The Ukrainian Words Project
April 30 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
The Ukrainian Words Project features new play readings and optional Story Circles with members of the Ukrainian diaspora here in Minnesota.
In an effort to uplift Ukrainian voices, each event presents an hour-long staged reading of excerpts from newly commissioned plays by Ukrainian playwrights written since the war began in February 2022. We present excerpts from the following works:
- A Dictionary of Emotions in War Time by Olena Astasyeva
- Call Them by Their Names by Tetyana Kitsenko
- Harry Potter by Yurii Hudymenko
- I Want to Go Home by Oksana Savchenko
- Just Tell No One by Oksana Savchenko
- Peace and Tranquility by Andriy Bondarenko
- Planting an Apple Tree by Iryna Harets
- Three Attempts to Improve Daily Life by Maksym Kurochkin
- Three Rendezvous by Natalka Vorozhbyt
The readings are followed by optional community Story Circles, a structured practice developed by UNESCO for developing intercultural competencies. Leaders of the Story Circles will facilitate and welcome a collective processing of the work and sharing of stories from our Ukrainian and post-Soviet community members. Story Circles give Ukrainians, others from the post-Soviet diaspora, and general audiences in Minnesota a chance to process what’s happening in Ukraine and the war’s effect on them. In collaboration with the storytellers, the narratives told will be turned into a new piece of verbatim theatre by Theatre Novi Most in 2025-2026.
This production is part of the Worldwide Readings Project.
The event is free and open to the public, but reservations must be made at the event URL.