PREVIEW OF EVENTS
Tuesday, September 9, and Thursday, September 11
- IRVINGTON, N.J./NEW YORK: "Muzychne Doshkillia - Music and Me,"
which celebrates its 32nd year, will hold its first session September 9
at the Ukrainian Center, 140 Proespect Ave., Irvington, N.J., and on Thursday,
Septem-ber 11 at the Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 E. 79th St. in New
York City. For more information call Marta Sawycky, (908) 276-3134 or (973)
374-8079.
Saturday, September 13
- CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and St.
Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Boston present an evening of music
with composer Myroslav Skoryk and baritone Oleh Chmyr. The program will
be a presentation based on Maestro Skoryk's opera "Moisei" (Moses),
as well as piano and vocal masterworks by the composer. The event will
be held in Swedenborg Chapel, 50 Quincy St., starting at 8 p.m. General
admission: $15 students, $10. For more information contact HURI, (617)
495-4053.
- ROCHESTER, N.Y.: The fifth Annual Children of Chornobyl Golf Tournament
will take place this year at Shadow Pines Golf Club, 600 Whalen Road, Penfield,
N.Y. Registration will start at 11:30 a.m. The format of this year's tournament
is a four-person scramble with a shotgun start at 1 p.m. A donation of
$85 includes 18 holes of golf with cart, practice range balls, lunch, beverages,
dinner and prizes. Players may register as an entire team or sign up individually
and you will be matched with a team. Checks made payable to CCRF Rochester
- Golf, should be sent to CCRF Golf, P.O. Box 150, Webster, NY 14580. This
year there will be a CCRF - Golf Pub Night at 8 p.m. on Friday, September
12, at the Ukrainian Home of Rochester, 1970 Empire Blvd., Penfield, N.Y.,
with prizes, drink specials and snacks. This will be a great opportunity
to meet other players and help support CCRF. For more information contact
Bo Skrobach, (585) 872-7260 or John Adamczuk (585) 265-3394.
Sunday, September 14
- NEW YORK: A gala concert celebrating Ukrainian Independence Day will
be held at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Seventh Avenue and 27th
Street, beginning at 2:30 p.m. The concert is co-sponsored by the United
Ukrainian Americans Organizations of Greater New York and the newly formed
Ukrainian Studio of Drama in New York, Ivan Bernatsky, director. Performers
include the Dumka Chorus under the direction of Vasyl Hrechinsky; Syzokryli
Dance Ensem-ble under the director of Roma Pryma-Bohachevsky's concert
pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky; sopranos Lyubov Shchypchyk and Anna Bachynska
and tenor Roman Tsymbala; violinist Adrian Bryttan; and member of the Ukrainian
Studio of Drama, Volodymyr Kurylo and Lyudmila Hrabovska.
Saturday-Sunday, September 27-28
- PALATINE, Ill.: The Ukrainian American Veterans (UAV) will hold their
56th National Convention and the Ukrainian American Military Association
(UAMA) will convene its 8th annual conference at the Doubletree Club Hotel
[(847) 359-6900] in Palatine. On Saturday, the installation banquet will
have Brig. Gen. David L. Grange (ret) as the keynote speaker. Gen. Grange
is the former commander of the 1st Infantry Division and a former special
operations commander. He is also a national security analyst for CNN and
WGN-TV. Banquet tickets are $45 per person. Reservations can be made by
contacting Michael Kuropas, kuropas@msn.com,
or Andrij Karasejczuk, (847) 528-5612. On Sunday, the UAV and UAMA will
convene at St. Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Bloomingdale, Ill.
followed by a visit to the military cemetery; note (the Yuri Shukhevych
visit has been postponed). Veterans are urged to attend and/or join. Members
of the community are invited to attend. For more information call Roman
Golash, (847) 910-3532.
Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, September
7, 2003, No. 36, Vol. LXXI
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