Cambridge Ukrainian Studies regularly organises prominent exhibitions of art and artifacts from and about Ukraine as well as performances of Ukrainian cultural material.
Exhibition highlights include The 1932-33 Diaries of Gareth Jones, which garnered wide international recognition, as well as Verse in Vision: The Art of Taras Shevchenko and The Art of Feodosii Humeniuk.
Since 2016, Cambridge Ukrainian Studies has also been a moving force behind Night Train Theatre Company's Maklena project, which has resurrected Mykola Kulish's banned play Maklena Grasa (1933) and adapted it for English-language audiences. Praised as 'captivating, heart-wrenching and genuinely funny', the production has received five-star reviews. In this interview, Rory Finnin (Director of CUS) explains the origins of the project:
These wonderful animated short videos from the Night Train Theatre Company (in English and Ukrainian, respectively) explain the extraordinary political controversies surrounding the play:
