The Ukrainian Community of Western Pennsylvania (UCOWPA), in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh, cordially invites you to the “HOVERLA” Ukrainian American Film Festival – a multi-weekend event full of great films, interactive environment and all-encompassing experience!

OCTOBER 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2014
Sunday, October 5, 2014 5:30 PM
Festival Kick-Off: BABYLON'13 with Yuriy Gruzinov: "Winter that changed us" (Ukraine)

Sunday, October 12, 2014 5:30 PM
TBA

Sunday, October 12, 2014 7:00 PM
Letter From the Past by Andriy Rozhen
The Island of Crimea by Ihor Chajka

Yuriy Gruzinov is a Russian native who left Russia to live in Ukraine as a young adult. Yuriy is a cinematographer by trade and became one of the founding members of the Babylon’13 crew that began making short documentary films from the outset of the Maidan movement.

This year’s musical performers:
Jozef Ivaška, internationally renowned singer from Slovakia
The Singing Revil’ak Family of Bardejov, Slovakia
Pittsburgh Slovakians
PAS (Pittsburgh Area Slovaks)
Slavjane Folk Ensemble
Ben Sorenson on Fujara
And others!

Also Featuring: Cultural Displays & Lectures
Shop for Christmas: Slovak and East European import vendors
Ethnic Food (klobasa, halušky, holupki, pirohy, and pastries)
(please donate cookies or pastries in support of this wonderful FREE festival. Bring them to the pastry table in the Commons Room)

Lectures

Two REES undergraduate students gave presentations on Russian and Ukrainian culture, music/songs, fairy tales and language to kindergarten through fourth grade students as a part of University Park Elementary School's Diversity Day event.

This is the first film in the series, "The Play's the Thing: Vaclav Havel, Art and Politics," presented at Pitt by the Czechoslovak Nationality Room courtesy of the Czech Embassy. "Magicky hlas rebelky" is a 2014 documentary about the Czech singer Marta Kubisova, who has become a symbol in the Czech Republic of the period in history known as the Velvet Revolution (1989), when a mass protest movement led to the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia. The film includes segments of members of the dissident organization Charter 77, including former Czech President Vaclav Havel.

A conference organized by Jonathan Brooks Platt (University of Pittsburgh) in collaboration with Marijeta Bozovic (Yale University) and Artemy Magun (St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

With: Maksim Alyukov, Ilya Budraitskis, Chto Delat, Igor Chubarov, Keti Chukhrov, Jodi Dean, Gandhi Group, Ilya Kalinin, Elena Kostyleva, Artemy Magun, Kirill Medvedev, Nikolai Oleinikov, Roman Osminkin, Ilya Orlov, Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya (Gluklya), Jonathan Platt, Gerald Raunig, Galina Rymbu, Aleksandr Skidan, and Oxana Timofeeva.

The Institute engages high school student leaders in a discussion of key issues in international affairs so that they can understand and think critically about their world. Following the morning presentations, students divide into small groups led by discussion group leaders as part of a large foreign policy simulation.

Between 1917 and his death in 1940 Leon Trotsky advanced three different analyses of the problem of Soviet bureaucracy—each providing a different account of how bureaucracy was promoting capitalist restoration in the USSR. The presentation will review Trotsky’s contributions on this subject and conclude with some observations regarding the weaknesses and strengths of Trotsky’s final theory.

6:00 pm: Doors open and food is served
6:15 pm: Welcome and presentation by CREES
6:30 pm: The Pitt Carpathian Ensemble
7:15 pm: The Junior Tamburitzans of South Hills
8:00 pm: Film introduction by GOSECA: Border Café (Café Transit)

Note: OCC Credit available at REES table.

For centuries the area of today’s Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania has been shaped by different national and ethnic groups. This symposium will examine the (re)imagining and (re)interpreting of spaces, symbols and sites in the of Baltic region from the 19th to the 21st century. Presenters will address historical difficulties with “mapping” this multi-ethnic region as well as current issues connected with the region’s recent history after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Thursday, October 9, 2014 (Alcoa Room, Pitt School of Law, 2nd floor)