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VATAHA Recommends: Revelation
Hope, light, strength, love: Ukrainian dance couple Vladyslav Detieuchenko and Veronika Rakitina bring an artistic vision of resilience and light in darkness to The Netherlands with their first regional tour Revelations. A programme of three contemporary dance pieces that carry a strong message of survival and a struggle for freedom…
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Studio of Ukrainian Crafts: AUTUMN
Autumn was the season of weddings in Ukrainian tradition, a time when the completed harvest gave way to celebration. Explore the rituals and handmade objects that accompanied marriage, from ceremonial breads and bridal wreaths to ornaments and Crimean Tatar embroidery, in this autumn edition of VATAHA’s Studio of Ukrainian Crafts.
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Vlad & Veronika Bring Revelation Across the Netherlands
Following their 2025 Holland’s Got Talent victory, Ukrainian contemporary dancers Vladyslav Detiuchenko and Veronika Rakitina have embarked on a tour across the Netherlands with Revelation. The pair discuss their artistic partnership, their foundation and dance company Stitching n’Era, and the experiences of war and displacement that inspire Revelation.
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VATAHA’s 4 year anniversary
October 2026 marks VATAHA’s four year anniversary! Let’s hear from all our volunteers about when and why they first joined our organization, what they’ve achieved in their tenure as a volunteer and which other volunnteers inspire them most.
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Lisa Weeda: Mooi Boek Over Oekraïne
Award-winning Dutch-Ukrainian author Lisa Weeda has published her first children’s book titled Mooi Boek Over Oekraïne, which “pulls the readers into the story and feeds them [Ukrainian] history and culture while they are on an adventure.” VATAHA’s co-founder Oksana Savchuk even features as a character in the book!
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Run for Ukraine Across the Netherlands
In 2026, Run for Ukraine expanded across the Netherlands with regional editions in Maastricht, Groningen, and Zwolle. Local organizers reflect on what the events meant in their cities, from deeply personal acts of remembrance to the ways the Run brought Ukrainian and Dutch communities into closer connection.
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Hanna Hrabarska: open to a lot
Over a year after receiving a Letterenfonds grant, Ukrainian photographer Hanna Hrabarska discusses her latest photobook, open to a lot. She explains her turn toward intimacy, memory, and inner life, while reflecting on how Ukraine remains inseparable from her identity.
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Graduation Show 2026: WdKA in Rotterdam
In this first of a three-part interview series of Graduation Show exhibitions, we visited the presentations from two Ukrainian students at Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, which ranged from steampunk-inspired folklore to 50 black envelopes containing letters from Gen Z questioning their luck in life.
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What Ukraine wears
We invite you to join our new educational and hands-on project dedicated to traditional Ukrainian clothing. The project consists of two parts: open lectures & practical course, allowing you to choose the format that suits you best.
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The Art of Run For Ukraine
“The beauty of such a run is that it literally exhausts you, and that exhaustion is connected to someone who gave their life.”
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Run for Ukraine 2026
Run for Ukraine returned to The Hague for its fifth year, bringing together over 1000 participants for a day of remembrance, solidarity, art, and community. From the memorial run to cultural projects, borshch, fries, and this year’s Ivan Franko medal, the event kept Ukraine’s stories present, together.
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Three Poems, Three Medals, Five Years of Run for Ukraine
This year’s Run for Ukraine medal honours Ivan Franko, pairing his call to struggle with imagery drawn from his homeland and embroidered clothing. As VATAHA marks five years of the memorial run, we take a look back at past medals and the Ukrainian poetry that has accompanied each one.
