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Yara Events

Virtual events

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2022-2023

One actor. One poem. Yara actors read  our English translations of poetry by: Taras Shevchenko, Lesia Ukrainka, Pavlo Tychyna, Oksana Zabuzhko, Attila Mohylny, Victoria Stakh, Serhiy Zhadan, Kateryna Babkina

 videos

Poetry in Performance

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February, 2022 - Three part series

On Yara's exhibitions about theatre director Les Kurbas:

 

Kurbas: New Worlds  

program | video

Kurbas in Kharkiv  program | video

Kurbas in Kyiv       program | video

Les Kurbas

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Fall, 2022 - Four part series

On a master bandura player

Kytasty Family   program | video
Bandura in the Diasporas 

program | video

Reexamining the Tradition 

program | video
Yara Arts Group   program | video

Julian Kytasty

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December 2022

Maria Zelenchuk Dosiak shares how she makes traditional keptar jackets.

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Hutsul Keptar Jackets

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June 2021

Yara's Virtual Theatre performance of Lesia Ukrainka's verse play from 1911

 

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Virtual Forest Song

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May 2021

Maria Zelenchuk of Kryvorivnia shares how she makes horses from cheese. 

 

Hutsul Cheese Horses

Coming Soon
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Ukrainian Culture in America

October, 2021

Andrea Odezynska, born in Philadelphia, has directed award-winning independent films. 

 

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Yara's Forest Songs 

February - March, 2021

Fire Water Night (2013)   program | press release | video          

Yara's Forest Song (1994)

  program | press release | video

Yara's Forest Song (1993) 

  program | press release | video

Virtual Forest Song (2021) video

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Ukrainian Culture in America Series

Summer, 2020

Pawlo Humeniuk, folk fiddler 1920s

program | video link

Vasile Avramenko, dancer 1930s   

program | video link

Zinoviy Shtokalko, bandurist 1950s

program | video link

Oleh Lysheha, poet 1990s 

program | video link

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Ukrainian Culture in America

October, 2021

Tanya Vovk, bandura player from Minnesota, shares her story and music with director Virlana Tkacz. Master bandura player Julian Kytasty and Alina Kuzma join the discussion.

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Yara's Theatre Project

2020

Yara, Kyrgyz and Ukrainian artists, tell how Yara shows were created of poetry.

Kyrgyz Epic Er Toshtuk  video

Oleg Lysheha's Swan      video

Oleg Lysheha's Raven     video

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Yara's World Epic Festival

Summer, 2020

Ukrainian Duma  program video link

Kyrgyz Epic Songs                                           program | video link

Finnish Kalevala  program | video link

African American Songs                                           program video link

Buryat Epic Songs

                      program | video link

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Zhadan & Friends 2021

JAZZ, PROSE, POETRY

April, 2021

Serhiy Zhadan, Ukraine acclaimed poet, reads with Yara artists & friends 

Poetry    program & video

Prose     program & video

Jazz      program & video 

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Shtokalko Series

September, 2020

Zinoviy Shtokalko, epic songs 

  program | video link

Zinoviy Shtokalko, epic modernist        program | video link

Zinoviy Shtokalko, singer of tales          program | video link

Zinoviy Shtokalko, instrumental music    video link

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