"UKRAINIAN MONTH IN EUROPE" - a number of artistic and educational events presented to a wide audience by Ukrainian artists.
place: Art Factory in Lodz, 3 Tymienieckiego Street, 90-365 Lodz
admission: free
registration required:
info@koperpomaga.org (Ukrainian language)
a.shaya@fabrykasztuki.org (Polish language)
Project is funded by The Swedish Institute.
The partner of the Lodz edition is the Lodz Multicultural Center.
Graphics: Yuliya Tabenska
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Friday / February 24th, 2023
time: 19:00
Exhibition opening "Foreign body" / Yuliya Tabenska
place: mezzanine above nieWinni bar
exhibition open until March 8th, 2023
Emotional Assmeblage is a trend that refers to feelings and interpersonal relationships encapsulated in the form of a three-dimensional collage. The exhibition "Foreign body" consists of illustrations from an online project about issues surrounding refugeeism, images viewed very emotionally and individually through the eyes of ordinary people. Simultaneously, it is part of a creative development of the artist's picturebook titled "Talk to me", which touches upon parent-child relationships in times when depression has become a very common and, at the same time, almost unnoticeable disease. War, migration, looking for a new home, and a sense of identity only intensify the emotional crisis among what is left of families, worsening their lack of safety, exacerbating everyday fears, lacking certainty about the future. Refugees - foreign bodies in a different reality, individual people with their own suffering, foreign bodies in families. In reference to the picturebook, "Talk to me", one wants to say, "Talk to me - don't let us die."
Yuliya Tabenska - artist-painter, creator of artbooks, book illustrator, academic lecturer specialising in "Art book design". A graduate of the National Technical University of Ukraine, Kiev Polytechnic University and the Ukrainian Academy of Printing in Lwów. Two-time holder of the scholarship of the program of the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Poland - "Gaude Polonia". She has several award-winning publication credits including "Book of the Year" in 2016-2017 at the International Book Publishers Forum in Lwów and the All-Ukrainian ranking "Book of the Year 2018" for graphic design. She was nominated for the worldwide Little Hakka International Picture Book Competition in 2019 for "Talk to Me". She specializes in creating paintings and illustrations using a collage technique and with "mixed media". Recently, she has also created assemblages: where art is presented as three-dimensional compositions. She is one of the pioneers of a modern folklore art aesthetic in Ukraine - the Modern Ethno trend and Fantom's Memories - comprising of an almost fairytale-like approach to real historical events. The artist comes from Kamieniec Podolski, and lives and works in Toruń.
Friday / February 24th, 2023
time: 20:00
Concert by KINVA
place: stage in Art Factory in Lodz
Kinva are a musical fusion of Anastasiji Litvinyuk, Igora Hnydyna and Romana Chraniuka. A "Kinva" is a traiditional Ukranian wooden vessel similar to a mug, for storage and consumption of drinks. The band Kinva is such a vessel: they preserve traditional ethnic Ukrainian melodies in order to serve them up in a fresh, jazzy form. Ukrainian language, tradition and music have united people for centuries, bestowing power and building faith in a free and independent Ukraine. Today, they still provide these functions: they bring hope and strength. They design the future.
Anastasija Litvinyuk, Igor Hnydyn and Roman Chraniuk met in Lwów. In another reality. Today they live in Warszawa and performed under a newly adopted name. Each of them are well established jazz musicians with a cataolgue of albums, projects and performances around the world. They are connected by love and longing for Ukraine and the sounds that have been playing in their souls since childhood. Today, they speak to the audience in new ways, using all the skills acquired over the years, having fun, and experimenting with jazz formats. They take you on a journey to a culturally diverse and magical Ukraine, and above all, they unite people using sounds and experiences of the here and now. The arrangements of folk songs and original compositions are original, encapsulating the joy of playing and the pleasure of listening. The material allows the musicians to gradually open up vocally and move toward becoming a jazz-ethno-vocal trio. Be kind to them, encourage them, and they will sing for you. :)
"Ukrainian melodies and songs have great power, powerful energy, they carry a lot of information about our past, but perhaps also about the future. Therefore, creating such music is important in various aspects - both to preserve all these old melodies, but also to write new, modern ones, which will also become the legacy of future Ukrainians, Europeans." (Anastasija Litvinyuk)
Anastasija Litvinyuk - representative of a new generation of Ukrainian jazz musicians. In 2007, she graduated from the Lwów Łysenko State Academy of Music in the Department of Music History. Since 2004, she's been a pianist and co-founder of the "ShockolaD" band, which has participated in many international jazz festivals and collaborated with renowned musicians such as Mark Bernstein, Frank Parker, Michał Barański, Michał Miśkiewicz, Radek Nowicki, Michał Jaros, Grzegorz Karnas, Hans Peter Salentin, Peter Baron and others. Between 2004 - 2006 she participated in international jazz workshops in Kraków, where she studied with Yoahim Menzel. She holds the scholarship of the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Poland "Gaude Polonia". She studied with Andrzej Jahodzyński and collaborated with Polish musicians Michał Jaros and Tomasz Dąbrowski in the "ShockolaD + PL" project. In February 2009, she co-founded the “Jazz Club” in Lwów. She also co-founded the first "Lwów Summer Jazz School" in 2011. Since 2010, she has been running her own music project "Litvinyuk Acoustic Jazz". Anastasija also works as an accompanist and teacher of improvisation at the S.Ludkiewicz. Lwów State Higher School of Music. In 2014, Anastasija co-founded the "Lwów School of Jazz and Contemporary Music". Since 2014, she has been teaching piano, jazz harmony and improvisation at the Lwów National Academy of Music.
Igor Hnydyn - drummer and composer. One of the best Ukrainian jazz musicians. Co-founder of "ShockolaD" and the "Igor Hnydyn Project". In 2004, he graduated from the Lwów State Academy of Music with a specialisation in percussion instruments. Holder of the scholarship of the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Poland "Gaude Polonia". He studied with Czesław Bartkowski and Andrzej Jagodziński and collaborated with Polish musicians Michał Jaros and Tomasz Dąbrowski in the "ShockolaD + PL" project. In February 2009, he co-founded and coordinated "Jazz Club Lwów". In 2010, Igor was a participant in the "International Cultural Exchange Visitors Program: American Root Music", organized by the Kennedy Center in the United States. He was one of 8 people from 59 countries who received such an opportunity. In the same year, Igor became the winner of the V-Drums 2010-2011 competition in Ukraine and was able to represent Ukraine in the European competition. In 2011, he organized the first "Lwów Summer School of Jazz". Since 2009, he has been the coordinator of international jazz workshops "Cho-Jazz" in Ukraine. In 2014, Igor co-founded the "Lwów School of Jazz and Contemporary Music". This is the first school of this type in Lwów. Igor also contributed to the creation of the jazz department at the Lwów National Academy of Music. Since 2014, he has been teaching percussion and jazz-combo at this Academy. He has participated in projects with Kevin Mahogany, Dwight Trible, Melvin Taylor, Michael Bowie, Frank Parker, Mark Bernstein, Piotr Baron, Anna Gadt, Grzegorz Karnas, Andrej Kondakov, Yuri Yaremchuk, Igor Zakus, Marek Tokar, Aleks Maksymiv, Tatiana Bałakirska, Yaroslav Bothur, Adam Kawończyk, Michał Jaros, Tomasz Dąbrowski, Kuba Cichocki, Sheldon D'Silva, Marek Coffie.
Roman Chraniuk - bass player, and graduate of the Academy of Music in Wrocław in the jazz double bass class under prof. Jacek Niedziela-Meira. He has played on many stages around the world - from Iceland to Hong Kong, from small clubs through to philharmonic halls, and at the Woodstock festival. Winner of numerous awards, including the Grand Prix of the Jazz Individuality Competition at the "Jazz nad Odrą Festival". He has been hosted on stage alongside Leszek Możdżer, Logan Richardson, Janusz Muniak, Marcus Wyatt or David Dorůžka.
More about KINVA: https://www.facebook.com/kinvamusic?locale=pl_PL
Saturday / February 25th, 2023
time: 19:00
Concert Poland-Ukraine "Gathering for Peace" / Zoryana Dybovska Ensemble with Dzikie Jabłka and Piewnica
place: stage in Art Factory in Lodz
In these turbulent times, we want to bring love and joy into our lives. Our fight against evil involves spreading goodness and peace. And peace comes when one meets another with respect and love. That's what this concert will be about. About love and its various shades. About disagreement with war between people and between nations. About meetings that, despite being made in objectively difficult circumstances, bring joy and new value. About the meeting of cultures and traditions.
And if this is to be a musical meeting of cultures, then who better than Dzikie Jabłka, who for years has been combining traditional Polish music with the indigenous rhythms of West Africa in its repertoire, to be there? This time, however, we will not stop at Polish music, but we will join forces with Ukrainian musicians from the band Yagoda, who were forced to flee from their homes. We want to take them under our roof, and meet with them by performing music together. It is our language, our way of communicating with other people, our message to the world.
As a surprise, also present will be Piewnica - a group of enthusiasts from Łódź performing polyphonic Ukrainian songs, making it a gathering that transcends many levels. It will be colorful, touching, reflective, but also trance-like and energetic. Join our GATHERING! Let's build PEACE together!
Dzikie Jabłka - is a band that has mastered the art of marrying two extremely different cultures: Polish and African. It is the only ensemble of this type in Poland, which, with charm and unique charisma, discovers a new face of Polish traditional and ethnic music. The band's repertoire uses two elements sounding as one: a Slavic melodious note and the thrilling rhythm of African drums. It is not inspired by Africa or Polish folklore, but by their lively fusion. This music has the taste of fruit from a tree that grows in a Polish garden, but with roots that reach as far as Africa. Natural freedom, a great connection with the audience, excellent musical skills, an original sound of exotic instruments and characteristic "white singing" are just some of the band's strengths, whose performances are an extraordinary experience and a powerful dose of positive energy. The proof of this is in the enthusiastic reactions of the audience, excellent reviews and numerous awards at leading Polish folk music festivals (Nowa Tradycja 2014, Open Stage of the Mikołajki Folkowe Festival 2013, Dragon Folk Fest 2014).
Zoryana Dybovska Ensemble - a band that is part of the YaGOda music group: Zoryana Dybovska (vocals), Teimuraz Gogitidze (drums), Vadym Voitovych (guitar), Nadia Paraszczuk (accordion). They will play and sing Ukrainian songs, which are almost like a romance. Songs about a woman, about love and memory, about deep roots, her strength and true openness. The poetry of Lesia Ukrainka will also be used at the gathering.
Friday / March 10th, 2023
time: 19:00
Photographic exhibition opening "Where does inspiration live?" / Yulia Aurelia
place: mezzanine above nieWinni bar
exhibition open until March 16th, 2023
Instagram: @aurelia_harmony.photo
Photographer Julia Lysz will talk with love and nostalgia about a beautiful place in Ukraine where she left a part of her heart. Where she always drew inspiration for creativity and felt fulfilled. Almost all photos were taken in the vicinity of Tyśmienica, near Ivano-Frankivsk. The magical nature of Podkarpacie, bicycle rides, blooming fields and compositions (still lifes) that were born as a result of this inspiration... I want to remind you about the simple joys of life! It really doesn't take much to be happy!
Kateryna Samborska is a graduate of the music school at the Conservatory of Mikhail Glinka. She specializes in pop-jazz vocals. Winner of the Grand Prix at various music festivals. Winner of the TV show "Karaoke in the Square" in 2016.
Sunday / March 12th, 2023
time: 16:00
Performance "Tales for Sofia" / Figurki Theatre (Cracow) and Lito Theatre (Kyiv)
place: stage in Art Factory in Lodz
viewers' age: 4+
duration: 1 hour
performance language: Ukrainian
Sofijka had to leave the country with her grandmother, and her parents missed her very much. They wandered sadly around her room, remembering their daughter, and imagining what it would be like when they can finally tell her a fairytale. Only which one? She already knows them all! Without much thought, the parents decide to invent their own fairy tale: about Princess Sofia who is under a spell, about an evil sorcerer who is looking for true love, about clever prince Danilko who was ready to do anything for love, and about Baba Yaga whom you just have to meet .
Friday / March 17th, 2023
time: 18:00
Interactive performnce for children "Mister Chaos" / Theatr OKO (Lviv)
place: stage in Art Factory in Lodz
viewers' age: 3-10
duration: 1 hour
performance language: Ukrainian
One Saturday, the rowdy Red Cat is left alone at home without his parents for the first time. He decides to play on the tablet all day, jump around and just be lazy. His Mind, unable to bear such thoughts, appears with instructions from his mother. The cat doesn't like to be interrupted and organizes a "school without rules", where the children are the students and he is the teacher. As a result of such lessons, Chaos arises, which cannot be dealt with without Reason.
This educational fairytale for preschool and early school children teaches them to better understand themselves and listen to their thoughts. Children will understand that everything has its consequences.
Writer: Halyna Ryba
Production: Halyna Ryba, Ivanna Mysyuk
Artist: Oksana Radkiewicz
Musical setting: Roman Blyakharskyi
Sound director: Hryhorij Ryba
Cast:
Cat - Hałyna Ryba / Hałyna Łożyńska
Mind - Ivanna Mysyuk
The independent OKO Theater was founded in 2016 in Lwów. The idea behind the theater is the interaction between actors and spectators. The theater's repertoire consists of shows for children and adults of various genres, each of which is performed with live music. The actors try to foster action and empathy in the viewers and immerse them in an alternative, theatrical reality. Therefore, the viewer is drawn into the plot of the performance, and becomes one of the actors themselves.
Friday / March 17th, 2023
time: 19:00
Painting exhibition opening "Times are changing" / Aia Kora
place: mezzanine above nieWinni bar
exhibition open until March 26th, 2023
Saturday / March 18th, 2023
time: 18:00
“WINGS” - a meeting with Ukranian poetry and music
place: workshop room in Art Factory in Lodz
moderator: Anna Fadeeva
participants: Tetyana Zelenchuk, Solomiya Mardarovych, Olga Poshuruyeva, Katya Samborska, Amina Pivko, Anna Fadeeva
event language: Ukrainian
"People don't fly... And they have wings. And they have wings!" (Lina Kostenko)
On a March evening, we invite you to a creative meeting with some inspired and talented Ukrainian women. Some of them have numerous publications and performances behind them, others are just making their first creative attempts, but they all share a great love for the written word and creativity. The program includes readings of the participants' poetry and performance of contemporary Ukrainian songs. Let's talk about beauty. Let's talk about important things. We will share songs and warmth. We welcoming you with our hearts.
