Culture news

Date: October 1-3
Location: St. Andrew`s Descend, Kiev
On October 1-3 Ukrainian-German festival “Street of games on the street of games” will take place on St. Andrew`s Descend.

Location: “Wunjo Art” Gallery (10-a, building 3, Geroev Stalingrada Avenue, Kiev)
An exhibition of Tatyana Vezeleva will take place at the capital gallery “Wunjo Art” from September 28 till October 29. “Touching the miracle” – that`s how not just works of the forthcoming exposition, but all creative work of the original artist can be called without exaggeration. Her each canvas – is skillfully created perfect world.

Date: October 13
Location: National Palace “Ukraine” (103, Bolshaya Vasilkovskaya (Krasnoarmeyskaya) Str., Kiev)
The great tenor will perform the program “Mediterranean Passion”, accompanied by the National Symphonic Orchestra of Ukraine.

Date: September 23-26
Location: Streets of Odessa
Festival Tram with Jazz Musicians will announce the forthcoming opening of the 10th anniversary “Jazz-Carnival in Odessa – 2010”, passing along the streets of the city on September 23.

Location: Entertaining Complex “Arena” (2-a, Basseynaya Street, Kiev)
Time: daily, from 9 a.m. till 2 a.m. (the time of work of the Complex)
The capital artists Inna Korovay and Mikhail Sagun spent almost half a year painting a 3-D image in oils. No one has painted 3-D paintings, especially with oils on an ordinary canvas.

Date: September 25 – October 3
Location: National Musical Academy named after P.I. Tchaikovsky (Architect Gorodetskogo Str., 1-3/11,), National Philarmony of Ukraine (Vladimirskiy Descend, 2).
On September 25- October 3 the greatest holiday of modern musical culture in Ukraine - 21st International Musical Festival “Kiev Fest 2010” will take place in Kiev. The festival will be opened by musical dialog between Ukraine and the USA.

The first Museum-Studio of Photo Art in Ukraine has been opened in Khmelnitskiy. Family collection of old photo equipment of the famous Khmelnitskiy photo master Konstantin Zhdanov will be represented in the Museum. The collection includes over 500 exhibits of the end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th century. There are very rare, unique exhibits, which exist just in a few copies. There are absolutely unique ones, for example, the first serial photo camera, produced in Ukraine in 1932.

Date: September 10-28. Opening hours: daily, from 11 a.m. till 7 p.m.
Location: “Dukat” Gallery, 4, Grushevskogo str., Kiev.
The holiday of 5771 Jewish Ney Year Rosh Ha Shana (The Hebrew for “Head of the year”) is celebrated two days on end on the first days of autumn month Tishri according to Jewish calendar. This year it is the 9th and the 10th of September. 

Kiev Academic Theatre of Drama and Comedy on the left bank of the Dnieper, located on Brovarskoy Avenue, is going to be reconstructed till 2015. Production-rehearsal complex of the Theatre is planned to be built by that time.

A holiday concert with participation of “Bi-2” and “Ocean Elzy” is going to take place in the center of Kiev on September 12.

Date – September 15-17.
Location: Ivan Franko Theatre.
According to the capital Theatre named after Ivan Franko, Pier Rishar is coming to Ukraine on September 15.

Museum of Chocolate, representing about 50 sweet works of art, has been opened in Cherkassy.

Date: September 4-12
Location of opening - Independence Square
Multicultural festival “Gogolfest” will take place from the 4th till the 12th of September in Kiev. The festival will be opened by mutual performance “Multiverse” of the Spanish Theatre “La Fura dels Baus” (Barcelona, Spain) and “DAH” Theatre.

The date of start of the search – August 28.
From August 28 work of American research group “Ghost Hunters International” starts in Podgoretskiy Сastle in Lvov region. Members of the team will research paranormal phenomena on the territory of the Castle Complex, which were registered now, though have been known from translations from old times.

Location: Obolonye settlement (Koropskiy district, Chernigov region).
In village Obolonye, Koropskiy district of Chernigov region bones and tusk of a mammoth of Paleolith era were found at a depth of 1, 5 meters while digging a hole for drilling a chink on the territory of the stokehole of a local school.

The autumn cinema season in Ukraine will be opened by festivals of short films. Ukrainian spectators are also going to see festivals of British, German, Latin American, Italian and Asian films in the nearest time.

Date: August 27-29
Location: Center of City History of B.Shumilovich (6, Bogomoltsa str., Lvov)
New program of British media art will be demonstrated during the week of actual art in Lvov on August 27-29. These will be audio visual works of British artists, created with support of modern media technologies – Internet, video, computer graphics, animation and multimedia. The demonstrations will be conducted with commentaries of the art critic and media projects manager of the Center of City History Bogdan Shumilovich

Date – August 19 – September 5
Time – daily, except for Monday and the last Tuesday of the month from 10a.m. to 5.30p.m.
Location – National Center of Folk Culture “Ivan Gonchar`s Museum” (29, Lavrskaya str., Kiev)
Exhibition of leather goods, made by folk master Lubov Makoviychuk-Gumen, “Pokutskaya Tobivka” will be opened on August 19.

Russian scientist got interested in the unique icon with double image that is kept in Chernigov. Scientific secretary of the National Architectural-Historic Reserve “Ancient Chernigov” Sergey Chernyakov reported about it. According to him, the unique in techniques of creation icon is represented in the exposition of national icon of the reserve.

Location: Kiev, public garden at the corner of Pushkinskaya and Proreznaya streets.
On August 13 the center of the capital was supplemented with new art objects. 20 benches, painted by young artists, were settled at the crossroads of Pushkinskaya and Proreznaya streets. Mounting of the benches became the final stage of the action, run by the Center of Subculture Initiatives “Urban X” with support of international fund “Renaissance” and Kiev City State Administration in spring of this year.

Exhibition “Dinosaurs World” will take place on Pevcheskoye Pole in September of this year. Over 50 prehistoric animals from 2 to 23 meters high will be represented. The exposition will be brought to Kiev from Austria.

The monument to the founders of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra is planned to be set near the sacred source of Antoniy and Feodosiy.

A complex, created by William Geste, with parking and entertainment center will be built on Podol.

Date – August, 10 – 15
Location – Kherson region, Skadovsk
12th All-Ukrainian charity children’s festival “Black See Games” will take place from the 10th to the 15th of August in the city of Skadovsk, Kherson region.

The first and only Museum of Marmalade in Ukraine has been opened on the territory of children’s play town “Lukomorye” in Sevastopol.