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Premiere of Volodymyr Kuznetsov’s documentary audio play «Buckwheat with Meat» from «Anthology of Ukrainian Kitchen 2022-2024» at the Transcarpathian Academic Regional Puppet Theater BAVKA.
March 5, 2025

Characters:
Volunteers from Kyiv, Rzhyshchiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, volunteer group “Borsch for the Armed Forces”, “Olshanytsia borshch cooks”, “Union of Participants, Veterans, Disabled ATO and Combatants” (SUVIATO), dozens and hundreds of known and unknown heroes and heroines of the home front.
Music: Maryana Klochko.

«Anthology of Ukrainian Kitchen 2022-2024 and 2025» is a documentation of life stories, experiences and acts of solidarity, selected on the basis of materials from the Ukraine War Archive and personal video and audio recordings by the artist Volodymyr Kuznetsov.
The audio play is an artistic form that the author uses to tell the story of the phenomenon of Ukrainian volunteerism. This phenomenon takes on the shape of a great story, a legend, transforming later into myths and fairy tales.
The audio play was broadcast in Ukrainian with SDH subtitles (adapted for the deaf).
The audio play was created in 2024 as part of the interdisciplinary art program DOCU/SYnthesis, 21 Docudays UA.

The SNRA residency program, the Volodymyr Kuznetsov’s participation and the premiere of V. Kuznetsov’s documentary audio play «Buckwheat with Meat» were implemented thanks to the grant support from The Académie des beaux-arts in Paris (French Academy of Fine Arts)

Photo credit in the post: Mikhailo Melnychenko

Photo credit in the post: Mikhailo Melnychenko