As part of an event that I co-organized within the Lyon-Ukraine association and the Magnifique Printemps, I participated with Viktoriia Chapourna in bilingual readings of Ukrainian poems alongside Bruno Doucey and Ella Yevtouchenko.

In collaboration with the Le Bleu du Ciel Art Gallery and the Lyon-Ukraine association, I co-organized a literary and poetic evening as part of the exhibition “War. Ukraine 2022” with the poet from Dnipro Oléna Maleeva and the writer from Mariupol Iryna Sosnovtseva.

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As part of a major evening for peace and in solidarity with the Ukrainian people organized on May 18, 2022 at the Maison de la Danse by the main cultural institutions of Lyon, I offered the public, along with the Ukrainian actress Viktoriia Chepourna, a reading of several Ukrainian authors:

Closed Sky , unpublished extract from a dramatic text by Neda Nejdana.

I am a poet who writes invisible poems by Olena Herasymiuk.

Both texts were translated into French by Ella Yevtouchenko.

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As an opening to the Printemps des Poètes 2022, the Social Palace, in conjunction with Espace Pandora in Lyon, is giving me carte blanche to talk about Ukrainian poetry.

I asked poet Ella Yevtushenko to record a video to showcase her poetry, written five days after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Bruno Doucey, present at this evening, then suggested that they work together on an anthology of Ukrainian poetry in French...

Bogdan-Oleg Gorobchuk, Ella Yevtushenko, Lesyk Panasiuk, Daryna Gladun, Taras Malkovych, and Lida Zinko are young Ukrainian poets born after the fall of the USSR. They have always lived in an independent Ukraine. Their generation entered adulthood with the "Revolution of Dignity," which began with spontaneous movements of Ukrainian youth in 2013 on Maidan (Kyiv's Independence Square). A generation that wants to be able to freely choose the future of their country. It was after the extremely forceful intervention of the security forces that the Euromaidan revolution became intergenerational.

This multifaceted evening seeks to give voice to this young Ukrainian poetry through shadow theater, videos, materials, and voices. It is a "weaving of poems" that resonates with the watchwords of this youth: re-co-naissance and dignity.

The evening also features interculturality, with French artists (Clément Peretjatko for the shadow theatre and Loïc Risser for the reading of poems in French) performing alongside Ukrainian poets who read in their own language.

Video links: https://fb.watch/oH1q_fAtkK/ and https://fb.watch/oH1wsVohqN/

Design: Clément Peretjatko and Linda Zinko.

Supporters: Communauté de Communes du Forez-Est, European Cultural Foundation, Institut Français Paris within the framework of its agreement with the City of Lyon, Ukrainian Cultural Center in Paris, Lyon-Ukraine association.