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What Remains of an Evening: A Playbill Instead of a Recording

What Remains of an Evening: A Playbill Instead of a Recording

Exhibition

What Remains of an Evening: A Playbill Instead of a Recording

Kharkiv Literature Museum29 July 2026 — 11 March 2027Харківський літературний музей

Printed sheets from literary evenings — often the only evidence the evening happened at all: no recording, no programme, no memoir.

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Exhibition news⁵

An Event Without a Record: Did It Happen

A question the exhibition puts to the whole oral part of literature.

The Type Shrinks Along with the List

The fewer the participants, the larger the type. The printer filled the sheet.

The Playbills Had to Be Found Outside the Archives

Most came from private hands: archives did not keep such things.

A Playbill Printed Twice with Different Names

Two copies of the same evening, and the second is missing two names.

What Remains of an Evening: An Exhibition Made of Playbills

Forty printed sheets from which a city's literary life is reconstructed.

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