Their school opened the exhibition “Mariupol. Children” in Lviv organ hall on 25 November 2022. The exhibition shows the best paintings of children from Mariupol painted already during the war.
All of them show the destruction as seen by children’s eyes or memoirs from their Mariupol located on the sea coast.
They were drawing in the Lviv organ hall while listening to organ music during the art therapy sessions. This was one of many ways local initiatives helped children and teenagers who survived Russian occupation and lost their homes.
“They draw because they have what to put on paper, something to tell the world with the help of colors and images,” said Oksana Pekhotska-Hnatyshyn, a teacher of drawing who too has relocated from Mariupol to Lviv. Several of her works were also present at the exhibition.
Russian troops have destroyed the mural in Mariupol which showed a girl who was a victim of Russian shelling in 2015
Milana's mother was killed and Milana lost her leg then. Russians now painted the mural over, city council said and published a video. https://t.co/rJJaieDMMm pic.twitter.com/h2k0fHtOE9
— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) November 8, 2022
The teacher of the Mariupol school of arts Oksana Pekhotska-Hnatyshyn has also participated in the exhibition, showing several of her painting:
The Lviv organ hall continues working during the war, regularly conducting concerts of organ and classical music. Musicians who were also forced to leave their homes in the east of Ukraine due to Russian attack are also participating. In particular, the Luhansk Philharmonic Orchestra is often giving its concerts in Lviv. They will be able to return to their homes in Luhansk Oblast only after Ukraine liberates those territories.
Currently, due power outages, the Lviv organ hall like many private companies and municipal institutions in Ukraine got used to work with generator:
