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Virlana T kacz N am ed "H onored Artist o f Ukraine" Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs presenting “Honored Artist of Ukraine ” medal to Virlana Tkacz In a ceremony held at the Ukrainian Insti tute in New York on September 24, 2007, Virlana Tkacz, director of the Yara Arts Group, was re cognized for her artistic and creative endeavors by the government of Ukraine. Officiating at the cere mony was Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arsenyi Yasenyuk, who presented Ms. Tkacz with a medal and a document, signed by Ukraine’s Pre sident Viktor Yushchenko, naming her “Honored Artist of Ukraine.” Creator, director, and producer of numerous original theatrical works, Ms. Tkacz is also an ac complished writer, translator, and poet. Over the decades, her work in theater has ranged from in dependent productions to collaborative works with Kyrgyz artists and contemporary Ukrainian poets and musicians. Yara productions have enthrallled audiences from New York to Mongolia, in numer ous theaters in Ukraine, at college campuses in the United States, and beyond. The productions are as multifaceted as the locations in which they have been showcased: sets, costumes, prose, music, and poetry interwoven in an innovative style that in trigues and enlightens while it entertains. This is not the first time Virlana Tkacz has been recognized for her work. Her credentials in clude numerous grants and awards. In 1989, for ex ample, she was named the Jerome Foundation’s Emerging Director of the year. In 1991, she won the annual Translation Prize awarded by A gni and Boston University. Since 1993, she has been awarded 11 New York State Council on the Arts Translation Grants for Ukrainian, Buryat, and Kyrgyz poetry. She was a Fulbright Fellow at the Theatre Institute in Kyiv in 2002 and a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Translation Fellow in 2005. Virlana Tkacz is also no stranger to the Ukrainian community. In 1988, she initiated the Harvard Summer Institute Theatre Workshops for Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. For eleven years, she created original theater pieces with the students. In 1990, Virlana was presented with the UNWLA’s Young Woman Achiever Award. Over the past decade, she has contributed several articles about her work to Our Life, sharing with readers her passion for her work and for the people she has worked with, telling fascinating stories about the way they have shaped her art and the way she has shaped theirs. Ms. Tkacz has presented numerous scholar ly papers on Ukrainian theater, several of which have focused on the life and work of Les Kurbas. One of the earliest productions of Yara Arts Group was A Light From the East, a work based on Kurbas’s diary. Ironically (or perhaps fortuitously), the play was on tour in Ukraine in 1991, the year the Soviet Empire was crumbling and the year Ukraine declared its independence. Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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