The creative team of Faculty of Culture and Arts and the Faculty of Philology and Journalism had a second of the volunteer concert «The Cossack race will live forever!» from the initiated series of meetings «Seven notes and seven strings will resonate» to the militaries currently recovering in the Medical Centre for the Rehabilitation of Combatants.
The event took place on November 23, 2023. At the beginning of the meeting, Head of Primary Trade Union Organization of Students, Inna Pastushok, expressed respect and gratitude on behalf of the university community to our defenders and workers of the rehabilitation centre for their daily feat.
Since the student initiative is gaining momentum, this time the artistic community presented many new songs and poems, and also improvised at the request of the audience. The visitors warmly greeted the masterful performance of Ukrainian songs by the students of Faculty of Culture and Arts, Sofia Kushnir and Olha Prokopenko, with special admiration for the solo parts of Anastasia Hordiienko and the musical accompaniment of Bohdan Lukashuk. It is pleasant that the sound of the songs gathered more and more new viewers, who went to the penetrating voices and well-known melodies.
With extreme tenderness and touching the deep strings of everyone’s soul, to the accompaniment of the guitar, first-year philology students Viktoriia Andriichuk, Olha Melnyk, Anastasiia Nameniuk and Iryna Povkh performed Sviatoslav Vakarchuk’s song «Boat».
Between the songs, young poets Kateryna Bondarchuk, Olha Melnyk and Yulia Materatska recited their own poems written during the war.
The audience received a powerful boost of energy from the philologists of the Ukr-13EE group turning on with Jerry Heil’s song «The Cossack race will live forever!» On this emotional wave, the militaries offered to sing the National Anthem of Ukraine together at the end, an improvised performance of unity and victory.
Traditionally, volunteers presented woven patriotic charms to the defenders and treated them with sweets. And the representative of the Ukr-32E group, Roman Poliak, donated fiction to replenish the medical centre’s book collection, being updated by the University staff.
Sharing her impressions, Inna Pastushok, the 4th year student of Specialty 014 Secondary Education (Ukrainian Language and Literature), noted: «Our student life is possible only under the conditions that we have the best defenders. Thanks to them, we have peaceful mornings. This should be remembered always and everywhere. It is worth paying tribute, supporting our heroes in various ways. Fundraising is the main driving force, but moral support is just as important. The militaries should see it, because it is motivation.»
Daryna Halias, the 1st year student of Specialty 014 Secondary Education (Ukrainian Language and Literature), commented: «I am extremely grateful to the military for the fact that we can rest, study, and live peacefully. I am infinitely glad that our activities make them even a little bit happier, so I will try to do everything I can!»
Olha Melnyk, the student of the same specialty, added: «The Ukr-12EE group was glad to join the event and give their warmth to the soldiers in the rehabilitation centre. We tried to cheer up the heroes with our poetry and Ukrainian songs and were happy to see smiles on their faces. All the people in the hall were united by the belief that we are a special and strong nation, walking the right path to the Victory under a single peaceful sky. Our steps, our unity bring the much-desired Victory closer!»
Roman Poliak, the third-year student, noted that our soldiers received literature for simultaneous relaxation and distraction. «Together with Department of Ukrainian Literature, we selected works for different tastes and preferences, so that everyone could choose exactly what they like. I hope that reading the books will bring great pleasure to our soldiers.»
«Since I am studying in Specialty 025 Musical Art,» said the third-year student Anastasia Hordiienko, «I am glad about having the opportunity to give positive emotions and a good mood to our military personnel. It is nice that the University is engaged in charity work and we have cooperation with various faculties. Unspeakable joy for the student body, always active and involved in the initiatives. We will continue holding such events.»
Art therapy from studentship continues, we are getting ready for the next meeting. Join us!
Iryna LEVCHUK,
Assistant Professor of Department of History
and Culture of the Ukrainian Language
