Lecture Jaap Scholten 'Drie zakken dameskleding, twee cakes Kyiv en een sniper' in Akerk
On Sunday 11 December at 15.00, Jaap Scholten will give a lecture on his recently published book Drie zakken dameskleding, twee cakes Kyiv en een sniper: Naar de grens van Oekraïne en verder. The lecture takes place in the Akerk and complements the exhibition Ukraine: the path to freedom, which is on display there until 22 January 2023.
When Russian tanks roll into Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Jaap Scholten makes his way to the Ukrainian border to help a young family from Kyiv. In the weeks that follow, he gets more and more involved. He helps refugees and raises money for drones and night vision goggles. Driving across the country in his pick-up truck, he meets a motley mix of Ukrainians: an engineer, a violinist, a singer, a cook, a writer. With the director of a Kyiv cake factory, he visits a funeral in Irpin, they supply soldiers in Hostomel and bring flour to bread bakers in the liberated city of Chernihiv.On a turbulent road trip, American sniper Neal tells him about life at the front and a rescue of a six-day-old baby from an underground hospital in Mariupol.
Drie zakken dameskleding, twee cakes Kyiv en een sniper is a personal log of a journey through a country at war as well as a unique account of the unlikely courage, resilience and unity that the war has instilled in Ukrainians. The book was published in November by Atlas Contact and can be ordered here.
Book ‘Drie zakken dameskleding, twee cakes Kyiv en een sniper’ by Jaap Scholten
Lecture
On Sunday 11 December at 15:00, Jaap Scholten will talk more about his book and journey through Ukraine. To attend the lecture, buy a ticket for the exhibition Ukraine: the path to freedom on Sunday 11 December here. This ticket allows you to visit both the exhibition and Jaap Scholten’s lecture.
Ukraine: the path to freedom
Noorderlicht and the Akerk think it is important to keep the focus on Ukraine and have therefore extended the exhibition Ukraine: the path to freedom until 22 January 2023. This exhibition is curated by Kateryna Radchenko, curator of the Ukrainian festival Odessa Photo Days, together with Noorderlicht chief curator Wim Melis. The photographs show us the imposed yoke of the Soviet Union, to today’s war that has made every photographer in Ukraine a war photographer. In this exhibition, Ukrainian photographers make painfully clear how art is simultaneously autonomous and a mirror of the turbulent society in which it is created.
The publication The Information Front was recently published. This independent publication series accompanies the exhibition and portrays important events in Ukraine’s history. The Information Front can be ordered here.
