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Vyshyvanka Day at Fenix Museum 2026
On 23 May, VATAHA celebrated Vyshyvanka Day in Rotterdam at Fenix. The sold-out event brought together participants for a day of celebrating Ukrainian heritage.
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Two Weeks Left: We Carried the Soil with Us Closes 10 May
Ukrainian artists transform soil into a powerful archive in the exhibition ‘We Carried the Soil with Us’ through May 10.
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Studio of Ukrainian Crafts: SPRING
Discover VATAHA’s new project, Studio of Ukrainian Crafts, which teaches traditional Ukrainian crafts, beginning with the rich traditions of Ukrainian spring. Explore how Donetsk pysanky, vybiika, and Hutsul kukutsy go beyond regional customs to show how craft and ritual make spring tangible and communal.
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Ukrainian culture is European culture, and it’s under attack
Four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine faces not only devastating human loss but a deliberate campaign to erase its culture, loot its heritage, and silence its artists. This is a war against European identity itself, and the rest of Europe cannot afford to look away.
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Open Harmony: Ukrainian Choir Lab in The Hague
Led by our co-founder Uliana Bun, VATAHA collaborated with Dutch Culture and Ukrainian Institute to invite three choral experts from Ukraine to lead a singing workshop focusing on strengthening Dutch-Ukrainian cultural ties through choral singing as a source of artistic development and cultural exchange.
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aHOUSEforHOME Autumn School Recap
How do young people navigate displacement, belonging, memory, and home? This autumn, fifteen Ukrainian teenagers explored this question through a one-week architecture course in The Hague as part of the annual aHOUSEforHOME workshop series.
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Ukrainian films to watch this season
This season, Ukrainian films invite you to slow down and look closer. These stories are not just about war, but about people, love, memory, and resilience. Through documentary and fiction, Ukrainian cinema offers a powerful way to connect and reflect while supporting voices that insist on telling their own stories.
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Mariia Ponomarova: “Ukraine-Washing” in Western Filmmaking
In this interview, Ukrainian filmmaker Mariia Ponomarova discusses the harm Western filmmakers can do by extracting Ukrainian narratives in documentaries without meaningful collaboration with or benefit to Ukrainians.
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Run for Ukraine Stories 2025
When you join Run for Ukraine, you don’t run for yourself. VATAHA compiled an excerpt of the heartfelt stories of love and loss that remind us that Ukraine’s sacrifices were by no means made in vain – their memories live within us.
