Culture news

Since yesterday the fountains, which were closed for winter, started working on Maydan Nezalezhnosti. Works for preparing and repair works took about 607 thousand grivnas.

Ukraine will present 'My Joy,' a film directed by Sergei Loznitsa, for the first time in the official competition program of the Cannes International Film Festival.

This year there is a possibility that we can see the parks on the roofs of houses and shopping centers. A draft of this decision is being considered in Kievrada. Alexander Briginets, a head of Commission on Culture and Tourism says that entrepreneurs who build up parks on the roofs of supermarkets and malls gardens will pay cut taxes.

The Council of Ministers of Crimea made a decree to ensure free and unhindered access for tourists and residents of the Crimea to the beaches.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has signed the decrees on joint celebration with the Russian Federation and Belarus of the 65th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 1945.

Jazz cocktail is a festival where many talented artists of different jazz styles take part. 

Date: from the 30th of April to the 30th of May

Start Date: 2010-05-08

Ukrainian pianist Denys Zhdanov became a prize winner of the music competition Maria Canals de Barcelona in Spain, where 91 musicians from 26 countries participated.

Date: 01-02.05.2010
“Batyarstvo” (an idle and debauched style of life) is one of the most famous and popular Lviv-style phenomena. Batyars have their own vocabulary, codes of honor, and style of life.

Entrance is free 

Foreign intelligence service informed they had given archive documents on 133 pages for exposition of memorial complex "National Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945".

Date: from the 24th of April to the 16th of September
Place: PinchukArtCenter
‘Sexuality combines the idea of a world of subjective emotional references, a world of the instant, of anticipation, of desire and becoming and of orientation and disintegration as well as the extremes of destruction and violence. Sexuality is associated with an image of the real, of warmth and intimacy, whereas transcendence implies a world beyond reality.

The International Children Center Artek is taking a new session involving 1,800 children from all across Ukraine. Children will also participate in preparations for the Victory Day.

Date: 20-25 of April
Address: 2 Khreshchatyk street Ukrainian
House presents a project "VozhdiLenie" which is exhibition dedicated to 140 years of Vladimir Lenin's birthday.

Vodka museum has been working in Luganks since 1970. It was opened as a part of Lugansk distillery, so its exposition shows soviet, Russian, and contemporary Ukrainian vodka.

Date: the 22-25 of April
Time: 22-23 of April: 7 pm; 24-25 of April: 3 pm, 8 pm
Place: Oktyabrskiy Palace (1 Institutskaya street)
They are world famous for their unique style of performing sound programs without musical instruments. Musicle without music show - for the first time in Ukraine!

Magnolias begun flowering in 2 botanical gardens of Kiev at the same time: near "Universitet" metro station and in another one on Pechersk.
Entrance to the first one is free, the second one (botanical gardens after Gryshko) requires 10 uah payment.

This year by tradition night exhibitions come to Kiev again. Visiters may enjoy them even after midnight.

Date: 21-29 of April
Place: National scientific and natural history museum
Photographer Tom Till will show his landscape works during the exhibition
The USA embassy press-cutting service imforms, the exposition shows photos of a large size with 29 objects of UNESCO world heritage, including 6 American monuments.

Date: 29-30 of May
Place: Shevchenkovskiy Gai park.
The second international festival of Middle-Ages culture takes place in the end of May. Knights from East-European clubs of historical reconstruction will compete in horse duels.

Historians found a written proof of the date of Lvov foundation. According to it, Lvov is 16 year older than the first mentioning about the city in 1256. This information was given by Ivan Paslavskiy, a research officer of Ivan Kripyakevich Ukrainian regional geography institute.

Location: The Center of Lviv city
Date: 2010-05-08
The parade of Fiancées will take place in Lviv on May, 8. Every woman will be able from now to put a wedding-dress annually!