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Orchestra.
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833-3700
or (810)
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6456666.
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BY LINDA ANN CHOMIN
SPECIAL WRITER
Children understand the suffering of other
children even if those children are a half a
world away. The proof is an art exhibit in
which children of Ukrainian descent from
throughout metro Detroit express their thoughts
about the disastrous Chornobyl, this is the
Ukraiman spelling, nuclear explosion on April
26,1986.
From a painting of a Ukrainian flag splattered
with blood to an assemblage featuring a
small plant barely surviving among the rocks of
a Ukrainian landscape, the exhibit focuses on
the more than 125,000 people who died as a
result of radiation poisoning and the untold
number of children already afflicted, or about to
become ill with thyroid cancer and leukemia.
According to-Bozhena Olshaniwsky, president
of Americans for Human Rights in Ukraine, radiation
affected more than 1 million children. The
world's worst nuclear accident produced 300
times the radiation released from the atomic
bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. The coverup
and silence of the Soviet govermhent for two
weeks afterward cost not only li*es,but illness
for generations to come.
Skulls and mountains of bodies permeate the
paintings, drawings, sculpture, fiber art, and
P hotography in "Chornobyl - 10 Years After
hrough the Eyes of Children." While some
chose to illustrate the flawed Soviet RBMK reactor,
children of the Ukrainian American Youth
Association assembled a fabric wall mural of the
countryside before the accident. Black and red
radiation symbols hang from the ceiling throughout
the exhibit, the idea of Taras Hay da, a student
of the Eaton Academy in Birmingham. As
viewers walk through the exhibit, the hazardous
material signs heighten sensual awareness that
Ukrainian air is filled with poison.
"Since this is the* 10 year anniversary of the
disaster we wanted to know what Chornobyl
means to them, how they perceive it and the
leukemia and cancers related to radiation," said
exhibition coordinator Dxvinka Hayda.
"One tragedy seems to happen and we go on to
the next one. We wanted people to become aware
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that this is an ongoing tragedy. There are a
great many children in Ukraine and Belarus
who are ill."
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lage of photographs by
Larissa Haliw of Farmington
Hills, forces the viewer to
When Chrystyna Nykorak delivered medical study the images and pause
supplies to Ukraine in 1992, she could feel the in thought. A fabric collage of
burning of the radiation in her eyes. At an open- the Ukrainian countryside by
ing reception for the exhibit on April 21 Taras Hayda is covered with
Nykorak, membership director for the Livonia a black veil symbolic of the
Chamber of Commerce, reiterated Hayda's con- . radiation.
cerns that the world has forgotten Chornobyl, "The exhibit is to remind
and the lingering effects it left on all forms of the people, both Ukrainians
life. Thousands of acres of agricultural land and and Americans, of what hap-
forests are contaminated with radiation. The pened in Chornobyl and what
strontium and plutonium will remain forever in can happen," said Myron
the bodies of the victims, dead or alive.
Fedoriw, a pharmacist from
"People want to forget. It's important for us to Royal Oak, spent two years in
remember. We're doing the exhibit because the Kiev, Ukraine working direct-
planet is not safe. I don't think humanity knows ' ly with the ministry of health
the side effects of something this dangerous," as an employee of a U.S. gov-
said Nykorak, a West Bloomfield Township resiernment organization estabdent
who created large-scale batik paintings* lishing hospital partnerships.
inspired by her trip for the first Chornobyl art
That is why Josephine
exhibit five years after the disaster.
Love, co-founder of Your
"Some of the artworks have hope, but most of Heritage House, agreed to
them are like the clay sculpture of the cow with host the exhibit. "In general
three front legs. We placed a broken egg in the children's museujns present
case because the egg is very symbolic in the pleasant aiae of life. I
Ukrainian culture. The radiation is affecting think it was important that
human structures and genes. If the egg cracks children have some aware-
you no longer have the life force."
ness of Chornobyl and the
Tanas Hayda, a student at Cranbrook- ongoing suffering," said Love.
Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills, tells of the
The real tragedy is that
destruction rent by Chornobyl in a weaving.
four of the five reactors at the
Strips of black and white photographs focusing
on the emptiness of the streets are woven into
the fabric.
"Living with the Monster," a large scale col-
Veiled Tragedy; The fabric collage of a
peaceful Ukrainian Village blanketed
by a black veil of radiation by Taras
Hayda is titled "Radiation, What
Radiation?" *•
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Chornobyl nuclear plant are
still operating. According to Olshaniwsky there
were 109 nuclear accidents at the Chornobyl
plant in 1994.
There ia a ray of hope for the people of
Ukraine in the form of the Children of
Chornobyl Relief Fund. The outpouring of generosity
has helped to ease the suffering with 15
air transports and five by sea of donated medical
supplies and clothing.
"For the last six years we've been collecting
funds, clothing, food supplements, vitamins and
over-the-counter drugs. These we ship to
orphanages, hospitals and sanatoriums," said
Roma Dyhdalo, director of f te relief fund's
Michigan chapter. "We're tryin, - to convince the
American public there is a need. It's not hysteria;
this is the fact. On a visit to an oncological
clinic there when we delivered supplies, I spoke
with a mother of two children who have thyroid
cancer and another mother with three children
all with thyroid cancer. People do not have
enough money for expensive cures or traveling.
People don't realize what kind of life people
have there. The reason we're always asking for
vitamins is because the children are malnourished.
There's no fresh fruit or vegetables."
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L S O R E M E M B E R S - T R A G E D Y N U K R A I N E
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BY KEXLT WYGO.VIK
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Livonia Symphony Orchestra
wrap* up its season Saturday
with a concert dedicated to the
memory of thoee who suffered,
and continue to suffer, as a result
of the nuclear tragedy in
Chornobyl 10 years ago.
Livonia's Mayor Jack Kirksey
will introduce the symphony, and
Dr. George Figacz of the
Ukrainian Medical Association, a
radiologist, will present a historical
overview of this incident that
#hanged the world's perception of
the effects of nuclear fall out. A
taped chronicle of the disaster
will be shown before the concert, .
and during intermission. There
will also be a display of photos
loaned from the Ukrainian
Consulate in Chicago and the
Ukrainian Embassy in
Washington, D.C.
"The question ia not closed," -
said Volodymyr Schesiuk, LSO rmuaic
director and conductor.
"Both of my daughters were 500
miles away, but for many kids it
was very bad. It was a rainy
spring day. No one knows the
long-term eflfecta."
Schesiuk. his wife Luba, and
their youngest daughter Maria
emigrated to the United States
in 1991 and live in Garden City.
Their eldest daughter still lives
in Ukraine.
For him, the concert is an
opportunity to express bAth his
sadness over what happened,
and to rejoice in the promise of a
brighter future. The pieces he
chose for the program express *
these mixed emotions. "I try not
to only present a concert, but to
present a production," he said.
Special theatrical lighting will
help set the mood.
"Elegy for Strings," written uen by uy
former LSO violinist Christoj istophei
Tew to commemorate the
sinatiorvof President John
n"P
Kennedy, is a tragic melody.
"Double Concerto for Clarinet &
Trumpet, and Strings" by
Danger The
radiation
symbol in
this mixed
media artwork
by
Christina
Popa
reminds
viewers of
the tragic
victims of
Chornobyl,
lest we forget.
CHORNOBYL:
-10 YEARS
AFTER THROUGH
THE EYES OF
CHILDREN'
What An art
I exhibit to memorialize
the victims
of
Chornobyl.
Ukraine by metro
Detroit children
of UKramiap
descent.
When: 11 a.m. to
5 p.m. Monday
Friday: Saturdays
and Sundays by
appointment
through June 30.
Where: Your
Heritage House,
a children's fine
arts museum.
110 E. Ferry, (at
Jotin' R, two
blocks north of
the Detroit
Institute of
Arts). Detroit.
Coet Admission
is free, donations
will go to the
Children of
Chornobyl Relief
Fund. Call (313)
871-1£67 for
Information.
To make e donation:
Make
checks payable
to Children of
Chornobyl Relief
Fund. Box 0537.
Warren 48090-
0537. For more
informatibncall
(810) 754-9285.
Donations of '
clothing and
other necessities
may be dropped
off at DNIPRO,
26495 Ryan
Road In Warren.
Call (810) 759
6563 for hours.
Gordon Jacob features soloists
Colin Lord, clarinet, and Brian
Moon, trumpet. "This is a newer
piece, and it's been a goal of mine
to feature outstanding soloists,"
said Schesiuk. "It was written a
few years ago. I like to do new
pieces for me and the orchestra.
It challenges them."
"Ballet from the Perfect Fool"
by Gustav Hoist ia a serious
piece about natural elements -
the spirit of earth, water and
fire. "It relates to Chornobyl .
because it was a beautiful place,
and only a fool would build a
nuclear plant in such a place,"
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