Programs

Reading Studios are lively, interactive spaces where community members can spend hours relaxing in comfortable armchairs, diving into books, meeting authors, exchanging ideas with fellow book lovers, or exploring their own creativity.

In this section, we have collected texts and images, activity ideas, and materials that can help promote reading and literary culture in any space.

11.08.2025 – Author

Maria Matios

Maria Matios is a Ukrainian writer whose work seamlessly weaves together prose, poetry, and journalism.

02.06.2025 – Author

Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy is a British playwright, poet, and novelist, born on 6 August 1959 in Johannesburg.

07.05.2025 – Author

Lina Kostenko

Lina Kostenko – Ukrainian poet, prose writer, and prominent cultural figure.

03.03.2025 – Ukraine project

Love poetry

We invited Ukrainian poets and poetry lovers close to us—among them Natalia Belczenko and Oles Ilchenko—to help select the most beautiful texts about love.

13.02.2025 – Ukraine project

Portraits

The model spaces for Reading Studios are not cold, stiff institutions like libraries are sometimes perceived to be. Instead, they are inviting, warm places with a distinctly homely atmosphere.