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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.
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Daria Lysenko: I Heard That You Are in the Netherlands
Daria Lysenko has published her latest collection of poems titled ‘I Heard You Are In The Netherlands’. In this interview, we discuss how her literary finesse and raw, real emotions have given life to the first Ukrainian poetry book by a contemporary poet to be translated into Dutch.
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VATAHA on NPO TV talkshow
Lights, camera, Oksana Savchuk in action. VATAHA stood in the spotlight on NPO, one of the largest television channels in the Netherlands, to highlight the strong ties between Ukrainian and Dutch culture on the eve of the three-year anniversary of russia’s full-scale invasion.
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“I dream of the sea and the surfing and big seagulls”.
On World Poetry Day, March 21, at the Design Museum Dedel in The Hague, we organised a unique poetry evening in memory of Maksym Kryvtsov, a warrior of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a poet who died at the age of 33 at the beginning of 2024 in the Russian-Ukrainian…
