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April 1 - April 30, 2023 in Goodman's Albert Theatre

Around 2 hours and 40 minutes including one intermission.

THE CHERRY ORCHARD

A family verges on bankruptcy while their country stands on the brink of revolution. Following his critically-acclaimed productions of Three Sisters, The Seagull and Uncle Vanya, director Robert Falls takes on the last of Chekhov’s four major plays.

Recommended for ages 14 and up.
Purchase tickets here: https://www.goodmantheatre.org/show/the-cherry-orchard/

Ensemble Balkanske Igri Spring Festival -- Concert and Dance Party
SATURDAY, April 22, 2023
Concert, 5pm Bulgarica, Balkanske Igre, Charodea Trio, Krajiški Biseri-Bosnian, Kitka-Macedonian, Oko Sokolovo-Serbian, Vivanov-Bulgarian, Vishyvanka-Ukrainian, and others

Info/tickets: 847-858-9822, 847-331-7842, www.balkanskeigre.org
Or scan QR. Plentiful housing options for out of town guests. Program subject to change.

ROUNDTABLE EVENT WITH ARROWSMITH PRESS, Thursday, April 6, 1:30pm EST / 20:30 Kyiv

"With Open Eyes: Artists Respond to Russia's War on Ukraine." The Dept. of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures in collaboration with the Robert F. Byrnes REEI and Arrowsmith Press, invites you to a roundtable discussion focusing on how art and language respond to and influence war.

This is a virtual event on zoom. Register here - https://iu.zoom.us/.../tZIkdOmgqjopEtXHSlhObkBOB-OhXDiH_19j

Anders Zanichkowsky is an artist, weaver, and the owner of Burial Blankets. Part of the group show "Aesthetics of Loss" (February 18 - April 16) "for G" is a memorial for their first love, made of handwoven cloth and an audio piece created from cell phone recordings addressing him in death as a way to mourn.

  • Thursday, March 23, 2023
  • Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art 2320 West Chicago Avenue Chicago, IL, 60622 United States (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS
  • To register, RSVP here.

Please join the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois and the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages for the following virtual event:

Developing Educator Competence in Equity Literacy and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies in the Field of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Wednesday, March 8, 4:00 PM CST

This event will be held in a virtual format via Zoom. To register, visit: https://go.illinois.edu/developingeducatorcompetence.

Stop The War Charge The Criminals Rally in Daley Plaza Chicago
February 25 at Noon
Daley plaza directions

Duration: 2 hr

24 февраля 2022 года Россия напала на соседнюю страну - Украину. Это предательская война с ближайшим соседом - с украинским народом - история, культура и человеческие судьбы которого были накрепко переплетены с российским народом. Это безумная война, война вопреки здравому смыслу. И мы не согласны с этой войной! Мы требуем остановить войну и отправить всех военных преступников под трибунал!

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On February 24th, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia has begun a treacherous war with its closest neighbor, Ukrainians. The shared history, the culture, and the people’s relationships were tightly connected and intertwined between the nations. This barbaric war continues to this day, despite all common sense. We are against this war! We demand for the war to be stopped and every war criminal to face justice!

Online event "Poetry of War," organized by the Centre of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and the Petro Jacyk Program for Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto, with prominent Ukrainian authors who continue to write during the Russian war and terror in Ukraine.  

Poetry of War

Date: Thursday, February 9, 2023
Time: 11 am - 12:30 pm ET 
Location: Online
Register: https://munkschool-utoronto-ca.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Wai8NG6oSIOfAKrwCuzCaQ
Website link: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/poetry-war

In Conversation with Yevgenia Albats: Masha Gessen

Join us for another installment in our series of conversations hosted by Jordan Center Distinguished Journalist in Residence Dr. Yevgenia Albats. Masha Gessen is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of 11 books of nonfiction, most recently Surviving Autocracy (Riverhead Books, June 2020)

Thursday, February 2
4:00
pm ET/3:00 PM CT

Register for the Zoom webinar 

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