{"id":15443,"date":"2022-05-24T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pgforukraine.ca\/?post_type=events&#038;p=15443"},"modified":"2022-05-24T09:42:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T16:42:22","slug":"unbc-art-council-presents-rain-project-by-oleg-chorny-kyiv-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.pgforukraine.ca\/events\/unbc-art-council-presents-rain-project-by-oleg-chorny-kyiv-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"UNBC Art Council presents &#8220;Rain Project&#8221; by Oleg Chorny (Kyiv, Ukraine)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exhibition opening: The artist will appear on Zoom.<br \/>\nProject Description<br \/>\nMariupol is perhaps best known as the city razed to the ground by Russia\u2019s large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and as the site of fierce resistance by Ukraine\u2019s defenders. However, this is not the first time Mariupol has been the locus of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine.<br \/>\nIn 2014, Ukraine retook Mariupol from Russian aggressors following its seizure earlier that year. Oleg Chorny\u2019s 2016 documentary, Rain Project, traces the journey of Ukrainian artist Hamlet Zinkivsky to Mariupol as he creates an urban artwork series during the city\u2019s cultural rebirth.<br \/>\nHaving screened in a wide range of film festivals in Ukraine, Europe, and the USA, Rain Project won the 2017 Spotlight Documentary Gold Award (USA) and the 2017 Rivne International Film Festival Dream City Award (Ukraine).<br \/>\nHamlet Zinkivsky, a cult figure of Ukrainian street art, represented Ukraine at the 2019 Venice Biennale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pgforukraine.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/15443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pgforukraine.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pgforukraine.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pgforukraine.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}