Slava Ukraini: Fundraiser for Nataliia Chub, Ukrainian Childrens' Therapist

LivingRoom is offering our storefront for this fundraiser Ukrainian child psychologist and renowned children’s author Nataliia Chub, and her Emergency Psychological Care Project. She is a native of Kharkiv, an eastern city near the Russian border that has been under constant bombardment since the war started. While herself displaced by the war, she has been offering free therapy, psychological consultations, and psychoeducational webinars to pregnant people, children, and families. Some clients are refugees; many remain in active conflict zones in Ukraine (people are literally meeting with her virtually while hiding from bombs).

Nataliia holds an average of 50 therapy sessions a week (twice a normal full-time workload) from her unheated improvised office. She also drives across the border regularly to collect diapers, food, medicine, and children’s toys, then organizes their distribution to families and elderly people in Kharkiv.

While there are many worthwhile grassroots efforts in Ukraine, this one is special in its focus on mental health — specifically children’s mental health. If Ukraine and Ukrainians are to recover fully from these horrific events, it is crucial that the war’s youngest victims and their caregivers begin to heal from the trauma they’re experiencing.

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Silent Auction will feature hair services, massage therapy, local woodwork goods, local pottery and more!

Live Music by Judson Claiborne. Judson Claiborne is the folk-rock music project of Chicago-based songwriter and DJ Christopher Claiborne Salveter. Raised in a Missouri river town-turned suburb, his earliest musical influences were oldies radio and MTV’s 120 Minutes. The Chicago indie record labels and bands of the late 90s beckoned him to relocate there in 2000. Soon after, he started the group Low Skies, who released four records and toured as the support act for Neko Case, Explosions in the Sky, and Band of Horses. Low Skies’ final record, All the Love I Could Find (2006) received an 8.1 on Pitchfork.

Salveter’s storytelling ranges from the romantic to the heartbreaking, from the autobiographical to the biographical, and from the tender to the gritty. Now fifteen years and four records in, Judson Claiborne is set to release two new albums in 2023, Live Active Culture (Volumes 1 & 2).

Event Venue

LivingRoom Realty, 1530 West Superior Street, Chicago, United States