Life after: Dialogue

Vision of the project

The purpose of Life after: Dialogue was to stimulate public discourse among a wide audience about the reconstruction and restoration of the war and post-war periods. This was achieved through a multilayered artistic project involving third-generation individuals who lost their homes due to Soviet-Russian aggression. The project focused on those affected in 1986 during the flood by Soviet authorities in the Bakotsky region, and those affected in 2014 and 2022 during Russia's military aggression.

Within a 10-day residency, people who had been forced to move in the past interacted with those currently displaced. They lived together in one village, sharing and exploring each other's stories. Society often overlooks the fact that millions of people have lost their homes and have had to sever ties with the past to adapt to the present. The project aimed to address questions such as whether they would return home, their dreams, and how they envisioned the restoration of their cities.

Meet the Key Partner

NGO Territory is a Khmelnytskyi regional youth public association that creates cultural and educational projects for the development of local communities and communities in cities and towns. The organisation has been working in the field of cultural decentralisation, gender equality and inclusion for 13 years and in all its projects promotes the values of sustainability and involves various types of cross-sectoral interactions. During this time, the organisation has created more than 100 both Ukrainian and international projects with the support of donors such as IREX, USAID, UNESCO, UNICEF, IREX, U-LEAD, House Of Europe, Swiss Embassy, Goethe-Institut, GIZ, UCF, American Consulate, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung e. V, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway, etc. One of the most famous projects of the organisation is the Respublica festival, which is one of the top 5 largest festivals in Ukraine, and the Bakota Hub residence, created on the basis of a revitalised non-working school, which has hosted about 100 artists from the occupied regions since 2022 and has hosted about 20 cultural and artistic projects.

Start Date: April 1, 2024
End Date: Sept. 30, 2024