Narrative presences / РОЗПОВІДІ ПРИСУТНОСТЕЙ

A team consisting of visual artists, educators, psychotherapists, professional dancers, and performers works together with displaced Ukranians to share their stories of escaping the war and finding a new home. The workshops create a safe space in which to share and prepare the final performative form. The stories represented in the workshops and in the performances through the material of cardboard bricks follow the journeys of people leaving Ukraine for Western Europe. Each individual story contributes its own content and value to a potential collective healing process. The stories have different roots and fates, but the unifying idea of coming to terms with a “new home” and a “new reality” brings us closer together. Through initiated and guided work with memory, different times and different individual presences meet for a moment.