Voices for Ukraine with Kitka and Mariana Sadovska Thursday, May 19 12:30 - 1:30pm Yerba Buena Gardens Festival 750 Howard Street, San Francisco FREE Voluntary donations will be collected to benefit Nova Ukraine, a Bay Area-based nonprofit organization dedicated to providing humanitarian aid to the people of Ukraine and raising awareness about Ukraine in the United States as well as in the rest of the world. ALSO Dialogue & Ukrainian Folk Songs with Mariana Sadovska & Kitka Friday, May 20 7:30-8:30pm KQED Live at The Commons 2601 Mariposa Street, San Francisco $15 (In Person) / $10 (Live Stream Suggested Donation) Reservations and more info https://www.kqed.org/events (Tickets go on sale April 27) European critics call Lviv-born vocalist, composer and actress Mariana Sadovska "Ukraine's Bjork." The New York Times compares her vocal power and expressive range to rock star P. J. Harvey. Join KQED Live for this rare San Francisco appearance and interview with Sadovska, an artist renowned for her projects that merge Ukrainian folk song with contemporary theater and social activism. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, Sadovska has been tirelessly offering her evocative voice to raise international awareness of, and aid for, the embattled people of her homeland. Kitka will join Sadovska to perform a set of haunting Ukrainian polyphonic folk songs expressing the fragility, fierceness, and resilience of the Ukrainian spirit.
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