Zaborona is an independent media about social trends and culture in post-socialist countries in Eastern Europe. We provide readers with in-depth reporting and wider context of the current affairs. We don’t chase news and click-baiting headlines. We cover challenges faced by societies and challenges faced by individuals in terms of their freedoms and security. We cover human rights activists who take actions to defend human rights and help individuals to understand their role in the current system of coordinates.

Horizontal formation for poetry & music collaborations in the form of cross-media perfomances

The Congress of Cultural Activists develops a network of cultural activism and contributes to the achievement of goals by implementing interdisciplinary projects in cooperation with regional initiative groups. We create conditions for intensifying positive changes in the cultural field.

Memorial Museum of Totalitarian Regimes “Territory of Terror” is a municipal institution with objectives to explore, comprehend, and present the tragic chapters of the mid-20th-century history in the context of modern challenges.The Museum is located in Lviv, on the site of the former ghetto (1941–1943) and the transit prison No. 25 (1944–1955). The location determines the focus topics of the institution. It is the transformations of urban space due to Nazi and Soviet violence, human experiences in extreme conditions. We are developing a platform for dialogue and discussions around the traumatic past and present events for building a tolerant and inclusive society.

Anna Radomska. Journalist, producer, author of children’s books.

Association of people connected by a common vision of contemporary art

Svitlana Gryb is a Ukrainian artist, illustrator, co-founder of the upcycling laboratory Lisova 3 studio, where she works in collaboration with the artist Serhiy Spizhovyi. They creates objects of contemporary art and design by the upcycling and collage method. Upcycling is an ecological norm of the future, it allows you to recreate, rewrite the essence of the object without destroying it. Artists are working with objects from the Soviet past, decommunizing them and transforming into nature and human- oriented experiences.

Cultural Strategy Institute (CSI) is a municipal institution in Lviv that coordinates the process of implementation and monitoring of the Lviv Culture Development Strategy until 2025. The CSI’s mission is to enhancing institutional capacity and fostering the development of Lviv cultural communities’ potential.
Main directions of activity:
• research and analytics in the Lviv field of culture
• launching of the Lviv Cultural Foundation
• Congress of Culture – a professional platform for the cultural sphere in Ukraine
• strategizing cultural institutions
• education for cultural professionals
• international cooperation / cultural diplomacy
• communication between cultural actors

Lingart – audiobooks without limits – is an audio-visual inetactive e-book platform. This is the new format, that combine all the benefits of audio and electronic books in one. You can listen our book or read it (text and audio are synchronized), make markdowns, watch illustrations and integrated videos, pass inbuild knoweledge tests, choose the language versions. We are cooperating with more than 10 Ukrainian publishers, and working hard on raising the amount of content.

Thin Lines ші a poetic publishing project by Stanislav Belsky and Gerda Publishing House. During 2019-20, books by Anton Polunin, Olga Bragina, Yevhen Piven, Maksym Borodin and Serhiy Sinoptyk were published as part of the Thin Lines series.