Yevtushenko events at the University of Maryland Oct. 25-27.

[Ruth Wallach]

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Ruth Wallach
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*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, 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 the introduction of the documentary film “Spell Your Name” directed
by Sergey Bukovsky and produced by Steven Spielberg and Victor Pinchuk.

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, just one week after its premier in Kiev.
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 will be $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.

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 <http://www.jewishstudies.umd.edu/> and
http://lib.umd.edu.

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