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Virtual events, 2022
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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 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Virtual events, 2021
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
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