Literary laboratory
Literary Laboratory is one of the directions of Mystetskyi Arsenal along with exhibition and festival projects, educational events.
LitLab’s Mission is to create a unique environment for writers, critics, translators, book designers, publishing and cultural managers, who are able to generate public projects based on certain common values and understanding of the arts.
Our activities are aimed at promoting integration, self-development and increasing the professional level of the participants, improving product quality requirements both on the publishing market and in the area of contemporary literary process.
How we want to achieve it? Foremost, we will be systematically offering to the creative environment, workshop community and a wide range of interested readers the following:
- public professional discussions on modern trends in literature and book publishing;
- pre-premieres of books that haven’t been published yet in a narrow circle of fellow writers, critics, and journalists;
- workshop for translators;
- events for high school teachers;
- opportunities for younger authors to communicate with experienced successful colleagues;
- meetings with experts from the publishing industry.
Activities of the Literary Laboratory in 2023-2024 were made possible within the framework of the project “Exchange of the German and Ukrainian Book and Literature Industries,” funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. The project aims to support the work of Ukrainian authors, publishers and media professionals with a series of individual projects and to create knowledge and understanding of Ukrainian culture and history in Germany. The project is led by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Publishers and Booksellers Association), in close cooperation with Frankfurter Buchmesse and the Ukrainian Book Institute as well as the Ukrainian cultural institution Mystetskyi Arsenal, the online specialist magazine for books and culture Chytomo and the Goethe-Institut Ukraine.