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NOLAN, HOMER, AND “GOD’S MISTAKE”: Why Culture Always Lies About the Past — and Why That’s Okay

Every era rewrites the Great Text according to its own fears, hopes, and values. Let us explore how the mechanisms of cultural anachronism actually work

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MYKOLA TOVKAILO: “When I Felt the Need to Make Music, I Turned to the Bandura”

COMPOSER JAMES MACMILLAN: we are here on earth to glorify God

IRENA KARPA: “Freedom Remains, but Without Talent It Doesn’t Work”

PAVLO HUDIMOV: «At the moment, I am a professional listener, not a musician»

PHILOSOPHER INNA HOLUBOVYCH: on Yakov Golosovker’s “Myth of Life”

THEOLOGIAN ALEXANDER FILONENKO: On Resonant Desires and the «Bites» of Love

INSPIRING

TWO WINGS: about love, society, science, intelligence, and… a pelican

«The sage Seneca, his gray hair tousled, pronounced, as if a testament: „Life is not measured by its length, but… by its meaning.”»

Yefym Veniaminovych Osichniuk

Philosopher

HOW TO LISTEN TO CLASSICAL MUSIC: Bach’s «Goldberg Variations» — The Choice of European Intellectuals

«When performing the Goldberg Variations, the pianist becomes a kind of «glass bead game master» from Hermann Hesse’s novel — a co-creator entering into a living dialogue with Bach’s text»

Alexey Botvinov

Ukrainian pianist, People's Artist of Ukraine

THE MASTER, MARGARITA, AND FREEDOM: Mikhail Lokshin on Cinema and Censorship in Art

«Like the hero of the film, I have come to truly believe that one can lose everything in life except freedom and faith»

Mykhailo Lokshyn

Director and author of the film The Master and Margarita

ARTIST VASYL RYABCHENKO: On Mythmaking, Paintings with the «Smell of Borscht», and Friendship with Roitburd

«I create my works inspired by feelings that leave no room for evil — love, kindness, happiness, beauty, and harmony — the very feelings I wish to fill the future of Ukraine and the surrounding world with»

Painter, graphic artist, photo artist

Vasyl Riabchenko

VALENTIN SILVESTROV: «Silence Can Be the Most Valuable Thing on Earth»

«In 20th-century music, a strange phenomenon appeared — the fear of silence. But, as it turned out, silence can be the most valuable thing on earth. The greatest idea is a quiet, peaceful life.»

Valentyn Sylvestrov

Composer, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, laureate of the Shevchenko Prize.

THE GOLDEN DOZEN OF UKRAINIAN PHILOSOPHERS: from moralist to futurist

«Truth speaks in a simple voice. Everything in the world is wisely arranged. All that is necessary is simple; all that is complicated is unnecessary.»

Skovoroda Hryhorii

Ukrainian philosopher, moralist, poet, fabulist.

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