An offline screening of the multimedia performance “Planet Kherson, or Draw Me a Dragon” by Olia Mykhailiuk and Tomas Sikora, created in collaboration with the “ArtPole” Agency.
The performance will be shown on March 24 at 6:30 PM. Address: 4 Chornovola St. (“Na Poshti”). Admission is free.
At the center of the performance is Kherson as a city under bombardment and at the same time as a cultural organism that continues to speak. The stage story combines a fictional text and real stories of children and adults who live in the frontline city or were forced to leave it. Music, video, animation and documentary materials create a multilayered scenic fabric.
“Planet Kherson” is both a fairy tale and a document at once, in which the voices of people experiencing the war are heard, yet do not lose the ability to dream and act.
“I was lucky to find myself in a fairy tale, and I simply recorded it — in it there is eight-year-old Emilia and her mother, a local historian, a librarian, an artist, a musician, a volunteer. And dragons,” says the project’s author Olia Mykhailiuk.
The screening in Ternopil will be part of the team’s trip from Kherson, and the performance itself will be presented as a work in progress — as a living piece that continues to develop together with its protagonists.
The project was implemented with the support of the International Renaissance Foundation and the Polish Institute in Kyiv.