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tic Director Emeritus, Ping Chong and Company) and Virlana Tkacz (Artistic Director of the Yara Arts Group), explores the experiences of Ukrainian American New York - ers: Ukrainian identity, immigra - tion, intergenerational connec - tions, the history of Ukrainians in the U.S., and the disastrous ef - fect of russia's war. The year 2022 marked the 30th anniversary of the Undesirable Elements series, which has had more than 65 pro - ductions performed around the world. If you’d like to attend this perfor - mance, go to the Museum’s web - site, www.theukrainianmuseum. org (Visit > Events). The Ukrainian Museum has a new website! www.theukrainianmuseum.org Check the site regularly for new events and updates. Thursday, May 4, 7 – 9 p.m. Hunger Dramatic Reading Ninety years after the Holodo - mor, war erupted in Ukraine. That same week, theater direc - tor Emma Denson discovered a translation of Bohdan Boychuk’s Hunger ( Holod in the original Ukrainian). The play depicts two people, Beckettian style, at the end of the world. They debate ex - istentialism, relationships, ethics, and God, all while slowly starving to death before the audience’s eyes. This visceral depiction of a tragedy that killed millions is one of the few plays about the Holo - domor, yet little scholarship on it exists. Emma’s investigations soon led her to Maria Rewakow - icz (Boychuk’s second wife, a Ukrainian scholar and writer who is also The Ukrainian Museum’s collections manager) and Virko Baley (a Ukrainian composer who penned an opera based on Hunger ). During their interviews in the following months, a collab - oration was born. Hunger is an original bilingual adaptation and reconstruction of the original play, featuring origi - nal movement and composition. This reframing focuses on the impacts of the Holodomor on the four generations of women depicted in the play. The urgent message of Hunger is a call to ac - tion to help however we can, as Ukrainian lives, the Ukrainian lan - guage, and Ukrainian culture are once again in peril. It reminds au - diences that through the bridging of cultures, generations, and lan - guages, change is possible. A staged reading of Hunger pre - miered at the Irish Arts Center in January 2023 as part of the Origin Theatre Company’s First Irish Festival. After the May 4 staged reading at The Ukrainian Museum, actor Marina Vogts - berger will describe her person - al connection with the play as she recounts her grandmother’s experience as a child during the Holodomor. Ukrainian Canadian designer Stephanie Bahniuk will lead a design concepts presenta - tion to help the audience imagine what a future, fully realized pro - duction of Hunger could look like. For more information about the production, please visit www.em - madenson.com/hunger. If you’d like to attend this event, go to the Museum’s website, www. theukrainianmuseum.org (Visit > Events). Friday, May 5 & 12, 7 – 9 p.m. Saturday, May 6 & 13, 7 – 9 p.m. Sunday, May 7 & 14, 2 – 4 p.m. Undesirable Elements: Ukraine Performance by Ping Chong and Company and Yara Arts Group Undesirable Elements: Ukraine is the most recent work by Ping Chong and Company in the Unde- sirable Elements series, in which real people talk about their own lives on stage. This production, directed by Ping Chong (National Medal of Arts recipient and Artis - 21 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ • Березень-Квітень 2023 The cast during the staged reading of Hunger at the Irish Arts Center on January 28, 2023. Nikifor exhibition catalogue now available A fully illustrated, 168-page catalogue of the Museum’s Nikifor exhibition (see the December 2022 issue of Our Life , p. 24) is now available at the Museum shop (accessible from the website, www.theukrainianmuseum.org). The catalogue in - cludes a fascinating essay by the exhibition curator, Prof. Myroslava Mudrak, as well as a biography of the Ukrainian Lemko artist, considered to be one of the premier outsider (self-taught) artists of his time. Photo: Pavlo Terekhov A post-performance discussion of Undesirable Elements: Ukraine at the New School, New York, early February 2023.
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