OLGA: fundraising screening & panel discussion
Date and time:
Wednesday 8 June, 2022
19:30 - 21:30
Location:
The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street
London
WC2B 5PQ
We are delighted to be partnering with The People's Film Club and Cambridge Ukrainian Studies to hold a fundraiser screening of OLGA at next Wednesday 8th of June.
OLGA, starring the talented Ukrainian athlete Anastasia Budiashkina, is set amid the 2014 Maidan Revolution - which saw Ukrainians take to the streets to drive out the authoritarian, Russia-backed president Yanukovych. In this fictional retelling, Olga is forced to weigh up her personal ambitions against her role in the future of her country.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Yelyzaveta Taranukha (our Ukrainian teacher and coordinator of our English school for displaced Ukrainians), Daria Korsak (Ukrainian video editor who has recently arrived in London), and Andrii Smytsniuk (University of Cambridge).
All funds raised will support Кожен Може - a local charity providing support on the ground in Ukraine.
Speaker
Yelyzaveta Taranukha
Yelyzaveta Taranukha is a graduate of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA). She is a PhD candidate in Ukrainian-Canadian Comparative Studies and holds MA in Theory, History, and Comparative Literature.
Speaker
Daria Korsak
Daria Korsak is a Ukrainian video and film editor now based in London.
Speaker
Andrii Smytsniuk
Andrii Smytsniuk holds a degree in pedagogical methodology in teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language from Lviv National University of Ivan Franko and is an experienced language teacher. He has taught Ukrainian at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv and, as a Fulbright Scholar, at the University of Pennsylvania in the USA.
