INSTITUT 001 panel: UKRAINE'S CULTURAL FRONT ABROAD

Consider this the first volume of the INSTITUT experiment. Every week, a different hypothesis. Underground at 620 Spadina Ave - around the back, through the lot to the steel doors, down the stairs, past the mechanical room, through the swinging wood laminate door...

Vol 1: Grab a drink and enjoy a high level conversation about identity politics from two Ukrainian-Canadian front line cultural activists. In a relaxed setting as opposed to a stuffy lecture hall.

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ANDREW KUSHNIR is a Canadian playwright, director, performer, teacher, and community arts worker who calls Toronto home. He is artistic director of the socially-engaged theatre company Project: Humanity, where much of his documentary theatre work is done.

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LIANNA MAKUCH is a second generation Ukrainian Canadian theatre artist. She has traveled several times to Ukraine to research and develop her plays Barvinok and Alina, gaining awards and recognition from both the professional theatre and Ukrainian communities. Lianna received a Dora Award for Outstanding Direction for her for directorial debut, First Métis Man of Odesa, which has been seen on stages nationwide.

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Stick around for alternating sets of sea shanties and georgian polyphony from ORI SHALVA and PRESSGANG MUTINY (also celebrating the release of their new album "Departure").

TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/institut-001-concert-ori-shalva-ge-x-pressgang-mutiny-ca-tickets-1987369800572?aff=oddtdtcreator

OR stay out late: DJ McHI is spinning a set of vintage reggae, dancehall, ska and a bit of cumbia at 11PM until last call.

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