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Run for Ukraine 2026
VATAHA’s annual memorial run is taking place again this year on 23 August, 2026. For the fifth consecutive year, Run for Ukraine will honor the memory of the Heroes who died in the struggle for Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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VATAHA Founders at Café Kyiv 2026
VATAHA co-founders Oksana Savchuk and Uliana Bun report from their visit to Café Kyiv on February 24. Hosted in Berlin, Café Kyiv is an initiative from the prestigious Konrad Adenauer Foundation and is one of the largest conferences on Ukrainian culture and politics in Europe.
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Podcast: Last minute reasons to Run for Ukraine
In VATAHA’s very first podcast, the website team sits down to talk about all things Run for Ukraine: why you don’t need to be Ukrainian to attend – or even run at all.
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Run To Remember: Collective Healing Through Movement
Movement can do what words sometimes cannot. In preparation for Run for Ukraine, discover how Ukrainians turn grief into strength through the joint power of collective memory and movement. Together with clinical psychologist Eva Kardash from Empatia Program, we uncover the link between running and alleviating trauma.
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Shared Home.Shared Fight
VATAHA’s upcoming exhibition Shared Home.Shared Fight was born out of questions that the russian full-scale war of aggression raised in Europe, specifically Ukraine and the Netherlands: what does a home to protect mean for each of us?
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Why Shared Home.Shared Fight rescheduled its opening
Learn about why VATAHA refuses to open its Shared Home.Shared Fight exhibition on the same day as a parallel russian-curated exhibition, but also why we refuse to cancel entirely.
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Run For Ukraine Stories 2024
“I am running for the city of Lviv. Rockets fly over my grandparents’ house almost every day. This is the city where I spent my vacations, the city of my relatives and friends. It hurts me to see it being destroyed.” – Danylo, 12 years old
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My OWN Vyshyvanka: The finished works
Check out the final blouses from VATAHA’s six-month My OWN Vyshyvanka workshop. Each blouse was lovingly stitched in the Ukrainian folkart tradition, and each with their unique story.
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Stitched in Memory: The Vyshyvanka I Took Across Borders
Ukrainian vyshyvanka can be taken for granted by those who wear them frequently in their homeland. But to writer and communications student Sofiia Maior, her vyshyvanka is more than just a traditionally embroidered shirt. It stitched together fragments she didn’t know were loose, and stitched memory of home close to…
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Letter against ‘Russians at War’ documentary
VATAHA penned an official request against the screening of the so-called documentary ‘Russians at War’, citing concerns that the film presents a misleading depiction of the war in Ukraine.
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Lost voices, Unbroken spirit: An Art Route
A commemorative cultural event by VATAHA Foundation dedicated to the third anniversary of the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine. Taking place in Rotterdam (22 February 2025) and The Hague (23 February 2025).
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Exhibition by Anna Kakhiani
How often do phrases such as “don’t cry” or “keep smiling” go out of place or are opposite, making us feel better? As a starting point of Anna Kahiani’s artistic research, she refers to speech patterns and recognizable phrases in situations that require empathy based on recurring situations that happen…
