To mark the fourth anniversary of the outbreak of the war in Ukraine (24 February), renewed attention is being drawn to the humanitarian catastrophe that any war represents, through a two-part event. All ticket proceeds will go directly to the victims of the war in Ukraine.

The first part is a talk moderated by former minister and Europe expert Lykke Friis, featuring journalist Adam Holm, who has himself travelled in and written about war-torn Ukraine. The discussion will cover both the background of the war and the situation as it stands right now, at the time these lines are written and read. Work is underway to establish a live feed with direct interviews from Ukraine, including with an ordinary father who unexpectedly became a soldier and has been trapped behind Russian lines for more than two years.

The second part is a concert featuring a performance of Benjamin Koppel’s requiem, STORY OF MANKIND. The music is inspired by photographs from the war i...

To mark the fourth anniversary of the outbreak of the war in Ukraine (24 February), renewed attention is being drawn to the humanitarian catastrophe that any war represents, through a two-part event. All ticket proceeds will go directly to the victims of the war in Ukraine.

The first part is a talk moderated by former minister and Europe expert Lykke Friis, featuring journalist Adam Holm, who has himself travelled in and written about war-torn Ukraine. The discussion will cover both the background of the war and the situation as it stands right now, at the time these lines are written and read. Work is underway to establish a live feed with direct interviews from Ukraine, including with an ordinary father who unexpectedly became a soldier and has been trapped behind Russian lines for more than two years.

The second part is a concert featuring a performance of Benjamin Koppel’s requiem, STORY OF MANKIND. The music is inspired by photographs from the war in Ukraine taken by internationally acclaimed photographer Jan Grarup, as well as texts by journalist Adam Holm. Together, they have travelled through the war-ravaged regions documenting a nation and a people brought to their knees. These photographs strongly resembled images from the First World War — the same trenches, the same burned trees, the same destroyed houses, the same bodies in the streets. Koppel’s requiem is therefore based both on texts from the First World War by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who himself died from wounds sustained in the war, and on new texts by the two contemporary Danish poets Thomas TT Krag and Morten Søndergaard.

The music is accompanied by Jan Grarup’s moving photographs on a large screen.

The work has received excellent reviews and was released last year with Randy Brecker on trumpet....

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