Section: Ukrainian Institute, London (UK)
Child Survivor of the Holocaust in Poland and Ukraine tells the story
Shimon Redlich: “understanding humanity” “We want more events like this,” said a Ukrainian member of the audience of the event on May 18, 2016, dedicated to the personal experience of surviving the Holocaust in Poland and Ukraine. It brought together the representatives of the Ukrainian, Polish and Jewish communities in London. Communities which...
The Ukrainian Institute presents its vision for the development of Ukraine’s cultural diplomacy at the forum in Kiev
The Ukrainian Institute in London presented its vision for the development of a network of Ukrainian cultural institutes abroad and the role the state and diaspora could play at at the 2nd Cultural Diplomacy Forum on the 27th of April in Kiev. The overview of Ukraine’s cultural and public diplomacy efforts was a the centre of a debate at...
Child Survivor of the Holocaust in Poland and Ukraine tells the story. Film screening and discussion. May 18, 18:30
As a little boy, Shimon Redlich survived the Holocaust in Poland under Nazi German occupation after being rescued by a Ukrainian and a Polish family. He returns to the places of his childhood to re-connect with this past, to understand what the Holocaust meant for those communities and how it is remembered. A film screening, followed by a...
PARTNER EVENT: Chernobyl Anniversary Charity Gala Concert. April 16, 2016
Charity Gala Concert Commemorating the 30th anniversary of Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster. In cooperation and in aid of The Chernobyl Relief Foundation in the UK. Saturday 16 April, 7.30pm The Ukrainian Cathedral Hall, 21 Binney street, Mayfair, London,W1K 5BQ Tickets: £25 (children under 13 Free), including wine reception with canapé. Raffle....
Military and Security Dimensions of the Donbas Conflict. Talk by Igor Sutyagin. April, 21,7pm
Two years of the conflict in the east of Ukraine have been a testing time for Ukraine’s leadership, its armed forces, which had to build their capacities from scratch. With the diplomatic solution for the conflict in limbo, it remains to be seen what its frozen model will look like or what potential further confrontation will entail. Igor...
How Crimean Tatars Stand Up to Repression in Russia-Occupied Crimea: Public Lecture and Documentary Screening. March 24, King’s College
Crimean Tatars hold an action on Independence Square in Kyiv to commemorate victims of the deportation of 1944. Public Lecture & Documentary Screening “Banished and Persecuted in their Own Land: How Crimean Tatars Stand Up to Repression in Russia-Occupied Crimea” Talk with Refat Chubarov, leader of Crimean Tatar people and Chairman of Mejlis...
PARTNER EVENT Bloody East Europeans at Theatro Technis on 2 April
Sat 2 April @ 6 PM Theatro Technis, 26 Crowndale Road, London NW1 1TT Molodyi Teatr London joins the EU referendum campaign in the UK with a re-run of their explosive production IN or OUT? How will you vote in the referendum? Can you imagine your life without Bloody East Europeans? Come see our show before you make up your mind. They come over...
PARTNER EVENT Taras Shevchenko Music and Poetry Evening
Taras Shevchenko Music and Poetry evening “Poet and Freedom” to be held in the Ukrainian Cathedral Hall of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church 21 Binney street, Mayfair, London W1K 5 BQ Saturday 12th of March 2016 at 7.30 PM …read more Source: Ukrainian Institute,...
PARTNER EVENT Outlook for Ukraine’s Economy in 2016
11th Annual Economic Panel discussion Outlook for Ukraine’s Economy in 2016 Wednesday 16 March 2016, London, 18:30 – 21:00 Commencement: 19:00 The Ukrainian-British City Club presents the 11th annual economic panel discussion “Outlook for Ukraine’s Economy in 2016” which will take place at 88 Wood Street, London EC2V 7AJ on Wednesday...
The war is on, but Ukraine publishers just march on. Talk with Dana Pavlychko
The BBC’s new historical drama War and Peace seems to have started a trend in the UK, exemplified by bohemian-style discussions about world literary classics coming from Eastern Europe. While western audiences wipe the dust from books by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Gogol on their bookshelves, publishers in the East are struggling to attract...
