• ‘Don’t Close Your Eyes’: Ukrainian art exhibit at Bristol CC gallery to aid artists, troops
    November 15, 2022
    The Herald News

    ‘Don’t Close Your Eyes’: Ukrainian art exhibit at Bristol CC gallery to aid artists, troops

    “Life was divided into before and after.” Oleksii Pavlusenko, one of the artists in the upcoming “Eye of the Beholder” exhibition at the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery at Bristol Community College, says that art has become a kind of therapy in the wake of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Since Vladimir Putin’s forces invaded the country in February, Ukrainian citizens…

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  • November 12, 2022
    Boston Globe

    Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

    Visual art SHELAGH KEELEY: DRAWN TO PLACE Keeley, whose work spans photography, film, and performance, is likely best known for her large-scale, site-specific wall drawings, one of which she created for the Peabody Essex Museum this fall. The drawings, which she sees as a way “to explore the structural essence of an object and the spirit…

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    Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond
  • A crash course in organ transplants helps Ukraine’s cash-strapped healthcare system
    November 12, 2022
    NPR

    A crash course in organ transplants helps Ukraine’s cash-strapped healthcare system

    Dr. Serguei Melnitchouk (center) of Massachusetts General Hospital is training Ukrainian surgeons Volodymyr Voitko (left) and Vitalii Sokolov (right) on how to perform heart and lung transplants so they can do them in their home country. Photo taken Nov. 17, 2022, at MGH. Daniel Ackerman/Daniel Ackerman BOSTON — There’s a rhythm to most surgeries at…

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  • September 22, 2022

    Addressing the mental health crisis for Ukrainians in war and peace

    Ongoing military operations by Russia not only pose a threat to the physical health of Ukrainian civilians but also grave danger to their psychological wellbeing. Mental health consequences of trauma are often overlooked and may be mostly invisible. As such, resources for mental healthcare are generally not prioritized. This neglect is a mistake. Humanitarian responses, including…

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    Addressing the mental health crisis for Ukrainians in war and peace
    • Heal Ukraine Group