 Welcome everybody once again. Today we wanted to present the activity of the Cultural Front Foundation in these difficult times. My name is Yelena Satcha. I'm joined by Natalia Karnitska, my friend. I will talk about the activity. Natalia will talk about the research carried out together with the Ministry of Information of Ukraine. The Ukrainian Cultural Fund is a state of institution created in 2017 in correspondence with the law of Ukraine. And we started working in 2018. We support artists and projects based on contests and grants to help artists continue their activity. We support different sectors of art. It's audiovisual, audiovisual arts, creative arts, performing arts and cultural heritage. Our grants help create various projects, including graffiti, inclusive video content, performative choreographical exhibitions and other many other cultural products. Every single year starting from 2018 we have received over 2,000 grants from different cultural sectors. In total we received over 10,000 applications and we managed to support over two and a half thousand grants. In 2022 until the war we received over 3,000 grant applications from many corners of all the corners of our country. On February 24th this year the whole situation has changed so due to the war the Ministry concluded that about 20 million euros were repurposed, redirected, taken away from the fund and devoted to the Ukrainian Army. We need to reorient, refocus our activity and adapt to the new circumstances. We focused in the first place on information war with Russian aggression and secondly assistance to artists and cultural projects in these difficult times. The first direction the information information war since the beginning of the year we received over 3,000 letters to support Ukraine and to suspend any cooperation with Russian institutions. We turned to such international institutions as embassies, funds, committees, representatives of Ukrainian diaspora, members of international associations of which our fund is a member of. That includes in fact European network of cultural centers, cultural action Europe and others. Because we are the member of a member of such associations we could connect with them. With NCC we submitted an application for a contest to support Ukraine to receive sub-grants to support Ukrainian artists and projects. In order to inform you on the key events in Ukraine we initiated chronicles of the on the cultural front. In order also to support Ukrainian artists and inform them on what is happening on the cultural front in Ukraine. Such information was sent twice a week. Right now we reduced this frequency to once a week only. We could not, I mean we had to focus on helping cultural, on informing on the losses of the cultural heritage. So we decided to create a map of cultural losses in cooperation with Ukrainian Ministry of Culture. So we included such information on video recordings and photo recordings on the map which was placed on an interactive map on the website of the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture. To be always informed of the scale of the losses. We're also collecting artistic works and created an online art portal and in order to systemize these works and and post their memes posters and any kind of information that users could also share with their friends thanks to this portal. In order to support our culture considering we cannot financially support, be supported by the government we created another portal together with Ministry of Information. We collected current information there and published everything we collected this platform includes a collection of information from artists about their current needs for them in order to continue their work. Applications on this platform can be submitted by cultural workers who want to reinstate their activity and thirdly it includes current projects aimed to to be realized by our artists and cultural institutions. This platform is aimed at collecting this information from Ukrainian artists and institutions who are in a very difficult situation and who need help to restore their activity and to restore their in wartime and after our victory. This platform allows Ukrainian cultural fund to collect these needs which are extremely vital for culture. Our mission is to find resources to realize the needs submitted on that platform. Right now we we turn to our international partners and donors in order to review these projects and find the project that they like and find to find somehow finance this project. Along with our partners Ukrainian Cultural Foundation we made the project Charity Hero to help Ukrainian culture now. Thanks to our efforts people from all around the world can support Ukrainian culture just with one click on your smartphone thanks to a link and to donate quickly. All funds collected through this campaign will be directed to the Ukrainian Cultural Fund which we will then direct to support artists and institutions in the form of stipends. We were joined by other 12 Ukrainian activists who continue their activity in other European countries. This year we managed to take funds from the government in the amount of 112,000 euros received 360 applications and awarded 32 grants. Artists are not reporting on their other projects because they have received the grants. Our parliament voted through budget and this budget the law on the budget on 2023. The scope of financing to our institution amounted to close to 4 million euros out of which 3.7 million euros will be directed to cultural projects and 125,000 for euros of scholarships. We present our projects on the forum Creative Ukraine. These funds will be part of it will be directed to these programs which in 2022 began that applications were submitted to a program of visual art and another project. Part of the financing will direct to other programs. In the first place these programs will be directed to the institution of artistic activity and to support cultural heritage. Another program will be dealing with regional art to support unique ethnic projects in Ukraine. This concludes the overview of our activity. Now I would like to give the floor to my friend, colleague Natalia. Once again I would like to greet all of you. We all understand that during the war cultural and creative industries they and representatives of these industries left the country because everyone is searching for some opportunities to realize the ambitions and needs and at the same time our creative and cultural sector still supports the armed forces of Ukraine and supports volunteers and everyone does its best to bring us closer to victory. And therefore we would like to analyze the situation and therefore we made a research and these are the results of this research. First this research was divided into three parts. First part the condition state of the institutions that were not evacuated that remained in Ukraine. The second part about grant opportunities and the third part is related to those who left the country and around 1,000 respondents took part in our survey. It's around 60% were men and 80% of people were abroad and left in Ukraine and 20% went abroad. We ask has their activity changed, had the activity of their institution where they worked before changed and up to 15% of respondents answered that they left without any work any job and then the following group who said that they started being volunteers or they are engaging in some voluntarily works or in the armed forces. Only a part of respondents answered that nothing has changed and they keep working on their previous job position. We also asked have had their business activity or the activity of the enterprise changed comparing to April 2022 and around 30% response and think that yes this activity has increased and a lot of institutions on the deoccupied territories revived the activities answering about the impact of a full scale war on the activities of the enterprise institution where the respondents work. First of all people talked about decreasing of a number of orders, remote work and every fifth respondents said the other day lost the personnel or colleagues left abroad. Another part about opportunities to and capacities of institutions and 40% of people answering what possibility they used to it means grants or some financial opportunities and 40% answered they did not take advantage of any opportunity they had. 25% of respondents used state programs of support for citizens and it means also 2000 creamness for internally replaced people. The reasons why the company or institution where respondent work before didn't take advantage of some business or support opportunities. First of all it was mentioned that this institution does not correspond with all the requirements because it's not their legal form is not appropriate and therefore they do not fit in this program or something like that. So quite a large number of institutions and respondents told that they were not informed or they were just unaware of some financial opportunities about some grants or some form of support when they answered what priority measures from the state or donors can help creative industries survive during the war and recover from it and 61% of people mentioned grants. Quite a lot of people mentioned reimbursement compensations, some programs for supporting regional or cross-sectoral initiatives, programs to increase demand, consultations, trainings and so on. In the beginning I mentioned that both Ukrainians who left Ukraine and Ukrainians who were forced to do this or that reason to be evacuated and 20% of those surveyed were abroad during the moment of conducting the survey and the majority of respondents who were forced to leave either they evacuated themselves and part of them just used the support of their relatives or friends and mostly people left for you or Schengen countries answering the question are you working abroad? 33% answered that no I did not work but I was actually looking for some job opportunities around 20% answered that they continue working for their previous institutions and part of respondents work as self-employed people and a very interesting question do you plan to come back to Ukraine? This survey was conducted in June and the majority of people answered that they do plan to return and 12% told that they plan to come back in the nearest future and around 30% mentioned that they plan to come back after the end of hostilities in Ukraine but we do understand that it's all very flexible and we have to conduct such survey again because we have to understand we changed because the summer changed a lot and these circumstances we are having now they also changed the situation and therefore we are conducting another survey at the moment to compare the results of the previous survey the most important one everyone of us can do now is to first of all share verified reliable information we are always open to cooperation to partnership to discussing any opportunities that may help support the creative cultural industries so if you have ideas programs we are very glad to discuss it with you either here or by email we stand strong we believe in our victory and we do believe that this forum Greenegrass 2.0 is going to be conducted in Ukraine. Thanks a lot.