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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.

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

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 “

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

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