Press announcement
February 21-24, Severodonetsk
From February 21 till February 24 Severodonetsk will host the workshop “Modern methods of museum work” for museum workers of Luhansk and Donetsk region. This workshop takes place in Severodontesk within the project Rediscovering the historical heritage of eastern Ukraine – “Under construction: Museum open II”.
During the workshop, participants will see the results of the expedition to 31 museums in Donetsk and Luhansk region for 21 days, the project “Yellow Line” and curatorial exhibitions in four Donbas museums. The participants will also see Belgian architectural heritage in Lysychansk. The presentation of the book “Steel in the Steppe. View from Ukraine” with the participation of Luke Jacobs, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium to Ukraine will also take place. Special guest – Gordon Filevych, a museum expert (Canada).
In addition, there will be a huge amount of lectures and discussions. The main topic – the modernization of the methods and formats of museum’s work, reorganization of museums.
The speakers of the workshop – experts in the field of communications, artists, representatives of museums and cultural institutions: Dnipropetrovsk National Historical Museum named after D.I. Yavornytsky, National Art and Culture Museum Complex “Mystetskyi Arsenal”, Museum of Totalitarian Regimes “Territory of Terror” etc.
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Rediscovering Eastern Ukraine Heritage – “Under construction: Museum open II”
The project is organized by the Arts Department of Ukraine Crisis Media Center with the financial support of “Ukraine Confidence Building Initiative” (UCBI II), funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
For further information, please contact:
Leonid Marushchak – 095 271 63 85 (organization)
Ivan Yatsenko – 0631126112 (program issues)
Olga Honchar – 093 339 76 46 (for media)
Arif Bagirov, PR coordinator of the project “UNDER CONSTRUCTION: MUSEUM OPEN: Luhansk region,” [email protected], +38 066 374 81 36
SPEAKERS:
Gordon Filievych – Museum Expert (Canada)
Valentyna Lazebnyk – Senior Researcher of The Dnipropetrovsk National History Museum named after Dmytro Yavornytsky
Luke Jacobs – Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium in Ukraine
Olga Vieru – Chairman of the board of the IF “Mystetskyi Arsenal” (Kyiv)
Oleksiy Bykov – architect, researcher of modernism (Kyiv)
Eugenia Molyar – art historian, coordinator of the art program “Under construction: Museum open” (Kyiv)
Olga Honchar – cultural scientist, director of the Territory of Terror Museum (Brovary)
Leonid Marushchak – project manager “Under construction: Museum open” (Vinnytsia)
PROGRAM:
February 21, 2018
11: 00-12: 00 – settlement (Hotel “Myr”)
12: 00-13: 00 – lunch (Hotel restaurant “Myr”)
13: 30-14: 00 – openings speech from the organizers, discussion of the program
14: 00-18: 00 – Canadian experience of reorganizing museums (Gordon Filievych)
19: 00-20: 00 – Presentation of the book “Steel in the Steppe. A View From Ukraine “(Luke Jacobs, Valentyna Lazebnik)
20: 00-22: 00 – dinner (Hotel restaurant “Myr”)
February 22, 2018
07: 30-08: 30 – breakfast (Hotel restaurant “Myr”)
09: 00-13: 00 – excursion to the Belgian architectural heritage of Lysychansk
13: 00-13: 45 – lunch (cafe “Morozko”, Lysychansk)
14: 00-18: 00 – Canadian experience of reorganizing museums (Gordon Filievych)
18: 00-19: 00 – dinner (cafe “Morozko”, Lysychansk)
19: 30-21: 00 – presentation of the results of the project “Yellow Line” (Oleksiy Bykov, Eugeniya Molyar)
February 23, 2018
08: 00-08: 45 – Breakfast (Hotel restaurant “Myr”)
09: 00-12: 00 – Canadian experience of reorganizing museums (Gordon Filievych)
12: 00-13: 30 – “From theory to practice – experience of the young director of the museum” (Olga Honchar)
12: 30-13: 30 – lunch (Hotel restaurant “Myr”)
14: 30-18: 00 – Canadian museum reorganization experience (Gordon Filievych)
18: 30-19: 45 – dinner
20: 00-21: 00 – 31 museum in 21 days + 10 museums in 5 days (Leonid Marushchak)
February 24, 2018
08: 00-09: 00 – Breakfast (Hotel restaurant “Myr”)
09: 00-12: 00 – “The experience of implementing an educational project in the museum on the example of the “Arsenal of Ideas” project” (Olga Vieru, Kateryna Makarova)
12: 00-13: 00 – check-out of the hotel
13: 00-13: 45 – lunch (Hotel restaurant “Myr”)
14: 00-15: 00 – discussion of the next steps of the project “Under construction: Museum open”
CONTACS:
Leonid Marushchak – 095 271 63 85 (organization)
Ivan Yatsenko – 0631126112 (program issues)
Olga Honchar – 093 339 76 46 (for media)
Arif Bagirov, PR coordinator of the project “UNDER CONSTRUCTION: MUSEUM OPEN: Luhansk region,” [email protected], +38 066 374 81 36
