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ARTIST PROFILE: Larisa Pastuchiv

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Crafting Resilience in Times of War: 

Ukrainian Craftswomen in Displacement

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Larisa Pastuchiv 

 

Pastuchiv's music inspired and gave new meaning to our program with Sciences Po and Nest to uplift Ukrainian women refugees and artisans in Europe: Crafting Resilience in Times of War. 

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"I started playing bandura as a child, performed in the NY area with the NY School of Bandura-Playing; studied music theory & composition at Marlboro College, Vt, composed for bandura and have been performing professionally in the Washington DC area for many years, including the Smithsonian & Library of Congress; Ukrainian Folk Festivals, International Folk festivals, fundraisers for Ukrainian orphans; other request from Ukrainian embassy. Check out my newly released CD entitled DREAMING on cdbaby.com."

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The history of the hauntingly beautiful Ukrainian national instrument, the bandura, is shared by WFI Board Member and Executive Director of the Women's Foreign Policy Group, Alexa Chopivsky. Larisa Pastuchiv plays at WFI's fall 2022 event Weaving a Path to Peace.

LISTEN TO THE MUSIC OF Larisa Pastuchiv

About Women Forward International (WFI):

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With programs across four continents, Women Forward International (WFI) builds creative partnerships that bridge mind and heart to bring about unity, collaboration, and service to humanity. WFI pairs teams of graduate students with in-country organizations to complete action-oriented research and implement innovative solutions, making student research and innovation matter. WFI’s partnerships encompass a range of private sector, academic and non-profit clients to identify research critical to human progress. These projects include empowering women artisans in conflict zones, enabling sustainable farming with gender equity, and taking steps toward the elimination of hunger along with inclusive access to education through digital and other unique platforms. WFI also channels the transformative power of Art, when inspired with love, to bring about human unity. All research also goes to WFI’s chief partner, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), for a resource library of best practices.

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For further information, please contact the Founder and President of WFI, Dr. Kent Davis-Packard: kent@womenforwardinternational.org

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