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…
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…
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 www.mojeekino.pl …
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…
Volodymyr Sheiko was re-elected General Director of the Ukrainian Institute According to the voting results of the competition committee meeting for the candidate election, Volodymyr Sheiko won the competition. Volodymyr Sheiko is the first General Director of the Ukrainian Institute, an expert in cultural diplomacy, cultural management, marketing, and communications. Before joining the Institute, Volodymyr…
Performative readings of Ukrainian plays will take place on October 9 at the German festival Radar Ost The German festival of Eastern European theatre Radar Ost will host performative readings of plays that won the Ukrainian Institute’s drama competition ‘Transmission.ua: drama on the move. Germanyʼ 2020. The readings will take place on October 9 in Berlin, Germany.…
The application for the Sofiya Nalepinska-Boychuk Fellowship for Polish artists is open Sofiya Nalepinska-Boychuk Fellowship is an annual programme of the Ukrainian Institute, the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute (IAM) offering Polish artists a two-month art residency and research stay in Kyiv, Ukraine (August-September 2022) The residency facilitates the creation…
‘Crimea, 5 am’. Ukraine is launching a project, dedicated to political prisoners ‘Crimea, 5 am’ is a documentary performance and informational campaign that involves opinion leaders and celebrities. The project is aimed at making the issue of political prisoners and harassment of citizen journalists in Crimea more visible. The worldwide premiere of the performance takes…
The exhibition ‘Eyes on Ukraine’ took place on September 18-26 in Turin (Italy) The sixth edition of the international festival Graphic Days dedicated to visual design took place from 16 to 26 September in Turin, Italy. The programme of the new edition, promoted by the Print Club Torino association, Quattrolinee, and Plug, included exhibitions, performances, experiential…
From human rights protection to misinformation: what was discussed at the International Cultural Diplomacy Forum 2021 On 23 September, the Ukrainian Institute in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine organised the International Cultural Diplomacy Forum 2021 to discuss countries’ international representation through cultural diplomacy and cultural relations. 19 speakers from six countries – Ukraine, USA, United Kingdom,…
Taras Prokhasko’s collection of texts ‘Cause it’s This Way’ is presented at the literature events ‘Literature Night’ and ‘Book World’ in Prague, the Czech Republic Ukrainian writer Taras Prokhasko presents this year’s edition of the stories collection ‘Cause it’s This Way’ translated in Czech on September 24 at the book fair ‘Book World’. On September…
«Independent 30: Ukrainian Institute presents a multimedia project dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine The Ukrainian Institute, alongside the cultural management agency Port.agency and with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, presents the Independent 30 project. This project allows us to hear independent Ukraine through the…