Students of UzhNU - winners of the poster contest "Feelings of Ukraine: fear, love and hate"

UzhNU continues to cooperate with one of the best universities in the UK - the University of Central Lancashire. Within the framework of the Twinning Initiative, a number of events have already taken place, including this year's visit of the delegation to Preston, during which representatives of 5 UzhNU faculties strengthened cooperation, exchanged ideas, and participated in meetings and discussions on Ukrainian issues.

UzhNU students are winners of the poster contest "Feeling Ukraine: Fear, Love and Hate "One of these events, "Building Bridges", was organised by Alexandros Koutsoukis, a lecturer in international relations at UCLan. The participants were writers, IDPs, and UzhNU teachers. The event was preceded by a student poster competition "Feeling Ukraine: Fear, Love, Hate". According to the conditions, the participants had to create works manually or on a computer in landscape or portrait formats. The content of the works was intended to promote dialogues between the participants.

The competition jury included Andrew Brody, a lecturer in the history of fine arts at UCLan and photographer, and Antonina Bulyna, deputy head of the international relations department at UzhNU.

The winners were four students from UzhNU and two more from UCLan. The UzhNU students are studying at the Department of Journalism of the Faculty of Philology (sophomore Kateryna Zherebak and freshman Daria Likholit) and the Faculty of Foreign Philology (Svitlana Sukhodolska, 1st year, and Oksana Kanyuka, 4th year). Each of them received a certificate with the opportunity to purchase £50 worth of goods at Amazon.

The certificates were presented to the winners of the UzhNU Journalism Department by the Head of the Department Yevhen Solomin.

UzhNU students - winners of the poster contest "Feeling Ukraine: Fear, Love and Hate"

Daria Likholit, who was pleasantly surprised by her victory, told us about the poster she created: "I was invited to participate by our teacher Natalia Tolochko. I gladly agreed. I added the outlines of Ukraine to the poster and placed photos from my hometown of Kharkiv inside, which I took myself. The idea of the poster was to convey emotions and feelings about the fact that there is a war in our city, that Kharkiv is constantly being shelled, and that foreigners should not fall for Russian propaganda and manipulation. I added the inscription "And there will come a day when the light will shine in our homes again". I believe that one day the light will shine in the homes of all Ukrainians who return home. And in my house too!"

For Kateryna Zherebak, the victory was also unexpected: "For some time, I thought my work was grey and invisible, but after winning, I looked at it in a slightly different way. The idea of my poster is 'Our spring under a peaceful sky in Zakarpattia thanks to our Armed Forces'. One side of the poster is yellow and blue, with a child flying a kite to symbolise freedom, and on the other side is a young soldier who is defending the whole country, protecting our land and giving us hope for a peaceful life. I spent the money I received wisely, investing it in blogging."

It is gratifying that the winning works of the students received positive feedback from the jury and teachers present at the event, and hopefully will encourage foreigners to reflect on the war in Ukraine.

Lilia Hlozhyk, first-year student majoring in Advertising and Public Relations.

 

• International Activities,
• Faculty of Philology