Chytomo is announcing an open call for their project Another Day: War Diaries

Chytomo is calling for the diary projects for their online exhibition Another Day: War Diaries.

According to Chytomo, the diaries with consistent experience, events and images recorded since February 24 will describe the current state and mood of different Ukrainians best. This experience needs to be recorded and duly presented.

“These days, Ukrainians try to survive and live through every day. We are constantly counting days from the 24 of February, the day our reality changed crucially. Our planning is limited to one day only, many Ukrainians live with no planning for the future, carrying the only dream we are coming closer day by day,” Chytomo editorial explains the idea behind the project.

The experience of soldiers is as important as the experience of civilians, volunteers, refugees, territorial defense members, relocated people and people in the temporary occupied cities. All their voices are important to showcase the diversity of war evidence.

“By this project we want to collect different experience and to monitor how the practice of journaling (writing a diary) can be therapeutic, and how reading those diaries can expand the horizons of empathy. How we read other people’s experiences, and how we build such evidence credibility. These questions we want to cover in the results announcement and in the selection of the diaries as well,” says Victoria Feshchuk, special project editor of Chytomo.

Chytomo expects the diaries of various digital formats: copies of entries from printed or electronic journals, sketches, posters, illustrations, poems, essays, comics, graffities, video, animations, photos etc.

You can submit either your own diary project, or the project written by someone else (indicating the author). Evaluation criteria are: integrity, sequence of presentation, time stamps, military context. Chytomo will track the diversity of represented formats and described locations.

To apply follow the link. Open call will last until August 20. Results will be announced on August 30.

As a result of the open call, Chytomo is planning to select 17 diary projects. Another 17 will be selected by the curator’s group consisting of Chytomo editorial and invited experts.

The results of both the open call and curator’s selection will be presented in the special project Another Day: War Diaries, online exhibition on Chytomo website. The date of the exhibition start will be announced after the results of the open call.

The exhibition that is being realized within the Izolyatsia foundation project #ZMINA_2_0 financed by the European Union*.

Chytomo is an independent Ukrainian media which develops the culture of reading and book publishing in Ukraine. Nowadays Chytomo depicts the state of culture and book publishing in wartime conditions, collects war crimes against Ukrainian culture, analyses the sources and influence of russian propaganda. The media was founded by Oksana Hmelyovska and Iryna Baturevych in 2009.

*The content of the project is sole responsibility of Chytomo media and does not necessarily reflect the position of the European Union.