The Entangled Histories of Wales and Ukraine
Speaker: Professor Victoria Donovan
In 1870, engineer John Hughes, from Merthyr, and about 100 (mainly Welsh) workers built a steelworks, with hospital, school and church, in Donbas, in what was then the Russian Empire, founding the community of Hughesovka, later to become the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. How fortunes change!
Professor Donovan tells the story, one from her new book ‘Life in Spite of Everything’, celebrating Ukraine’s past and present, its people’s tenacity, creativity and independence.
Bucket Collection to support Ukraine's humanitarian aid.
The proceeds rainsed from the Bucket Collection will be donated to Free Filmers, a film making and arts collective originally from Mariupol now delivering humanitarian aid around the frontline territories.
Further reading:
https://help-freefilmers.network/
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-languages/people/russian/vsd2
To be followed by a finger buffet at Peppers at 8:00pm.
Book separately at: myles.westwalesarts@icloud.com (Tickets £20).
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Siaradwr: Proffeswr Victoria Donovan
Ym 1870, adeiladodd y peiriannydd John Hughes, o Ferthyr, a thua 100 o weithwyr (Cymreig yn bennaf) waith dur, gydag ysbyty, ysgol ac eglwys, yn Donbas, yn yr hyn a oedd bryd hynny yn Ymerodraeth Rwsia, gan sefydlu cymuned Hughesovka, a fyddai'n ddiweddarach yn ddinas Donetsk yn Wcráin. Sut mae ffawd yn newid!
Mae'r Proffeswr Donovan yn adrodd y stori, un o'i llyfr newydd 'Life in Spite of Everything', yn dathlu gorffennol a phresennol Wcráin, dygnwch, creadigrwydd ac annibyniaeth ei phobl.
Casgliad Bwcedi i gefnogi cymorth dyngarol Wcráin.
Bydd yr elw a gesglir o’r Casgliad Bwced yn cael ei roi i Free Filmers, cydweithfa gwneud ffilmiau a chelfyddydau sy’n wreiddiol o Mariupol ac sydd bellach yn darparu cymorth dyngarol o amgylch y tiriogaethau rheng flaen.
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol:
https://help-freefilmers.network/
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-languages/people/russian/vsd2
I'w ddilyn gan fwffe bys a bawd yn Peppers am 8:00yh.
Archebwch ar wahân yn: myles.westwalesarts@icloud.com (Tocynnau £20).
