player born in the US. On the Kytasty Family
Bandura in the Diaspora
Experimenting with Tradition
Yara Arts Group
Kurbas in Kyiv
February, 2022
An exhibition about Les Kurbas’s theatre pieces at the Young Theatre (1917-1919) and the Berezil Artistic Association (1922-1926) in Kyiv; curated by Virlana Tkacz, Tetiana Rudenko and Waldemart Klyuzko at the Museum of Theatre, Music & Cinema of Kyiv. February 25- October 25, 2017.
Kurbas: New Worlds
February, 2022
An exhibition about Les Kurbas’s theatre pieces at the Berezil Artistic Association (1922-1926) in Kyiv and the Berezil National Theatre (1926-1933) in Kharkiv curated by Virlana Tkacz, Tetiana Rudenko and Waldemart Klyuzko at Mystetsky Arsenal in Kyiv. October 17- December 2, 2018.
Kurbas in Kharkiv
February, 2022
An exhibition about Les Kurbas’s theatre pieces at the Young Theatre (1917-1919), the Berezil Artistic Association (1922-1926) in Kyiv and the Berezil National Theatre (1926-1933) in Kharkiv curated by Virlana Tkacz, Tetiana Rudenko and Waldemart Klyuzko at Yermilov Center in Kharkiv. January 18- February 25, 2018.
Virtual events, 2021
Zhadan & Friends 2021
JAZZ
April, 2021
Zhadan reads from new poems from “Psalm to Aviation” (forthcoming May, 2021). Bob Holman and Yara actors read English translations by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps, while jazz pianists Anthony Coleman and Fima Chupakhin play.
Fire Water Night 2013
March, 2021
ZInoviy Shtokalko, was a virtuoso bandura player in New York
in the 1950s & 60’s. Yara’s Virlana Tkacz tells the story, while
Julian Kytasty, a master bandura player, shares Shtokalko’s recordings.
Special guests: Dmytro Hubyak and his students from Ukraine.
Shtokalko:
Instrumental
Music
September, 2020
ZInoviy Shtokalko, was a virtuoso bandura player in New York
in the 1950s & 60’s. Yara’s Virlana Tkacz tells the story, while
Julian Kytasty, a master bandura player, shares Shtokalko’s recordings.
Special guests: Dmytro Hubyak and his students from Ukraine.
Folk dancer:
Vasile Avramenko
August, 2020
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
Zhadan & Friends 2021
PROSE
April, 2021
Celebrating the publication of Zhadan’s novel "The Orphanage" by Yale Press in English. Zhadan and Isaac Wheeler read selections. Julian Kytasty plays bandura to images by Evgeniy Maloletka and Waldemart Klyuzko. Maria Genkin moderates and interviews the author.
Yara's Forest Song 1994
February, 2021
Director Virlana Tkacz shows photographs and video from “Yara’s Forest Song” in Lviv and at La MaMa in New York in 1994. She also talks to the actors from Yara and the Les Kurbas Theatre in Lviv who worked on the bilingual production.
Shtokalko:
Singer
of Tales
September, 2020
ZInoviy Shtokalko, a virtuoso bandura player in New York in the 1950 & 60s,
sang his own versions of ancient tales about Kyiv. Yara’s Virlana Tkacz tells the story, while Julian Kytasty, a master bandura player, shares Shtokalko’s recordings. Special guest: Marko R. Stech from Toronto.
Shtokalko: Epic
Modenist
October, 2020
A virtuoso bandura player in New York, he wrote poetry and played experimental music in 1950-60s.Yara’s Virlana Tkacz tells the story, while Julian Kytasty, a master bandura player, shares Shtokalko’s recordings.Special guests: Marko R. Stech and Mike Andrec.
program & press release
Zhadan & Friends 2021
POETRY
April, 2021
Serhiy Zhadan reads from his new book “Psalm to Aviation” (forthcoming in May 2021), while American poets Dzvinia Orlowsky, Askold Melnyczuk, Wanda Phipps, Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler and Olena Jennings react to his poems. Susan Hwang responds with a song.
Yara's Forest Song 1993
February, 2021
How Lesia Ukrainka’s play transformed into "Yaras' Forest Song" with Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps on their translation. Designer Watoku Ueno, choreographer Shigeko Suga, actress Shona Tucker, actress, literary mangers Jude Domski, Kateryna Slipchenko, and Oksana Batiuk talk about their work.
Shtokalko:
Epic
Songs
October, 2020
ZInoviy Shtokalko, a virtuoso bandura player, brought the Ukrainian epic song tradition to New York in the 1950s & 60s Yara’s Virlana Tkacz tells the story, while Julian Kytasty, a master bandura player, shares Shtokalko's recordings.
Special guests: Andrij Hornjatkevyc from Edmonton and Dmytro Hubyak from Ukraine.
Poet:
Oleh Lysheha
June, 2020
Yara Arts Group 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
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