[e-news] This weekend at The Ukrainian Museum
The Ukrainian Museum
222 East 6th Street
(bet 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
New York, NY 10003
Sunday, January 16, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
“You’re Invited to a Wedding” Family Workshop
Explore Ukrainian wedding traditions through the exhibit Invitation to a Wedding and create decorations out of dough for a wedding bread (korovai), decorate a wedding tree (hiltse), and design a traditional ritual cloth (rushnyk). Take your creations home!
For families with children ages 4-12. Family Workshops are $5 per family member/$3 per Museum member. All materials are provided. Download our Family Program Brochure for information on all our family programs: http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/edubrochure.pdf
Sunday, January 16, 2 p.m.
“Baba Liuba and Spider Spiridon” Marionette Show
Don’t miss this extraordinary musical winter tale performed by the Shepko-Hamilton family with marionettes they made using clay from their own land and wool from their sheep. Fun for the entire family, the show also involves a hands-on activity and a tasting of traditional Ukrainian Christmas dishes.
Admission: $15; $10 Museum members and seniors; $5 students.
Tickets may be purchased online at www.ukrainianmuseum.org.
COMING UP…
Sunday, January 23, 2 p.m.
Exhibition opening OPANAS ZALYVAKHA – THE ROAD TO TRUTH
and book presentation The Voice of an Era by IVAN SVITLYCHNYI
A commemoration of the dissident movement of the 1960’s
with the participation of Raisa Moroz, Larysa Zaleska-Onyshkevych and Sofika Zielyk
Donation: $15; $10 Museum members and seniors; $5 students.
Saturday, January 29, 7 p.m.
INVITATION TO A WEDDING: Traditional Ukrainian Wedding Songs
with Nadia Tarnawsky & Ukrainian Women’s Voices
Co-host Julian Kytasty and the New York Bandura Ensemble
Presented by The Ukrainian Museum, the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, and the New York Bandura Ensemble
Ukrainian-American singer Nadia Tarnawsky once again joins Ukrainian Women’s Voices, a collective of New-York-area Ukrainian and American singers, to present “Invitation to a Wedding,” a program of Ukrainian wedding songs, sung in traditional village singing style and in Ukrainian folk polyphony. The evening’s concert is the fifth in the Ukrainian Women’s Voices series, and includes selections from a large Ukrainian village repertoire of folksongs and ballads relating to courtship, wedding, and marriage themes. The concert is presented in in conjunction with Museum’s current exhibitions Invitation to a Wedding: Ukrainian Wedding Textiles and Traditions and Wedding Embroidery from Eastern Podillia.
Admission: $15; $10 Museum and CTMD members and seniors; $5 students.
Tickets may be purchased online at www.ukrainianmuseum.org.
Current exhibition
Invitation to a Wedding: Ukrainian Wedding Textiles and Traditions
Museum hours:
Wednesday-Sunday, 11:30 am – 5:00 pm
Admission:
$8 adults; $6 seniors and students (with ID);
FREE for Museum members and children under 12
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The Ukrainian Museum
222 East 6th Street
New York, NY 10003
212-228-0110
212-228-1947 (fax)
http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org
