INVITATION We invite you to the "Memorial Evening For Ukrainian Famine Victims" to be held Friday evening, November 24th, 2000, at the Kyiv City Teachers House, 57 Volodymyrska str., Kyiv, Ukraine, at 6 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. There will be a program consisting of memorial tributes, music, and poetry, in honor of the Ukrainian victims of famines: 1922-1923, 1932-1933, and the late 1940's. The new "Ukrainian Great Famine Art Exhibition" will also be on display at the Kyiv City Teachers House. The Exhibition consists of over 100 Ukrainian artist paintings, posters, graphics, photographs, sculptures, and other works of art in honor of the victims of the Great Ukraine Famine of 1932-1933. Items are from the private collection of www.ArtUkraine.com, E. Morgan Williams and other private collections.

Mr. Levko Lukyanenko, Chairman of The Association of Famines Researchers in Ukraine, and former Ukraine Ambassador to Canada; E. Morgan Williams, President, ArtUkraine.com, and Vitaliy Korzh, President of the Global Company, an internet service provider in Ukraine are showing the Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church the "Great Famine" Exhibition. Left to right in the photograph: E. Morgan Wiliams, Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Levko Lukyanenko and Mr. Vitaliy Korzh

Ukrainian theatrical actress Halyna Yablonska reading a Ukrainian poem in memory of those who died in The Great Famine. The large painting in the background called "Famine of 33" is by famous Ukrainian artist Victor Zaretsky and was painted between 1987 and 1989 just before the artists death. It is the only painting done by Mr. Zaretsky about the famine.

(For further information please contact Lyuba Stasiv, Administrative Director, Ukrainian Famine Writers Association, 20B Kudri St., Kyiv, Ukraine, 269-1263 or 228-0811) (NOTE: This is the first showing of the "Ukrainian Great Famine Art Exhibition" which is being organized for exhibition in Europe, the United States, Canada, Ukraine and other countries during 2002-2003, the 70th anniversary of the Great Soviet-Ukraine Famine/Genocide of 1932-1933. The Exhibition is still in the process of collecting art items for the final worldwide traveling exhibition which begins in 2002. A "Ukrainian Great Famine Gallery" is being developed on the website, www.ArtUkraine.com.)

(The Ukrainian Famine Researchers Association and its members research and publish books about the Ukraine famines, sponsor tributes to the famine victims, promote the building of monuments to the famine victims and other related activities. Copies of the many books published over the past 10 years by the Association, including three new ones, will be available at the Teachers House)

(Photographs and material about the Great Famine are available from the Ukrainian Great Famine Art Collection....contact morgan@artukraine.com or by going to www.ArtUkraine.com and clicking on the Historical Gallery and then clicking on The Great Ukrainian Famine.) (Sponsors of the Ukrainian Great Famine Art Collection include: Ukrainian Famine Researchers Association, University Gallery - Sasha Prakhova, Majsternia Gallery - Volodymur Vestak and Iryna Olstromens'ka, ArtUkraine.com - E. Morgan Williams, Chrystia Sonevytsky - USA, Nina Marchenko, Olexander Volnenko, Volodymyr Rak, Exar Photo Shop and Gallery - Victor Gridasov.)	Mr. Vasyl Nechapa, famous Ukrainian bandura player, performing at the Great Famine "Day Of Memory" service Teachers House, Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, November 24, 2000 Mr. Nechapa is from the Chernyhiv Oblast.
	Vasyl Perevalskyi, Ukrainian graphics artist, who is now Deputy Director of the National Artist Union in Kyiv. Vasyl drew the graphics for the official design for the Great Famine Memorial Events which were held in Ukraine during 1993 in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Great Soviet Ukraine Famine-Genocide . Mr. Perevalskyi is standing in front of his original art work and a poster created using his design from 1993. The design later was made into a Great Famine Monument which is located in Mykhaylivska Square near the St. Michael Monastery Complex in Kyiv. The design was also used on a official stamp in Ukraine.