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March 2010
In this issue
· Easter-egg-decorating demos
· Sign up now for Easter workshops
· And for your Easter shopping…
· Share your wedding photos with us
· Now showing …
· Coming up …
· Around the Museum: concert, book launch, Kinofest NYC
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Easter-egg-decorating demos
Saturday, March 27, 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Don't miss this opportunity to watch renowned pysanka artists Sofika Zielyk and Anna Gbur create a variety of beautiful Ukrainian Easter eggs, right before your eyes. The demonstrations will take place throughout the afternoon, and you'll also have a chance to see Pysanka, Slavko Nowytski's award-winning film, which will be screened continuously. Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for students over 12 and seniors, free for children 12 and under, and $6 for members. Visits to the Museum's galleries are included in the price of admission. Reservations are not required for this event ‒ just drop by!
Sign up now for Easter workshops
With Easter just around the corner, what better time to sign up for the Museum's Easter-egg-decorating and Easter-bread-baking workshops?
Pysanka (Ukrainian Easter Egg) Decorating (ages 12+)
Saturdays:
March 6 10:00 a.m.‒noon
March 13 10:00 a.m.‒noon
March 27 2:00‒4:00 p.m.
Sundays:
March 7 11:00 a.m.‒1:00 p.m. or 2:00‒4:00 p.m.
March 14 2:00‒4:00 p.m.
March 28 11:00 a.m.‒1:00 p.m. or 2:00‒4:00 p.m.
Ukrainian Easter Traditions (baking Easter breads, for ages 16+)
Saturday, March 27, 10:00 a.m.‒1:00 p.m.
Please refer to the winter/spring Folk Art Courses and Workshops brochure for registration instructions, as well as for a full description of each workshop, including instructors, fees, and discounts available to Museum members. And remember to register early, as workshops fill up quickly. Questions? Contact the Museum's Education department at 212.228.0110 or edu@ukrainianmuseum.org.
And for your Easter shopping…
Drop by the Museum's gift shop, which has an extensive selection of Ukrainian Easter eggs, in every style and price range, perfect for Easter giving or for your own Easter basket. The shop also carries Easter-egg-decorating supplies and a wide variety of folk art and other unique items. The gift shop is open during Museum visiting hours, or you can do your shopping online anytime, anywhere.
Share your wedding photos with us
This fall, the Museum will unveil a major exhibition on the Ukrainian wedding. Invitation to a Wedding: Ukrainian Wedding Textiles and Traditions will focus on the wide variety of traditional textiles that are used from the time of betrothal, during the marriage ceremony, and right through the wedding festivities themselves ‒ items such as embroidered ritual cloths (rushnyky) and shirts, traditional wedding headdresses, and even decorations for the korovai (wedding bread).
Do you have wedding photographs, showing these types of traditional elements, that you could share with us for this exhibition? The photographs may be old, from traditional weddings in Ukraine or the early days of the Diaspora, or more recent, with traditional elements applied in a modern way ‒ an embroidered wedding gown or ring pillow, for example. While we cannot guarantee that every photo we receive will be used in the exhibition, we will display as many as possible.
Along with your photos, please include the following information:
- Your name, address, daytime phone number, and e-mail.
- The date and location of the wedding, and any other available information.
- Are you willing to donate your photos to the Museum's archival photo collection, or would you prefer to have them returned after use?
Please send your photos, in any format (print, slides, digital files), to:
Chrystyna Pevny, Archivist
The Ukrainian Museum
222 East 6th Street
New York, NY 10003
chrystyna.pevny@ukrainianmuseum.org
212.228.0110
Curated by Lubow Wolynetz, who oversees the Museum's folk art collection, Invitation to a Wedding will open in the fall of 2010.
Now showing …
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Coming up …
Around the Museum
Concert
In the photo (l-r): Michael Alpert and Julian Kytasty
Photos © by Eileen Condon (left) and Ivan Lechicky
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"Night Songs from a Neighboring Village," an evening of Ukrainian and East European Jewish music and song performed by Ukrainian-American singer/bandurist Julian Kytasty and Yiddish singer/klezmer multi-instrumentalist Michael Alpert, took place Friday evening, February 12, before an extremely appreciative audience. Among the comments made about the concert: "extraordinary … exquisite … charming … beautiful … lovely … a great sharing of traditions … fabulous music … a dynamic duo … a richly textured evening."
View online slideshows of this event by Eileen Condon and Ivan Lechicky.
Book launch and more
Janice Kulyk Keefer and Natalka Husar
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The Museum and Rodovid Press of Kyiv hosted a unique evening on Friday, February 19: artist Natalka Husar and writer Janice Kulyk Keefer gave an illustrated talk on contemporary Ukraine entitled "Blood in the Borsch" and also launched their joint publication ‒ Burden of Innocence, illustrated with works by Ms. Husar, and Foreign Relations, with poetry by Ms. Kulyk Keefer (Rodovid, 2009).
Kinofest NYC
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The four-day Kinofest NYC film festival premiered at The Ukrainian Museum on Thursday evening, February 25. The festival was a celebration of contemporary cinema from Ukraine and other countries that were once part of the Soviet Union. It featured six screening sessions, each highlighting stories and film from post-Soviet countries in Eastern Europe.
Opening night featured guest presenter Jonas Mekas, filmmaker and founding director of New York's Anthology Film Archives, one of the largest and most important repositories of avant-garde films in the world. Mekas was introduced by Annette Michelson, founding member of NYU's Department of Cinema Studies, who described Mekas's pioneering role in the New York City film community. After the screening of Mekas's film Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, which describes his 1971 return to his native land, which he fled during World War II, an engaging Q & A session allowed the audience to interact with these two incredible film legends.
One of the festival's noteworthy achievements was in bringing together a very diverse audience that largely had never previously visited The Ukrainian Museum. Many expressed their awe at the accomplishments of the Ukrainian community, in particular the construction of the Museum's still-new facility and its impressive exhibitions.
The festival's success can be attributed to the Kinofest NYC team and the many volunteers who contributed much of their time and energy before and during the weekend. Special thanks go to Kinofest NYC festival director Andrew Kotliar, who conceived of the idea and brought the program to the Museum, and to Damian Kolodiy, the festival's program director, who worked tirelessly to put together a truly impressive line-up of guest speakers and films. It is also important to highlight the creative efforts of print designer Natasha Mikhalchuk, operations director Martha Duff, Bohdana Smyrnova for publicity and outreach, film coordinator (Kyiv) Dmytro Zakharevych, film coordinator (New York City) Olenka Denysenko, and programming advisor Alexander J. Motyl.
Other Kinofest NYC volunteers included Joe Crescente, Alex Cybriwski, Mateusz Drozolzewski, Fitzgerald East Jr., Nadia Garbosky, Natalia Gladun, Olesia Ivanyshyn, Iryna Koshulap, Serhiy Kotsko, Viktoriya (Vika) Slobodian, Jonathan Spiteri, Greg Szumel, Natalie Szumel, Jose Tabora, Nadia Tatchin, Olena Vivchar, and Yurii Zobkiv.
Together, the entire team, which included Hanya Krill, who is in charge of the Museum's film program and acted as the Kinofest public relations director and venue coordinator, created an event that speaks with a new voice for Ukrainian and post-Soviet film. The Museum is grateful to the Kinofest NYC team for its important contributions to the film program.
The Ukrainian Museum's film program is supported in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional support for Kinofest NYC 2010 was provided by a generous grant from the Self Reliance New York Federal Credit Union. Reception support was provided in part by Veselka Restaurant.
Media organizations such as Novoe Russkoe Slovo, The Ukrainian Weekly, and Novy Dziennyk helped spread the news about the upcoming festival. Institutions in Ukraine that helped market Kinofest NYC included the Lviv International Festival of Visual Art, Vseukrainskyi Festival-Konkurs Molodoho i Al'ternatyvnoho Kino ta Video "Inshi Terytorii," DyvoFilm International Short Film and Animation Festival, and Berdianskyi Mizhnarodnyi Kinofestival.
Read the complete article on the Museum's website.
Learn more about Kinofest NYC 2010 by downloading the program booklet or by visiting the KinofestNYC.com website.
Header image: Pysanky (Ukrainian Easter eggs) from the UM folk art collection
All photos © The Ukrainian Museum
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The Ukrainian Museum's film series and traditional arts programs are funded in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
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The Ukrainian Museum's traditional arts programs are funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts
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