INSTITUT 013 | theatre | UA THEATRE SALON Witnessing War

An assemblage of short works written since the full scale invasion of February 2022 – Ukraine’s leading dramatists reaching out to us, as they make sense of a world shattered and reformed.

Vol 13: Curated by Lianna Makuch, Andrew Kushnir and Mariya Khomutova — Ukrainian Theatre Salon brings bold new Ukrainian writing into the basement.

This is the opening of VOLUME 13 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 — a panel at 7PM and documentary at 8PM, following by concerts and a DJ. But RSVP even though it's PWYC so we know who to expect.

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5:00 PM | UA THEATRE SALON | Witnessing War: Ukrainian plays since February 2022

7PM | PANEL/FILM | Icelandic Punk History

8PM | FILM | Not Dead Yet

9PM | CONCERT | Cute

10PM | CONCERT | Faiyaz and the Wasted Chances

11PM | VINTAGE VINYL | DJ Babs

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LIANNA MAKUCH is a second generation Ukrainian Canadian theatre artist who has traveled several times to Ukraine to research and develop her plays Barvinok and Alina. She received a Dora Award for Outstanding Direction for her directorial debut, First Métis Man of Odesa, which has been seen on stages nationwide. Her work has taken her to the Stratford Festival, the Banff Centre, the Citadel Theatre, and MacEwan University. She has been honoured as one of UDonation International's 50 Canadian Fellows of Ukraine, received Ukrainian Canadian Congress Leadership Awards, and her theatre work has been referenced in the House of Commons.

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ANDREW KUSHNIR is a Canadian playwright, director, performer, teacher and community arts worker based in Toronto. He is artistic director of Project: Humanity, a socially-engaged theatre company where much of his documentary theatre work is done. The inaugural recipient of the Shevchenko Foundation REACH artist residency, he was named one of ten Canadian Artists of the Year by the Globe and Mail in 2023. In 2024 he received the Dora Award for Outstanding Direction and the Toronto Theatre Critics' Award for Best Director of a Play.