Culture news

A couple of elephants from Laos will be brought to Kiev zoo in July. The Director of the zoo Aleksey Tolstukhov has informed about it. According to him, contest for the best names for the elephants will be announced in summer.

Date: May 27-29
Location: Mystetskiy Arsenal (12, Lavrskaya Str., Kiev)
The international festival-fair “Book Arsenal” will be held at Mystetskiy Arsenal on Kiev Day for the first time. 

The number of Ukrainian objects in the UNESCO list of protected cultural heritage may be increased.

Date: April 15 – June 15
Location: Contemporary Art Center “M17” (102-104, Gorkogo (Antonovicha str.) Kiev
Working hours: 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.
The exhibition “Italian Transavangard” was opened at the Contemporary Art Center. Pictorial works by Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi, Nikola de Maria, Francesco Clemente, Mimmo Paladino will be represented here for two months. New history of European art started with works of these painters at the end of the 1970th.

Residents and guests of Kiev will be able to see the flower clock on the Day of the City on the 28th of May.

On Easter Day, Kiev Pechersk Lavra will present a huge paska, or Easter bread, aiming to break the existing record, which belongs to a 200-kilogram giant baked two years ago in Dnepropetrovsk.

The exhibition of copies of wooden churches, created by Lvov master Mikhail Yaskovich, “Wooden Sacral Architecture” was opened in Ternopol Regional Local History Museum on the eve of Easter.

Yalta, one of the most popular Crimean resorts, will get a new place of interest – the moment to tourists. The city authorities have informed about it.

One more monument has appeared in Kiev. From now on, every resident and guest of the capital, who owns a camera, can feel like a freedom-loving biker, burning up the roads with a pretty girl on the back seat.

Paris is getting ready to join the international fest “Museum Night” for the seventh time. During the event part of European museums are open till late and offer their guests many concomitant actions along with watching expositions.

The TV channel “City” is making a new educational – entertaining project, dedicated to the history of Kiev.

New regular air flights have been opened, eight new companies have started to operate and over 20 new directions have been opened at “Borispol” airport.

This is German gift to Ukraine on the eve of Easter. Two hundred Easter eggs have been returned to the Museum of Ukrainian Decorative Art.

On May 26-29 residents of Kiev and guests of the capital are going to see fashion shows on Kreschatik, fireworks show with laser special effects over the Dnieper, strong men all-round events tournament, cycle racing, beach volley-ball and kickboxing contests. Festival of kiteflying will be held in Pirogovo.

The Ministry of Culture is going to introduce electronic theatre tickets. The Minister of Culture and Tourism Mikhail Kulinyak has informed about it.

Boat trips along the Dnieper have been opened in the capital. Metropolitan companies offer residents of Kiev and its guests to breathe fresh river air.

According to the latest statistics from the World Tourism Organization, Ukraine is among the ten countries in Europe most visited by tourists, while in terms of the priority of a state in the sphere of tourism, it is ahead of Poland and Slovakia, Deputy Chairman of the State Service for Tourism and Resorts Dmytro Zaruba said at a press conference on Friday.

Date: March 30 - May 1
Location: Book and Book Publishing Museum of Ukraine.
The exhibition of female portraits of the 16th – 19th centuries, named “Beauty and Eternity” from the funds of the National Reserve “Olesskiy Castle” was opened in the framework of the international project “A woman`s role in Ukrainian society”. The opening was held in the Museum of Book and Book Publishing of Ukraine on March 30.

The fun fair “Easter Basket” will be held on the territory of the National Kiev-Pechersk historic-cultural reserve on April 21 – May 2, 2011.

The organizers of “Kievan Rus Park” expect a million of tourists to visit the event this year.

A historical-cultural complex, where visitors will immerse into the medieval world, will be built 50 km. away from Kiev.

The opening of the exhibition of photos of the art group from Moscow “Black Hole” took place in Kiev gallery “Mykola`s House” on March 21.

The Minister of Culture and Tourism Mikhail Kulinyak informed about it during the meeting of the Public Humanitarian Council. The Minister mentioned that apprehensions of some public figures as to exclusion of the national reserve from the UNESCO list are groundless.

According to the Head of the Regional State Administration Anatoliy Prisyazhnyuk, the RSA has allocated almost 100 hectares of land in Makarov district for construction of the track for running auto race “Formula 1”. 

Location: “Vladimirskaya Hill” park, Kiev

The legendary panorama “Golgotha”, illustrating crucifixion of Jesus Christ, will be reconstructed on Vladimirskaya Hill in Kiev. “Kievzelenstroy” has developed a project on returning the park to its historical look.