Canadian artists, organizations launch supports for Ukraine
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Artists and arts organizations across Canada are working to launch shows in support of Ukraine while taking public stances against Russia.
Artists and arts organizations across Canada are working to launch shows in support of Ukraine while taking public stances against Russia and its devastating invasion on the country launched last week.
From immersive experiences of the work of beloved Ukrainian painter and writer Taras Shevchenko to performances of the Ukrainian anthem at a local hockey game, Ukrainians in Canada are celebrating their culture as an act of hope.
Others, like Russian-born Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra music director Daniel Raiskin, are speaking out.
“I firmly believe that it is the duty of every artist to speak the truth, expressing himself through the art he makes,” Raiskin said in a scathing indictment of his country’s actions posted to his Facebook page Wednesday. “But today, this alone is not enough!”
In Toronto, Valeriy Kostyuk is racing to put together an immersive show featuring Shevchenko’s work. Kostyuk, a Ukrainian-born producer with Toronto’s Lighthouse Immersive art space, said the show was originally set to open in North America this coming September.
But when the Russian army began its advance last week, Shevchenko’s 19th-century work promoting an independent and sovereign Ukraine became urgently relevant, Kostyuk said.
He’s now working with a team at the National Museum of Taras Shevchenko in Kyiv — at night, when the internet is faster and they’re not making camouflage nets out of masking-tape for military vehicles — for the show top open on March 15 in Toronto, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and Boston.
“(Shevchenko) wanted to promote Ukrainian culture, he wanted to be writing poetry in the Ukrainian language, he wanted Ukrainians to be independent and living on their own lands and, most importantly, free,” he said in an interview Saturday. “This is exactly what Ukrainian people are going through right now. They are fighting for their national identity.”
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