Irene (Irena) Rima Makaryk is a Canadian English-language academic, author, and distinguished professor at the University of Ottawa.
Makaryk earned a bachelor of arts degree (1974), a master of arts degree (1975), and a PhD (1980), all from the University of Toronto. [1]
Makaryk joined the University of Ottawa in 1981 and was given the rank of distinguished professor in 2018; she teaches English at the faculty of arts. [1] [2] She is also the vice-dean of the faculty of graduate and postdoctoral studies. [2]
Her research focusses on theatrical modernism, Shakespeare, Ukrainian Shakespeare, the arts in times of war, Soviet theatre, Les Kurbas, cultural history, and Arctic diaries. [1] [3] [4]
Makaryk appeared on the Canadian Broadcasting Company's Ideas (radio show) on November 3rd 2021. [5]
Lesya Ukrainka was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active political, civil, and feminist activist.
Vadym Heorhiyovych Meller was a Ukrainian and Soviet painter, avant-garde Cubist, Constructivist and Expressionist artist, theatrical designer, book illustrator, and architect. In 1925 he was awarded a gold medal for the scenic design of the Berezil Theatre in the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris.
Levko "Lev" Mykolajovych Revutskyi was a Ukrainian composer, teacher, and activist.
Zveno (Link) was a group of Ukrainian avant-garde artists formed in the first decade of the 20th century by brothers David Burliuk and Wladimir Burliuk.
Voice of Fire is an 1967 acrylic on canvas abstract painting made by American painter Barnett Newman in 1967. It consists of three equally sized vertical stripes, with the outer two painted blue and the centre painted red. The work was created as a special commission for Expo 67. In 1987 it was loaned to the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto is a private members' club in Toronto, Ontario, which brings together writers, architects, musicians, painters, graphic artists, actors and others working in or with a love of the arts and letters. It was founded in 1908 as a gentlemen's club, but women have been members since 1985.
Alexander Asro was a film and theatre actor. He was a member of the Vilna Troupe and appeared in several comedic films in the United States.
Jacques Dubois, Professor emeritus of Literature at the Université de Liège invented the concept of the Literary Institution following the work of Pierre Bourdieu by analogy with other social institutions such as military, medical, and political. He is also a Member of the Groupe µ. In 1983, he was the main editor of the Manifesto for Walloon culture.
Virlana Tkacz is the founding director of the Yara Arts Group, a resident company at the world-renowned La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York. She was educated at Bennington College and Columbia University, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts in theatre directing.
Ukraine: A History is a 1988 book on the history of Ukraine written by Orest Subtelny, a professor of history and political science at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is a comprehensive survey of the history of the geographical area encompassed by what is modern-day Ukraine. Updated editions have been published in 1994 to include new material on the dissolution of the Soviet Union, 2000 to include Ukraine's first decade of independence, and 2009 to include the Orange Revolution and the effects of globalization on Ukraine.
Dmytro Ivanovych Chyzhevsky was a Ukrainian-born scholar of Slavic literature, history, culture and philosophy.
Eleven Études in the Form of Old Dances, Op. 19, written specifically for educational purposes between 1928 and 1930 by Ukrainian pianist and composer Viktor Kosenko, is a late-romantic collection of solo piano pieces mingled with elements of Ukrainian folk-like melodies, using French-baroque dance forms such as minuet, allemande, courante, sarabande, and gavotte as concept.
The Earle Grey Players were a professional theater company in Canada during the 1940s and 1950s. Founded by Earle Grey and his wife, Mary Godwin, the company specialized in Shakespearean productions, and were responsible for founding the first Shakespeare Festival in Canada in 1949. In addition to holding its annual festival, the Players also toured the country, performing Shakespeare in schools, often providing students with their first exposure to seeing Shakespeare performed live.
Irena Turkevycz-Martynec was born in Brody, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, and came to Canada, to Winnipeg, in 1949. She was a Prima donna in the Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet, and performed in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Prague, and many other European cities during her long and storied career.
Liubov Mykhailivna Hakkebush was a Ukrainian stage actress, teacher, and translator. People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1943). She appeared in over 80 leading and supporting roles, including the most well-known roles of Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Fru Alving in Ibsen's Ghosts.
An election to the Kiev City Duma was held on 5 August [O.S. 23 July] 1917. The election took place in the aftermath of the February Revolution, the formation of the Ukrainian Central Rada and the First World War. The election resulted in a victory for the socialist bloc.
The Les Kurbas Prize is an award of Ukraine in the field of theatrical art, established in 1995 by the Ministry of Culture and the National Union of Theater Actors of Ukraine in honor of the Ukrainian director, actor, theater theorist, and playwright Les Kurbas.
Roy Matthews Mitchell was a Canadian-American theatre practitioner who played an important role in little theatre in Canada and the United States. He was involved in the creation and was the first artistic director of the Hart House Theatre at the University of Toronto, and was an influence on Vincent Massey, Herman Voaden and Mavor Moore. In 1974 Moore wrote "in 1929, Roy Mitchell was a voice crying in the near-wilderness of Canada" and called him "the seer who said it all on our own doorstep nearly half a century ago." A later scholar wrote that Mitchell's "vision ... did not fully come to pass in his lifetime, nor did it subsequently."
The 1919 Kiev city census was the first census conducted in the city of Kiev following the Bolshevik occupation of the city in February 1919, taking place on March 16, 1919. The census covered the size, age, ethnic demography, and educational status of the city's population. The final report was published by D.l. Volion, head of the Kiev Provincial Statistical Bureau, in 1920.
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