“Slovo” House: film screening and talk with Uilleam Blacker
Date and time:
Sunday 29 April, 2018
16:00 - 18:00
Location:
Bertha Dochouse Screen, Curzon Bloomsbury
Brunswick Centre
London
WC1N 1AW
Taras Tomenko’s gripping 2017 documentary ‘Slovo’ House was released in Ukraine to acclaim and now it’s sending shock waves abroad: already it’s been selected for viewing at the Warsaw International Film Festival.
The film shows the heyday of Ukrainian art revival of the 1920s passing vividly before your eyes: soon this period of Ukrainian literature would be remembered as the “Executed Renaissance.” With Slovo House writers arrested and shot, the once vibrant and creative community and the dwelling turn into a wasteland.
Ukrainian Institute London is delighted to present this exclusive screening in London, preceded by a talk with Dr Uilleam Blacker, lecturer at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.
Held in partnership with Bertha Dochouse
This event will be held in Ukrainian and English.
£12.50 standard / £10 concessions
Speaker
Uilleam Blacker
Uilleam Blacker is Lecturer in Comparative East European Culture at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. His research focuses on Ukrainian, Polish and Russian culture and cultural memory. He is co-author of Remembering Katyn (2012) and co-editor of Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe (2013). His translations of contemporary Ukrainian authors have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, Words Without Borders and Dalkey Archive's Best European Fiction series.
