On November 30 we closed submissions for the Drahomán Prize, an award for translators from Ukrainian into other languages founded in 2020 by the Ukrainian Institute, PEN Ukraine and the Ukrainian Book Institute. Having verified that submissions meet the technical criteria of the Drahomán Prize, the long list has comprised 20 translators. The majority of…
The UK and Ukraine will run the UK/Ukraine Season of Culture 2022 Celebrating 30 years of our bilateral relations, the UK/Ukraine Season of Culture 2022 aims to strengthen cultural exchanges and form even more partnerships between the two countries. During the Strategic Dialogue meeting in London on 8 December 2021, Liz Truss, the UK Foreign…
WE ARE CRIMEA About the project The project aims to recall people’s lives after the occupation, people’s rights violations, and persecutions in Crimea. The occupation of the Crimean peninsula was not all of a sudden. Russia had been preparing informationally and politically for a long time, took a chance while the state authorities were being…
The Ukrainian premiere of the music theatre performance ‘Songs for Babyn Yar’ will take place in the Theatre on Podil (Kyiv) on December 7, 2021, at 7 p.m. The project is created by the arts organization Dash Arts (London) in partnership with Goethe-Institut Ukraine and the Ukrainian Institute. In September 1941, Nazi occupying forces murdered…
Illuminate A mobility programme for book illustrators launched by the Ukrainian Institute in 2020 Aim of the programme The programme aims to build relations with the representatives of key institutions and individuals in the field of literature as well as engage Ukrainian professionals to the main world events. By offering this programme, the Ukrainian Institute…
The winner of Sofiya Nalepinska-Boychuk Fellowship 2021 is a Polish artist and performer Daniel Kotowski. His artistic practice is a reflection of his own life. In his works, the artist refers to the concepts of biopower and biopolitics, in particular to the categories of completeness and incompleteness, based on his experience of living with hearing…
transmission.UA: drama on the move A long-term programme to support translation, promotion, and production of the modern Ukrainian drama in Europe, developed by the Ukrainian Institute. About the programme The programme contributes to the replenishment of European theatres’ repertoire with productions of modern Ukrainian drama and increased Ukrainian presence in the European theatre community. The…
The sixth Ukrainian film festival UKRAINA! Festiwal Filmowy 2021 starts in Warsaw, Poland on November 11 The Polish Ukrainian Film festival will take place in a hybrid form this year: offline on November 12-18 in the cinema Kinoteka (The Palace of Culture and Science) in Warsaw online on November 11-21 via the website …
Autumn Reading List by Anastasiia Denysenko, Head of Literature Programme ‘Nikt tak nie tańczył, jak mój dziadek’ (My grandfather danced better than anyone else) Kateryna Babkina (original language: Ukrainian, translated into Polish) A short story collection tells about children from five families that meet each other on September 1 in the first year of Independence…
Ukrainian Institute aspires to make the Ukrainian language better known in the world. With this aim Ukrainian Institute: Promotes Ukrainian names and use of Ukrainian transliteration; Informs foreigners about the possibilities of studying Ukrainian; Initiates and supports creation of Ukrainian audio guides in the museums and galleries across the world; Cooperates with National Commission on…
Lysiak-Rudnytsky Ukrainian Studies Programme The Second 2026 Open Call is now closed. Please follow our updates for information about the 2027 Open Calls. The Lysiak-Rudnytsky Ukrainian Studies Programme is a programme to support projects in Ukrainian studies for research, educational, cultural institutions, and analytical centres abroad. The Programme is open for applications from research, educational and cultural institutions,…
Cultural and Natural Heritage of Ukraine On October 24th, 1945, The Charter of the United Nations that was ratified by representatives of 51 states came into force. Since then, on that day, the world celebrates the creation of United Nations Organizations. Ukraine is an active paricipant of UN, and in 1954 it became the membet…