BOSTON – On Saturday evening, February 1, almost 300 people from the greater Boston area and as far away as Rhode Island, Connecticut and upstate New York gathered at the Venezia Waterfront Banquet Facility and Restaurant to celebrate a Ukrainian Winter Ball/Malanka 2020 with a “Welcome to the Roaring ‘20s/Great Gatsby” theme.

The venue’s ballroom, which was filled to capacity, has windows overlooking Dorchester Bay and Boston Harbor, with the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library directly across the bay and the major buildings of the downtown towering in the distance behind it.