Voices for Ukraine

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has once again brought war to the heart of Europe and raises serious questions about the future of democracy and world order. Culture has a fundamental role to play when it comes to opening spaces for dialogue, combating authoritarianism and guaranteeing freedom of expression. In this event we bring together thinkers, writers, journalists, musicians and poets to analyze the conflict, vindicate the universal language of culture and show rejection of war and support for its victims.

 

18.30 - Debate

Manel Alías, journalist.

Pilar Bonet, journalist and former correspondent in Russia.

Carmen Claudín, expert on Russia and Ukraine and senior researcher at CIDOB.

Ricardo San Vicente, translator, essayist and professor emeritus of Russian literature at the University of Barcelona.

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Carolin Emcke (Berlin), philosopher and journalist.

Vladimir Dolin (Kyiv), historian.

Ostap Slyvynsky (Kyiv), poet, translator, essayist and Vicepresident of Pen Ukraine.

Moderator:

Judit Carrera, Director of the CCCB

 

20.00 - Reading and music

In this part of the event, presented by the journalist Marta Nadal i Brunés, there will be readings of texts by the poet and writer Lina Kostenko (Kyiv region, 1930), symbol of Soviet dissidence and Ukrainian cultural resistance, and Oksana Zabukhko (Volhynia, 1960), poet and writer who deals with identity, feminism and post-colonialism from an Ukrainian point of view. Poems by Wislawa Szymborska (Prowent, 1923 - Krakow, 2012), Polish poet, essayist and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, and Adam Zagajewski (Lwów, 1945 - Krakow, 2021), Polish poet, novelist and essayist, member of the Generation of 1968 and winner of the Princess of Asturias Award in 2007, will also be recited. On the musical side, there will be a performance of traditional Ukrainian songs.

With the participation of Yulya Antifeeva,Tatiana Badulina, Ekaterina Bronnikova, Luna Calero, Miquel Cabal Guarro, Duo "Són de Kíiv" - Juri Mykhaylychenko and Olena Gvozdeva, Xènia Dyakonova, Sviatlana Galko, Polina Ganshina, Polina Govorukhina, Marina Iantsevitch, Larisa Nikitina, Svetlana Nikonova, Nina Potapova, Katsiaryna Pshonko, Andrey Rumyantsev, Irina Rumyantseva, Nastasiia Shapoval, Esther Sunyer, Yulia Tarán, Paola Tarantino, Dmitriy Timofeichik, Volha Tratseuskaya, Alena Turava, Sofía UhlykVovk, Veronika Velikojatko, Svetlana Vilchuk, Margarita Yarmats and Natallia Yaskevich.

 

This is an event organized by the CCCB in collaboration with PEN Català, Yuri Mykhaylychenko and Olena Gvozdeva, the Ukrainian Association DJERELO, the Association RAZAM Bielorrussos de Catalunya, the Association in solidarity with Russian democracy RUSSIA TOMORROW and the Colectivo Mujeres Red. This call is made jpintly with the MACBA, the Museu Picasso and the Fundació Miró.