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 otherwise rarely cross. The event became possible thanks to partnership between four different London-based organisations: Spiro Arc, a Jewish Charity, the Ukrainian Institute, Polish Embassy and the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain which hosted the event at Ukrainian Community Centre on Holland Park Avenue. It was a …read more Source: Ukrainian Institute,...
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 this important gathering, organised by the Kiev office of the Kennan Institute and featuring over 100 participants. Marina Pesenti, Director of the Ukrainian Institute in London, presented the results of an audit of the cultural and public diplomacy efforts made by …read more Source: Ukrainian Institute,...
Ukrainian Institute Director Andy Hunder spoke at the Ukrainian Crisis Media Centre in Kyiv earlier in April, 2014. “What UK is focusing now is on the role it can play as we understand that Vladimir Putin is more afraid of the banks than tanks”, said Andy Hunder, Director of the Ukrainian Institute in London, during a briefing at the...
