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Kultura Rising

Hosted by The Shevchenko Foundation · 🇨🇦 CA · EN · 9 episodes

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Episodes
9
Last ep.
8 days ago
Avg length
37m
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28
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Listen Score
14
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Virality (30d)
46
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About this podcast

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…

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The Shevchenko Foundation hosts Kultura Rising, a arts show with 9 episodes published.

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Natalka Husar: 'Torn Heart'

Apr 30, 202650mEp. 8S1

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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Lianna Makuch and Mariya Khomutova: 'Hope dies last'

Apr 16, 202642mEp. 7S1

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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Markian Tarasiuk: 'The body just knowing'

Apr 9, 202644m0

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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Adrian Lysenko and Ivanka Galadza: ‘The Ukrainian optimists'

Apr 2, 202640m0

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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Taras Lesiuk and Annick Sheedy -McLellan: 'Evidence as art. Art as evidence.'

Mar 26, 202638mEp. 4S1

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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Edward Burtynsky and Maxim Dondyuk: ‘Mirroring who we are’

Mar 19, 202633mEp. 3S1

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: 'In Between the Notes'

Mar 12, 202642mEp. 2S1

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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Maria Reva: 'The Art of Defying Extinction'

Mar 5, 202635mEp. 1S1

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.

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Introducing...Kultura Rising

Feb 17, 20264m0

Hear 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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