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UK/Ukraine Season comes to a close after bringing together audiences of over 1,000 artists and cultural professionals from the UK and Ukraine.

Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland and socially engaged arts practice: What role can the arts and creativity play in countries emerging from conflict and polarised societies in navigating unresolved concerns, ongoing debates and controversial questions for our communities.

The British Council and the Ukrainian Institute have become partners of the EuroFestival: Liverpool unveils details of 24 cultural projects that will showcase Ukrainian culture to the British and world community.

Projects of Ukrainian-British creative teams included in the programme of a two-week cultural festival – EuroFest – which will take over Liverpool in the lead up to The Eurovision Song Contest.

The play Bunker Cabaret, born in the bomb shelters of Kyiv, will be performed on 24 and 25 February in London at the experimental space Somerset House. The play by the Ukrainian theatre community Hooligan Art Community tours in the UK as part of the UK/Ukraine Cultural Season. The play will also be shown in Germany and Ireland.

University of Chichester digital writer in residence Volodymyr Rafeienko, BBC special correspondent and writer Fergal Keane, and poet Sasha Dugdale talk about the act of witnessing through writing, and the effects of connection with other writers through times of war and great upheaval.

The UK/Ukraine Season of Culture has been on for almost a year. We started our work on the Season way back in 2019, but the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine has forced us to reimage the original Season theme 'Future Reimagined'. We have now created an even more diverse schedule of live events in the UK and provided global online access to our entire programme.

Crimea 5аm is a documentary performance, drawing on the literary work of Ukrainian authors Natalia Vorozhbyt and Anastasiia Kosodii, and directed by Josephine Burton.

Returning to a full-fledged 10-day format for the first time since 2019, hcmf, presented an extensive Ukrainian programme. Let's take a look back at how it was.

HCMF — UK’s largest international festival of new and experimental music. This year’s festival hosted an extensive Ukrainian programme. Hard-hitting multimedia opera Chornobyldorf сreated by Ukrainian composers Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko has opened this year’s festival.

Coming to film festivals in Belfast, Brighton, Leeds and Cornwall, Ukrainian Films Month featured some of the best Ukrainian films of the year, as well as internationally recognised classics of Ukrainian cinema.

Outburst Queer Arts Festival presented an exhibition of works from Ukrainian artist Anton Shebetko, in partnership with Catalyst Arts, Belfast.