My Suitcase of Fragments
Dream Stack Productions presents a Special Event
Co-sponsored by Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
In partnership with the Harvard Square Business Association
First Parish Church, Barn Room
3 Church Street, Harvard Square
Post-show discussion moderated by Bobbie Steinbach
Reception with the artists to follow
April 23 at 7pm
Written and performed by
Marta Gosovska, writer, Fulbright Scholar at Ukrainian Institute, Harvard University
Uriel Pascucci, classical pianist and composer
My Suitcase of Fragments
Dream Stack Productions presents a Special Event
Co-sponsored by Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
In partnership with the Harvard Square Business Association
First Parish Church, Barn Room
3 Church Street, Harvard Square
Post-show discussion moderated by Bobbie Steinbach
Reception with the artists to follow
April 23 at 7pm
Written and performed by
Marta Gosovska, writer, Fulbright Scholar at Ukrainian Institute, Harvard University
Uriel Pascucci, classical pianist and composer
A reading with projections and original music from Ukrainian refugee and Fulbright Scholar Marta Gosovka and award-winning pianist and composer Uriel Pascucci. A portrait of exile. A fragile tapestry of longing, resilience, and love for Ukraine, a homeland left behind.
Headshots & Bios
My Suitcase of Fragments is a performance project by Marta Gosovska, a Ukrainian writer, translator, publisher, PEN member, and refugee. One winter night four years ago, she left her home with a single suitcase and wandered across Europe, through Hungary, Austria, France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland, carrying her memories as her only constant.
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Marta Gosovska
Uriel Pascucci is a classical pianist and composer from Argentina, the end of the world. For My Suitcase of Fragments, he composed, performed, and recorded the piano album that accompanies the essay, translating displacement, memory, and tenderness into sound.
Blending heritage with a contemporary sensibility, his music moves through quiet emotional landscapes. His work has received international recognition, including the First Prize at the XVIII Piano Competition "City of Necochea" in Argentina, honors from the Global Music Awards (2024), and The Clouzine International Music Awards (2026).
Blending heritage with a contemporary sensibility, his music moves through quiet emotional landscapes. His work has received international recognition, including the First Prize at the XVIII Piano Competition "City of Necochea" in Argentina, honors from the Global Music Awards (2024), and The Clouzine International Music Awards (2026).
Music
Uriel Pascucci
Nadia is a Ukrainian artist, known for her distinctive, emotionally precise visual language. She has illustrated dozens of books for children and adults, and became widely recognized as the creator of the beloved comic character Gander.
For My Suitcase of Fragments, Nadia created the album cover, an original painting that now lives in someone’s home, a quiet symbol that we carry our home within us.
Nadia now lives in Canada with her husband and two children, continuing to create art that travels beyond borders.
For My Suitcase of Fragments, Nadia created the album cover, an original painting that now lives in someone’s home, a quiet symbol that we carry our home within us.
Nadia now lives in Canada with her husband and two children, continuing to create art that travels beyond borders.
Album cover
Nadia Kushnir
An artist, restorer, and illustrator, she works at the intersection of visual art and art therapy, teaching children and students while supporting vulnerable communities through creative practice. Born in Lviv, she creates minimalist, emotionally charged works shaped by themes of memory, trauma, and resilience. For My Suitcase of Fragments, she contributed a visual piece that holds space for loss and continuity, a restrained image carrying deep, human weight.
Visual art
Khrystyna Valko
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Bobbie Steinbach is a longtime actor, director and acting coach based in Boston. She has performed in countless plays and musicals with many local and regional theatre companies, including The Lyric Stage, New Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Commonwealth Shakespeare, Boston Symphony, Greater Boston Stage Company, Michigan Opera Theatre, Cherry County Playhouse and Boston Playwrights' Theatre. She is a Founding Member of Actors' Shakespeare Project, and as a Resident Artist with ASP, she has trod the boards in 22 of the Bard’s plays.
Moderator
Bobbie Steinbach
In 2016 The Theatre Communications Guild awarded Bobbie with a prestigious two-year Resident Actor Fox Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement, for which she partnered with ASP, to develop a company project, I Am Lear, and a solo show, In Bed with the Bard. She was honored to receive the 2023 Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence and a 2001 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Actress for a trio of performances. She is also the 2016 Huntington Theatre Company’s Lunt-Fontanne Fellow.
During the pandemic lockdown, she was the host of All Together Now, streaming on YouTube and Facebook, produced by Broadband Collaborative, where she presented and interviewed performing artists, composers and writers from around the world.
www.bobbiesteinbach.com
During the pandemic lockdown, she was the host of All Together Now, streaming on YouTube and Facebook, produced by Broadband Collaborative, where she presented and interviewed performing artists, composers and writers from around the world.
www.bobbiesteinbach.com
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which upon approval will be retroactive to February 3, 2026, date of incorporation)
which upon approval will be retroactive to February 3, 2026, date of incorporation)
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Photo for Notice to Appear: Pavel Antonov | Artwork for My Suitcase of Fragments: Nadiia Kushnir | Video: -ARLEKIN!, Rhombus Media, The Mama Project
Video: -ARLEKIN!, Rhombus, The Mama Project, Concert Theatre Works, Broadband Collaborative
Photo: Pavel Antonov, Maria Baranova, Jeremy Daniel, Irina Danilova, Olga Maturana, Stratton McCrady, Carol Osregg & Heather Stern, Actors’ Shakespeare Project | Web Design: ArtCats.de
Photo: Pavel Antonov, Maria Baranova, Jeremy Daniel, Irina Danilova, Olga Maturana, Stratton McCrady, Carol Osregg & Heather Stern, Actors’ Shakespeare Project | Web Design: ArtCats.de
© Stackhouse Creative LLC (Massachusetts-based for-profit limited liability company)
© Dream Stack Productions Inc. (Application has been filed for 501 (c)3 charitable exemption, which upon approval will be retroactive to February 3, 2026, date of incorporation)
© The Mama Project Inc. (Massachusetts 501 (c)3 charitable organization)
© Dream Stack Productions Inc. (Application has been filed for 501 (c)3 charitable exemption, which upon approval will be retroactive to February 3, 2026, date of incorporation)
© The Mama Project Inc. (Massachusetts 501 (c)3 charitable organization)
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