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Photographer In Focus

Yuliya Gorodetska (Julia Gorodetskaya) was born and raised in Odessa and worked as a journalist for 15 years in her native city. She now...

Jay Jay Johanson In Chernomorsk: Songs About Becoming Friends Again

World famous Swedish musician Jay Jay Johanson performing in the Odessa suburb of Chernomorsk sounds like a fantasy, but on August 26th  it came...

“Salon of Rejects”

On September 15, 2017 the “Salon of Rejects” exhibition opens in the ruins of the Odessa Maritime Museum. APL315, Anatoly Gankevich, Igor Gusev, Alexander...

DOCU/HIT: The journey with incredible documentary eight!

The top-notch festival of documentary features about human rights, Docudays UA, has come to Odessa. The screenings take place at the Green Theater and...

To Clarice Lispector, Wherever She Might Find Me

Four decades after her passing, the acclaimed Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector (December 10, 1920 — December 9, 1977) is becoming ever more lionized for...

Kafka On Screen In Western Ukraine

Ukrainian Director Ivan Orlenko On His Debute Film “In Our Synagogue”. “In Our Synagogue” is the first film by Ukrainian director Ivan Orlenko. The 30-minute,...

Odessa’s Neglected Poets: Semyon Keselman And Anatoly Fioletov

Boris Dralyuk is the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Read our long interview with him here. “Odessa is a nasty place,” wrote...

The Other Half Of The Equation

Prominent Odessa-born art theorist and media artist Peter Weibel thinks that the European art scene needs more contributions from the East. Peter Weibel is an...

The Third Odessa International Literature Festival

The festival takes place for the third year in Odessa between September 28th and October 1, 2017. Now In its third year, the Odessa Literary...

Twenty Years Of Bridge-Building

Since 1997, the intellectual journal Krytyka has projected an alternate future program for Ukraine: democracy, openness, internationalism. For twenty years, The journal has been...