DISPLACED ARTISTS RESIDENCIES
Together with Columbia Global Centers | Paris, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, and the Harriman Institute, Reid Hall welcomed four Harriman Residents in September 2022 for one year. You can read about the awardees below.
For 2023-2024, Reid Hall will offer two residencies for displaced writers, one of them supported by Columbia Global Centers | Paris and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the other supported by the Harriman Institute for one Ukrainian writer. Applications are now closed.
Harriman Residents 2022-2023
Thanks to the generosity of the Harriman Institute, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Columbia Global Centers | Paris, and a gift from the Ukrainian Studies Fund, four 12-month residencies for Ukrainian applicants were offered for the year 2022-23: the Paul Klebnikov Residency was reserved for a journalist; the other three Harriman Residencies were open to writers and others in the creative and visual arts.
Beginning in September, residency recipients have been based at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination at Reid Hall, Columbia University’s academic center in Paris, where they are able to participate fully in the life of the Institute and the Center.
Natalka Bilotserkivets
Poet | Kyiv, Ukraine
Natalka Bilotserkivets (Наталка Білоцерківець) is the author of six books of poetry and a volume of selected poems, “We Shall Not Die in Paris” (“Ми помрем не в Парижі”) 2015 and 2018. Her poetry has been translated into a dozen languages, including recent English translations of Subterranean Fire (2020) and Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow (2021), and has been awarded many national and international prizes.
Project
As a Harriman Resident, Natalka will be working on Repossessions (working title), a small book of poems about the lost things (or, in a special way, poems of things, or things’ poems), which tell their life stories in the time of war.
Nikita Grigorov
Paul Klebnikov Resident | Journalist | Donetsk, Ukraine
Born in Donetsk in 1994, Nikita Grigorov moved in 2014 to Kyiv. He majored in Eastern European Studies at Taras Shevchenko National University Kyiv and attended Charles University in Prague. His work as a journalist has appeared in Ukrainian and foreign media as well as in literary anthologies. He is also the author of scripts for independent films and short plays. Together with Veniamin Belyavsky, he contributed to, translated, and edited an anthology of Ukrainian writers from Donbas Порода (“Breed”).
Project
Since the beginning of the war, Grigorov has worked for the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital. As the Paul Klebnikov Fellow, he will work on a book chronicling his military medical experience and the work of his colleagues – doctors and volunteers.
Zoya Laktionova
Filmmaker | Mariupol, Ukraine
Zoya Laktionova was born in Mariupol in 1984. She made her first appearance in the world of documentary cinema as a character in the film “Ma”(10’) in 2017, and a year later she directed her first short documentary, “Diorama“, about the mined sea in the Mariupol area. The film won an award in the MyStreetFilms category at the “86” festival (Ukraine) in 2018, was selected by several European film festivals, and was released in Ukraine in 2019. “Territory of Empty Windows” (10’) premiered in 2021 at the DocudaysUA International Human Rights DFF and received several awards in various festivals across Europe.
Project
During her residency at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Zoya will work on two projects: a full-length hybrid documentary film, Ashes That Settle in Layers on the Surface, about her native city of Mariupol, and a short film, Muto, telling the story of the Roma genocide in Ukraine.
Anna Stavychenko
Musicologist, writer, manager | Kyiv, Ukraine
A graduate from the National Music Academy of Ukraine, Anna Stavychenko is a musicologist, music critic, and classical music manager. She pursued her PhD at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich and the Richard Strauss Institute in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. She is an Executive Director of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Director of the “Open Music City” Public Initiative, and Chief Executive Officer of the Lyatoshynsky Club, which aims to research, perform, and promote the Ukrainian repertoire of the 20th-21st centuries. Since the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine, she has also been the curator of special projects of the Sinfonia Varsovia, launched to integrate the Ukrainian repertoire into the programs of this prominent Polish orchestra and create special events for Ukrainian refugees and their children. Stavychenko is also the head of a special mission of the Philharmonie de Paris, designed to provide temporary contracts with French national orchestras to Ukrainian musicians who were forced to leave their homeland because of the war.
Project
As a Harriman Resident, Anna will work on a book that combines the real stories of Ukrainian refugee musicians—and her own—with insider narratives about the classical music industry.
