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UK Premiere: «Flowers Beyond the Dark» at The Women and the World International Film
Festival 2026
On November 10, the Embassy of the Czech Republic will host the UK Premiere of the
feature documentary «Flowers Beyond the Dark» by Iryna Pravylo, screening as part of the
official competition at The Women and the World International Film Festival 2026.
The screening will be followed by an exclusive Q&A session with the filmmakers.
Logline: A couple of artists separated by occupation; the priest of the church where mass burial
is being excavated; the soldiers of the 72nd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine finding
courage and maintaining hope while guarding their homeland – all three storylines create a
soulful witness account during the first months of the Russian invasion in the spring of 2022.
Date: November 10, Tuesday • 6:20 PM - 8:20 PM
Location: Embassy of the Czech Republic
26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London W8 4QY
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2003268929294?aff=oddtdtcreator
Trailer: https://youtu.be/k59B5
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Website: https://www.righttimestudios.com/flowersbeyondthedark
Previous Festivals & Awards:
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Carmel International Film Festival (California, USA): International Premiere & Winner of
Best International Feature Documentary.
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Massachusetts Independent Film Festival: Winner of the Outstanding Achievement
Award.
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Puerto Aventuras International Film Festival (Mexico): Winner of the Best Cultural
Award.
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Phoenix Film Festival (Arizona): North American Festival Premiere.
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Poppy Jasper International Film Festival: Official Selection & California Screening Tour

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Ukrainian artist and curator Lucy Nychai joined our Amplifying Ukrainian Voices weekend in the Scottish Borders, a collaboration between JST and Voices Gloucester, to lead a workshop on self-storytelling. We explored the stories that shape who we are, alongside a meditative embroidery practice that gave space to reflect. Each participant created their own personal pattern, and we then stitched them all together: identity meeting belonging.

Lucy drew on toloka, the Ukrainian tradition of people coming together to work towards a shared goal:

“It’s a very powerful thing for the feeling of community. Working together like this is what brings people to a sense of community.”

Thank you, Lucy, for this workshop that helped us see our stories as a source of strength.

#toloka #self-storytelling #ukraine

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Lucy Nychai: producer of APOSTAXIS in UA

**Українською в коментарях**

Lucy Nychai is an artist, researcher and curator whose work explores memory, identity, and social and environmental justice. Her practice spans physical presentations and digital experiences, as well as participatory art and local contexts. Alongside this, she researches international art residency practices and their impact on local and global ecosystems.

Lucy is a co-founder and project coordinator of the Congress of Cultural Activists, and also a co-founder and curator of the Nazar Voitovych Art Residency (NVAIR), where the Ukrainian part of the APOSTAXIS residency is currently taking place. In addition, she produces the Ukrainian part of the ASSEMBLE project. She curated (Re)Grounding (2022 to 2024), which was co-produced by D6:EU, IZOLYATSIA and D6: Culture in Transit, and from 2023 to 2026 she was an associate curator at D6: Culture in Transit.
For Lucy, the central question of APOSTAXIS is how cultural heritage and traditions help people preserve their identity and begin a new life after forced displacement.

“I see my task as creating a space for reflection on the artistic statements the artists will shape as they research past and present experiences of forced resettlement, which are the focus of this programme. Above all, we are looking for the strength that is born in difficult circumstances.”

APOSTAXIS is a transnational art residency and exhibition project developed in partnership between D6:EU and the Congress of Cultural Activists (CoCA). It brings together artists with experience of displacement for residencies in Ukraine and Cyprus.

The project APOSTAXIS is implemented in the framework of ZMINA: Resilience, a cooperation between IZOLYATSIA (UA), Malý Berlín (SK) with support of Trans Europe Halles (SE).

Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them

#APOSTAXIS #ZMINA_resilience #ArtResidency

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Зустріч з мисткинями програми міжнародної резиденції APOSTAXIS: Оленою Каїнською та Катериною Крохою

Тернопільський Обласний Художній Музей (@art.museum_ternopil )
м. Тернопіль, вул. С. Крушельницької,1
22 жовтня
14:00 - 16:00

Вхід вільний.
Реєстрація на вході

APOSTAXIS (екстракція) - міжнародний проєкт мистецьких дослідницьких резиденцій.
Мистецька Резиденція Нараія Войтовича та ГО Конгрес Активістів Культури приймає українську складову проєкту, який реалізовується спільно з D6:EU (Нікосія, Кіпр)

Протягом 3-х тижнів 3 мисткині з України та одна мисткиня з Кіпру працюють над темою вимушеного переселення у пошуках історій, що засвідчують силу ідентичності та нематеріальної культурної спадщини як основи для побудови нового життя у вимушених переміщеннях. Це дві суміжні резиденції, які відбуваються одночасно в Україні на Тернопільщині та в Кіпрі у м.Ларнака.
Ідея проєкту полягає у пошуку спільної мови між досвідами двох країн та екстракції знань, які зможуть підтримати людей у проживанні травми переміщення.

Олена Куліш та Елін Юртдаш працюють у Ларнаці, досліджуючи досвід переміщених українців та вимушене переміщення кіпріотів через розділення острова після вторгнення Туреччини та війни у 1974 році.

Олена Каїнська та Катерина Кроха, перебуваючи у резиденції на Тернопільщині у с.Травневе, досліджують сучасне вимушене переміщення через війну та історію лемків, вимушено переміщених у цей край у 1944–46 роках.

Запрошуємо вас на зустріч з мисткинями. Зустріч проведе кураторка проєкту @lucynychai

Далі читайте в коментарях..》

Проєкт APOSTAXIS реалізується в межах проєкту ZMINA:Resilience, за підтримки фонду IZOLYATSIA (Україна), організації Malý Berlín (Словаччина) та за участі мережі Trans Europe Halles (Швеція) і співфінансується Програмою Європейського Союзу «Креативна Європа».
Співфінансовано Європейським Союзом. Погляди та думки, висловлені у цьому матеріалі, належать виключно автору(ам) і не обов’язково відображають позицію Європейського Союзу чи Виконавчої агенції з питань освіти і культури (EACEA). Ані Європейський Союз, ані орган, що надає грант, не несуть відповідальності за них.

#APOSTAXIS #ZMINA_resilience #ArtResidency

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PRACTICES OF PRESENCE. OPEN CALL
FOR UKRAINIAN FEMALE ARTISTS

Deadline EXTENDED:
22 september 2026

A curatorial project by Maria Proshkovska (@proshkowska) on the New Ecology of Coexistence, within the international cultural project ASSEMBLE

Within this curatorial project, Maria Proshkovska invites Ukrainian women artists who left Ukraine after the beginning of the full-scale invasion and have since returned to rethink this shared experience and work together on a joint project. “Practices of Presence” unfolds in three parts: I. Conflict. II. Displacement. III. Environment.

“I proceed from the conviction that artistic practice can be not only a way of representing war or crisis, but also an instrument for producing new knowledge and new models of coexistence. Art becomes a space in which we not only record the consequences of destruction, but also learn to rebuild relationships between people, nature, memory and place.” — Maria Proshkovska

Each selected artist will receive an artist fee of €500, as well as a production budget of €500 for the development and realization of their work.

The project will unfold collaboratively throughout 2026 and 2027, creating a space for exchange, dialogue, and the development of individual and collective artistic practices. The final project will be presented through online and offline exhibitions.

Extended deadline: 22 September 2026

Please note: You may apply in Ukrainian or in English. If you have any questions, contact in advance assemble.ukraine@gmail.com for individual feedback.

Read the full description in english and ukrainian via the linktree in bio

ASSEMBLE is an international cultural project exploring the climate emergency at the intersection of involuntary migration, displacement, conflict and ecological decline.

Funded by the European Union, ASSEMBLE is realised through a partnership between @d6_eu_ (Cyprus), @congress.of.cultural.activists (Ukraine), @movartists (Spain), the international mobility network @otm.network, D6: Culture in Transit (UK), @atriskartists (France) and @larnaka2030 (Cyprus).

#AssembleEurope #ArtistOpenCall #ArtistFellowship #ArtistOpportunity

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Можна роками «смакувати» травми, аналізувати і досліджувати «як правильно», а можна сфокусуватись на внутрішній потребі «ср@ти» і поперти танком.

А якщо «не виходить» - то може не сильно і хотілось?

Сьогодні в мене був зідзвон з куратором @lucynychai, яка займається мистецтвом та митцями. Вона сказала, що багато митців поєднують основну роботу і мистецтво, і дають собі декілька років, щоб зробити мистецтво основою роботою, яка приносить достатньо гр0шей, але це не мій випадок - бо мені треба ВЖЕ м0нетизувати моє мистецтво 😂

І ви думаєте я буду сидіти місяць над однією картиною чи шукати свій стиль в себе в думках? Звісно ні, я беру ту саму стратегію, яка спрацювала в інфобізі і буду просто перти танком 😂🤌

І я впевнена на 100500%, що завдяки цьому і стиль і впевненість і репутація напрацюється само собою

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PRACTICES OF PRESENCE. OPEN CALL
FOR UKRAINIAN FEMALE ARTISTS

A curatorial project by Maria Proshkovska (@proshkowska) on the New Ecology of Coexistence, within the international cultural project ASSEMBLE

Within this curatorial project, Maria Proshkovska invites Ukrainian women artists who left Ukraine after the beginning of the full-scale invasion and have since returned to rethink this shared experience and work together on a joint project. “Practices of Presence” unfolds in three parts: I. Conflict. II. Displacement. III. Environment.

“I proceed from the conviction that artistic practice can be not only a way of representing war or crisis, but also an instrument for producing new knowledge and new models of coexistence. Art becomes a space in which we not only record the consequences of destruction, but also learn to rebuild relationships between people, nature, memory and place.” — Maria Proshkovska

Application deadline: 15 September 2026

Please note: You may apply in Ukrainian or in English. If you have any questions, contact in advance assemble.ukraine@gmail.com for individual feedback.

Read the full description in english and ukrainian via the linktree in bio

ASSEMBLE is an international cultural project exploring the climate emergency at the intersection of involuntary migration, displacement, conflict and ecological decline.

Funded by the European Union, ASSEMBLE is realised through a partnership between @d6_eu_ (Cyprus), @congress.of.cultural.activists (Ukraine), @movartists (Spain), the international mobility network @otm.network, D6: Culture in Transit (UK), @atriskartists (France) and @larnaka2030 (Cyprus).

#AssembleEurope #ArtistOpenCall #ArtistFellowship #ArtistOpportunity

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APOSTAXIS Open Call Results

We are excited to share the results of the APOSTAXIS open call!

Despite the short application period, we received an incredible and strong 65 applications, and we want to sincerely thank everyone who applied and shared their practice with us. The selection process was not easy, given the high quality and diversity of the proposals.

We are delighted to announce the selected artists whose work sits at the intersection of displacement, heritage, trauma and resilience.

Ternopil region, Ukraine (Nazar Voitovych Art Residency): Olena Kayinska @olena_kayinska_art and Kateryna Krokha @katerynakrokha
Larnaca, Cyprus (hosted by D6:EU): Olena Kulish @olenakulish_art and Elin Yurtdaş @elinyurtdas

Congratulations to the selected artists, we look forward to working with you over the coming months! And thank you again to everyone who took part in the open call.

The project APOSTAXIS is implemented in the framework of ZMINA:Resilience, a cooperation between @izolyatsia (UA), @maly_berlin (SK) with support of @transeuropehalles (SE). Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

#APOSTAXIS #ZMINA_resilience #ArtResidency

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Lucy Nychai, producer at Congress of Cultural Activists, works directly with Curatorial Fellow Maria Proshkovska (@proshkowska ) throughout her ASSEMBLE fellowship. CoCA leads communications for the programme as a whole.

ASSEMBLE is an international cultural project exploring the climate emergency at the intersection of involuntary migration, displacement, conflict and ecological decline.

ASSEMBLE brings together a dynamic partnership between @d6_eu_ (Cyprus), @congress.of.cultural.activists (Ukraine), @movartists (Spain) and the international mobility network @otm.network, @d6culture (UK), @atriskartists (France) and @larnaka2030 (Cyprus)

#AssembleEurope #ArtistOpenCall #ArtistFellowship #ArtistOpportunity

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Congress of Cultural Activists (CoCA), founded on Euromaidan in 2014, CoCA brings together artists, filmmakers, architects, educators and policy advocates united by the belief that culture is a driver of social change.

The Congress of Cultural Activists works at the intersection of cultural activism, artistic practices, education, cultural policy, and international cooperation.

The organization’s main areas of activity include art mobility and residency programs for artists and cultural managers, non-formal education and research, visual and audiovisual projects, and advocacy for change in the cultural sphere.

For the Congress NGO, culture is not only a sphere of creative production, but also a tool for social interaction, community development, restoration of dignity, and the formation of new approaches to cultural policy. That is why the organization combines practical work with communities, support for artists, international partnerships, and public debate on the role of culture in the transformation of Ukraine.

Their main programme, NVAIR - a Ukrainian art residency in Ternopil - supports young Ukrainian artists through exchanges with international institutions.

Lucy Nychai, producer at Congress of Cultural Activists, works directly with Curatorial Fellow Maria throughout her ASSEMBLE fellowship. CoCA leads communications for the programme as a whole.

ASSEMBLE is an international cultural project exploring the climate emergency at the intersection of involuntary migration, displacement, conflict and ecological decline.

Funded by the European Union, ASSEMBLE is realised through a partnership between @d6_eu_ (Cyprus), @congress.of.cultural.activists (Ukraine), @movartists (Spain) and the international mobility network @otm.network, @d6culture (UK), @atriskartists (France) and @larnaka2030 (Cyprus)

#AssembleEurope #ArtistOpenCall #ArtistFellowship #ArtistOpportunity

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В мене вчора був просто мега день вражень 🌞
🇨🇾Відкривала Кіпр чудовій родині з дітками Тарасиком і Михасиком.
@krotenko_ksu створила цілу галерею фото мене з Кіпром 😊 Дякую 🤗🤗

🇺🇦 Була на презентації @proshkowska з @d6_eu_ для @larnaka2030
Нарешті позвіртулізувалася з @lucynychai ,🤗 @pogorilamarta доклала зусиль😆

А потім ми всі разом пішли на шалено прекрасний благодійний концерт в @obiimy.cyprus з 💛💛💛@markokvitka @darwinvlad @marta_adamchuk 💛💛💛
Дяка @khrystyna_ped за драйв 🌟🔥
І нарешті @kseniamukhortova побачила 😃 бо Лімасол далеко і я його не люблю, то і не доїжджаю😆
Дякую @obiimy.cyprus за роздруківку для мене для традиційних автографів 💛 це love is 💜

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Today we celebrate the Earth Day with very fresh printed books for the presentation and discussion at @d6culture

To read all story possible on the website - link in bio

#goodintentions #climatecrisis #plasticpollution #humanecology #cosmos

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