Text Box: NEW—CD Koliada: Winter Songs and Music from the Carpathians 14 tracks of winter songs & instrumental by the Hutsul musicians Including trembita, Koliadas: “Is the Master Home?” & “Bright Star” Instrumentals: “Arkan” “Polka” & “Hutsulka” $15 plus $5 shipping To purchase send Yara check Text Box: MODERNISM IN KYIV Jubilant Experimentation edited by Irena R. Makaryk and Virlana Tkacz  University of Toronto Press, 2010, over 680 pages, 21 color illustrations and over 300 black and white photographs and 20 articles by leading scholars in the fields of art, city history, cultural policies, dance, film, graphics, literature, music and theatre, as well as excerpts from such primary sources as poetry and diaries. Text Box: Purchase from: University of Toronto Press  or amazon.com  KYRGYZ EPIC THEATRE IN NEW YORK: Photographs by Margaret Morton, edited by Virlana Tkacz, published by University of Central Asia, Kyrgyz Republic, 2009 over 40 pages, 26 color photographs of Yara’s Janyl and Sakhna Theatre’s Kerez $20 plus $5 shipping. To purchase send Yara check. Text Box: (Continued from Page 1 ) Yara Arts Group’s Video Poetry at Kinofest Text Box: Yara’s Store Text Box: Above book cover, below Gyrcja Erde’s video of Kateryna Babkina’s “To All Apartments” Text Box: Yara arts group Text Box: Page # Text Box: Yarko Dobriansky, Stanislav Golopatyuk, Tamar Ilana, Kewpie, J Moličre, Matt Nasser, Masha Pruss, TJ Sclafani and Shigeko Suga. Musicians and singers include: Mark Marczyk, Tangi Ropars, Jaash Singh, Julia Dobner-Pereira, Brian Dolphin, and Samantha Posey. The core text of "Fire. Water. Night." is the verse drama "Forest Song" written in 1911 by Lesia Ukrainka (1871-1913). The play was translated into English by Virlana Tkacz and poet Wanda Phipps who received the National Theatre Translation Fund for their work. Yara's “Fire. Water. Night.” is made possible with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Coca-Cola Company, by Self-Reliance (NY) FCU &Yara’s numerous friends and donors. Text Box: Yara Arts Group presented Video Poetry, the finale to this year’s KinofestNY on April 7th at The Ukrainian Museum in New York. The videos were curated by Virlana Tkacz with poet and video artist Kateryna Babkina from Kyiv. The event showcased the work of some of the most exciting artists in Ukraine and Lithuania today, in which video artists translated the beautiful and intense language of the poets into unforgettable images, graphics and animations. The videos were accompanied by readings by Yara actors such as Maren Bush, Koryna Gesait and Chris Ignacio of English translations done by Virlana and Wanda Phipps. Olena Jennings read her own translation of Kataryna’s work.    The videos featured Ukrainian poets: Yuri Andrukhovych, Bohdan-Oleh Horbochuk, Halyna Kruk, Iryna Shuvalova, Victoria Stakh, and Oksana Zabuzhko, as well as UkrainText Box: ian-American poet Dzvinia Orlowsky and Lithuanian poets Dainius Gintalas and Gabriele Labanauskaite. Yara has had a long and rewarding relationship with poetry emerging from Eastern Europe and was excited to present this new style of experiencing poetry. Such innovative artists as Yuriy Kruchak, Yulia Kostereva and Olia Mykhailiuk/ArtPole contributed several videos each to the event. Also featured were works by Grycja Erde, Max Hoffman, Mark Marczyk, Volodymyr Klyuzko and Oleksandr Usik, who directed the popular Telnyuk Sisters.   Kateryna’s writing and videos were presented during the evening and included the premiere of her just completed video “Grandpa.” The event was a great success, many saying that it was “the artistic high point of KinofestNYC.” People especially enjoyed the videos created by Olia Mykhailiuk with Yuri Andrukhovych.

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