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We released a few more tickets for tomorrow's concert with GANNA. with Luminato Festival x Institut
Tickets: https://www.stvolodymyr.org/events-calendar/intstitut-006

What's a prypynda? Find out at our hands-on workshop this weekend!

📍Saturday May 23, 1pm • 620 Spadina Avenue

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/prypynda-workshop-macrame-knot-work-apron-tickets-1988494172599
Choose red, white or black when you check out.

This week at INSTITUT (620 Spadina Avenue)

INSTITUT 003
Vol. 3: Thursday, May 21, 2026

5:00 PM | PANEL: Nothing Bad Has Ever Happened

What does it mean to grapple with historical truth at a time of war? Marci Shore (Munk School / Yale; author of The Ukrainian Night; Guggenheim Fellow) and Karolina Koziura (cultural historian; Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow, EUI) go deep on academia, poetry, and publishing in Ukraine, with a close look at Victoria Amelina's neighbourly essay.

7:00 PM | FILM: "Well for the Thirsty" (d. Yuri Illienko, 1965)

One of the foundational works of Ukrainian Poetic Cinema, banned on release and rarely screened. Set in a nearly abandoned village, it follows an old man surrounded by memories of a disappearing world. Presented by Pylyp Illienko, son of the director and former Head of the Ukrainian State Film Agency.

11 PM | Live Score | Shaunt Raffi x The Colour of Pomegranates (Parajanov, 1969)

Parajanov's film is less narrative than waking dream: painterly tableaux drawn from the life of Armenian poet Sayat-Nova, rich with sacred music and colour. Shaunt Raffi gives it a new sonic body: a live improvised Ableton set with vintage samples.

11 PM | Shaunt Raffi | Vintage vinyl selection

Armenian folk, desert blues, ethio jazz. Threads of the evening may resurface. New ones will appear.

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✉️ Latest news from our co-presenters TUFF - Toronto Ukrainian Film Festival.

Дякуємо. Thank you. To our filmmakers, panelists, audiences, volunteers, sponsors, and partners St. Volodmyr Institute and Second Front UA — the 2026 Toronto Ukrainian Film Festival was yours as much as ours. These stories don't exist in a vacuum. They come from a place that continues to fight for its voice, its cult...