Culture news

Date: March 2 − 13
Location: Ukrainian House, 2 Kreschatik Street

The Center of Turkish Culture and Language was opened in the building of Kiev Institute named after Boris Grinchenko at the address: 13-b, Marshal Timoshenko Avenue.

Two objects of nature- preserve fund will be created in Ternopol region. Organization of two botanic preserve of national importance in Berezhansk district has been coordinated with the Ministry of Ecology and Nature Resources of Ukraine.

A world record in parachute jumping from a balloon is planned to be set on the occasion of the International Women`s Day.

Date: March 3, 2011
Location: “Kiev” Cinema

The seventh annual festival “The line of Spanish Cinema” starts in Kiev at the beginning of March. The drama “Beautiful” by legendary Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu with Javier Bardem starring is the special project of the festival.

American electronic music performer Richard Melville Hall, more famous as Moby, has announced his new album and the tour in its support.

New places of interest have appeared in the center of culture and history “Kievan Rus Park” in the village Kopachiv near Kiev.

From the 9th of February the Agreement about visa-free regime between Israel and Ukraine, signed on July 21 2010, became operative.

Date: February 11-14
Beginning – 19.00
Location: Lvov National Opera and Ballet Theatre (28, Liberty Avenue)

On February 11 the legendary Italian tenor Roberto Loretti will give a concert in Lvov for the first time. The maestro will come to Lvov on the occasion of the opening of the fourth festival of chocolate.

Works are planned to be finished at the end of this year, but the terminal will be actually ready for exploitation by the beginning of the next year. It will take not one month to test all the equipment and systems.  That`s why there is an idea to use terminal “D” to serve charter flights, which will bring football fans and then gradually start to transfer regular ones there.

A restaurant, located higher, than any other restaurant of the world, was opened in Dubai.

Date: January 28 – February 13
Opening hours: daily, except for Monday and the last Tuesday of the month, from 10a.m. till 5.45 p.m.
Location: Ukrainian Center of National Culture “Ivan Gonchar Center”, 29 Lavrskaya Street, Kiev

Celebrations on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Ivan Gonchar`s birthday took place at the Ukrainian Center of National Art “Ivan Gonchar Museum” at 5 .p.m. on January 28.

Kyiv Art Gallery “Mystetska zbirka” invites you to the festive opening of the personal exhibition of the artist Leonid Kozlov  on the 3 of February at 18:00 pm, in the apartment of the gallery to the address: 13, Tereshchenkivska Str. (entrance archway 2)

The biggest aqua park in Kiev will start to function on the third floor of Dream Town shopping mall in June of the current year. The general area of water surface in the aqua park will come to 4 thousand square meters.

Four Ukrainian host cities have determined the touristic routes for Euro 2012. Most of the routes are offered by Lvov – 30 excursions about different thematic, historic and cultural-spiritual directions.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich gave the Museum of Art named after Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko the status of “national”.

Guests of Euro 2012, who will come to Ukraine to attend matches of the Championship of Europe in football, will be amazed by Olesskiy, Podgoretskiy, Zolochevskiy Castles. Director of Lvov Gallery of Art Boris Voznitskiy, under authority of whom there are some castles of the region, informed about it.

Kharkov musicians Igor Chernyavskiy and Vladislav Kalinin released a double-sided disc “Six sonatas by Johann Sebastian Bach for violin and organ”. According to representatives of Kharkov Regional Philarmony, such a record is the first one in the world.

Date: From January 27
Location: “Ukraine” Cinema, Kiev
The annual festival “Evenings of French Cinema” will be held in Ukraine for the sixth time.

Development of the map of touristic routes is about to be finished at Kiev State City Administration.

On the occasion of the New Year experts of the guide-book Lonely Planet with participation of its co-founder Tony Wheeler made a list of countries and cities, which should be visited in 2011 in their opinion.

The most famous messenger of Balkan culture in the world Goran Bregovic, accompanied by “Wedding and Funeral Band”, will give concerts in Kiev and Odessa in spring 2011.

Time: December 24, 2010 – February 28, 2011
Location: National T.G. Shevchenko Museum (12, Shevchenko Boulevard, Kiev)
Exhibition “Ukrainian Christmas” was opened at National Shevchenko Museum on December 24.

The Museum of Rail Transport will appear in Kiev next year. “Ukrzaliznytsia” will open it on the occasion of its 150th anniversary.

Ukrainian painter Stas Volyazlovskiy became the winner of the international contest in painting and got the Prize named after Kazimir Malevich – the outstanding painter of the beginning of the 20th century, the founder of suprematism style, a Polish native, born in Kiev.