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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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