Ozvěny Festivalu vzájemnosti

The Echoes of the Festival of Reciprocity event will take place on October 21, 2024 from 5:30 p.m. in Vzlet. fly, Feste, Líšen and the Traces of Human Presence project to Ukraine. Czech-Ukrainian Festivals of Mutuality took place in Rivne, Zhytomyr, Chernihiv, Kyiv and Ivano-Frankivsk. At Echoes of the Festival of Reciprocity, participants will hear a report about the set, the situation of Ukrainian theaters and Ukrainian theater life. The second part of the festival will consist of some productions that were in Ukraine and productions of guests that the crew got to know thanks to the trip, as a harbinger of further cooperation.

Program:

Discussion: Expedition of Czech theaters to Ukraine and the situation of Ukrainian theaters
Guest: Vojtěch Boháč (reporter of the Voxpot server, political scientist, journalist devoted to Ukraine for a long time)
Meeting of the participants of the Ukrainian expedition. Report on the journey and situation of Ukrainian theaters, possibilities and benefits of cooperation. With the guest of the discussion, Vojtěch Boháč, the participants will focus more generally on today's situation in Ukraine and the topic of informing about Ukraine in the media.

Julia Pivtorak: Manifesto
A solo performance by a Ukrainian actress about how society affects individuals. About the right to trials, errors, defeats. About the courage to go your own way.

• Concept, performed by: Julia Pivtorak (UA)

**Theater Now breathe and fly : *They are coming. What do they want? What do we want? ***
A performance about crossing borders, national and one's own. What do those who leave their homes lose? What does he lose who crosses the limits of his own comfort? Where are the boundaries of empathy and compassion?

• Director: David Zelinka
• Starring: Sofiia Brahina, Kapitolina Kolobova, Valeria Lobachova

Feste Theater: Regret
Documentary production about coming of age and the problems of today's teenagers. The starting point is interviews with Czech and Ukrainian young people and their parents. Part of the material was collected during a trip through Ukraine.

• Director: Jiří Honzírek
• Starring: Maria Tatarynova, Daria Novikova