«Culture Helps / Культура допомагає»: results of the fifth call of the individual grants
The individual grants programme aims to support cultural managers who work to integrate Ukrainians into new communities through cultural events. Within the programme, you can receive up to €1000 for sessions with a psychologist, a trip to a wellness retreat, and more. We will soon announce a new open call for individual mental health support. Check the news for updates!
During the fifth competition for individual grants, we received 317 applications, of which we will be able to support 35 in this round:
- Vitalia Artemova, cultural manager
- Olga Bohachevska, artist
- Iryna Bozhko, activist
- Adelina Brahanets, artist
- Marharyta Vynohradova, activist
- Anastasia Hubina, artist
- Hanna Davydenko, activist
- Yulia Danylchuk, artist
- Sofia Doroshenko, cultural manager
- Anastasia Zamorska, cultural manager
- Diana Karpenko, cultural manager
- Olena Kolodyazhna, activist
- Anna Kopiova, artist
- Anatoliy Levchenko, artist
- Larysa Lekhan, activist
- Nadiya Ledniova, activist
- Svitlana Lystiuk, cultural manager
- Yulia Makliuk, artist
- Olga Mirovych, cultural manager
- Varvara Mozhayeva, cultural manager
- Olena Nelyub, cultural manager
- Yulia Ovcharenko, cultural manager
- Tetiana Ogloblyna, artist
- Alina Panasenko, artist
- Anastasia Romanova, cultural manager
- Iryna Ryazanova, activist
- Antonina Sanina, activist
- Yulia Selivanova, activist
- Svitlana Sidashova, artist
- Svitlana Sitnik, activist
- Larysa Taranets, activist
- Zoya Troshyna, artist
- Dmytro Fedorov, cultural manager
- Vadym Khainskyi, artist
- Sofia Yakovyshyna, cultural manager
All applications were evaluated by independent experts from the cultural, artistic and public spheres. Among them:
- Anna Pohribna — a deputy general director for program issues at the Mystetskyi Arsenal;
- Sofia Korotkevych — an artist of conceptual, graphic and applied art, manager of cultural and artistic projects;
- Tetiana Vovk — a co-founder of Psikultura, a psychologist, a mental health consultant in organizations;
- Anna Potiomkina — an independent curator and cultural manager, co-founder of the Asortymentna Kimnata NGO;
- Anton Yermolaev — a psychologist, a practitioner of transactional analysis in the field of psychotherapy, a mental health consultant in organizations and a co-founder of the psychological agency Psikultura;
- Khrystyna-Maria Slobodianiuk — an artist;
- Natalia Pedan — a cultural manager, curator of art projects, museologist, head of the department of research and revival of decorative and applied art and exhibition activities of the Kharkiv Regional Organizational and Methodological Center for Culture and Art;
- Kateryna Ilchuk — a psychologist-consultant in CBT and positive psychotherapy, an expert at the Psikultura agency, and a mental health consultant in organizations;
- Olga Polyak — a curator of the School of Contemporary Art for Teenagers and Adults “Fra Fra Fra”;
- Lera Polska — a psychoeducation trainer and art therapist, an advocate for evidence-based methods;
- Lyudmila Tomashpolska — an honored artist of the arts of Ukraine, TV director, pedagogue of KyMU and KPDU, expert of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and the Ukrainian Book Institute;
- Yurii Veselskyi — a head of art programs and grant specialist of the Representative Office of the Danish Institute of Culture in Ukraine, the Ukrainian-Danish Youth House;
- Maryna Slyot — a music therapist, a specialist at the Confidence Psychological Assistance Center, a leading specialist and expert at Art Therapy Force;
- Yulia Filipieva — a cultural manager in British Council;
- Mariana Maksymiak — a cultural manager.
Participants have already received letters with further steps. Thank you all for your participation!
«Culture Helps / Культура допомагає» is a project co-funded by the European Union under a dedicated call for proposals to support Ukrainian displaced people and the Ukrainian Cultural and Creative Sectors. The project is a cooperation between Insha Osvita (UA) and zusa (DE).
