Doors 17:30 | Start 18:00
This event is part of the
PANDAwomen 2025 Festival.
Curated by interdisciplinary artist Sveta Ben, this evening brings together exiled
Belarusian artists whose work reclaims language, memory, and imagination in times of displacement
and repression. With poetry, music, performance and film, the night offers intimate encounters
with the complexity of Belarusian identity today.
Programme:
A documentary on the everyday lives, fears, and courage of Belarusian youth — both in Belarus and abroad. A conversation with the director will follow the screening.
An artistic reflection on Belarus presented by a Berlin-based belarusian visual artist Lesia Pcholka. By mobilizing community archives and approaches in experimental storytelling, Pcholka creates layered narratives that move between personal and political, private and collective — reimagining how histories can be remembered and resisted.
KROVAZVAROT with Julija Cimafiejeva (poetry)
A poetic and musical performance tracing ancestral memory, exile, and the language of survival.
Concert
A duo consisting of Belarusian vocalist and composer KOOB and Swedish bassist Seth Sjöström. Their music moves between Nordic folk, jazz, and improvisation — quiet, lyrical, deeply felt.
Žuravl is a music project by Belarusian composer and vocalist Anastasia. Their performance moves between light jazz and industrial, blending lyrical expression with elements of theatre. It’s melancholy and raw emotion turned into sound.
A multidisciplinary performance closing the evening with sound, gesture, and voice. Known for her emotionally immersive works, Anastasia blends electronic soundscapes, Belarusian motifs, and live ritual energy.
Curated by Sveta Ben
Sveta Ben is a Belarusian-born, Berlin-based artist, musician, poet, and director. Her interdisciplinary work spans installation, voice, performance, and community engagement. She is the initiator of this evening — bringing together Belarusian creators who work at the edges of form and belonging.
Artists:
Documentary photographer, journalist and filmmaker from Belarus. Among the topics she works with are human rights, refugees, mental illnesses and social issues. Since the 2020 protests in Belarus, she has directed five short and middle-length documentaries for Current Time TV.
Belarusian artist, archivist and activist. She is the founder of the VEHA platform and teaches at the European College for Liberal Arts in Belarus. Her work explores everyday life, memory, and social issues through art and participatory practice.
Poet, writer, translator. Author of five poetry books and the widely translated Minsk Diary. Her poetry reflects exile, memory, and female experience. Her play Extremists premiered at the Maxim Gorki Theater. Currently a DAAD Berlin fellow.
A duo project between singer/composer KOOB and bassist Seth Sjöström. Their stripped-down, expressive performances float between folk, jazz, and improvisation. A space of musical clarity and emotional honesty.
Personal music project of Belarusian composer and vocalist Anastasia Zhurauliova, whose work is centered around voice, movement, and a keen sensitivity to emotional rhythm. On stage, she weaves together light jazz inflections with industrial textures, shaping her performances as intimate theatrical experiences.
Anastasia Rydlevskaya
Interdisciplinary artist working with music, visual language, and performance. Her work explores ritual, trauma, and femininity through sonic and physical presence. Based in Poland.
Admission: 20 euro online | 25 euro doors
Credits: Linda Esperanza, Grzegorz Mehring
