Standing together
Have you wondered what the experience of war is really like? Or what underlies resilience in the face of adversity, and the capacity to turn pain into empowered action for the common good?
In a rapidly shifting world, we are inviting you to be part of a special series of documentary screenings and deep exchanges with visiting ethnographic film maker and correspondent from Ukraine Tetiana Staneva that would allow us to have a look “through the war” and its most personal aspects that teach us about human potentialities.
Any war is sure to fill the space with volumes of pain, loss, injustice, and wounds. And at the same time, the need for deep meanings gains urgency in wars, leaving little space for non-genuine answers. This urgency of war strips all the masks, leading us down to the bare essence of who we are as people and who we could be in the full expression of our humanity.
This is also happening in the war aggressively waged by Russia, with the full-scale invasion of Ukraine now starting its fourth year. During this period the Ukrainians have demonstrated to the world a tremendous capacity for resilience. The numerous challenges of the current global political dynamics are a further test. In Ukrainian language there is a word "subjektnist" that stands for this individual and networked capacity to act for the common good which has enabled Ukrainians to organize and fight back.
We invite you to an experiential space that allows us to witness both the wounding and the openings for collective healing and capacity for act. The series is a special initiative of the Gergina Human Development Foundation, with the generous support of partners and co-missioners.
