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Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · 1d

📜Why does the West consistently overlook Russian imperialism while scrutinising its own colonial past?
🔗 Read the full piece on the website: www.londonukrainianreview.org/posts/the-ot...

Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · 1d

💭 “The immediate victim of all this is Ukraine. But the shadow of Russia’s past and current imperialism still imprisons imaginations in countries that have never felt its physical touch,” Edward Lucas for LUR#5 ⬇️

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Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · 1d

☕ Kaviarnia: Ukrainian Language Café

Join us Sat 11 Oct, 11:00–12:30 at 2 Kingdom Street, W2 6BD for friendly chats over kava! 🇺🇦
This week’s theme: Ukrainian literature & poetry.

Free to attend tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1882887

📣 Ukrainian native speakers always welcome!

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Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · 1d

💭 “I think the deification of culture is the problem. You should be able to read poetry and disassociate a kind of worship with admiring the brilliance of the poetry”, says Peter Pomerantsev.

🔗 Read the interview: tinyurl.com/mt3wfe9w

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Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · 1d

🪤 How does propaganda exploit culture and emotions — and how can we resist?
Peter Pomerantsev and Olesya Khromeychuk discuss how Russia uses cultural discourse to push its agenda in the new LUR issue “Culture as Security” ⬇️

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Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · 2d

Ahead of Boris Mikhailov: Ukrainian Diary at The Photographers’ Gallery, join curators Max Gorbatskyi, Michael Kurtz and Kateryna Filyuk for a talk exploring Ukrainian photography.
🗓 Wed 5 Nov 2025
🎟 thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/talk-tracing-ukrainian-photography-through-history

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Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · 3d

🎨 Today!
Shevchenko’s art is as powerful as his poetry.

Join the Kultura course online lecture:
🖋️ Taras Shevchenko and printmaking in the mid-nineteenth century

🔗 tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1840236

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Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · 7d

📖 Meet the Haymaker: Olesya Khromeychuk on culture as resistance & why literature matters in wartime.
👉 Read: lnkd.in/e_WMJyUc

🎤 See her tomorrow at Fighting Forgottenness with Tanja Maljartschuk, Elif Shafak & Hisham Matar.

🗓 2 Oct | 19:00 | The Conduit Club, London
🎟 lnkd.in/eEM6cKJU

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Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · 10d

Plan your week with UIL.
Find out more & book your place at uil.org.uk

Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · 13d

Our exhibition at Curzon Soho shines a light on Kherson — a region under constant attack.

📍 Paired with Roman Bondarchuk’s The Editorial Office, it features powerful images from the Ukraine War Archive documenting civilian resistance.

Still on at Curzon Soho.

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Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · 14d

KULTURA 🗓 29 Sept, 18:30–20:00 UK
🎓 Dr Maria Grazia Bartolini

Learn how 17ᵗʰ-century Ukrainian preachers used emblems, engravings & verbal imagery to elevate spiritual meditation via ut pictura poesis and ut pictura creatio divina.

tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1840235

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Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · 14d

Be part of this vital conversation - register now: tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1844834

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Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · 15d

🌍 Award-winning British-Turkish novelist Elif Shafak takes part in Fighting forgottenness – stories of hope and resilience at Lviv Book Forum 2025 with historian and writer Olesya Khromeychuk.
🗓 Thursday 2 October 2025, 19:00 - 20:30 (UK) | Online
🎟 hayfestival.com/m-230-lviv-bookforum-2025.aspx

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Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · 15d

Join us for 'Feminism in independent Ukraine: steps towards ourselves' — a lecture with renowned scholar Oksana Kis, exploring the journey of feminism in Ukraine from the 1990s to today. The discussion will be held in Ukrainian.

👉 uil.org.uk/events/feminism-in-independent-ukraine/

Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · 15d

Запрошуємо на лекцію «Фемінізм у незалежній Україні: кроки назустріч собі» з науковицею Оксаною Кісь, яка розповість про шлях фемінізму в Україні.

🗓 Понеділок, 29 вересня 2025 | 18:30–20:00
📍 79 Holland Park, Лондон

👉 uil.org.uk/events/feminism-in-independent-ukraine/

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Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · 16d

What is Kultura?
An 8-week online course exploring Ukrainian visual culture.
What language? English.
Do I need to attend live? No, recordings available.
Can I buy one or a few lectures? Yes.

✨ We start today.
👉 Sign up: kultura-exploring-ukraines-visual-culture/

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Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · 18d

Kultura starts tomorrow 🎨
8 weeks exploring Ukraine’s visual culture — from medieval Kyiv to contemporary art & feminism.
Join full course or individual lectures online.

📅 22 Sept – 10 Nov
👉 Sign up: tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1840178

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Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · 20d

tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1844834

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Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · 20d

Journalist, activist, soldier, former Kremlin prisoner — Maksym Butkevych has lived through many roles.

30.09 at Swedenborg Hall, he’ll be in conversation with writer Stanislav Aseyev and historian Oksana Kis about political prisoners.
tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1844834

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Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · 21d

✨ Journey into the medieval glory of Kyiv with Dr Olenka Z. Pevny (University of Cambridge).

Join our online course in Ukrainian visual culture: sign up for the full programme or individual lectures.

📅 Mon 22 Sep, 6:30 PM BST
📍 Online
🔗 tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1840178

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Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · 27d

🎓 Dive into 1,000 years of Ukrainian art & identity with world-class lecturers from Cambridge, Chicago, Milan & more.

📅 8 weeks online | 22 Sept – 10 Nov 2025
👉 Enrol now: tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1840178

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Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · 28d

✨ What’s On | Ukrainian Institute London ✨

🎬 18–21 Sept – Ukrainian Film Festival
📚 29 Sept – Feminism in Independent Ukraine
🕊 30 Sept – Political Prisoners of the Kremlin
🎤 2 Oct – Fighting Forgottenness
📖 20 Oct – Serhii Plokhy
💡 Sept–Nov – Kultura 2025: 8 online seminars
👉 uil.org.uk/events

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Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · Sep 9

📣 Фемінізм у незалежній Україні
Лекція Оксани Кісь про шлях від демонізації у 1990-х до сучасного визнання.

🗓 29.09.2025, 18:30
📍 79 Holland Park, London

👉 tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1850828

[event in Ukrainian]
📣 Feminism in Independent Ukraine
Lecture by Oksana Kis.

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Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · Sep 7

⚡️ Last day for our early bird discount on Kultura!

Explore Ukraine’s visual culture from Kyivan Rus’ frescoes and Shevchenko’s etchings to modernist innovations and today’s dynamic art scene.

📅 Sign up now and don’t miss out! ✨tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1840178

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Ukrainian Institute London @ukrinstitute.bsky.social · Sep 6

🇺🇦 Ukrainian Language School starts 8 Sept – last chance to enrol!
📍 Online or in London

Learn to speak, read, listen & write in Ukrainian with expert teachers — and explore the culture behind the language.

✨ Small groups · 30+ years’ teaching experience

👉 Sign up now: uil.org.uk/language-sch...

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