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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2023-2024/buried-words-seeds-of-hope/"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#0563C1;mso-ligatures:none">Buried
Words, Seeds of Hope</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ligatures:none">
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ligatures:none">Part of the Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings and Benefit for Ukraine</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ligatures:none">Friday, December 15, 2023
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ligatures:none">Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) is partnering with the Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings and Benefit for Ukraine to present
a special event called <i>Buried Words, Seeds of Hope</i> on Friday, December 15, 2023. Your ticket to the event includes entry into a pre-show photo exhibit featuring work by Ukrainian artists, followed by an evening of short plays, music and poetry by Ukrainian
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">”More than anything, I want the audience to hear these stories from Ukraine and not forget about the people there who are continuing forward day by day - sowing
seeds, making theatre, writing poems, singing songs, and giving their lives for their freedom and the sovereignty of their nation.” <b>¯Nadia Tarnawsky, Buried Words, Seeds of Hope director and a featured artist.</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">About the Event</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none">Buried Words, Seeds of Hope</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none"> is a benefit for Ukraine which will feature readings of short plays, poetry and
songs that bring forth experiences of playwrights and artists from Ukraine since the war began. Music for the event “</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none">belongs to the winter carol/Christmas carol tradition.” Some of the short plays presented at the
event are described as follows: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">"Singing with your hands" examines the pull to create something filled with light in the most absurd time of darkness - a war;
</span>In Iryna Harets', <i>Planting an Apple Tree</i> the playwright explores the ways in which the invasion of one's country will in turn invade aspects of daily life and force an examination of what was, what is and what will be; and
<span style="mso-ligatures:none">In her play <i>How to Talk to the Dead, </i>Anastasiia Kosodii unleashes a call to action - to tell stories about those who have died so that the dead can speak through them. P</span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none">lays
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none">Your ticket to the event includes entry into a special pre-show display in the lobby of the Gordon Square Theatre beginning at 7pm. The display was devised by <i>Buried Words,
Seeds of Hope</i> Director Nadia Tarnawsky and includes a presentation by one of the event’s donor recipients <b>Cleveland Maidan Association</b>,
</span><b><a href="https://refugees.org/uscri-cleveland/"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Cleveland (USCRI)</span></a></b>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none">and images from <b><a href="https://www.umacleveland.org/"><span style="color:#0563C1">Ukrainian Museum Archives</span></a>.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Ticket and Show Information<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">The p<span style="color:#222222;background:white">erformance of <i>Buried Words, Seeds of Hope</i>: play readings by Ukrainian playwrights starts at 7:30pm. </span>Cleveland Public Theatre
is located at 6415 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44102, in the heart of the Gordon Square Arts District.
<span style="color:#222222;background:white"> </span>Every Ticket is </span><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/uncategorized/cleveland-public-theatre-announces-expanded-choose-what-you-pay-ticketing-practice/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0563C1;mso-ligatures:none">Choose
What You Pay</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"> with no handling fees, and may be purchased online at
</span><a href="http://www.cptonline.org/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#0563C1;mso-ligatures:none">www.cptonline.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">, or over the phone through the Box Office at 216.631.2727, ext 501.
<span style="color:#222222;background:white">Proceeds go to </span></span><a href="https://refugees.org/uscri-cleveland/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#FF4F4F;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Cleveland (USCRI)</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> to
resettle refugees in Northeast Ohio and the </span><a href="https://www.clevelandmaidan.info/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#777777;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Cleveland Maidan Association</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#222222;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"> to
provide humanitarian aid in Ukraine.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">
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