Pamyatayesh teaser

Videography + sound David Penny
Editing Matthew Kim

A story of forgetting and remembering

Pamyatayesh is a narrative recital currently in development. Through staging, film, and Ukrainian art song, it seeks to explore what it means to remember and pass on a cultural identity that has been torn from its physical place.

Creative team

Dramaturgy Olivia Etey
Art direction Jessica Wynn Cole
Piano Derek Stanyer
Film editing Andrea Beça
Jane Carmen Casanova
Sisters Alyssa Formosa & Jaden Dyer
Jane's family Liz Mahon, Prateek Srivastava, Cole Plater, Soleil Vien, Greg Plater, Ron Monk, Natalia Hayes, Jacob Isaac, Gizem Tataroğlu, Lori Plater, Sheila Temple, Roan Shankaruk, Daniel Shevchuk, Ksenia Orellana
Hair Miki Yasuda
Location Rachel Park
DOP Galen Wilson

Written, directed, and sung by Taryn Plater

Pretty wild that this project is going up for the first time in just three days! I wonder what my baba would have thought if she could see a speech she gave at a family reunion becoming the basis for a music/theatre/film piece. Thank you to @cinewor
More BTS photos from our June film shoot — featuring some of the background actors who became Jane's family! See them on the big screen at our workshop performance this Friday at @cineworksvan 🎟️ Link to register (for free!) is in bio Art d
In case you missed it: Pamyatayesh has it's workshop premiere on Friday November 8 at 6:30pm @cineworksvan! 👀 Link in bio to reserve your free seat. A big thank you to @shevchenkofoundation and @bcartscouncil for supporting the creation of this p
This #worldoperaday marks two weeks until I get to share this beautiful story with an audience at @cineworksvan! My opera practice over the past year has focused on layering a wide range of mediums, from film to art song to dance. Opera has the pote
Family is the abstracted centre of Pamyatayesh. It's my family, but it's people I never met. It's my baba before I knew her, my great aunts who looked like me, the family friends and house party guests documented in photos with their names missing.
"These are such fragile memories." My baba wrote those words in 1999 when she was reflecting on her life and her memories of her own grandparents. She looked back on her youth, remembering certain relatives vividly and others as only brief
пам'ятаєш (pamyatayesh) is an original multimedia piece that tells the stories of Jane and her granddaughter – two sides of the same effort to carry a cultural memory into the future. Stay tuned for news about the work's premiere this fall! #

Workshop performance at Cineworks
November 8, 2024

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First Steps

Developed through Against the Grain’s 2021 Digital Opera Intensive, this artist statement laid the foundation for the exploration that would lead to Pamyatayesh.