The global effort to aid Ukrainians fleeing the invasion by Russia will soon extend into the Napa Valley. The event, for which details were continuing, will open its doors at 2 p.m. on the Expo fairground, 575 Third St., in downtown Napa, with music to begin at 2:30.
Scheduled speakers at the Napa rally will include members of the Ukrainian community living in the Bay Area, including a member of the nonprofit Nova Ukraine and Victoria Stepanenko, a Ukrainian college student studying in San Francisco. Also slated to speak are state Sen. Bill Dodd and Napa Mayor Scott Sedgley.
From Eco Picnic to Eco Film Festival
With Nova Ukraine’s support for the second year in a row, Ukrainian nonprofit Chysto.De?!—whose name translates as “Clean.Where?!”—is expanding environmental education and creating new opportunities for Ukrainian eco-cinema. At this year’s ECO FILM FESTIVAL, organized by Chysto.De?! on August 15–16 at MC6 Creative Residence in Slavske, visitors watched Ukrainian and international environmental documentaries, attended lectures and public discussions, joined hands-on workshops, and explored a market of sustainable local crafts. Children and teenagers spent the weekend learning the basics of documentary storytelling, filming nature around them, experimenting with stop-motion animation, and presenting their own short films at the closing ceremony. For Nova Ukraine project manager Yevheniya Chuchko, it was the part of the festival that stayed with her most.