In the center of Kiev a festival of national dance


On Saturday, September 4, in Kyiv starts the Third International youth folk dance festival “Golden Gate”. The dancing activities start with a traditional parade of the participating countries on the main streets of the city.
In the four-day festival will be attended by 10 children’s and youth teams from Nigeria, Latvia, Russia, Poland, Cuba and Ukraine, which will present the best examples of folk dances of their countries.
In addition, the program “Golden Gate” is full of a variety of events and actions. Among them – master classes in dance, painting, exhibition of works by young artists, art-project “Carpet of friendship” in Shevchenko Park, the exhibition-presentation of the countries from which participants came.

Ukrainian film reached the final of the American Film Festival


Film by the Ukrainian director Miroslav Slaboshpitskogo “Deafness” from series “Asshole. Arabesque” was among the ten finalists short program at Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival in Massachusetts (USA). He is considered one of the top 25 film forums of the world in 2010 under the version of the influential American magazine “MovieMaker Magazine”.

Cherkassy opened a museum of chocolate


In Cherkassy opened a museum of chocolate, which has fifty sweet works of art on display.
In the museum, visitors can learn the history of chocolate, technology and the secrets of its manufacture, as well as to try the best views directly from the chocolate fountain.
The museum consists of four rooms. At first you can learn the history of chocolate from Mayan to the present day. The second hall tells about modern technologies of manufacturing of chocolate, as well as introduces types of chocolate products

Kiev will expose the classic Ukrainian Painting at an auction


The auction, “Ukrainian, Russian art XIX-XXI centuries.” to be held September 25 in Kiev, will feature the works of classics of Ukrainian art, as Nicholas Glushchenko, Viktor Zaretsky, Theophilus Frayerman, Erno Erb. To view the lots will be on the pre-auction exhibition from 18 to 24 September. Trading with the auction house “Golden Section”.
Basis of the collection auction consists of works of Ukrainian artists of the Soviet and pre-war period. It will list all the picturesque school of Ukraine (Kiev, Odessa, Kharkiv, Lviv, Crimea, Donetsk), as well as sculpture and graphic works. In total, the collection includes about 140 works

In Koktebel will be held a jazz festival “Live in Blue Bay”

From 3 to 5 September in Koktebel based pension “Blue Bay” will be the second international jazz festival “Live in Blue Bay – 2010″.
The first day of the festival is scheduled to a band MIA (Simferopol), Enver Izmailov with “Karadag”, a children’s vocal ensemble “Belbeck and Izmailova, Tamara Lukashove and quartet Alexey Petukhov (Odessa), Alexander Murenko with” Fusion Band “

In Dniprоdzerzhinsk appeared first museum in Ukraine steel

In Dniprodzerzhinsk in the Dnieper Metallurgical Plant them appeared the first museum of metallurgy in Ukraine.
The idea to open a museum appeared a year ago. It turns out that in recent years the company accumulated mass of obsolete equipment, which in 10-15 years could be called rare. We decided not to write off equipment, but to turn to “public property”

Yanukovych instructed to build a helipad near the museum of Shevchenko

President Viktor Yanukovych instructed in the second stage of reconstruction of Shevchenko National Park in Kanev build on the museum grounds heliport. The Head of State said at the meeting of the Public Humanities Council in Kiev.
Victor Yanukovych also noted the need for reconstruction at the museum of Taras Shevchenko modern hotel and the river port on the Dnieper.
“We should all work out, so that people do not pass Kanev on their way,” – he said. He instructed the Minister of Culture and Tourism Yuri Kulinyaku work out the itinerary, the main point of which should be Shevchenko National Reserve.
“We’ll make it the pearl of the world”, – said V. Yanukovych

Tomenko: Instead of the hut in Kanev there is an office built


MP from BYuT deputy speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Mykola Tomenko, commenting on the restoration of the Shevchenko Museum in Kanev, said that instead of the Ukrainian hut Kobzar built office. He told a briefing today.
N. Tomenko noted that a number of Ukrainian artists and architects uniquely embraced the new version of the museum-reserve. “Personally, I have my own positive and negative view about this. My positive attitude is that I agree with the attempts of the President and his team take off your hat with Shevchenko. This ideological doctrine that Shevchenko’s time to take off your hat and make it young, I like it. .. Young European Shevchenko for me “, – said N. Tomenko

Ukrainians will be shown contemporary Bulgarian movies


From 13 to 20 September 2010 in the cinema “Kiev” there will be held the third Festival of contemporary Bulgarian cinema.
This year, viewers will see the best films of modern Bulgaria, most of which have received awards at prestigious international film festivals

In Kiev there will be a monument to a candy


In Bessarabia, the area in the city center there will be a new original sculpture – the monument to candy. Its author – sculptor Vladimir Belokon.
The new monument consists of two “candies” and is made of metal. Sculptural composition symbolizes childhood. The height of the candy is about 1,5 m