Sharing News & Views for May 2013
UNWLA President
Marianna Zajac
As usual, spring is filled with
lots of domestic and social activities in
preparation for the season of renewal. It is also
the time of year when many UNWLA Regional Councils
and branches schedule their annual meetings. Besides
these, the calendar below includes other events in
which either a UNWLA Executive Board member or a
Board representative participated.
March 16th – UNWLA President and Sophia Hewryk,
Vice President of Cultural Affairs, meet with Alexander Kuzma,
Executive Director of the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation,
and Dr. Taras Dobko, Senior Vice Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic
University, to finalize formal documents as well as to discuss
future plans for the UNWLA Women’s Studies Lectureship at UCU.
Executive Director of the Ukrainian Catholic
Education Foundation Alexander Kuzma and UNWLA
President Marianna Zajac sign the official documents
on the UNWLA Lectureship in Women’s Studies at the
UCU.
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The Forty-Seventh CIUS Shevchenko Lecture Focuses on Women's Rights in
Ukraine
Dr. Kateryna Levchenko gives the
annual CIUS Shevchenko lecture on March 21, 2013, at
the University of Alberta.
According to the news release
from the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies,
Kateryna Levchenko, President of the International
Women’s Rights Center “La Strada–Ukraine,” delivered
the Institute’s annual Shevchenko lecture on March
21st at the University of Alberta. The distinguished
guest lecturer, who is known for her advocacy of
women’s rights and her involvement in combating
trafficking in women and children, addressed the
topic of social indifference to women’s rights
violations in Ukraine
Read more
For more details on the lecture, see the CIUS
news release from 4/17/2013 on the Institute’s website.
Woman with a Movie
Camera:
Recent Films by
Ukrainian Diaspora Women
by Olesia Wallo
Making movies—rather than acting in
them—is not often seen as a woman’s occupation.
According to a recent “Celluloid Ceiling” report, in
2012 women comprised only 9% of directors who made the
top 250 films of the year in the United States. The
numbers are somewhat higher for independently produced
films, especially documentaries, and for roles other
than the directing one— for example, those of a film
writer, a producer, or an editor. Yet even these figures
are still very low.
Folk! (2008) by Roxy Toporowych
The Whistleblower (2010) by Larysa Kondracki*
Higher Ground (2011) by Vera Farmiga
Felt, Feelings and Dreams (2013) by Andrea Odezynska
Read more
Yara’s
Fire. Water. Night. — Wild. Cultured. Mechanized. Digitalized
This summer Yara Arts Group will mark the
centennial of Lesia Ukrainka (Larysa Kosach- Kvitka, 1871-1913) with
an original theatre piece that will draw on her best known play,
Forest Song. This verse drama, written by Ukrainka in 1911, remained
unstaged in her lifetime. It was first produced in 1918 by the Kyiv
Dramatic Theatre and eventually became a mainstay of Ukrainian
theatre.
Read more
UNWLA is the Founder of The
Ukrainian Museum in New York City
The Ukrainian Museum
relies on its members
and friends to support
its exhibitions,
programs, collections
conservation, and
operations. Learn more
about how you can
support the Museum.
Current Exhibit
Out of Tradition:
Contemporary
Decorative and Applied Art
28 April – 29
September, 2013
http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/
