Hosted by The Shevchenko Foundation · 🇨🇦 CA · EN · 9 episodes
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Welcome to the Canadian cultural front of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Over 8 episodes, playwright Andrew Kushnir has intimate conversations with artists in Canada who are putting their art into the fray. An original podcast from the Shevchenko Foundation, Kultura Rising explores how artists are using everything from photography to theatre to the graphic novel, to ingeniously convert creativity into solidarity.The Ukrainian-Canadian arts scene is putting up a fight, building connections to Ukraine, and making something new, rebellious, undeniable and all its own. It’s coming from the ground…
The Shevchenko Foundation hosts Kultura Rising, a arts show with 9 episodes published.
In the culminating episode of Kultura Rising, Andrew enters the World of Husar. An acclaimed painter who has turned knowing and accepting yourself into an artform, Natalka Husar brings to life the complexity and joy of b
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Andrew connects with beloved ‘compatriotic thespians’ Lianna Makuch and Mariya Khomutova to talk about cultural imperialism and the role theatre has to play in this war. Plus: a really good love story. Listen to The Firs
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Andrew fesses up to a tough call. And his guest, Markian Tarasiuk, goes to show how there’s no question: Ukrainian dance is the beating heart of cultural preservation. It also sparks an intimate conversation about the vi
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Through black and white illustrations and carefully-crafted dialogue, writer Adrian Lysenko and graphic artist Ivanka Galadza plunge us into a vivid evocation of the Ukrainian past. And the spaces and silences in their a
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Andrew spends time on the leading edge of Ukrainian-Canadian filmmaking with Taras Lesiuk and Annick Sheedy-McLellan of Gambade Films. This creative duo lives and breathes cinema’s potential to open doors onto Ukraine. A
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Two men discover that they speak in the same ‘photographic dialect’. Through their cameras, Edward Burtynsky and Maxim Dondyuk help us to behold the big and mind-boggling aspects of our humanity. And our mark on the worl
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Marichka makes vividly clear how music and song are a line to our ancestors and a line to our children. What’s more, that being an artist sometimes means taking unimaginable risks for what you believe in. Listen to Daugh
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Andrew meets his new most-favourite author. Maria Reva’s Endling was a massive literary hit of 2025. It has also become a stunning example of how artists can be interrupted by war – but not stopped.
Show notesHear it straight from #23 on the Russian Federation’s Stop List. The Shevchenko Foundation presents an original series looking at the brazen players on the Ukrainian-Canadian arts scene in wartime. Hosted and written by
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