INSTITUT 011 | panel | NATALKA HUSAR x O HAWRYLAK | "Tango, Fever, Paint"

A conversation between SVI's creative director and an infamous Ukrainian-Canadian visual artist about long distance relationships, expressing the ineffable, and dancing around the point.

Vol 11: Natalka Husar and Oksana Hawrylak in conversation — on art, desire, distance, and what happens when fiction and reality blur across borders.

This is the opening of VOLUME 11 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...

Stick around — TOLEDANO takes the stage at 7PM, PAJAROS KILTROS at 9PM, and JUANA GO-GÓ closes the night on vinyl at 11PM. But RSVP even though it's PWYC so we know who to expect.

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5:30 PM | PANEL | TANGO, FEVER, PAINT — NATALKA HUSAR x OKSANA HAWRYLAK

7:30 PM | CONCERT | TOLEDANO (NS)

9:30 PM | CONCERT | PAJAROS KILTROS (CL)

11:00 PM | VINTAGE VINYL | JUANA GO-GÓ

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NATALKA HUSAR was born in New Jersey in 1951 to Ukrainian immigrant parents and has been based in Toronto since 1973. Her work is represented in major public collections including the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario, where her painting Torn Heart (1994) is currently on display. Her ceramics are on permanent display at the Gardiner Museum. Her practice draws on Ukrainian culture and history, the émigré experience, and femininity. Most recently, It Takes Three to Tango (Rodovid, 2024) compiles over 550 illustrated letters between a young Husar and Lviv artist Ivan Ostafiychuk — a staged romance that evolved into a layered exchange blurring fiction and reality, offering a portrait of an era and the imagination as a bridge across borders.

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OKSANA HAWRYLAK is the Creative Director of St. Volodymyr Institute, responsible for its artistic vision and co-conceiver of INSTITUT together with Mark Marczyk. She led the project from vision to reality — shaping the space, the identity, and the community that makes it possible. As part of the team behind SVI's broader development project, she is building a new Ukrainian Canadian cultural hub in Toronto. INSTITUT is both a chapter of that future and proof that it's already underway.

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