BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:691@wlcj.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221120T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221120T153000 DTSTAMP:20221121T180445Z URL:https://www.wlcj.org/events/seaboard-sisterhood-program-an-homage-to-u kraine/ SUMMARY:Seaboard Sisterhood Program: An Homage to Ukraine DESCRIPTION:[This program is scheduled on Eastern Time Zone]\n\nSunday\, No vember 20th\n\n2:30 PM - 3:30 PM ET – Virtual Event\n\nPlease join us as architect Miriam Gusevich shares her urban design projects that seek to r estore the presence and tragic experiences of the Jews in Ukraine during t he Holocaust. Miriam will describe and illustrate (through slides and vide os) three projects.\n \;\nTwo of the projects are award-winning memori als in Kyiv: “Constellations”\, designed in memory of the martyrs of E uro-Maidan\, and “Yahrtzeit Candles\,” designed in memory of the marty rs of Babyn Yar. The third project (which has been delayed due to the war in Ukraine) is a commission to restore the Jewish Cemetery in Sambir\, loc ated in the Ukrainian province of Lviv Oblast. These memorials represent a plea to honor the tragic past of both the Holodomor and the Shoah\, and t o protect Jewish memory sites as a source of strength for the future.\n&nb sp\;\n \;\n\nMiriam Gusevich is originally from Cuba and resides in Wa shington\, D.C. She received the Bachelor of Architecture (1975) and Maste r of Architecture (1979) degrees from Cornell University and a Loeb Fellow ship’97 from Harvard. She is the founding principal of GM2 Studio\, LLC and CEO of Restoring our Places\, an NGO to recover Jewish sites in Wester n Ukraine. She is professor emerita at Catholic University of America. Her work as an urban designer\, scholar and teacher has won multiple design a wards and research grants.\n \;\nMiriam's talk will be followed by a d iscussion moderated by Martya Levytska\, a Ukrainian attorney living in Wa shington\, D.C. Light refreshments will follow. The program is open to all \, and free of charge.\n\n \;\n \;\n \;\n\n \;\n\nRegister HERE\n \; END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR