On October 14-15, Ivano-Frankivsk will host the Sixth Artistic and Intellectual Forum Via Carpatia – under the slogan “The future of tradition: Ukrainian in the global world”. One of the key events of this year’s meeting place of intellectuals and experts in various fields will be Literary and artistic meeting “Word in War”, for which about two dozen military writers and volunteers will come to Ivano-Frankivsk. Some of them will arrive in Prykarpattia directly from the front.
Among the participants of the “Word in War” meeting at Via Carpatia 2023 – military writers and volunteers – Oleksandr Lysak, Olena Lototska, Kateryna Flekman, Serhii Dzyuba, Artemiy Kirsanov, Valeriya Borshchevska, Volodymyr Skorostetskyi, Andrii Lototskyi, Viktor Yankevich, Olena “Lastivka” Mokrenchuk, Rustam Dmytruk, Andrii Humenyuk, Olga Donechchanka, Oleg Borodai, Oksana Vesna, Ilya Titko and others. The program includes creative meetings, author’s readings, book presentations, master classes, performances by bards. All “Words in War” events will take place on the square in front of the Ivano-Frankivsk National Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko. In addition, a separate children’s program is planned – it will be concentrated in the lobby of the Drama Theater.
You can find the detailed program of the Literary and Artistic Meeting “Word in War”. here
“Humanity needs heroes, humanity must hold on to someone, – says the curator of “Words in War” TEtyana Pylypets, director of the Lviv Library named after Roman Ivanychuk, co-founder of the Forum of Military Writers and the literary and artistic festival “Kalmiyus”. – Samid all the horror of the war, Ukrainians found a chance to hold on to their Heroes. We no longer need imported or fictional characters. It is military authors who lead to the understanding of the concept of heroization. They are heroes, and with their works they decode this concept for us. Behind them appears the simple and majestic essence of the Ukrainian Warrior. For those who are engaged in the topic of war, but are deprived of the possibility of closer communication, events such as the “Word in War” meeting are not only about “frontline” literature, but also about the feeling of an inseparable connection between author and reader, civilian and military, between Ukrainians… After all, this is the point where the concept of “us and them” must be blurred.”
“Military literature of today’s Ukraine is Kevlar, a reflected pixel present, a mirror of our time, – tells Oleksandr Lysak, author-warrior, officer of the 54th OMBr named after Hetman Mazepa. – Ukraine is currently fighting for the elementary, God-given right to free will, freedom, and independence. In literature, our will to win, our pain from losses, and, of course, unquenchable faith in victory are preserved in words. All these reflections are now of great value. Because it is what it is now. This is the creation of a military context in modern Ukrainian literature, devoid of sarovarism, saloidism, and stereotypes and archetypes about us that are convenient for an aggressive, deranged neighbor. Ukraine has always been combative, could mobilize and repel any enemy. What do warrior authors write about? About his own combat experience – it comes out in different forms: in poetry, novels, diaries, memories. As for me, now they write to me occasionally, and this is, rather, a rehabilitative need to talk. That’s what hurts, what guys who can’t say won’t say. And I can, so I will speak for them. I say what I see, what I feel. This is my personal philosophy of war.”
As a reminder, six panel discussions will be held as part of Via Carpatia 2023: “At the crossroads. The fate of tradition in a globalized world”, “Getting out of the shadows. Positioning of Ukraine in the world”, “Emigration and solidarity. Between the conservation of the ancient and the promotion of the modern”, “Formation of the Armed Forces and volunteering. The role of tradition in modernization”, “Finding yourself. War as a trigger of national self-discovery” and “Church between tradition and future”. Among the speakers are Vitaliy Portnykov, Yosyf Zisels, Mykola Kniazhytskyi, Myroslava Barchuk, Anzhelika Rudnytska, Rostyslav Derzhypilskyi, Olga Salo, Elmira Ablyalimova, Tetyana Pylypets, Volodymyr Vyatrovych, Bohdan Tikholoz, Vitaly Gaidukevych, Marina Syngaivska, Leonid Finberg, Antin Borkovskyi and others. All discussions can be watched live on the Espreso TV channel.
Traditionally, during the Via Carpatia, the prize will be awarded in the name of an outstanding friend of Ukraine, the Polish philosopher and chronicler of Hutsul region Stanisław Vincenz “For Humanistic Service and a Contribution to Regional Development”.
The Via Carpatia 2023 forum takes place with the financial support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. The literary and artistic meeting “Word in War” was supported by the Ukrainian Book Institute. At the same time, the content of the Forum’s events is not the official position of the UKF and UIC.
Organizers:
NGO “Verkhovyna – Flower of the Carpathians”;
All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum.
Forum initiator:
Mykola Kniazhytskyi
Information partners:
General TV partner – “Espreso” channel;
The general radio partner is “FM Halychyna”.
Partners:
Ivano-Frankivsk National Academic Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko;
Lviv Ivan Franko National Literary and Memorial Museum (Franko House);
NGO “Crimean Institute of Strategic Studies”;
Prykarpattia National University named after Vasyl Stefanyk;
Lviv Regional Library for Youth named after Roman Ivanychuk;
Publishing House “Spirit and Letter”;
Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Universal Scientific Library named after I. Franko.
With the help of:
Cities of Ivano-Frankivsk;
Verkhovyna settlement council;
Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration;
Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council.
Additional information:
+38 067 960 31 01
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Halyna Guzio, communications manager of Via Carpatia Forum
