In this episode of the podcast "Ukraine Heritage Spotlight," we visit Lviv, home to the Jam Factory Art Center, new multidisciplinary art center. John Beauchamp, a radio journalist and sound producer, and Katarzyna Jagodzińska PhD, head of the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub in Krakow, meet with Bozhena Pelenska, the Executive Director of Jam Factory.
read moreWe’re in the centre of Lviv to visit UA Comix – a comic book store, as you might have guessed from the name. But it’s so much more than that. In fact, you could say that comics are now helping the Ukranian war effort against Russia.
read moreIn this new series from the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub in Kraków, we’ll be travelling to bring you in-depth and sound rich stories on heritage from Central and Eastern Europe.
read moreOne of the most important activities in heritage research is not just looking at the past, but recording the present for future generations of citizens and scholars. This is exactly what Dr Iryna Sklokina is doing from the Center for Urban History in Lviv. One of the centre’s projects is „Un-archiving Post-industry”, which digitally preserves endangered industrial heritage collections in Ukraine’s East.
read moreThe number of cultural heritage sites in Ukraine is huge, yet with local municipalities struggling to finance the upkeep of buildings, monuments and other treasures, new ways of financing have had to be found. That is where Spadshchyna.UA – which means ‘heritage’ in Ukrainian – comes into play.
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