Light a memory candle

30.11.2020

The Educational and Research Institute of Culture and Arts honored the memory of those who died during the Holodomor-genocide.

On November 27, the Educational and Research Institute of Culture and Arts held remote curatorial hours in memory of millions of our compatriots who became victims of the Holodomor-genocide in Ukraine.

Students and master’s students majoring in Audiovisual Arts and Production and Culturology (curator – Alona Tereshchenko) learned about the history of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 with the help of a prepared presentation and information from the website of the Holodomor Museum.

This year, the team of the Ukraїner media project and the National Museum of the Holodomor Genocide explored various regions of Ukraine in search of witnesses to the genocide of the Ukrainian people. Several videos of this project were revised during the curatorial hour. The video refuted myths about the Holodomor, talked about how it affects Ukraine today, told the personal stories of eyewitnesses.

In memory of the millions of our compatriots who became victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933, students majoring in Musical Art and Secondary Education (Musical Art) (curated by Tetiana Ostretsova) watched the documentary “The spell of unconsciousness. Holodomor in the Luhansk region”. The film includes video evidence of the Holodomor and eyewitness recollections of many districts of Luhansk region. The tape is a kind of result of long-term painstaking research work on the Holodomor problem of the 1930s, collection and analysis of a wide range of materials, including documents from the State Branch Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine.

Curators of the specialties “Fine Arts, Decorative Arts, Restoration” (Tetiana Polishchuk, Artur Aroyan, Dmytro Korshunov, Oleksii Sobolevskyi) offered students and master’s students to watch video chronicles from the Holodomor and an animated film “Hungry Spirit”, the main idea of ​​which is “to convey to the viewer the idea that we must remember that terrible page in our history, remember the people who died tragically, and not let this happen again.”

Also, teachers and students joined the action “Light a memory candle”, leaving a candle on their windowsill as a sign of sorrow and memory of millions of Ukrainians tortured by hunger.

According to the Educational and Research
Institute of Culture and Arts