 Hello dear colleagues, thank you everyone who has gathered here on the third day. In fact, my task is kind of challenging because my mission is to present the, introduce the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine and the directions of the minister's work and they suggested to give me 20 minutes for that. I thought that since I can't tell everything anyway, something will remain, so I'm gonna start to structure my speech and follow the same approach as was used in other panels. As you mentioned, the topic of this conference is the human resources, the creativity sector of the current people and I actually really liked that all moderators and speakers emphasized the human dimension of the culture because this warmth of the human body is what is the most valuable today and what we should preserve in the first place. The first part of my speech is a brief summary about the work of the ministry. This is the cultural institution, there are 186 persons of us, I'm in charge of the directorate of culture and arts and there are 16 people in my team. Our responsibility is the art creative industry and creative or art education. So this team takes care of all that. You know, there's also some direct leadership of museums, of different institutions. Other directorates, including the directorate of cultural heritage, which had some, faced some criticism because of not being able to save something, I should emphasize that and like, unvisualize that, virtualize that power that government because it's like that institutions should be powerful, should ensure and protect, but in fact these are the same people in danger, under stress and yesterday I heard a really important message by Anastasia Platonov, who said about the memory and aging and unfortunately the minister of culture doesn't preserve this institutional memory and so thank you for this opportunity to talk about it now because it's one of those issues that is also extrapolated further to everything that's happening. The second part of my presentation is this like zooming out on the background of the zooming in which we used to have. Here we have huge numbers, but every time I speak I highlight that culture is just another kind of map and here one, sometimes one equals 100 or 1,000, so one is never less than 100 and this is a totally different story. When saying that Ukraine has about 34,000 of cultural institutions supported by the government, well this number will be publicized soon, this register of those institutions is almost ready now, it will be available to public and we'll see those numbers work with. 5,000 in independent sector, well I've created this number in a way that the Ukrainian cultural fund has like over 6,000 of some unique applicants for four years and most of them are from the independent sector so this number is invented through the activities of the fund and exposed through the fund because you know that the independent sector has really a lot of challenges because of being in a shadow. I think that in fact the sector is much bigger, you see other numbers broken down by specific cultural institutions, but this slide is about what kept us for the past three years because Ukrainian culture got into the worst position, we just locked down, took us right to the blackout, we've survived COVID, all the turbulences due to the impossibility to work to operate to the full scale and there were some some threats to lives and to cultural sector because of COVID, then there was this full scale war and in fact these issues challenges they have just got larger and they remained but thanks to the fact that since 2018 we had this kind of a cultural increase, culture started behaving in a different way and it impresses the, it's affected by the NGO sectors as well thanks to some institutions they that emerge in the public sector so these let us have these numbers now that's the ongoing situation as of now we have lost in the institutional infrastructure domain we have lost 3%, these are mostly clubs, libraries, whatever which is in the east and south of Ukraine where the active military or hostilities take place and they like to emphasize that the culture has its unbelievable influence on what is going on at the war you know that some they they they choose for location some non-residential buildings, these cultural infrastructure and I explain it to myself that there's also kind of a contribution of culture which is also required for the victory and now how are we going to rebuild and what are we going to rebuild? 10% or about 20,000 people are the people of art that left Ukraine or went to military this is the approximate number and it was caused by the polls, questionaries of different of our fellow colleagues from different cultural institutions and this is just an attempt to you know to understand the scale of something realizing that we cannot hear everyone which is also one of the biggest challenges that I've already mentioned we realize that when saying that the winners write the history we understand that today we're introducing and presenting the story of survivors of those who managed to secure themselves at the regional and local levels the situation is more than threatening and there's the level which is hard to be attained and we don't have any feedback from that but in October five heads of oblast departments of culture have been fired which means that regions find it hard to survive and there's the destabilizing of the system starting from the central level we're losing those mechanisms tools of de-escalating cascading and so we realize that the government the country cannot be close to each other so when the system starts damaging from destroying from the middle link we understand how threatening it is because those people they're also unique because you know they have the skills the knowledge they have the understanding of local context of what is happening in regions so moving forward these are approximate numbers of what we've made we've forecasted in one of the worst catastrophic case scenarios we're talking about the loss of about 50 percent and about the numbers that the culture will not receive for the development but today we're still talking about the losses caused by the russian army and we have to calculate those numbers those losses as well on 29 of november the minister of culture alexander kachenko was invited to the council of the culture ministries of europe and the ukrainian ministry addressed its counterparts in european countries calling for giving one percent from the budget culture budget of their countries to ukraine of course we do not count on the 100 percent support but it's just one of the tools that we believe would let us survive 2023 which will be very very challenging and all the war related risks and the lack of resources i think that all will affect the culture cultural sector and institutions next year and so these are the needs uh in expressed in billions of euro that's for the restoration of the heritage and destroyed infrastructure and the tools that the government will suggest to the donors you know we have this united 24 platform which takes care of the army and medicine but this platform also enables donations to the culture to some specific cultural institutions which were damaged by war just like that this this network will also have the ukrainian fund launched to it and most importantly uh as ila spoke about this wonderful initiative i know four initiatives like that in different sectors uh they have different levels of success but still that started from just people individuals and who launched the funds in support of different sectors and this is what the government couldn't do meaning that the public sector once again has become a safety net for the government because we're flexible and we can do that here and now and you know that the speed of anything is what the government always lacks because of different red tape procedures of some approvals so the government cannot be quick but if the government thanks to the public sectors coverage of 2022 we really hope that next year the government will come with the active support and this is about synergy and support when it comes to the topic of our conference i wrote down these topics that concern me as a person as as an art activist and ministry employee we should talk about this we should think about the solutions how to solve them the first issue is resilience of individuals and institutions we have been already talking about this the director of a museum that can or cannot leave evacuate the collection what is more important the institution or its team how do we measure how do we look at the institution after victory we can come back to it but right now we cannot forget i believe that individual choices and individual circumstances are more important over the civic obligation civic duty arts education process aletfina talked about this it's a huge challenge even even before prior to the full-scale event in russian invasion it's a very tough situation i will not dive deep into the details but we all understand that arts educational process is we understand as as the transfer of of knowledge from one person to another such connections today are just devastated online partly we manage to compensate for it but in the visual performance and audio arts online is not a sphere for education to be honest it's really difficult to cooperate in to operate in this format although all universities don't do work like this in the city of harkiv unfortunately they manage did not manage to to work offline we understand they've been only working online we know it's a it's a challenge so how the question is how to not to lose institutions and at the same time to preserve the quality of the education brain drain is another issue it is a huge problem and we can talk about it from many positions we can discuss this as a negative phenomenon for ukraine because the western labor market offers a higher competitiveness level so in in ukraine less people with fewer competencies remain and specialists unfortunately flee the country within the nine nine months actually ukraine has has seen a great number of intersectional sectoral and international projects which means that ukraine actually is by activities we do cooperate not only limited by our activity you can take an example as the then is by another which included ukraine which proves the strength of ukrainian culture and its potential so the brain drain well you can talk about two very interesting aspects moving on to the occupied territories again another formidable challenge the question is how to come back we understand that this should remain at the as the focal point of our attention and this program actually is devoted to this unfortunately russia which occupies any territory it leaves scorched earth so what is happening on the deoccupied territories is on the one hand the ruined infrastructure but on the other hand depressing world of russian culture because ukrainian culture included many interesting films in a way ukraine should come back and show its amazing responsibility and care it's a huge responsibility and huge challenge for the ukrainian culture to to support institutions on the deoccupied territories another issue is even more complex is collaborators and emigrants i understand it's no secret to anybody that we that these topics are separate it's not it's not the same thing obviously but indeed intuitively we understand how to understand comprehend collaborators but this topic needs to be discussed with some values in mind how to understand collaboration emigration sometimes is understood in negative through negative lands for example people who who left the country understood as people who run away there is a problem of men fleeing the country we understand that the ministry of culture supported and there are certain agreements but the question is how the men should the ukrainian men should return from abroad maybe you don't it's hard to realize that actors of one cave theater wrote a letter to to the director who is who remains abroad criticizing him you understand that there is quite a huge hate towards people who have fled the country the last topic which is very close to me and and really vital and which should remain at the as the focal point of our discussion is veterans veterans as artists and the audience these are the people who will come back after the war with a different experience who will want a different dialogue who will want to talk about what they have seen what they will have experienced will we be able to create a safe area safe space for the work as well as for the audience so that the veterans could understand that they are needed i can tell you that if you have an idea for for cooperation our ministry of culture will be cooperating with the ministry of veterans and we'll be thinking how to develop this cooperation to integrate veterans i understand this is new experience but it will shape our vision for the future i will wrap up because i'm i'm really short of time lastly a very short presentation with very short theses which i wanted to to touch upon during our conference i wanted to end up with a with a picture as as a testament to our colleagues in in poland in the year 1969 tateusz kantor a panoramic see happening tateusz kantor in white tie he was conducting the sea this conducting of the sea are is indicative of the relations of of the ministry managing culture this scene is indeed ironic but on the other hand what i see in this metaphor is synchronization indeed on the one hand these are two separate independent sectors but when you synchronize them as we can cooperate together as we can support one another and find some productive projects such a conducting of of a sea or culture indeed is the only in my in my mind way to cooperate in the ministry and culture thank you for your attention should have any questions please ask me thank you very much