Cambridge Literary Festival holds Ukraine fundraiser

All proceeds from the fundraiser will go to Cambridge4Ukraine


The Cambridge Literary Festival will hold a War Against Ukraine event on Sunday 24th April as part of their 2022 Spring Festival, to raise money for Cambridge4Ukraine.

The event is a collaboration between the Festival and Cambridge University Ukraine Society, a “community of Ukrainian students, scholars, and supporters of Ukraine in Cambridge,” and will address the ongoing war and atrocities in Ukraine “in the context of global politics.”

Speakers at the event include award-winning journalist, author and film-maker Paul Mason, author of How To Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance, and historian and academic Dr  Olesya Khromeychuk, who wrote A Loss: The Story of a Dead Soldier Told by His Sister about the death of her brother on the frontline in Ukraine in 2017.

Dr Rory Finnin, Associate Professor of Ukrainian Studies at Cambridge University, and Professor of International History at the University of Cambridge, David Reynolds will also speak at the event.

All proceeds will go to Cambridge4Ukraine, a volunteer initiative founded by Ukrainians in the UK who “decided to do everything and a little more to stop the war in Ukraine”.

The group carries out protests, holds Ukrainian cultural and education events and helps Ukrainian refugees find shelter in the UK.

The War Against Ukraine fundraiser will take place on Sunday 24th April from 12pm to 1pm at the Cambridge Union. Tickets are Pay What You Can and are available here.

Cambridge4Ukraine will also be collecting donations at a desk at the Old Divinity School over the course of the festival weekend.

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