The Ukrainian Week

Open The Doors

Tom DiChillo talks about his documentary When You’re Strange

23 September, 2011 ▪ The Ukrainian Week

Friends With Trucks

Anton Slepakov speaks about the band's shell, fast food restaurants filled to capacity and government subsidies on beer and strings

20 September, 2011 ▪ Inna Zavhorodnya

On the Remains Of Culture

Otar Iosseliani speaks about political cinema, the criteria of authenticity and “friendship of peoples”

11 September, 2011 ▪ Yaroslav Pidhora-Hviazdovsky

"The Loving Hearts"

Ukrainian audiences know only a few amateur and underground theaters but they are mostly popular with young people. The Ukrainian Week presents their shows for the upcoming season

11 September, 2011 ▪ Hanna Martiusheva

Words In Motion

Meridian Czernowitz 2011 proves that while poetry knows no boundaries, poets do

9 September, 2011 ▪ Olena Maksymenko

Literature’s Long Journeys

Ukrainian writers have come down with a bout of travelmania

2 September, 2011 ▪ Oksana Shchur

Harmony of Art and Money

Pennie Ojeda: “USA spends approximately $3 billion a year on the development of not-for-profit culture”

1 September, 2011 ▪ Zhanna Bezpiatchuk

Ulianenko Uncensored

August 17 was the first anniversary of the death of Oles Ulianenko, the only officially banned writer in independent Ukraine

23 August, 2011 ▪ Miroslav Slaboshpitskiy

Khrushchev’s Cartoonist

He distributed anti-Soviet leaflets, burned the Soviet flag, and set up public organizations. Today Pavlo Otchenashenko is active in Odesa’s Ukrainian movement

22 August, 2011 ▪ Igor Kruchik ▪

The Clarinet And the Pipe

A history of genius who refused freedom.

22 August, 2011 ▪ Volodymyr Panchenko

European Melodies: a Look at Managing Classical Music

Can we bring the management of Ukrainian classical music and opera to a European level?

19 August, 2011 ▪ Roman Horbyk

Heart in His Hand

Krzysztof Zanussi on the self-restriction of successful democracies, the imperfection of tolerance, and art as a quest for mystery

18 August, 2011 ▪ Olena Chekan

Keyboard Player Turned Pianist

Dmytro Shurov speaks about his desire to be a Ukrainian Elton John, musicians' shining eyes and bench-sitting as a national pastime

17 August, 2011 ▪ Bohdan Butkevych

The Embassy of Culture

The management of the Goethe-Institut and German Ambassador Hans-Jurgen Heimsoeth meet for an exclusive interview for The Ukrainian Week to talk about what the organization does in former Soviet countries and share their plans for Ukraine

1 August, 2011 ▪ Inna Zavhorodnya

The Enigma of Jerzy Nowosielski

His icons kept Polish painter Jerzy (Yuriy) Nowosielski spiritually connected to Ukraine

1 August, 2011 ▪ Yuriy Havryliuk

Observations of the King of Mystification

Writer Yuriy Vynnychuk talks about the search for new symbols, the literary famine and writers caught up in politics

1 August, 2011 ▪ Iryna Troskot

Captivated By Visions

A wave of visual experiments is sweeping across Ukraine as video art blossoms and the cinema avant-garde of the 1920s and the 1930s is back in fashion

18 July, 2011 ▪ Yulia Voitenko

Widely Known in Narrow Circles

In Germany, like in Ukraine, Ukrainian literature is learning the ropes of gaining an audience

8 July, 2011 ▪ Roman Horbyk

In the Middle of Nowhere

Painter Volodymyr Makarenko talks about freedom of art, non-conformity in the reality of the soviet system and his inspiration

4 July, 2011 ▪ Olena Chekan

Shadows of the unforgettable

Among the nice-looking new buildings in the village of Chortoryia (Bukovyna) stands an old hut where Ivan Mykolaychuk was born and lived…

24 June, 2011 ▪ Natalia Feshchuk

The Cinema Poet

Ivan Mykolaychuk was an actor of a magical kind. He embodied specific aesthetics and ethics which directed us into the depth of culture and towards self-awareness as members of unique body and soul of the nation.

24 June, 2011 ▪ Serhiy Trymbach