PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sept. 12, 2007
CONTACT: Alexander Eubanks
(301)314-9142
aeubank2@umd.edu
CONTACT:Yelena Luckert
(301)405-9365
yluckert@umd.edu
Yevtushenko Events to Take Place Next Month
College Park, MD -The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies and the University of Maryland Libraries are pleased to present three days of events with poet, film maker, and activist Yevgeny Yevtushenko from October 25 through October 27, 2007.
The events, commemorating the Holocaust in the Ukraine, will take place on the campus of the University of Maryland in College Park. Events will include an exclusive poetry reading with Yevtushenko, a concert of music by Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich based on Yevtushenko’s poetry, and a path-breaking conference which will address the troublesome legacy of Babi Yar, the Holocaust and the commemoration of Jewish victims in Soviet and post-Soviet Ukraine.
Yevtushenko will read from his old and new poetry works during the poetry reading, with the assistance of two University of Maryland theatre majors. A book signing will follow.
The film "Spell Your Name" will be introduced by its director Sergey
Bukovsky at the Hoff Theatre. The USC Shoah Foundation Institute produced the film, which is presented by Victor Pinchuk and Steven
Spielberg. The film is a feature-length documentary about the Holocaust in Ukraine. It uses Ukrainian and Russian-language testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute's archive and new footage shot on location in Ukraine.
There will be a conference at which presenters will offer personal reflections and new scholarly analyses of the Babi Yar massacre, the Holocaust in Ukraine, and the legacy of Yevtushenko’s poem.
A concert will be offered in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center presenting Dmitrii Shostakovich’s powerful Symphony No. 13, based on Yevtushenko’s poem “Babi Yar.” Tickets are $7 for students and $25 for the general public.
On the final day of the events, Yevtushenko’s 1990 film “Stalin’s Funeral” will be shown. The film uses the events surrounding Stalin’s funeral to illuminate the effects of politics on human life.
Brochure:
To view a brochure of the events click here.More Information:
For more information please contact Yelena Luckert at 301-405-9365 or Marsha Rozenblit at 301-405-4289.More information on the events can also be found at:
http://www.jewishstudies.umd.edu and http://lib.umd.edu
