‘We Stand With Ukraine’ benefit concert hopes to provide critical support to Ukrainian refugees

The “We Stand With Ukraine” live performance featured works from some well-known Ukrainian composers.

The cash raised on the occasion goes straight to offering humanitarian reduction for youngsters fleeing from Ukraine proper now. Up to now, 31 Ukrainian kids have arrived in Chicago and enrolled at St. Nicholas Cathedral College for the reason that onset of the invasion.

The Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra and Ukrainian musicians teamed up in one of the best ways they know the way.

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“Music strikes, comforts, soothing, heat, and it transcends all the evil that we at the moment are seeing,” mentioned Orysia Cardoso, Ukrainian Institute of Trendy Artwork board chairman.

It is all in an effort to assist the youngest of these escaping warfare in Ukraine.

“They’re coming right here with nothing. Perhaps only one suitcase between two individuals. Among the mother and father have mentioned, like, ‘I simply threw a bunch of stuff in a suitcase and I forgot about myself,’” mentioned Anna Cirilli, principal at St. Nicholas Cathedral.

“This has to hit every considered one of us in our hearts. This isn’t simply one thing we take into consideration, however it has to maneuver us,” Cardinal Blase Cupich added.

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Cardinal Cupich and Mayor Lori Lightfoot have been in attendance, exhibiting their help.

“Right here in Chicago, we now have a major Ukrainian neighborhood and it is necessary I feel for all of us to take duty to defend democracy and freedom all through the world,” Cardinal Cupich mentioned.

The St. Nicholas Cathedral principal mentioned they’re anticipating extra Ukrainian college students within the weeks and months to return.

“I do not know what it’ll be like if I get to some extent the place I’ve to begin turning individuals away. That will probably be actually onerous,” Cirilli mentioned.

The profit live performance, hosted by the Ukrainian Institute of Trendy Artwork and the Kyiv Committee of Chicago Sister Cities Worldwide, is essential in offering the much-needed help.