Club of Creative Youth "Prolisok"

Lviv Television. The program "Autograph" from March 29, 1996 is dedicated to the activities of the Club of Creative Youth "Prolisok" in Lviv.

In the video: the program's intro, Stefania Shabatura's tapestry "Cassandra", Maria Krushelnytska performs a fragment of the piano piece "Memory" by Nestor Nyzhankivsky, archival photos of the club members; Vasyl Hlynchak announces the topic of the program, about the Club of Creative Youth "Prolisok", created in Lviv in 1963; Mykhailo Kosiv talks about the artistic environment, the origin of the name "Prolisok", remembers Oleksandr Zelinsky, Olena Antoniv, Stefania Shabatura, about the election of the first president, about the activities of the club members before the beginning of the repressions in August 1965, samizdat, about the cartoon by sculptor Emmanuel Mysko, about the repressions and arrests of the club members; Oleksandr Zelinsky talks about the visit of Lviv Conservatory students to the Mykola Kulish Memorial Evening organized by the Creative Youth Club in Kyiv in 1962, and shows an invitation to this evening; Yuriy Brylinsky shares his memories of the atmosphere at Lviv University at that time; about a meeting with Les Taniuk and Alla Horska, members of the Creative Youth Club "Contemporary" from Kyiv; comments by Volodymyr Kvitnevy, talks about working with talented literary youth in the Lviv branch of the Writers' Union in the 1960s, about the background of the creation and institutional design of the KTM "Prolisok"; Mykola Ilnytskyi about the visit of the poet Vasyl Symonenko to Lviv, about the refusal to participate in the program as a sign of solidarity with Bohdan Horyn, shares his memory of how art and culture played the role of a form of expression of the civic position of the time, talks about the anthem of the Kyiv KTM "Ballad about the Goose" (words by Ivan Drach, music by Oleksandr Zelinsky); "Ballad about the Goose" is heard (sung by the soloist of the Lviv Philharmonic Bohdana Khidchenko, accompanied by Oleksandr Zelinsky); Ihor Kalynets, about the KTM "Prolisok" as a thoroughly revolutionary phenomenon, about the evening in memory of the poet Bohdan-Ihor Antonych, about the discovery of the poet's grave by the club members; the Lemko song "Zozulenka kukat" performed by Maria Protsevyat is heard; Vasyl Hlynchak about Stefania Shabatura's tapestry "Cassandra"; Maria Protsevyat recalls KTM's trips to the village of Dobrotvir, the city of Novyi Rozdil, the city of Kalush and others, about significant events for the club, such as an alternative concert to the 150th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko's birth and the trip of club members to the festive celebrations in the city of Kaniv in 1964; Mykola Ilnytskyi about the evening in memory of the poet Vasyl Symonenko, which became the tragic final chord for KTM "Prolisok" and the movement it started; the song "Ode to Enemies" is played (words by Lina Kostenko, soloist of the Lviv Philharmonic Bohdan Kosopud, accompanied by Yaroslav Matyukh).

Comments: People's Deputy, first president of the club "Prolisok" Mykhailo Kosiv; composer, musicologist Oleksandr Zelinskyi; actor of the Lviv Academic Theater named after Maria Zankovetska Yuriy Brylinskyi; writer, secretary-organizer of KTM "Prolisok" Volodymyr Kvitnevyi; literary critic, literary historian, Doctor of Philology Mykola Ilnytskyi; poet Ihor Kalynets; singer (soprano), conductor, teacher Maria Protsevyat.

Host — Vasyl Hlynchak.

Reference: The Creative Youth Club "Prolisok" operated in Lviv in the early 1960s as a cultural and educational center of the Ukrainian Sixties movement, aimed at popularizing the Ukrainian language, literature, art, national history and preserving cultural heritage. After the strengthening of ideological control by the Soviet authorities, the club's activities were suspended, and its activity became one of the grounds for repressions against representatives of the Ukrainian intelligentsia during the arrests of 1965.