Stiftelsen Fritt Ord og Open Society Foundation står for arrangementet.
Tid og sted: Fritt Ords lokaler, Uranienborgveien 2, Oslo, klokken 09-16.

Hvordan finner journalister språk for å tale til et publikum i krig? Hvordan kan skribenter og filmskapere bidra til å dokumentere krigsforbrytelser, og hvordan kan ord,  bilder og lyd dokumentere det som har skjedd, overgrep og krigsforbrytelser?

Er det rom for kunst og kultur i krigens brutalitet? Kan kunst og ord drive motstandskamp? Kan kunst og ord hele sårene som krigen skaper? Ukrainske forfattere, journalister, dokumentarfilmskapere, musikere og andre fra ukrainsk kulturliv samles i Oslo for å diskutere disse spørsmålene. 

Ukrainske forfattere, journalister, dokumentarfilmskapere og andre kreative yrker jobber for å tåle og slå tilbake angrepet fra Russland. Har ukrainsk identitet forandret seg siden Russlands brutale invasjon? For å diskutere dette, kommer representanter for alt fra nyhetsmedia til teater og film, som alle speiler krigen på sine vis. 

Sentrale navn 

Blant mange interessante navn som kommer til Oslo, er forfatter og journalist og tidligere politisk fange Stanislav Aseyev og forfatter og redaktør Svitlana Oslavska og Luba Michailova, som startet plattformen iIzolyatsia for samtidskunst. 

– Vi er tidlig ute med å ta disse debattene nå. Fritt Ord har jobbet med ytringsfrihetsspørsmål i Øst-Europa lenge, og det har også stiftelsen Open Society Foundations. Vi samler nå kulturpersonligheter både fra Ukraina og i eksil for å diskutere mange av de store spørsmålene Europa står overfor. Ikke bare når denne krigen en gang slutter, men allerede nå, sier Bente Roalsvig, nestleder i Fritt Ord og arrangementsansvarlig.

På kvelden vil det vises kortfilm på Kunstnernes Hus. 

Praktisk beskjed til journalister som vil dekke eventen

Den engelske tittelen på arrangementet er Ukraine’s Creative Resistance: Culture, Art and Expression in Wartime.  Stiftelsen Fritt Ord kan formidle ønsker om intervjuer på forhånd, men det er også mulig å spørre deltakerene på stedet. Programmet vil foregå på engelsk. Sesjonene Shaping a Ukrainian Resistance deles i ord, bilde og lyd. 

Programmet er vedlagt på engelsk. 

Se Fritt Ords kalender på frittord.no for mindre endringer som kan oppstå etter at denne pressemeldingen er sendt ut.  

Program for dagen, 5. desember 2022 

Ukraine’s Creative Resistance: Culture, Art and Expression in Wartime

Time:9:00 am – 9:15 am 

Piano Opening: Unspeakable is based on the poetry of the contemporary Ukrainian poets, Iryna Shuvalova and Halyna Kruk, and the dissident poet Vasyl Stus

Olesya Zdorovetska,performer, composer and curator, founder of the Ukrainian-Irish Cultural Platform

Time: 9:15 am – 9:20 am

Opening Remarks, Knut Olav Åmås, director, Fritt Ord 

Time: 9:20 am – 10:30 am 

Session I: Shaping a Ukrainian Resistance throughIMAGES & SOUNDS

 

Moderator: Tanya Lokot, Associate Professor in Digital Media and Society at Dublin City University

Panel Abstract: From viral memes to poetry to dance to street art murals, Ukrainians continue to create, even in the most dire of circumstances. How do art creators and experts find the language to speak to their audiences in war time? Is there room for art in war, or is art actually a critical part of healing and resistance? We will discuss the evolution of Ukraine’s media landscape since the start of the war, and how leading Ukrainian cultural writers and thinkers engage with culture at this time. 

Panelists:

• Diana Berg is a curator, activist, public artist and cultural manager originally from Donetsk. She is the founder of the cultural centerPlatform TU in Mariupol 
• Luba Michailova is the founder ofIzolyatsia, a non-profit, multidisciplinary platform for contemporary culture in Ukraine
• Ilya Zabolotnyi is a cultural programmer, art historian, curator, and expert in cultural diplomacy. His main focus now is working as the co-founder and CEO of theUkraine Emergency Art Fund
• Olesya Zdorovetska is a performer, composer and curator, founder of the Ukrainian-Irish Cultural Platform

• Maria Kulikovska, multimedia artist, architect, actionist and researcher

Coffee Break: 15 minutes

 

Time: 10:45 am – 12:15 pm

Session II: Shaping a Ukrainian Resistance through WORDS

 

Moderator: Martin Paulsen, Head of Foreign Languages, researcher and translator at the University of Bergen

Panelists:

• Stanislav Aseyev is a writer, journalist, and former political prisoner 
• Oleksiy Matsuka is a journalist from Donetsk and editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian foreign broadcasting FREEDOM TV channel
• Bohdana Neborak is a journalist, manager of cultural projects, and editor-in-chief atThe Ukrainians 
• Svitlana Oslavska is a journalist, editor, and cultural manager 

Lunch: 12:15 – 1:00 pm 

Time: 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm

Session III: Kyiv Soloists and The Days I Would Like To Forget – Documenting Stories

 

Moderator/Presenter: Karianne Berge and Eugene Rachkovsky, Indie Film and Tabor Production, producer and co-producer of the documentary film ‘Kyiv Soloists’

Musicians: Nataliia Koliada (violin), Yuliia Kushneryk (violin), Ivan Grytshyshyn (viola), Oleksandra Hrytsyshyna (cello)

Performance Abstract: In the film ‘Kyiv Soloists’ (2024), we will experience the tragedy of war through the eyes of a Ukrainian ensemble, left in the exile of touring as the full scale invasion hit on February 24th. They decided to fight the war with their music. We will be introduced to Rachkovsky’s upcoming film called ‘The Days I Would Like to Forget’ (2024), and hear about the challenges and importance of co-producing and producing in Ukraine.

Coffee Break: 15 minutes

Time: 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Session IV: In Conversation with Stanislav Aseyev, writer, journalist, and former political prisoner 

Moderator:Uilleam Blacker, Associate Professor in Ukrainian and East European Culture at the University College London

Conversation Description: Ullieam Blacker will engage in conversation with Stanislav Aseyev about his writing and new books The Torture Camp on Paradise Street (2021) and In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas (2022) and will discuss how the war has impacted his identity as a writer.

 

 

Evening programme 5 December:

Time: 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Location: Kunstnernes Hus (House of Artists), Wergelandsveien 17, Oslo

 

Session IV: First look at Mariupol by the TU Platform

Description of films:Join us for the screening of several short films by the Tu Platform, which depicts Mariupol before the invasion and shows the city as a vivid and lively cultural hub with its own life, youth, and arts. 

Platform TU is represented by Diana Berg, Anastasiya Hrechkina and Vira Protskyh