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CAPPY AND THE WHALE: a heartwarming play with projections and paper puppetry by Ukrainian artists
The Well Walk Theatre, October 18, Saturday, 15:00 and October 19, Sunday, 11:00 and 15:00
 • Kateryna Babkina
We All Saw It. And Nothing Happened
Instead of feeling obliged to think about what it means to look at war crimes documented in real time, one should feel fucking obliged to act.
 • Kateryna Babkina
Drifting Further and Further from the Familiar Shore
The time when survival meant keeping dangers in mind above all else, to warn and to teach others how to avoid them, has long passed. Now, to adapt, to…
 • Kateryna Babkina
“You are just being emotional,” they said.
Let alone professional, objective, or unbiased, a person who doesn’t get emotional while dealing with this war cannot be considered a human being.
 • Kateryna Babkina
Father’s Day is Father’s Day
She thought her concert was a great success, while it was rather a painful reminder of what he, and she, and even I are losing to this war.
 • Kateryna Babkina
I didn’t even know that was an option.
Spoken so directly, it’s way more frightening – even though I didn’t come on a tiny boat, but by plane, with all the relevant documents. But uh oh …
 • Kateryna Babkina
Victory Day and the Darkness
It doesn’t justify anything, but it explains a lot. He never really had a chance to learn anything real. His understanding of the world was close to…
 • Kateryna Babkina
A Ukrainian writer in London
A Ukrainian writer in London
Kateryna Babkina, trying her best writing in English.
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