VOLYA GROUP was formed as a non-profit educational charitable organization in November of 2010 by Volya Dzemka and Olga Sukhover. The group strives to accomplish its mission by performing at community organized festivals and cultural events in the United States while also conducting ethnographic expeditions to Belarus to collect and record Belarusian folk songs in their authentic form. The group also collects Read more...

In 1992, three volunteers residing in Washington State who became fluent in English and learned how to navigate the health and human service systems began providing interpretation services for individuals in the Ukrainian community and assisting families with applications for public benefit programs (e.g. AFDC/TANF, housing, Medicaid and SSI). During that year, the volunteers assisted about 40 individuals. Although the Read more...

Get all Ukrainians together for varoius community projects. Read more...

The East European Folklife Center (the EEFC) began in 1977 with its first gathering of Balkan music and dance enthusiast at the Mendocino Woodlands Camp. Since then the organization has expanded to include, at its core, two annual week-long summer workshops, one on the west coast and one on the east coast. Each Balkan Music & Dance Workshop (often called Read more...

In the most immediate future we see ourselves continuing our focus on the critical areas where we already have both departmental and institutional strengths: Literature, Film, Post-Soviet, Russian-Jewish, and General Cultural Studies (including Visual Arts, Gender, Ethnicity, Nationalism, Philosophy, and Religion), Synchronic, Historical, and Socio-Psychological Linguistics, as well as Cross-Cultural Communication. We intend to maintain offering a rich variety of Read more...