PREVIEW OF EVENTS (07/11/99)

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Friday-Sunday, July 16-18

GLEN SPEY, N.Y.: The annual Ukrainian Youth Festival, sponsored by Ukrainian Fraternal Association, will be held at Verkhovyna resort. There will be four stage shows of Ukrainian dances, songs and music, performed by various groups on Friday, July 16, at 7:15 p.m., Saturday, July 17, at 2:15 and 7:15 p.m., and Sunday, July 18, at 2:15 p.m. There will also be indoor and outdoor dances, featuring three Ukrainian bands on Friday and Saturday night. Admission is $10 per person, and parking is $5 per car for all three days. For more information call Verkhovyna, (914) 856-1323.

Saturday, July 17

NEW PALTZ, N.Y.: Piano Summer at the State University of New York at New Paltz is sponsoring a concert of solo and two-piano works by pianists Alexander Slobodyanik and Laryssa Krupa. The program will include Chopin Ballades for solo piano and for two-pianos: Liszt's "Concerto Pathetique," Brahms' "Variations on a Theme of Haydn," Rachmaninoff's "Romance" and Ravel's "La Valse." The concert will be held in McKenna Theatre at 8 p.m. Admission is $15 for adults and $12 for senior citizens and students. For more information please call (914) 257-3904.
SANDY HOOK, N.J.: The Ukrainian National Women's League of America is celebrating Soyuzianka Day with a picnic at the Jersey shore to which all members, their families and friends are invited. There will be lunch and a program at 1 p.m. at Gateway National Recreational Area, Fort Hancock, Building 11, Clearwater. UNWLA President Iryna Kurowyckyj will be the guest speaker at the program. Admission fee for lunch and entertainment is $10 per adult and $5 per child. For more information contact Ulana Kobzar, (201) 438-1252, or Lida Kramarchuk, (973) 773-4548. Please respond no later than July 14.

Friday, July 23

BUFFALO, N.Y.: The Buffalo Branch of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and the Children's Fund of Ukraine are sponsoring a charity concert "We Are All Children of Ukraine" performed by children from Chornobyl who have won the national "Talents of Ukraine" contest. The concert will take place at 8 p.m. at Ukrainian Home Dnipro, 562 Genesee St., Buffalo. The 12 children will perform Ukrainian songs and dances, play the bandura and recite poetry. Admission is $10 for adults, $5 for students, free for children under 12. All proceeds from the concert will be donated to help fund the building and equipping of a children's hospital in Bila Tserkva, Kyiv Oblast, where victims of the Chornobyl catastrophe are treated. For more information contact Pavlo Bandriwsky, (716) 848-7601 or (800) 724-7575.

Saturday, July 31

HUNTER, N.Y.: Members of the Ukrainian Stage Ensemble, under the direction of Lydia Krushelnytsky, will appear in a program of recitation at the Grazhda, Route 23 A, at 8 p.m.

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