Olessa Zdorovetska is a performer, composer and curator from Kyiv in Ukraine who moved to Ireland in 2011. Her work takes in jazz, Afro-Caribbean, contemporary classical, traditional Ukrainian and Sephardic music, theatre and film
Olesya joined RTÉ Arena to discuss her latest project, but first spoke about her good friend, the Ukrainian writer and human rights activist Victoria Amelina, who died after being wounded in the Kramatorsk missile strike last week - listen above.
Freedom Letters takes place this Friday evening at the Model gallery in Sligo as part of this year's Cairde Arts Festival.
Through music and poetry, it tells the story of two remarkable women, Constance Markievicz and Valeria O'Connor-Vilinska, and their involvement in the struggle for independence in Ireland and in Ukraine in the early 20th century.
Ukrainian and Irish poets Luba Yamchuk and Mary Branley have written the libretto for a series of imagined letters between the women, and musicians on the night include Saileog Ní Cheannabháin, Emer Mayock, Kate Ellis, and Olessa Zdorovetska herself - find out more here.
Listen more from RTÉ Arena here.
