Студія працівників культури has about 12 active members and 6-7 super-active (keyholding) ones, with a wider community of 200+ people mostly displaced from Ukraine.
Present in the Studio:
– Ann Krekhno (Sound recordist and Film Director, Kharkiv)
– Hanna Liashenko (Cultural Production Management, Zaporizhzhia/Kharkiv)
– Olha Bohachevska (Actor, Lutsk)
– Viktoria Lyakh (curator and teacher, Sumy)
and not from Ukraine: Richard Pettifer (support worker, invited guest)
Hanna Liashenko (Annouta)
Cultural manager, actor, performer
Annouta Liashenko was born in Zaporizhzhia in 2003, moving to Kharkiv in 2020. Since March 2022 Liashenko has been based in Berlin.
She manages cultural projects, does acting, performance, and directs.
She managed such projects as: informal education project “Cultural Workers Learns Ukrainian”; charity screening of the short movies; charity workshop on customisation of clothes.
In 2022 she did a stage design for the short feature movie «Bitok».
In 2023 she performed at the annual theatre festival Theatertreffen with the theater performance Living Canvas.
Primary skills:
- Acting/voice acting
- Directing
- Event production&management
- Hosting artists in residency
- Secondary skills:
- Grant research and application
- Stage design
- Translation English to Ukrainian
- Logistics/budget planning and reporting
Ann Krekhno
Film and sound director
Ann Krekhno (born 2008, Kharkiv) is a sound director from Kharkiv, currently living in Berlin. She mixes sound for short documentary and art films, plays guitar and works with music. She is English-speaking as well as Ukrainian languages. Events she has orginised since moving to Berlin, including Charity Concert of Ukrainian Musicians (Flutgraben, May 2022) and Cultural Workers Learns Ukrainian (Dec 2022 – Feb 2023), as well as managing the European tour of the Ukrainian band Richter. She is taking part in Cultural Workers Studio, where she has been a member since April, 2022.
Primary Skills:
- Film directing
- Sound recording and editing
- Secondary Skills:
- Band management.
- Event management
Richard Pettifer
Theatre director, critic, and theorist
Richard Pettifer (AUS/GER) is an Australian theatre director, theorist, and critic based in Berlin. Since 2022, he works with Cultural Workers Studio, a shared space for displaced cultural workers from Ukraine, housed in Flutgraben, Berlin. In 2021-22 he was Artistic Director for Faki Festival, a large-scale free festival for alternative theatrical art in a former factory of Zagreb, Croatia. As a critic he has been an author for Berlin-based tanszschreiber.de since August 2022, and is published in online magazines such as Sirp (EST), Arterritory (LVA), Arta (ROU), and Artslant (USA) and an invited guest critic to Latvian Theatre Showcase 2018 and DRAAMA Festival Estonia. He has led workshops on critical writing and Theatre of the Oppressed in Ukraine, Serbia, and London. In 2013 he attempted travel between Australia and Germany without flying, performing the anti-oppression work People Spoke and residencies in Indonesia, India, Iran, Turkey, and Romania. He has toured independently in the UK (End of Species, 2014), Romania/Serbia/Croatia (The Croatian Climate Change of Indonesia, 2015), and has collaborated with government institutions on works for the UN’s COP 21 in Bonn, Germany (Stay, 2017).
Primary Skills:
Primary Skills:
- Theatre directing
- Criticism and academic writing
- Scriptwriting
- Academic and Press Text editing (English)
- Journalism
- Secondary Skills:
- Film gaffer
- German to English translation
- Community-building and co-ordination
Important members of the community:
– Anna Piliuhina (Film director, Kharkiv)
– Sönke Hallman (writer and activist from Germany)
– Inga Zimprich (activist from Feminist Healthcare Research Group)
– Joe McLinty (manager for Oxfam, from UK)
– Tetiyana Krekhno (Philologist from University of Kharkiv)
– Natalie Krekhno (Production Manager, Kharkiv)
– Axxi Oma (Singer/Songwriter, Kharkiv)
– Anna Mudra (Videographer ,VJ and livestreaming events, Kharkiv)
– Anita Kopylenko (Cinematographer, Kyiv)
– Ksenia Yanko (photographer and humans rights activist Poltana/Lviv)
– Olenka Vakhramieieva (Theatre director, Kyiv)
– Katya Balabai (Film producer, Kharkiv)
– Sofiia Lavreniuk (Manager, Kyiv)
– Anna Shevchenko (Actor, Kyiv)
– Matthias Krause Hamrin (Painter, Berlin)
– Clement Layes (Dance, Berlin)
– Zofia nierodzińska (Curator, Berlin)
– Janine Eisenächer (Curator, Berlin)