Events
- Thursday, 30 May
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Thursday, 30 May
18:00 - 19:30
Discussion: The Edge Within Us.
Participants: Pavlo Kazarin, Oleksandr Mykhed, Oleksandra Matviichuk, Larysa Denysenko, Olena Stiazhkina, Oleksandr Komarov.
Moderated by Tetiana OgarkovaMain Stage
Thursday, 30 May
18:00 - 19:00
Ukrainian Institute of National Memory. No Rotation: presentation of a book by Natalka Pozniak-Khomenko
Participants: Natalka Pozniak-Khomenko, Vasyl Vanchura, Yevhen "Zhuk", Dmytro Babkin
Moderated by Andriy Kulykov.Publishing Stage
Thursday, 30 May
18:00 - 19:00
Stiletto and Stylos. Presentation of the Art Book about Kyiv
Stiletto and Stylus
Participants: Tetiana Shvydchenko, Nadiya Hart, Diana Andrievska.
Moderated by Diana Andrievska.Lecture Hall
Thursday, 30 May
18:30 - 20:00
Discussion: Bridging the Gap – Continuity that Occurs
Participants: Yevhenii Stasinevych, Yaryna Tsymbal, Radomyr Mokryk, Anna Yutchenko.
Moderated by Ivanna Skyba-Yakubova.Literary Stage
Thursday, 30 May
18:30 - 19:30
Ukrainian Fatigue: presentation of a music and poetry project by Kateryna Kalytko and Mariana SadovskaUkrainian Fatigue is a two-voiced music and poetry performance that will be premiered at the Book Arsenal Festival. The singing and music by Mariana Sadovska and poetry by Kateryna Kalytko weave together a story of memory - private, family, and collective, as well as a connection to the land, love, pain, and persistence. This is a narrative about the unbearable weight of the time we live together, but also an irony outwards, to a bigger world that can allow itself to become tired of complex Ukrainian issues. But most of all, it is a story about the power to keep going, to grow truth out of grief. "Because when you defend yourself, there is no fatigue for you."
Participants: Kateryna Kalytko, Mariana Sadovska.Outdoor Stage
Thursday, 30 May
18:30 - 20:00
Workshops area
Thursday, 30 May
19:00 - 20:00
ist publishing. Innovations in Isolation: Documenting Ukraine’s Technological Odyssey
IST Publishing
Participants: Oleksandr Borniakov, Oleksandr Kosovan, Volodymyr Nevzorov.
Moderated by Illia Kabachynskyi.Publishing Stage
Thursday, 30 May
19:00 - 20:00
Zaliznyi Tato. The Art of Theater in Ukraine in Times of War
Zaliznyi Tato (Iron Dad)
Participants: Anatolii Khostikoiev, Natalya Sumska.
Moderated by Dmytro KorchynskyiLecture Hall
Thursday, 30 May
19:30 - 21:00
Testimony: a reading in memory of Victoria Amelina
Participants: Tetyana Teren, Sofia Cheliak, Halyna Kruk, Kateryna Mykhalitsyna, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Alim Aliev, Myroslava Barchuk, Mariana Savka, Tetyana Pylypchuk, Olesia Zdorovetska, Olha Rusina, Marichka Masiuk, Roman Koval.
Moderated by Olena HuseinovaMain Stage
Thursday, 30 May
20:00 - 21:30
Flowing: readings by young authors participating in the 2nd Propysy Workshop FestivalThe event will feature works by young authors who took part in the 2nd Propysy Workshop Festival organized by PEN Ukraine as a space for learning, self-presentation, and joint creativity of Ukrainian debut writers. Some names will be completely new to the literary audience. The festival almanac will be presented, which is the result of the second edition of Propysy and a hallmark of a new cohort of personalities who, hopefully, will shape the future of Ukrainian literature.
Participants: Anfisa Doroshenko, Olha Zaiets, Mykyta Kiliarov, Viktoria Klymchuk-Dluhach, Iryna Kupchynska, Yuliana Lesniak, Svitlana Libet, Iryna Martsyniuk, Illia Rudiiko, Anna Siedykh, Yaroslava Skorbach, Anna Yutchenko, Anna Yabluchna.
Moderated by Ostap Slyvynsky and Maria Tytarenko.Literary Stage
Thursday, 30 May
20:00 - 21:00
GERDA Publishing House. Meeting with Gabija Grušaitė and her novel Cold East
Herda Publishing House
Participants: Gabija Grušaitė, Ūla Ambrasaitė, Mykhailo Kyslov.
Moderated by Beatrice Beliavtsiv.Publishing Stage
Thursday, 30 May
20:00 - 21:00
Oleksandr Teren (joint publishers stand). Presentation of a book The Story of a Stubborn Man by Oleksandr Teren
Oleksandr Teren
Participants: Oleksandr Teren.
Moderated by Kateryna Mokiienko.Lecture Hall
Thursday, 30 May
20:00 - 21:30
Outdoor Stage
Thursday, 30 May
20:00 - 21:00
Publisher Oleksandr Savchuk. How the Arch was Built: from the History of the Legendary Magazine
Publisher Oleksandr Savchuk
Participants: Oleksandr Savchuk, Yevhenii StasinevychWorkshops area
- Friday, 31 May
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Friday, 31 May
10:30 - 11:30
The Bohdan KhmelnytskyI National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine Press. Presentation of the book series The Way to Victory 2022-2023
Participants: Anatolii Stsinskyi, Yuliia Stepanova, Alina Horbatovska, Oksana Tarasiuk, Denys Poliuk, Oleksandra Kondratiuk, Dmytro Halushka, Vitalii Orykhovskyi, Volodymyr Lemeshko, Dmytro Khrust.Lecture Hall
Friday, 31 May
10:30 - 11:30
Anthology LLC: Books in Braille. Popularization of Braille reading and problems of teaching Braille reading in Ukraine
Anthology Publishing House. Braille Books
Participants: Olena Nechepurenko, Tetiana Kostenko, Tetiana Hrebeniuk, Viktoria Karasiova.
Moderated by Natalia Bovtruk.Literary Stage
Friday, 31 May
11:00 - 12:00
Mediason. The Books by Mediason Publishing
MEDIASON
Participants: Illia Hrybanov, Liudmyla Fylypovych.
Moderated by Vladyslav Sukennyk.Publishing Stage
Friday, 31 May
11:00 - 13:00
Live Readings11:00-13:00 Workshop. Live Readings with BaraBooka: 11:00-11:30 Fairytale Live Readings with Yulia Vrotna and Oksana Davydova; 11:30-12:00 Educational Live Readings with Lesia Movchun and Hanna Bulhakova; 12:00-12:30 Tailed Live Readings with Nastia Muzychenko and Maria Artemenko; 12:30-13:00 Detective Live Readings with Olha Kuzhdina and Marusia Shcherbyna. Organized by: BaraBooka Children's Reading Laboratory of the Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Participants: Yulia Vrotna, Oksana Davydova, Lesia Movchun, Hanna Bulhakova, Nastia Muzychenko, Maria Artemenko, Olha Kuzhdina, Marusia Shcherbyna.Workshops area
Friday, 31 May
11:30 - 12:30
Discussion: A Bizarre Land on Ukraine’s Side — New Ukrainian Military Fantasy and Urban Landscapes
Participants: Mia Marchenko, Katia Pekur, Viktoria Shtepura.
Moderated by Halina Tkachuk.Literary Stage
Friday, 31 May
11:30 - 12:30
Discussion: The Art of Resistance Beyond the Edge
Participants: a representative of the Mavka Women's Resistance Movement, David Patrikarakos, Noel Calhoun, Bohdan Lohvynenko, and Li Biletska.
Moderated by Olha Mukha.Main Stage
Friday, 31 May
11:30 - 12:30
Understanding Each Other: War and Growing up of Children with Disabilities
Participants: Svitlana Osipchuk, Olesia Yaskevych, School of Socialization for Teenagers and Youth with Disabilities organized by the NGO "See with the Heart".
Moderated by Marianna Onufryk.Lecture Hall
Friday, 31 May
12:00 - 13:00
Discussion: Ukrainian Classics and International Book Markets — Valerian Pidmohylnyi, Mike Yohansen, Lesya Ukrainka
Co-organized by Goethe Institute Ukraine
Participants: Uilleam Blacker, Marcin Gaczkowski, Mirosław Tomek, Jakob Wunderwald, Daisy Gibbons.
Moderated by Sasha Dovzhyk.Publishing Stage
Friday, 31 May
12:00 - 13:00
Penman Publishing House, Alex Shelest: presentation of the Easy Voice vocal textbook
Participants: Alex Shelest, Yaroslav Kuzyk.
Moderated by Serhiy "Kolos" Martyniuk.Outdoor Stage
Friday, 31 May
12:30 - 13:30
Discussion: Remarking Urban Space — the Experience of Kharkiv and Kyiv
Participants: Olha Melnyk, Tetiana Pylypchuk, Maria Takhtaulova, Tymish Martynenko-Kushlianskyi.
Moderated by Tetiana Pushnova.Main Stage
Friday, 31 May
13:00 - 14:00
Radio Culture. Voices of the Frontier: New War Writing
Participants: Pavlo Belianskyi, Liza Zharikova, Artur Dron, Olena Huseinova.
Moderated by Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska and Vadym Karpiak.Literary Stage
Friday, 31 May
13:00 - 14:30
Where are the Fakes Hiding? Workshop on the basics of politics and media literacy for children
Participants: Yevgenia Zavaliy, Olena Khobta.
Moderated by Kyrylo Beskorovainyi.Workshops area
Friday, 31 May
13:00 - 14:00
Periodicals as a Compact Genre for Documentation and Reflection
Participants: Marichka Paplauskaite, Nastia Zherebetska, Anna Karnaukh, Vitaliy Lyaska.
Moderated by Bohdana Neborak.Publishing Stage
Friday, 31 May
13:00 - 14:00
Mystetstvo Publishing House. Presentation of the book Night at the Museum
Mystetstvo Publishing House
Participants: Hanna Vladymyrska, Viktor Kononenko, Serhii Ponochovnyi, Tetiana Chuzha.
Moderated by Nina PrybiehaOutdoor Stage
Friday, 31 May
13:30 - 15:00
A Book in a Shelter, a Book as a Shelter
Participants: Maryna Chyzhova, Aelita Horbunova, and Anton Novikov, the Book in the Shelter project (Kherson), Kateryna Kalytko, Svitlana Povaliaieva, and Kateryna Mikhalitsyna.
Moderated by Myroslava Barchuk.Main Stage
Friday, 31 May
13:30 - 14:30
Lektüra Talks: Franz Kafka was here. On the 100th anniversary of Kafka’s death
Organized by Goethe Institute Ukraine
Participants: Iryna Nikolaychuk, Bohdana Romantsova, Roksolana Sviato.Literary garden
Friday, 31 May
13:45 - 15:00
New Space for Ukrainian Children’s Libraries: How to Become What Readers Need. Panel discussion on the content of libraries and the development of reading competencies of children and teenagers
Participants: Maria Shubchyk, Olha Yurchyshyn, Danylo Haidamakha, Olha Kryzhanovska.
Moderated by Oleksandra Shevchenko.Lecture Hall
Friday, 31 May
14:00 - 15:00
Ukrainian Radio: 100 Years of Joint Presence
Participants: Dmytro Khorkin, Marharyta Laznyk, Olena Huseinova, Iryna Slavinska
Moderated by Roman Koliada.Literary Stage
Friday, 31 May
14:00 - 15:00
Bright Books, presentation of a book Russia’s War Against Ukraine. How to Break the Vicious Circle
Bright Books
Participants: Volodymyr Horbulin, Valentyn Badrak.
Moderated by Dmytro Kyrychenko.Publishing Stage
Friday, 31 May
14:00 - 15:00
Clio Publishing House. Baroque Landscapes of Valeriy Shevchuk — presentation of the project of the publication Hymns and Chants. Ukrainian Heraldic and Commemorative Poetry of the 16th-18th Centuries dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the modern thinker
CLIO
Participants: Vira Soloviova, Mykyta Poturaiev, Olena Kurhanova, Liudmyla Zubko, Oleksii Rudenko.
Moderated by Rostyslav Semkiv.Outdoor Stage
Friday, 31 May
14:30 - 15:00
Re-playing the Plot: D&D Roleplay Based on the Novel Kaidash Family from the Repainted Fox podcast
Participants: Valentyna Merzhyievska, Maria Didenko.Workshops area
Friday, 31 May
15:00 - 16:30
Otherness in Children’s Books: How We Talk about Inclusion
Participants: Svitlana Roiz, Superhumans.
Moderated by Tetiana Stus.Lecture Hall
Friday, 31 May
15:00 - 16:30
Guardians of the Ruin: The City of Childhood and the Writing Mechanics
Participants: Oksana Zabuzhko.
Moderated by Olha Olkhova-Sukhomlyn.Main Stage
Friday, 31 May
15:00 - 16:00
ORLANDO Publishing House. Part 1: Presentation of the military collection LITTLE YELLOW EXCAVATOR. Part 2: Discussion on the why living literature is not common ukrainian contempoary literature
ORLANDO Publishing House
Participants: Natali Skorykova, Halyna Tarasenko.
Moderated by Oksana Kravets.Outdoor Stage
Friday, 31 May
15:30 - 17:00
Panel discussion. Bridging the Gap: Between Storytelling and Silence
Participants: Antonio Iturbe, Oksana Dovhopolova, Yevhenia Podobna, Valeria Subotina, Olesya Khromeychuk.
Moderated by Ivanna Skyba-Yakubova.Literary Stage
Friday, 31 May
16:00 - 17:30
Crazy Daily Adventures. Joint readings and a master class on creating comics
Participants: Iryna Oleshko, Mariana Kondzelka, Sofia Tomilenko.Workshops area
Friday, 31 May
16:00 - 17:00
RM Publishing House. Publishing plans of the RM Publishing House: favorite authors and new names
RM Publishing House (Ridna Mova Publishing House)
Participants: Kateryna Molochko.Publishing Stage
Friday, 31 May
16:00 - 17:00
Creative Women Publishing. Women and power. A conversation about women’s voices and leadership
Creative Women Publishing
Participants: Oksana Pavlenko, Yulia Sporysh, Iryna Solovey, Tetiana Manziuk
Moderated by Iryna Nikolaychuk.Outdoor Stage
Friday, 31 May
16:00 - 17:00
Presentation of the Dialogues art and calligraphy exhibition
Participants: Alla Kalinichenko. ArtiYa Calligraphy School.Hall C2.5
Friday, 31 May
16:00 - 17:00
A Suitcase Full of Books: interactive reading with the therapeutic game Me and My Fear by bezprobiliv and Pravo 31
Organized by Goethe Institute Ukraine
Participants:Literary garden
Friday, 31 May
16:30 - 18:00
Ukrainska Pravda Chat: Neophytes on the March. Why the Ukrainian Art Boom Looks Like This
Hosted by Sevgil Musaieva.Lecture Hall
Friday, 31 May
16:30 - 18:00
Acquiring Agency: presentation of the book Dialogues on WarRussia's war against Ukraine is the best-documented war in the history of the world. The book Dialogues on War is an archive record of how opinions about Ukraine and its power have been changing during the first year of the full-scale invasion. The thoughts and positions of intellectuals from all over the world, the gradual justification of their agency, the creation of an international language "about us and the war" and the process of gaining agency with each subsequent answer about Ukraine and Ukrainian without the prism of the occupier's imperial gaze. How do we talk to the world about Ukrainian in our own terminology, within the framework of our history?
In partnership with Vivat
Participants: Volodymyr Yermolenko, David Patrikarakos (UK), Sławomir Sierakowski (Poland), Olesya Khromeychuk.
Moderated by Olha Mukha.Main Stage
Friday, 31 May
17:00 - 18:30
The Most Documented War? Reportage books as an attempt to overcome the fragmentation of capturing
Participants: Marichka Paplauskaite, Myroslav Laiuk, Bohdan Lohvynenko, Yevhenia Nesterovych, Angelina Kariakina.
Moderated by Maria Tytarenko.Literary Stage
Friday, 31 May
17:00 - 18:00
Discussion: Cities Between War and Culture — a Dialogue from Different Perspectives
Participants: Tetiana Pylypchuk, Tetiana Ihoshyna, Evhenii StasinevychPublishing Stage
Friday, 31 May
17:00 - 18:00
NIKA-CENTER Publishing House. We Have Become Generations of War…
Nika-Centre Publishing House
Participants: Anton Sanchenko, Serhii Troian.
Moderated by Iryna PohorelovskaOutdoor Stage
Friday, 31 May
17:30 - 19:00
Workshops area
Friday, 31 May
17:30 - 19:00
Improvisation with the characters from the book Jacob and the Wet Evening
Participants: Kateryna MikhalitsynaLiterary garden
Friday, 31 May
18:00 - 19:00
Nasha Idea. Every child deserves a happy childhood. Can we always express everything with our voices? A socially important presentation and discussion of the manga The Shape of a Voice
NASHA IDEA
Participants: Iryna Oleshko, Daria Herasymchuk, Anna Borodina, Ivanna Mykhailenko.
Moderated by Anna Polehenko.Publishing Stage
Friday, 31 May
18:00 - 19:30
Being a Military Man / Woman Today
Participants: Dmytro Lazutkin, Artur Dron, Yaryna Chornohuz, Lesia Hanzha, Pavlo Kazarin.
Moderated by Alla Koshliak.Main Stage
Friday, 31 May
18:00 - 19:00
21-Publishers, Black Sheep. How to Write about War
Books – XXI
Participants: Svitlana Tkachenko, Tetiana Bondarchuk, Yevgenia Zavaliy, Tasha Torba.
Moderated by Maryna HorbatiukLecture Hall
Friday, 31 May
18:30 - 20:00
Joint Presence: Poetic Dialogue on Radio Culture
Participants: Maryna Ponomarenko, Artur Dron.
Moderated by Olena HuseinovaLiterary Stage
Friday, 31 May
19:00 - 20:00
ADEF-Ukraine Publishing House. Ukrainian Identity in art and Fashion
ADEF-UKRAINE Publishing House
Participants: Zinaida Vasina, Tetiana Sribna, Alla Istomina.
Moderated by Kateryna Pashchenko.Lecture Hall
Friday, 31 May
19:00 - 20:00
Workshops area
Friday, 31 May
19:00 - 20:00
Nebo BookLab Publishing. Ukrainian Fantasy: How to Write, Publish and Promote it
Nebo BookLab Publishing
Participants: Andrii Novik, Yaroslav Zadorovskyi, Valeriia Ivanova.
Moderated by Anastasia NesteriakPublishing Stage
Friday, 31 May
19:30 - 21:00
Hold on! I’m holding on! Poetry from and about captivity
In cooperation with the Center for Civil Liberties
Participants: Tetiana Vlasova, Tonia Kornuta, Natalka Heiman, Irma Vitovska, Akhtem Seitablaiev, Oleksandra Matviichuk.
Main Stage
Friday, 31 May
19:30 - 21:00
Outdoor Stage
Friday, 31 May
20:00 - 21:00
Social Drawings: Breaking the Boundaries of Comic Book Culture
Participants: Ania Ivanenko, Zhenia Polosina, Volodymyr Kuznetsov, Tania Pryimach.
Moderated by Svitlana TaratorinaLiterary Stage
Friday, 31 May
20:00 - 21:30
Special screening of the 2nd episode of the documentary series The Great Russian Lie. Literature
Participants: Lukian Halkin (introductory remarks), Rostyslav Semkiv, Serhiy Zhadan, Vakhtang Kebuladze, Uilleam Blacker.
Moderated by Anna DanilchukLecture Hall
Friday, 31 May
20:00 - 21:00
Publishing Stage
- Saturday, 01 June
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Saturday, 01 June
10:30 - 11:30
How the Landscape Feels: What Impact the War has on Ecology and Memory
Co-organized by Goethe Institute Ukraine
Participants: Kateryna Semeniuk, Borys Filonenko, Dmytro Koval, Kateryna Shavanova.
Moderated by Kateryna YakovlenkoMain Stage
Saturday, 01 June
10:30 - 11:30
APRIORI Publishing House, Lviv. Canonical Auden: presentation of the first Ukrainian edition
Apriori Publishers, Lviv
Participants: Oleh Poloz, Maksym Strikha.
Moderated by Romania Strotska.Literary Stage
Saturday, 01 June
10:30 - 12:00
We. The Future: a screening of the film about teenagers who are changing the future and a Q&A session with the protagonists. Display of drawings by Nikita Titov
SavEd charity fund.
Moderated by Liliia DrozdykLecture Hall
Saturday, 01 June
11:00 - 12:00
Bukrek. The Fairytale World — from Bukovyna to Kenya (discussion based on the collections of fairytales published by the Bukrek publishing house)
BUKREK
Participants: Anatolii Kovalenko, Daryna Maksymets, Oksana Ivasiuk, Halyna Datsiuk.
Moderated by Ihor Turzhanskyi.Outdoor Stage
Saturday, 01 June
11:00 - 12:00
Anetta Antonenko Publishers. On the books Inventing American Tradition: From the Mayflower to Cinco de Mayo by D.Eller and A Nation Like All Others: A Brief History of American Foreign Relations by W.Cohen
Anetta Antonenko Publishers
Participants: Serhii Troian, Mykola Doroshko.
Moderated by Natalia Klymchuk.Publishing Stage
Saturday, 01 June
11:00 - 13:00
Live Readings with BaraBooka11:00-11:30 Magical Live Readings with Svitlana Stretovych and Ivan Andrusiak; 11:30-12:00 Adventure Live Readings with Slava Svitova and Halyna Tkachuk; 12:00-12:30 Girls' Live Readings with Olha Kupriyan and Vitalina Makaryk; 12:30-13:00 Funny Live Readings with Sashko Dermanskyi and Valentyna Zakhabura
Workshops area
Saturday, 01 June
11:30 - 13:00
Vivat. Female Wartime Experience and its Representation in Books
Vivat
Participants: Yevhenia Podobna.Literary Stage
Saturday, 01 June
11:30 - 12:30
Discussion: On Resilience in the Literary Canon of Ukraine
Organized by the Aspen Institute Kyiv
Participants: Orysia Demska, Anton Drobovych, Vira Aheieva, Taras Liutyi.
Moderated by Yulia TychkivskaMain Stage
Saturday, 01 June
12:00 - 13:00
Kalamar. Nature: Object or Subject? Conversation about fostering environmental ethics among young Ukrainians
Kalamar
Participants: Olia Popovych, Mykhailo Ulianov, Ostap Butvinnyk, Olha Chevhaniuk.
Moderated by Maria ArtemenkoPublishing Stage
Saturday, 01 June
12:00 - 13:00
Ranok Publishing House. Readberry: Take it and Read it. Presentation of the publishing house for young people
Ranok Publishing, Readberry
Participants: Inna Bilonozhko, Hanna Bulhakova, Anna Yefimenko.
Moderated by Olena Lysenko.Outdoor Stage
Saturday, 01 June
12:00 - 13:00
Teenagers Write: a joint presentation of texts from the bezprobiliv cultural and educational initiative, the Friday Night Writing Club, and the Antytvir project
Participants: Natalia Andreiko, Kateryna Andriychuk, participants of the Antytvir project
Moderated by Halyna Tkachuk.Lecture Hall
Saturday, 01 June
12:30 - 13:30
Poetry: A Conversation between Languages. France — Ukraine
Participants: Yaryna Chornohuz, Artur Dron, Ella Yevtushenko, Martin Rueff (France), Anne and Laurent Chan Massard (France).
Moderated by Tetiana Ogarkova.Main Stage
Saturday, 01 June
13:00 - 14:00
Radio Culture. Crimea as a Heritage: from Ancient Times to Lesya Ukrainka
Participants: Alim Aliev, Oleksandra Visych, Olha Dukhnych.
Moderated by Olena Huseinova and Vadym Karpiak.Literary Stage
Saturday, 01 June
13:00 - 14:00
Talk: Best Book Design-2023. Reflection
Co-organized by Goethe Institute Ukraine
Participants: Volodymyr Havrysh, Florian Lamm, Anna Ivanenko.
Moderated by Oksana Karpiuk.Publishing Stage
Saturday, 01 June
13:00 - 14:00
Bohdan Publishing House. Roundtable discussion: Children’s Editorial Office of the Bohdan Publishing House — Authors, Books, Contests, Achievements, and Plans
Bohdan
Participants: Mariana Stefak, Yevgenia Zavaliy, Oksana Davydova, Nastia Muzychenko, Halyna Tkachuk.
Moderated by Ivan Andrusiak.Outdoor Stage
Saturday, 01 June
13:00 - 14:30
Workshops area
Saturday, 01 June
13:00 - 14:00
A Book Picnic and Fun Starts with Pixie the Book Gnome: presentation of Pixie books by My Bookshelf Publishing House.
Organized by Goethe Institute UkraineLiterary garden
Saturday, 01 June
13:30 - 15:00
Civilians. Life on the Edge. Kherson – Kharkiv – Izium – Chernihiv
Participants: Vira Kuryko, Olha Honcharova, Ivanna Skyba-Yakubova, Halyna Ivanova, Olha Kyrylenko.
Moderated by Volodymyr Yermolenko.Main Stage
Saturday, 01 June
13:30 - 15:00
Secret Dreams: joint readings and an interactive game
Participants: Kateryna Mikhalitsyna, Anna Derevianko.Lecture Hall
Saturday, 01 June
14:00 - 15:30
New Biographical Texts about/by the Military: Between Documentary and Fiction
Participants: Valeriy Puzik, Bohdan Kolomiichuk, Artur Dron, Olena Cherninka, Olena Maksymenko.
Moderated by Maria Tytarenko.Literary Stage
Saturday, 01 June
14:00 - 15:00
#knygolove, Discussions on the vision of Ukraine by world leaders with Dmytro Kuleba
#knigolove
Participants: Dmytro Kuleba, Vadym Karpiak.
Moderated by Vadym Karpiak.Publishing Stage
Saturday, 01 June
14:00 - 15:00
Urbino Publishing House. Presentation of a novel by Andriy Kokotiukha Stake Everything in Kharkiv: between documentary and fiction
Urbino Publishing House
Participants: Andriy Kokotiukha.
Moderated by Anatolii Ivchenko.Outdoor Stage
Saturday, 01 June
14:30 - 16:00
Superheroes Among Us: the Military and the Power of Books
Participants: Oksana Ziobro, Serhii Zhukovskyi.Workshops area
Saturday, 01 June
14:30 - 15:30
Discussion: Women and War. Letters to the Free World based on the book by Aurelie Bros (Germany)
Organized by Goethe Institute Ukraine
Participants: Oleksandra Matviichuk, Olha Stefanishyna, Yulia Paievska and others.
Moderated by Maria Shuvalova.Literary garden
Saturday, 01 June
15:00 - 16:30
Discussion: Country, Cities, History – The Frontier Perspective
Participants: Steven Siegel, Volodymyr Masliichuk.
Moderated by Petro Dolhanov.Main Stage
Saturday, 01 June
15:00 - 16:00
Private Initiatives to Collect Statistics on the Book Industry and Readership
Participants: Larysa Guzhvynska, Dmytro Feliksov, Kateryna Kotvitska.
Moderated by Inna Bilonozhko.Publishing Stage
Saturday, 01 June
15:00 - 16:30
Children Brought Back from Deportation: How Can We Support Them? Panel discussion
Participants: Kyrylo Nevdokha, Olha Tymchenko, Kateryna Holzberg, Valeria Halych.
Moderated by Daria Bairak.Lecture Hall
Saturday, 01 June
15:00 - 16:00
punkt publishing, panel discussion: A Woman after the Military Action
punkt publishing
Participants: Tania Kostina, Mariana Mamonova, Ruslana Danylkina, Anton Semenov.
Moderated by Tania Kostina.Outdoor Stage
Saturday, 01 June
15:30 - 16:30
Panel discussion. Bridging the Gap: between horror and laughter
Participants: Haska Shyyan, Serhii Chyrkov, Natasha Chychasova, Valerii Zapeka, Ostap Slyvynskyi.
Moderated by Ivanna Skyba-Yakubova.Literary Stage
Saturday, 01 June
16:00 - 17:00
Old Lion Publishing House. Old Lion Publishing House: how we see our future
The Old Lion Publishing House
Participants: Mariana Savka, Liubomyr Serniak, Olha Besarab.Publishing Stage
Saturday, 01 June
16:00 - 17:30
Tiny Books: collecting stories with our own hands and creating new adventures of Patron Dog
Participants: Yulita Ran.Workshops area
Saturday, 01 June
16:00 - 17:00
SMOLOSKYP. How to publish your first book? Presentation of the winners of the Smoloskyp Publishing House contest
SMOLOSKYP
Participants: Olena Pavlova, Daryna Chupat, Svitlana Bohdan, Olena Peleshenko, Iryna Sazhynska, Mykola Antoshchak.
Moderated by Oleh Kotsarev.Outdoor Stage
Saturday, 01 June
16:00 - 17:00
Workshop: Playfulness of Ukrainian Handwritten Letters.
Hosted by Veronika Chebanyk. ArtiYa Calligraphy School.Hall C2.5
Saturday, 01 June
16:30 - 18:00
Discussion: (Un)safe Gazing – what visions of the future do we need?
Participants: Yevhen Hlibovytskyi, Oleksandr Sushko.
Moderated by Natalia Kurdiukova.Main Stage
Saturday, 01 June
16:30 - 17:30
RODOVID. Alla Horska: the Fighting Goes on
RODOVID
Participants: Olena Hrozovska, Katia Lisova, Olena Zaretska, Oleksiy Ananov.
Moderated by Oleksandr Savruk.Literary Stage
Saturday, 01 June
16:30 - 18:00
Premiere screening of the documentary Resilience and Unity. Writers Explain How Not to Lose the Future. Program partnership between the UAF StratCom and Mystetskyi Arsenal
Participants: Oleksandr Mykhed, Artem Chekh, Volodymyr Yermolenko.Lecture Hall
Saturday, 01 June
17:00 - 18:00
Projector Publishing. Freedom as a lifestyle, a global brand and a superpower of Ukrainians
Projector Publishing
Participants: Mykhailo Fedorov, Oleksandr Trehub.
Moderated by Yurii Marchenko.Publishing Stage
Saturday, 01 June
17:30 - 18:30
Solidarity Books: a conversation about the journey of 25 thousand British publications to Ukrainian readersDue to Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, it is not easy to preserve and update book collections: since February 24, 2022, the Russian occupants have destroyed or damaged more than 700 Ukrainian libraries. By the end of 2024, libraries in all regions of Ukraine will receive 40,000 books from British publishers as part of a joint initiative of PEN Ukraine, Book Aid International, English PEN, PEN International, and Humanitarian Nova Poshta. The event will feature a presentation of the Unbreakable Libraries initiative, and guest library directors will tell more about their work during the war.
In partnership with Book Aid International.
Participants: Svitlana Hodun (Ivankiv Public Library), Lesia Tsyba (Public Library of Bobrovytsia City Council, Chernihiv Oblast), Bohdan Bukhtatyi (Center for Cultural Services in Blyzniuky).
Moderated by Tetiana Teren.Literary Stage
Saturday, 01 June
18:00 - 19:30
Frontier or Center? Ukraine’s Role in the World. In cooperation with Ukraine Crisis Media Center and UkraineWorld.
Participants: Rory Finnin, Bruno Maçães, Botakoz Kassymbekova, David Patrikarakos, Raji Abdul Salam.
Moderated by Volodymyr Yermolenko.Main Stage
Saturday, 01 June
18:00 - 19:00
Book Kharkiv — How the Largest Publishing Center in Ukraine Works
Participants: Mykhailo Khrypak, Ihor Zarudko, Hnat Lahuna, Svitlana Feldman.
Moderated by Hlib Vyshlinskyi.Publishing Stage
Saturday, 01 June
18:00 - 19:00
The role of literary translations in promoting small languages and endangered languages of national communities through CELA project, House of Europe translation grants for Ukrainian publishers program, and the Krymskyi Inzhyr/Qırım İnciri project
Participants: Vira Kruzhylina, Tetiana Manziuk, Alim Aliev, Mariana Klymets.
Moderated by Tania RodionovaLecture Hall
Saturday, 01 June
18:00 - 19:30
Musical and poetic performance NastAnnia/OnSet: a vision of the future
Participants: Yulia Nikolaievska, Serhii Davydov, Maksym Shadko, Kateryna Kurdinovska, Natalka Marynchak.Outdoor Stage
Saturday, 01 June
18:30 - 19:30
Joint Presence: Poetic Dialogue on Radio Culture
Participants: Dmytro Lazutkin, Yuliya Musakovska.
Moderated by Olena Huseinova.Literary Stage
Saturday, 01 June
19:00 - 20:00
Discursus | Brustury. This is Fucking Existentialism: presentation of the book Slow Dances by Vasyl Karpiuk
DISCURSUS | BRUSTURY
Participants: Vasyl Karpiuk.
Moderated by Myroslav Laiuk.Publishing Stage
Saturday, 01 June
19:00 - 20:00
Dovzhenko Centre. Presentation of the self-published book Kotsiubynskyi: Between Cinema and Literature
Dovzhenko Center
Participants: Olena Honcharuk, Stanislav Bytiutskyi, Aliona Penzii, Oleh Olifer, Halia Verheles.Lecture Hall
Saturday, 01 June
19:00 - 20:00
Workshops area
Saturday, 01 June
19:30 - 21:00
Occupation and Family Stories: Great Losses and Long Stories
Co-organized by Goethe Institute Ukraine
Participants: Maryna Hrymych, Lisa Vide.
Moderated by Taras Malyi.Main Stage
Saturday, 01 June
19:30 - 21:00
Words and Bullets: Freezing and Rediscovering of Language
Organized by the Chytomo book media
Participants: Halyna Kruk, Anatolii Dnistrovyi, Yevhenia Podobna.
Moderated by Oleksandr Mymruk.Literary Stage
Saturday, 01 June
20:00 - 21:00
Vovkulaka. How a Ukrainian Comic Book was Translated into Japanese
Vovkulaka
Participants: Hanna Mamonova, Tetiana Denysenko.
Moderated by Alisa Lindeman.Publishing Stage
Saturday, 01 June
20:00 - 21:00
MATELOT. The Marine Library
MATELOT
Participants: Anton Sanchenko, Viktor Hubarev, Oleksandr Morozov, Yevhenia Chemerys.
Moderated by Iryna Pohorelovska.Lecture Hall
Saturday, 01 June
20:00 - 21:30
Concert by Svitlana Nianio and Serhii Khotiachuk
In partnership with the Construction Festival.Outdoor Stage
Saturday, 01 June
20:00 - 21:00
Workshops area
- Sunday, 02 June
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Sunday, 02 June
10:30 - 12:00
Public-talk: Women about Women
In cooperation with Vogue Ukraine.
Participants: Iryna Slavinska, Kateryna Pryimak, Oksana Rubaniak, Vasylisa Stepanenko, Ella Libanova.
Moderated by Daria Slobodianyk.Main Stage
Sunday, 02 June
10:30 - 11:30
Literary Stage
Sunday, 02 June
10:30 - 12:00
More than just a Friend. Queer literature in Ukrainian realities by Ukrainian authors
Participants: Olha Voitenko, Daria Chaika.
Moderated by the Teen Council of Mystetskyi Arsenal.Lecture Hall
Sunday, 02 June
10:30 - 11:30
Oleg Fedorov’s Printing House. Presentation of the book by Hryhorii Falkovych Paints&Tints&Colors. Painted by Children
Oleh Fedorov’s Printing Yard
Participants: Hryhorii Falkovych.
Moderated by Oleg Fedorov.Workshops area
Sunday, 02 June
11:00 - 12:00
Black Sheep. Educational or Entertaining: What Should Contemporary Literature for Children be Like?
The Black Sheep
Participants: Yulia Olefir, Kateryna Lazirko.
Moderated by Yevgenia Zavaliy.Publishing Stage
Sunday, 02 June
11:00 - 13:00
Let’s jazz! Music and poetry by contemporary children’s authors and musicians
Organized by BaraBooka Children's Reading Laboratory of the Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Participants: FUSION JAMS, Mariana Savka, Ivan Andrusiak, Olesia Mamchych, Sashko Dermanskyi, Oleksandr Podoliak.
Moderated by Tania Stus.Outdoor Stage
Sunday, 02 June
11:30 - 12:30
Crimean Tatar History: Challenges of Writing
Participants: Maryna Hrymych, Ilmi Umerov, Anastasia Levkova.
Moderated by Alim Aliev.Literary Stage
Sunday, 02 June
11:30 - 13:00
From Papyrus to Printing Presses: A Journey into the Past of Book Publishing with the Cool Word Podcast
Participants: Kateryna Kudriashova.Workshops area
Sunday, 02 June
12:00 - 13:00
Central Europe against the Empire of Evil
Co-organized by Goethe Institute Ukraine
Participants: Radomyr Mokryk, Yuri Andrukhovych, Botakoz Kassymbekova, Franziska Davies.
Moderated by Vitalii Mykhailovskyi.Main Stage
Sunday, 02 June
12:00 - 13:00
Orientalist publishing house SAFRAN. Asian Art in the Khanenko Museum: Overcoming the Boundaries of Cultural Borders
SAFRAN LTD
Participants: Yulia Vaganova, Yulia Fil, Marta Lohvyn, Oleksandr Halenko, Antonina Makarevych.
Moderated by Olha Novikova.Publishing Stage
Sunday, 02 June
12:00 - 13:00
The Defilade Podcast: Conspiracies, Mystifications, and Ukrainian Literature
Organized by the bezprobiliv cultural and educational initiative.
Participants: Kateryna Kishchynska, Yulia Murashova, Kateryna Andriichuk, Daria Fedorynska.Lecture Hall
Sunday, 02 June
13:00 - 14:00
Radio Culture. Our Literature, Our History: Appropriating What’s Our Own
Participants: Olena Haleta, Oleksandr Mykhed, Rostyslav Semkiv.
Moderated by Olena Huseinova.Literary Stage
Sunday, 02 June
13:00 - 14:00
Kant and the Limits of the Mind
Participants: Anatolii Loi, Anatolii Yermolenko, Taras Liutyi.
Moderated by Vakhtang Kebuladze.Main Stage
Sunday, 02 June
13:00 - 14:00
Conversation with literary agents and rights managers about challenges, achievements and tasks in the international promotion of Ukrainian books
Participants: Ivan Fedechko, Nataliia Miroshnyk.Publishing Stage
Sunday, 02 June
13:00 - 14:00
Discussion and workshop: Why Can’t Parents Always Be There?
Participants: Dara Korniy, Yulia Тukalenko.
Moderated by Valentyna Khamaiko.Lecture Hall
Sunday, 02 June
13:00 - 14:00
Yakaboo. Presentation of a book series of contemporary Ukrainian literature Among Our People.
Yakaboo Publishing
Participants: Anatolii Dnistrovyi, Tania Stus, Oleksii Tymoshenko, Natalia Kalchenko.
Moderated by Yelyzaveta Tsarehradska.Outdoor Stage
Sunday, 02 June
13:00 - 14:30
Stories of Defenders: Joint Readings.
Participants: Oksana Davydova, Iryna Nikolaychuk, Oleksandr Koreshkov.
Moderated by Olha Kupriyan.Workshops area
Sunday, 02 June
14:00 - 15:00
What We Lost: screening of the film by the participants of Marysia Nikitiuk’s screenwriting workshop and the Voices of Children Foundation
Participants: Marysia Nikitiuk, workshop participants.
Moderated by Olya Mykytchyn.Lecture Hall
Sunday, 02 June
14:00 - 15:00
More Than Just Comics – How They Became a Trend
Participants: Bohdan Kordoba, Ruslana Koropetska.Publishing Stage
Sunday, 02 June
14:00 - 15:00
Photo Books: Is There Room for Them on the Ukrainian Book Market?
Participants: Yevhen Safonov, Kateryna Yakovlenko, Valeria Shevchenko, Anastasia Leonova.
Moderated by Iryna Hromotska.Literary Stage
Sunday, 02 June
14:00 - 15:00
Family Leisure Club. Peculiarities of Publishing Series and Cycles. The Experience of the Family Leisure Club Publishing House.
KSD Publishing House (Family Leisure Club)
Participants: Hnat Lahuna, Tetiana Riabchenko.Outdoor Stage
Sunday, 02 June
14:30 - 16:00
On a Blank Sheet: a Poetic Burime Game from the Repainted Fox Podcast
Participants: Valentyna Merzhyievska, Maria Didenko.Workshops area
Sunday, 02 June
15:00 - 16:00
Upbringing and Developing Preschoolers: How Parents Can Maintain Balance
Organized by UNICEF.
Participants: Yevhenia Smirnova, Svitlana Roiz, Svitlana Tarabarova, Anastasia Zolotukhina-Shkurko.
Moderated by Tania Stus.Lecture Hall
Sunday, 02 June
15:00 - 16:00
Folio Publishing House. Meeting with Valeria Subotina and Presentation of Her Book Captivity
Folio Publishers
Participants: Valeria Subotina.Outdoor Stage
Sunday, 02 June
15:00 - 16:00
Tempora. Metamodernism: an Open Project
TEMPORA
Participants: Nika Chulaievska, Yaroslava Strikha, Roksolana Sviato, Maksym Nesteleiev.
Moderated by Bohdana Romantsova.Literary Stage
Sunday, 02 June
15:30 - 16:30
Here and There. Now and Then. Thinking about the Temporarily Occupied Persons. Conversation Between Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta and Olena Stiazhkina
Participants: Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta, Olena Stiazhkina.Main Stage
Sunday, 02 June
16:00 - 17:30
Panel discussion. Bridging the Gap: How Adults Can Read Books for Children
Participants: Olha Rusina, Olena Rybka, Mariana Savka, Kateryna Mikhalitsyna.
Moderated by Taras Malyi.Literary Stage
Sunday, 02 June
16:00 - 17:00
A Look From Inside and Outside — Promoting the Visual Culture of Central and Eastern Europe
Participants: Olena Staranchuk, Rene Wawrzkiewicz.Lecture Hall
Sunday, 02 June
16:00 - 17:00
Nash Format. Psychological Experience of a Full-Scale Invasion. Meeting with Illia Poludionnyi, a Psychologist, Certified Gestalt Therapist, Co-founder of the Online Psychotherapy Service Treatfield, on the Occasion of the Publication of His Book What Is War Like?
Nash Format
Participants: Illia Poludionnyi.Outdoor Stage
Sunday, 02 June
16:00 - 17:00
Vikhola Publishing House. Living on the Edge. Presentation of the Book Fangirl. A Bipolar Story
Vikhola Publishers
Participants: Khrystyna Morozova.
Moderated by Volodymyr Stanchyshyn.Publishing Stage
Sunday, 02 June
16:00 - 17:30
How Not to Get Lost in One’s Own Preference Map. Interactive Readings With Halyna Tkachuk.
Participants: Halyna TkachukLiterary garden
Sunday, 02 June
16:00 - 17:30
Translation Workshop With Anna Vovchenko: a Space of Collaborative Creativity for Aspiring Literary Translators
Organized by the bezprobiliv cultural and educational initiative.
Participants: Anna VovchenkoWorkshops area
Sunday, 02 June
16:00 - 17:30
Hall C2.5
Sunday, 02 June
16:00 - 17:30
Reporting from the Future: a Conversation between Ukrainian and Bosnian AuthorsIn April 2024, as part of the Reporting from the Future project, Ukrainian authors, journalists, and artists visited Bosnia and Herzegovina at the invitation of the WARM Foundation. The participants explored the similarities and differences, parallels and patterns of the wars in the former Yugoslavia compared to the current war in Ukraine. Based on this experience, how can we comprehend the painful consequences of a prolonged war for society and the country as a whole?
Participants: Kateryna Kalytko, Daria Kuzmych, Damir Sagolj (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Faruk Sehic (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Moderated by Dzvinka Pinchuk.Main Stage
Sunday, 02 June
17:00 - 18:00
Laboratory Publishers. Presentation of New Books and Publishing Plans
Laboratoria
Participants: Anton Martynov, Dzvinka Zavaliy, Yulia Priadko.
Moderated by Iryna Yurchenko.Publishing Stage
Sunday, 02 June
17:00 - 18:00
Quo Vadis: The Visual Component of a Ukrainian Children’s Book. Together with the Illustrator community.
Participants: Anna Sarvira, Anna Bulhakova, Oleksandr Shatokhin, Olha Popovych, Olha Protasova.
Moderated by Oksana Karpiuk.Lecture Hall
Sunday, 02 June
17:30 - 19:00
Discussion: The End of Empires. In cooperation with Ukraine Crisis Media Center and UkraineWorld.
Participants: Thierry Piel, Nicolas Tenzer, Hugues Mingarelli, Volodymyr Yermolenko. Language: French with Ukrainian translation.
Moderated by Tetiana Ogarkova.Main Stage
Sunday, 02 June
17:30 - 18:30
How to Write about War: Writing and the Image of a Veteran
Participants: Olha Pohynaiko, Vitalii Zapeka, Vlad Yakushev, Valeriy Puzik, Viktoria Kosenko.
Moderated by Maria Tytarenko.Literary Stage
Sunday, 02 June
17:30 - 19:00
Workshop: Collage and Comic Book by the Visual Seri/Graph Studio. For an Adult Audience
Participants: seri/graph studio.Workshops area
Sunday, 02 June
18:00 - 19:00
Mystetskyi Arsenal. The Architecture of the Book: a presentation of the Mystetskyi Arsenal’s series of art publications and a discussion about book publishing in the context of museum, archive, research and exhibition practices
Participants: Olga Melnyk, Lera Guievska, Kostiantyn Martsenkivskyi, Natasha Chychasova.
Moderated by Olga Zhuk.Lecture Hall
Sunday, 02 June
18:00 - 19:00
ARTBOOKS. Cooperation with Giant Companies: the Case of ARTBOOKS and Warner Bros.
ARTBOOKS
Participants: Yaroslava Yudina, Denys Borysiuk.
Moderated by Maria Kurochkina.Lecture Hall
Sunday, 02 June
18:30 - 20:00
Concert by Maryana Klochko
In partnership with the Construction Festival.Outdoor Stage
Sunday, 02 June
19:00 - 20:00
Not Only at Second-Hand Bookstores: (Re)Publishing Foreign Classics
Participants: Anton Martynov, Oleksii Zhupanskyi, Mariana Savka, Roman Malynovskyi.
Moderated by Taras Liutyi.Main Stage
Sunday, 02 June
19:00 - 20:00
Bookchef Publishing House. Photography, Journalism, and Books: Why They Are Important During the War
BookChef Publishing House
Participants: Kostiantyn Liberov, Tetiana Honcharova, Yevhenii Shyrynos.Lecture Hall
Sunday, 02 June
19:00 - 20:00
Workshops area
Sunday, 02 June
20:00 - 21:30
Opus Doloris. Polyphony. Musical and poetic dedication to Victoria Amelina, Hlib Babich, Volodymyr Vakulenko, Oleh Kliuphas, Maksym Kryvtsov, Ihor Mysiak, and Illia ChernilevskyiOpus Doloris. Polyphony. This poetry holds the unshakable note of memory with a tuning fork. This music emerges from the debris of pain. This love testifies. It endures.
Featuring Olena Huseinova, Yaryna Chornohuz, Dmytro Lazutkin, Kateryna Kalytko, Halyna Kruk, Liubov Yakymchuk, Kateryna Mykhalitsyna, Iryna Tsilyk. Music by Olesia Zdorovetska.Outdoor Stage