Volyn to count “shoots” on the tree of Den’s projects

Lutsk was the city which saw the very first presentation of Ukraine Incognita, the book that opened and named Den’s large-scale project: a series of publications on historical themes, now including several dozens of titles. Lutsk has remained the city which each year invariably hosts Den’s Photo Exhibit of the best photos from its international competition. Our newspaper has there both its own reading audience and partners, due to whom Lutsk has probably become a city whose libraries (public and school ones) boast of the largest numbers of Den’s publications. Each year the municipal government (under the late mayor Mykola Romaniuk) and local charitable foundations would purchase and donate to libraries all Den’s recent publications. This year, just like the year before, the charitable foundation Volyn 2014 will buy the book My Sister Sofia... for schools in Lutsk and the raion. The foundation will also sponsor their subscriptions to Den.

All the meetings, readers’ conferences, and presentations of the photo exhibit take place at the library of the Lesia Ukrainka Eastern European National University. Den/The Day’s editor-in-chief Larysa IVSHYNA is a member of the university’s supervisory board and an honorary professor. Meetings and discussions with her always attract crowds. The university remembers her public presentation “Identity and Modernization of Ukraine,” and her master class for the students of the Institute of Philology and Journalism became quite an event. The budding social pedagogical workers wrote entire essays about what they had seen and experienced at the presentation of Den’s Photo Exhibit.

Past year’s photo exhibit made a strong impression on high school students from Lokachi, a little town in Volyn oblast. They went on a discovery excursion and also wrote essays. Principal Oksana Sakharchuk told that she had intended to take children from this small provincial town to Den’s Photo Exhibit: what the newspaper is doing in general, gives “impulses which provide food for thought,” believes Sakharchuk. The Lokachi Gymnasium has hosted three conferences dedicated to Den’s books, and the fourth one is on the way. This year the high school students from Lokachi hope to see the presentation of the exhibit and take part in a meeting with Den’s editor-in-chief during Den’s Days in Lutsk. This meeting/discussion will be titled “A National Dialog.”

Anna DANYLCHUK, vice-rector on scientific and pedagogical work, European Union integration and work with students, Lesia Ukrainka Eastern European National University:

“We are looking forward to Den’s Days in Lutsk. The newspaper’s photo exhibit is a prominent event in the country’s cultural life, and our university is honored to host the works by top authors. Thanks to the exhibit, for half a month thousands of people from Lutsk will have an opportunity to experience major moments of the nation’s valorous, heroic, or just calmly beautiful life. I know how much inspiration give such pictures to our youth, and how they are conducive to meditation. Quite symbolically, our honorary professor Larysa Ivshyna visits us in spring, when everything is reborn and blooming, and inspires work. This year we are planning something special, and I would like to express it in spring terms: we want to count the ‘shoots,’ which are growing on the tree of Den’s projects in Volhynia. [We would like to remind that Den presented the wealth of its projects as a virtual Tree incognita.day.kiev.ua/books/derevo, and the staff keep inquiring how their books and other initiatives have been doing. – Ed.]. We are preparing a lot of interesting questions and are prepared to share our impressions and ideas.”

The best works from Den’s International Photo Exhibit will be presented at the EEU library at noon on April 28; the meeting and discussion with Den’s editor-in-chief Larysa Ivshyna and the presentation of Den’s most recently published books is slated for 1 p.m. Den’s Photo Exhibit will be open in Lutsk through May 14. Venue: 30a, Vynnychenka Street. Open: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; 10 a.m.-4:45 p.m. on Saturdays. Closed: Sundays. Admission is free.