Among colleagues, writers, journalists, musicians, composers … we asked ourselves: How can we express our solidarity with the people in Ukraine? This initiative was born out of that.

We are addressing everyone who wants to articulate themselves with sounds, words and sentences in order to express their compassion with the drama of the Ukrainian people that is taking place in the middle of Europe. Everyone is free to express what moves them and how they want to say it – but it should be audible.
Everyone has one minute (max 59 sek) for this.  If everyone creates one minute, it will add up to hundreds, maybe thousands of minutes which could strengthen solidarity with the Ukrainians and set an example. „One thousand and one minutes“ – a work in progress that we dedicate to the freedom of Ukrainians.

We are going to use internet channels (Website, Youtube or Vimeo, Instagram) on which our ‚work in progress‘ will gradually be heard – depending on how quickly your created minutes arrive. We will add a consecutive number to each minute, i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4 etc., as well as the authors name and city they live in. For example, 10 or 20 submissions will result in a piece that is 10 or 20 minutes long, so we could publish the 1 minute pieces in shorter or longer, but sensible audible blocks. On Instagram, your contributions will be published individually.
Acoustic messages, a spoken text or poem, an original sound or song … even music according to your possibilities … with or without professional means, might be contributions to the project.(It goes without saying that we will not publish hate speech, war propaganda or criminal content.)

At the moment our idea is taking shape. The first submissions have already come in.

Cristiana Coletti and Wolfgang Hamm