Kyzym says that visitors can enter the hall from eight o’clock. There is room for 150 guests. “Everyone who supports the Ukraine is welcome. They have to register via a Google Docs and upon entry, they all pay an ‘entrance donation’ of a minimum of five euro.” Various acts will be performing. Apart from himself, there will be two bands, Tuna Maastricht, and Anastasia, “a brilliant singer who fled the Ukraine two weeks ago. She sings modern Ukrainian songs.”
During the break, Kyzym, singer Anastasia and other Ukrainians will talk about the situation in their country. At that moment there will also be draniki for the visitors, a typical Ukrainian potato pancake with sour cream. The proceeds of these, as well as the donations collected that evening, will go to “small, local, Ukrainian initiatives. For example, the Sergey Prutuly Fund that buys cars and vans for the Ukrainian army or the Hospitallers Medical Battalion that is a volunteer initiative that supplies frontline hospitals with ambulances and medical equipment as well as evacuate civilians from the frontlines. Normally, most donations go to the larger organisations such as the Red Cross. That is a good thing, but they are often slow. Money is needed fast.”
D’n Hiemel has offered their hall free of charge. The Faculty of Science and Engineering will also make a donation. The amount will depend on the costs that will be made. “We are using that to fund things such as the shopping, the flyers that we are having made, and transportation of all the instruments. There will also be a classical pianist. We can’t have that person using a keyboard.”