HOLISTIC HERITAGE

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.

We’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.

December 2022 marked the reopening of the Slovak National Gallery after major reconstruction. Our guide to the newly opened building is Alexandra Kusá PhD, its general director and a specialist in 20th century art.

In this episode, we speak to one of European heritage’s most revered practitioners, Professor Jacek Purchla.

In 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.

One 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.