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The Ukrainian Museum
222 East 6th Street
(bet 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
New York, NY 10003

Saturday, January 29, 7 p.m.
CONCERT
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 (

includes gallery access to
exhibitions):
$15; $10 Museum and CTMD members and
seniors; $5 students. 
Tickets may be purchased online at www.ukrainianmuseum.org.

Current exhibitions

Invitation to a Wedding: Ukrainian Wedding Textiles and
Traditions
Wedding
Embroidery from Eastern Podillia

Major funding both for
planning and for implementation of Invitation to a Wedding:
Ukrainian Wedding Textiles and Traditions was provided byThe Coby Foundation, Ltd. Funding was also provided in
part by the New York State
Council on the Arts, a state agency; Peter &
Doris Kule Centrefor Ukrainian & Canadian Folklore; Self Reliance (NY)
Federal Credit Union; and individual sponsors.

Opanas Zalyvakha – The Road to Truth

The exhibition was organized in cooperation with the Plast Ukrainian scouting sororities Pershi Stezhi and Verkhovynky.

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

COMING UP...

Sunday, February 6, 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Folk Art Workshop for Families
Explore the forms and
meanings of Ukrainian folk art by participating in a variety of hands-on
art activities and looking at objects from the permanent collection. Weave
a textile on a loom, sculpt a decorative animal out of clay, design a
plate using traditional floral and geometric motifs, and embroider a
design onto fabric. 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

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Museum

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