National Bandura Band of Ukraine to Embark on Tenth Charity Concert Tour Across Europe

The National Bandura Band of Ukraine will hold its tenth charity concert tour of European countries to support Ukrainian culture, the Armed Forces and promote the original art of Ukraine, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy reports.

Currently, 8 artists of the Bandura Choir are defending their homeland from the Russian war in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The band is going to visit 5 countries, including Germany, France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Poland. They will play 25 concerts there and return to Ukraine in early June.

As previously reported by The Gaze, Ukraine presented the Weaving Nets project at the 60th Venice Biennale and distributed a map of bomb shelters in Venice. 

Weaving Nets is a group project that presents the works of Katia Buchatska, Lia and Andriy Dostliev, Andriy Revkovsky and Danylo Rachynsky in an architectural space designed by Alexander Burlaka.

The title of the project "Weaving Nets" comes from the practice of collective weaving of camouflage nets, which was widespread among Ukrainians during the full-scale military invasion of Russia. This act is explored as a symbol of collective resistance in the face of the Russian war.

The 60th Venice Biennale was held under the slogan "Foreigners Everywhere". The Ukrainian pavilion touched upon issues of otherness through personal experiences of war, emigration, assimilation in new societies and linguistic transformation under the pressure of Russian military aggression.