On October 27, 2024, in Roseville, Sacramento, California, at the invitation of the Ukrainian community, the first Ukrainian amateur theater, the Wandering Stars from San Francisco, held its touring premiere. This is the second event that we held together with Hromada with a charitable mission in favor of the orphans of fallen Heroes of the Russian-Ukrainian War, in order to give a sense of celebration and smiles during the Christmas and New Year holidays. There was a wonderful theatrical performance, combined with an informative lecture-presentation about the life and work of Les Kurbas “The Clever Harlequin”, conducted by the director and director of the theater, Ms. Yelena Bilyak The theater actors Olena Petrova, Diana Yavorska, Bohdan Pyndus-Pastukh, Tetiana Lozhnevska, Vadzim Pryshchepau, Natasha Karpenko showed excerpts from the plays by Mykola Kulish “People’s Malachy”, “Maklena Grasa”, “Mina Mazaylo”. Thank you to the entire team for your inspired play and the positive emotions given to the audience! We are grateful to all those present and active participants of the auction, this is our joint success! This time, the artist Igor Butkovsky (three canvases) and Anna Aksyonova (one canvas) kindly provided their works for the auction, all works were successfully sold to the participants of the evening. We would like to thank everyone who contributed to making the evening a success.
We are grateful to Ms. Marianne Ward, a representative of the Polish American Club, for kindly providing the venue and a discount on its rental. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the following organizations for their financial support of the evening, namely:
1. Ukrainian Heritage Preservation Society of Northern California – $200
2. Ukrainian Federal Credit Union of Sacramento – $100
3. Sisterhood of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Sacramento – $100
Special thanks to Natalie Kokhanyy for providing the event with all the delicious dishes, purchasing and preparing them, as well as to her team of volunteers: Olena Solyar, Natalie Polk, Yuri Kokhany. The next thanks go to the group of volunteers who provided the evening, namely: Arkady Kaminsky, Yuriy Lozhnevsky, Dmytro Poplavsky, Iryna Bilyk, Khrystyna Bilyk-Sapachuk, Valentina Pachkova. We thank Sophia Sokolovych for the wonderful live musical design of the performance. Thanks to PodiyaSound in the person of Andriy Shegera for the free and regular provision of sound equipment, it is very valuable!
The total amount of funds received for the evening is $ 4,666.69
The costs of the event were: $ 561.39
Net result: $ 4,105.30
Part of your finances is converted into help for children who are waiting for it, because the holiday of Nicholas is just around the corner! Let’s do good and continue to help Ukraine, this is extremely important and our duty! For all those who were unable to attend the evening, but want and have the opportunity to support the initiative of the Community, please make your contribution at the link: https://www.zeffy.com/…/649b1457-678e-46c7-ba2f…
Thank you very much!
See you at new events of the Community!
Glory to Ukraine!
Glory to the Heroes!
