Today’s episode is a poetic epilogue to the Student Edition we produced with university students from the United States and Canada. The podcasters who share this story are enrolled at schools in Chișinău, capital city of the Republic of Moldova. Their country declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Russia’s ongoing invasion of neighboring Ukraine informs and inspires this conversation around art in times of war.
To introduce the new Reflecting Zemstvei podcast produced by local creatives in Chișinău, Moldova, Cathy Byrd and Olga Raileanu take listeners inside an intensive workshop experience that spanned three days in March 2025. Our story from Eastern Europe takes Fresh Art International’s Student Edition outside the English speaking world.
