Journalism will come alive on stage for the first time in Ukraine, at the Book Arsenal Festival! Featuring reported stories told live on stage by local and international reporters, photographers, and artists, Live Magazine is a chance to experience personal, poignant, and intimate stories from the frontlines and beyond with, sometimes, a happy ending. No taping, rewinding or instant replay, it’s all in the here and now: a living, ephemeral newspaper.

The language of love in wartime can be blurred by the translation of daily visitations. The words of gratitude and appreciation can be lost in separation and fatigue.
What serves as a catalyst for love in wartime? Where does dearness and affection, even in trenches under artillery fire, emerge from?
This is a literary and music performance about the light of support that prevents us from turning savage.
And about love that ‘requires us on a daily basis’.

The re-premiere of the film Vasylina by Favst Lopatinsky,
screenplay by Mykhailo Yalovyi, based on the story by Ivan Nechuy-Levytskyi
“Burlachka”. An event of the Literary Film Canon cycle, where the Dovzhenko Center explores cinematographic adaptations of literary classics.

Can contemporary literature, in its various manifestations, become the material remains of human activity that future archaeologists will use to study us? As a frequent participant in archaeological expeditions, Maks Lyzhov creates poetic texts that will one day be used to decode today’s Ukrainian reality. To do this, he has chosen haiku, a poetic genre that is atypical for Ukrainian literature. The project brings together literature, music and video art. By interacting with each other, all three components expand the concept of translation, and the archaeological theme in the visual images prompts us to reflect on memory.