This public event with Mark Marczyk and Mariia Kudriavtseva will provide the opportunity for us to learn more about the role of the arts in war and revolution in Ukraine. They have been close witnesses of the social changes that have occurred in the past and to this day Mark and Mariia continue to witness the turmoil. Mark spent most of 2014 in Ukraine performing and writing the more intimate/human aspects of the conflict with ethnomusicologist Mariia Kudriavtseva.   Earlier this year Mark stated, “A month ago I arrived in Kiev to work on the score of a film about the 1932-33 famine known as The Holodomor. My assignment was to travel across the Ukraine, record rare sounds from local masters and amateurs, and arrange them to tell the story of the genocide that left up to 7.5 million dead and continues to shape ongoing events in the nation’s struggle for independence”

Location: Bata Library Film Theatre room 105

For more information please contact  rdevlin@trentu.ca

Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2014.