PREVIEW OF EVENTS (09/12/04)

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Sunday, September 12

HORSHAM, Pa.: The Tryzub Ukrainian American Sport Center celebrates its 25th anniversary at the Tryzubivka homestead with festivities starting at noon. The festival will feature Ukrainian folk music, dance and food. The day will also mark the start of the 25th soccer season, with the first game slated for 3:30 p.m. Admission: $10 per person; children age 13 and under, free. For more information contact Eugene Luciw, (610) 868-1400 or (215) 362-5331.

Monday, September 13

PHILADELPHIA: The School of the Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble begins its school year on Monday, September 13. Registration of children age 4 and above will take place September 13 through 27 at 6 p.m. at the Ukrainian Educational and Cultural Center, 700 Cedar Road, Jenkintown, Pa. Classes will be held weekly on Monday evenings at the center. For additional information contact Nina Prybolsky, school director, (610) 591-2492 or (215) 572-1552.

Sunday, September 19

GLEN SPEY, N.Y.: The Verkhovyna Resort will hold its traditional Potato Bake ("Pechennia Baraboli") on the premises of the main builidng, 369 High Road, at 1 p.m. Directions to the resort may be found on the Verkhovyna website: http://www.verkhovyna.org.

Friday September 24

CHICAGO: The Char Zilliya Bandura Ensemble - Motria Poshyvanyk Caudill, Lesya Klimchenko, Myroslava Kuka, Oksana Petriv, Oksana Rodak and Iryna Turshyn - will appear in concert as part of the Fourth Presbyterian Church Noonday Concert Series. The concert program will feature Ukrainian sacred, folk, classical and instrumental music. Performance time: 12:10 p.m. The concert will be held at the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago, 126 E. Chestnut St. (Michigan Avenue at Delaware and Chestnut, across from the Hancock Center). For additional information contact Oksana Rodak at oksanarodak@hotmail.com or call (815) 577-1124.

Saturday-Sunday, September 25-26

SILVER SPRING, Md.: The Washington Ukrainian Festival, sponsored by the Ukrainian Festival Committee with the support of the Ukrainian Embassy and local organizations, will be held on the grounds of St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral, 5100 New Hampshire Ave. The festival will be opened by Archbishop Antony and Ambassador of Ukraine Mykhailo Reznik. The festival program will feature Ukrainian singers, dancers and other performers from the U.S., Canada and Ukraine. Among featured performers will be the well-known violin virtuoso Vasyl Popadiuk from Canada. Ukrainian crafts, arts, paintings, ceramics, jewelry and other items will be available for viewing and sale. There will also be Ukrainian and American food concessions and the now famous Kozak Beer Garden with its selection of Ukrainian beers and liqueurs. A dance (zabava) will be held on Saturday in the St. Andrew Founders Hall with a Ukrainian band. For further information contact Val Zabijaka, (301) 593-5316, or log on to www.StAndrewUOC.org.

ONGOING

CHICAGO: The art exhibit "Konstantin Milonadis - Material in Motion: A Survey of Work in Collections," is on view at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, 2320 W. Chicago Ave. The sculptures presented in the exhibition span several decades of production and have been selected from private collections in the Chicago area. A catalogue of the exhibition is available. The exhibition, which opened September 5, will be on view through October 24. For additional information call the UIMA, (773) 227-5522.

ADVANCE NOTICE

October 2

NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Engineer's Society of America (UESA) and the Ukrainian Medical Association of North America (UMANA) invite the public to a post-Labor Day zabava (dance) to benefit the Ukrainian Institute of America. The dance, featuring music by Fata Morgana, will be held at the institute, 2 E. 79th St., starting at 9 p.m. Admission: $45; $25, students. Donation forms will be available at the door. For more information visit www.uesa.org or e-mail nyc@uesa.org.

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