The project combines creative writing, storytelling, visualization, and animation. We learn how to write, create and tell stories, as well as make our own animations
"Bears and Fish" by Yelisey Rakhayev
In 2021, the project became one of the winners of the "Culture. Community" grant program of the International Renaissance Foundation. Thanks to the support of philanthropists, we raised the necessary amount on the BIGIDEA crowdfunding platform, and the International Renaissance Foundation doubled the amount raised.
So far, we have created more than 80 cartoons in various techniques: stop-motion, 3D plasticine animation, Lego animation, and shadow animation.
Creative Ideas Lab team - Kateryna Yanchuk, Olena Rosstalna and Iliia Herhul
Each course at the Lab is a special creative process of creating stories, characters, sets, voice acting, and animation.
Solomiya Ogirenko's film Max the Dog became a finalist in the 2022 Children's Film Festival competition.
In 2023, the Laboratory's team created the first "adult" work "Life"
"Life" is created by Kateryna Yanchuk, Illia Herhul, Olena Rosstalna
In 2023, the first international Laboratory was held in cooperation with the Graffiti Theater. Our team worked in Cork (Ireland) on the bilingual course "Animation Laboratory". Together with the students, we created 16 wonderful animations in Ukrainian and English.
“The Dog who Liked Travelling” by Dylan Calnan O’Connor
On January 24, 2024, an open screening of the Lab's students' animation works took place. The audience saw the works of junior, middle and senior students, as well as premiere animations created in Ireland in the fall of 2023.
On January 30, 2024, an open screening of works created in the first international Laboratory of Creative Ideasthat took place in November 2023 in Cork, Ireland. This is a collaboration project of Graffiti Theater (Cork) and AmaTea, it became possible thanks to the Culture Moves Europe mobility program for cultural professionals.
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The Dog who Liked Travelling by Dylan Calnan O Connor, St Vincent’s
The ‘Laboratory of Animation’ saw Ukrainian and Irish children collaborate to create short animated films which had their own Premiere this week in Graffiti Theatre Company in Blackpool. The theatre was transformed into a full Film Gala which celebrated the project that happened throughout November in three schools in Cork city, Cork Educate Together National School, St Vincents Convent Primary School and Scoil Íosagáin.
Each school selected a group of Ukrainian students to work with other children from their classes on this creative project. The workshops happened bilingually facilitated by Ukrainian artists Olena & Kateryna who were hosted by Graffiti Theatre.
The children created stories together and then began to make the characters and the settings from paper, cardboard, fabric and other materials. Each had their own personality and voice – some even had delicate moving parts for their roles in the films! This initiative was supported by funding from Creative Europe, The Goethe Institut and The Arts Council of Ireland.
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Sofiia Rybalka and Freya Flanagan, Cork Educate Together NS
The ‘Laboratory of Animation’ saw Ukrainian and Irish children collaborate to create short animated films which had their own Premiere this week in Graffiti Theatre Company in Blackpool. The theatre was transformed into a full Film Gala which celebrated the project that happened throughout November in three schools in Cork city, Cork Educate Together National School, St Vincents Convent Primary School and Scoil Íosagáin.
Each school selected a group of Ukrainian students to work with other children from their classes on this creative project. The workshops happened bilingually facilitated by Ukrainian artists Olena & Kateryna who were hosted by Graffiti Theatre.
The children created stories together and then began to make the characters and the settings from paper, cardboard, fabric and other materials. Each had their own personality and voice – some even had delicate moving parts for their roles in the films! This initiative was supported by funding from Creative Europe, The Goethe Institut and The Arts Council of Ireland.
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Kseniia Nepyivoda, Polina Hrebneva, Beatriz Costa
The ‘Laboratory of Animation’ saw Ukrainian and Irish children collaborate to create short animated films which had their own Premiere this week in Graffiti Theatre Company in Blackpool. The theatre was transformed into a full Film Gala which celebrated the project that happened throughout November in three schools in Cork city, Cork Educate Together National School, St Vincents Convent Primary School and Scoil Íosagáin.
Each school selected a group of Ukrainian students to work with other children from their classes on this creative project. The workshops happened bilingually facilitated by Ukrainian artists Olena & Kateryna who were hosted by Graffiti Theatre.
The children created stories together and then began to make the characters and the settings from paper, cardboard, fabric and other materials. Each had their own personality and voice – some even had delicate moving parts for their roles in the films! This initiative was supported by funding from Creative Europe, The Goethe Institut and The Arts Council of Ireland.
Picture: Clare Keogh
In May 2024, Bohdan Nakonechnyi's work "Bobropolis", created at the Laboratory of Creative Ideas, was selected to participate in the Children Kinofest (Children Film Festival). From 7 to 16 June, Bohdan's work and the other finalists will be screened online and offline in cinemas in Kyiv, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Dnipro, Lutsk, Odesa, Poltava, Khmelnytskyi and Chernihiv.
