PREVIEW OF EVENTS (08/24/03)

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Saturday, August 30

JEWETT, N.Y.: "Music at the Grazhda" will feature a presentation based on Myroslav Skoryk's opera "Moisei" (Moses), with Maestro Skoryk and baritone Oleh Chmyr. The opera, which premiered at the Solomiya Krushelnytska Opera and Ballet State Academic Theater in Lviv in June 2001, was recently staged at the National Opera Theater in Warsaw to critical acclaim. An integral part of the Ukrainian cultural complex built around St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church, the Grazhda is located in the Catskill Mountains on Route 23A, five miles west of the town of Hunter and two miles east of Lexington. The concert, which is presented as part of the Music and Art Center of Greene County summer concert series, begins at 8 p.m., with tickets available at the door ($15 for general admission; $12 for members). Perfor-mance schedules as well as detailed directions are available online at musicandartgc.brama.com. Information is also available by calling (518) 263-4335.

Saturday-Sunday, August 30-31

ELLENVILLE, N.Y.: Ukrainian American Veterans will have a table set up during the weekend festivities at the resort of the Ukrainian American Youth Association (SUM) for sales of merchandise and UAV registration. Also available at the UAV table will be any general information on the organization. For further information contact UAV National Quartermaster Stephen J. Kostecki, (508) 746-7164 or log on to www.uavets.org.

Sunday, August 31

JEWETT, N.Y.: "Music at the Grazhda" presents the Forte String Quartet - Mihail Kuchuk, violin; Oleksander Abayev, violin; Roumi Petrova, viola; Kalin Ivanov, cello - with Natalia Khoma, cello; Yuri Kharenko, violin; and Volodymyr Vynnytsky, piano; in the final concert of the Music and Art Center of Greene County classical music series. The program will feature works by Schubert and Chausson. An integral part of the Ukrainian cultural complex built around St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church, the Grazhda is located in the Catskill Mountains on Route 23A, five miles west of the town of Hunter and two miles east of Lexington. The concert, which is presented as part of the Music and Art Center of Greene County summer concert series, begins at 8 p.m., with tickets available at the door ($15 for general admission; $12 for members). Performance schedules as well as detailed directions are available online at musicandartgc.brama.com. Information is also available by calling (518) 263-4335.

Sunday, September 7

STAMFORD, Conn.: The 36th Ukrainian Day Festival sponsored by the Connecticut State Ukrainian Day Committee will be held at St. Basil's Seminary on Glenbrook Road beginning with an 11 a.m. liturgy celebrated by Bishop Basil H. Losten. Immediately afterwards, Ukrainian food, picnic food and refreshments will be available. At 2:45 p.m. a lively program will include: the Zolotyi Promin Dance Ensemble of Greater Hartford, Conn., and the Yunist Dance Ensemble of Yonkers, N.Y., the folk instrument group Hutsuska Rhapsodiia from Ivano-Frankivsk and the band Sviatkovi Chasy from Ternopil. Emcees for the program will be Andriana Rudyk and Robert Odomirok of New York. Over 15 vendors provide a kaleidoscope of Ukrainian souvenirs for sale. Admission for visitors age 12 and over: $3 per person in advance, or $5 at the gate. Free parking is available. For more information call (203) 269-5909.

Sunday, September 15

NEW YORK: A gala concert celebrating Ukrainian Independence Day will be held at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Seventh Avenue and 27th Street in Manhattan beginning at 2:30 p.m. This "cultural event of the year" is co-sponsored by the United Ukrainian Americans Organizations of Greater New York and the newly formed Ukrainian Studio of Drama in New York. The director of the program, National Artist of Ukraine Ivan Bernatsky, promises an inspiring and atypical event. Performers include the Dumka Chorus directed by Vasyl Hrechinsky; Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky's exciting Syzokryli Dance Ensemble; renowned pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky; singers Lyubov Shchypchyk, Anna Bachynska and Roman Tsymbala; violinist Adrian Bryttan; and artists of the Ukrainian Studio of Drama, Volodymyr Kurylo and Lyudmila Hrabovska.

Thursday, September 18

TORONTO: The Shevchenko Scientific Society (Canada) and the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies invite all to attend a lecture (in Ukrainian) by Archbishop Ihor (Isichenko), archbishop of Kharkiv, administrator of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and docent of Kharkiv University. The speaker will address the question: "Does the Development of Church Institutions in Ukraine Reflect the Growth of Our Nation? Trends and Problems of the Contemporary Orthodox Community in Ukraine." The lecture will be followed by a launch of the new CIUS Press book, "Religion and Nation in Modern Ukraine," by Serhii Plokhy and Frank E. Sysyn. The event gets under way at 7:30 p.m. at the Canadian Ukrainian Art Foundation, 2118-A Bloor St. W.