Shared Ground - Episode 1

Shared Ground brings together artists and civil society voices from Ukraine and South Africa to explore how creativity can build bridges across borders, experiences, and cultures. Over the course of a residency at NIROX and the Kromdraai Impact Hub, participants engage in artistic exchange, community dialogue, and collaborative reflection on two themes: our relationship with land and water and the rights and well-being of children in times of conflict and change.For its first dialogue, Shared Ground hosted artists Anastasiia Shcherban, Olha Fedorova, and Diane Victor. The conversation explored soil and water as carriers of memory, their influence on creative practice, and insights from cross-cultural collaboration.Moderated by Thati Mokgoro.Shared Ground was organized by Ukrainian institute, NIROX Foundation in collaboration with Kromdraai Impact Hub, and supported by NGO ‘Cultural Diplomacy Foundation’, Democracy Works Foundation, Embassy of the Netherlands in Pretoria (South Africa), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Pretoria (South Africa), Ukraine Communications Group, Embassy of Ukraine to the Republic of South Africa.