Legàmi. The European Soul of Ukraine

Proponent
Promoted by Soprintendenza Speciale Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Roma in collaboration with Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo, Pantheon-Castel Sant’Angelo - Direzione Musei nazionali della città di Roma - Museo Nazionale degli strumenti musicali, Ucraina CreAttiva
Dimension
Local and Regional Dimension, Human Dimension
Date & Time
7-12 july 2025
Location
Archaeological area Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, the National Museum of Musical Instruments in Rome and Pyramid di Caio Cestio
On the occasion of the International Conference for the Reconstruction of Ukraine, scheduled in Rome from 8 to 12 July 2025, the Soprintendenza Speciale Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Roma, in collaboration with the Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo and the Pantheon-Castel Sant’Angelo - Direzione Musei nazionali della città di Roma - Museo Nazionale degli strumenti musicali, is promoting a series of initiatives dedicated to intercultural knowledge and dialogue as key elements for rebuilding and fostering a peaceful future.
The Legami/зв'язки The European Soul of Ukraine /європейська душа України project intends to promote knowledge and dialogue between cultures through the active participation of the Ukrainian community, in order to enhance the identity and features of the Ukrainian cultural heritage within the more general framework of European culture and intercultural relations with Italy.
The project is structured in three events (the Legàmi/зв'язки exhibition, the Legàmi/зв'язки festival and the multimedia installation In Ukraine. Irpin' storie di guerra e di resilienza) articulated in two sites (Compendio monumentale di Santa Croce in Gerusalemme and Pyramid of Caio Cestio), involving institutions and associations and enhancing different expressive languages: from painting to photography, from music to poetry, to applied arts and folkloric traditions

Programme

Festival Legàmi/зв'язки

The European Soul of Ukraine /європейська душа України

In Ukraine. Irpin' stories of war and resilience
Multimedia installation - 7/12 July
Pyramid of Caio Cestio
Curated by the Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma
Photographic reportage realised by the Roman collective Gaze Collective
The installation will feature a night-time loop projection on the walls of the Pyramid of the photographic reportage realised by the Gaze Collective in Irpin', theatricalised by captions telling the stories of life and daily resilience of the victims of the war and by verses of Ukrainian poetry
Inauguration 7 July, 8.00 p.m.
Institutional greetings
Concert: Ukrainian music with the composer and pianist Zhanna Stankovich
Reading of poems by contemporary Ukrainian poets
The poems will be interpreted in Ukrainian and Italian, in collaboration with teachers and students of Ukrainian Language and Literature from La Sapienza University of Rome
8-12 july 2025
Archaeological area of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
8 july 2025 - 8 p.m.
Paper embroidery, the art of Vytynanka
the artist Daria Alyoshkina
Musical interlude by Gordyi Staruch, master lute-maker and lyre player, a traditional Ukrainian musical instrument
9:30 p.m.
Screening of the documentary film Taxi monamour directed by Ciro De Caro
5 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Guided tours of the archaeological area of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
9 july 2025 - 8 p.m.
Rebirth from the roots
The centuries-old history of Ukrainian music and its deep links with Europe by composer and musician Zhanna Stankovych
9:30 p.m.
Screening of the documentary on bandura and the tradition of Ukrainian musical instruments (running time 20')
6 p.m.
Guided tours of the archaeological area of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
10 july 2025 - 8 p.m.
The Pysanka, from an element of tradition to a testimony of rebirth
Conference by Ukrainian artist and art teacher Tetiana Konoval
The lecture will be interspersed with a video projection of artistic photographs on the theme by Zhanna Stankovych
9:30 p.m.
Performance by Cultural Forces International
Screening of the documentary film Photophobia (2023) written and directed by Ivan Ostrochovský and Pavol Pekarčík, (Duration: 71')
6 p.m.
Guided tour of the archaeological area of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
11 July 2025 - 8 p.m.
The Cure of Beauty. Secular history of Ukrainian art
Conference by Kseniia Konstantynenko
9:30 p.m.
Screening of the documentary film War on education by Stefano Di Pietro
6 p.m.
Guided tours of the archaeological area of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
12 July 2025 - 8 p.m.
The soul of the Ukrainian people between music and poetry
Special guest poet Halyna Kruk, one of the most appreciated contemporary Ukrainian poets
Concert by musician and soprano Marianna Volkova (bandura and voice)
5.00 p.m. and 6.00 p.m.
Guided tours of the archaeological area of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Speakers
Daria Alyoshkina
Tetiana Konoval
Ivan Karas
Zhanna Stankovych
Kseniia Konstantynenko
Halyna Kruk