Cultural events, arts and festivals in Kyiv region and Ukraine
A band that fills stadiums with hundreds of thousands of spectators performed a concert for a few hundred schoolchildren in an auditorium where, 50 years ago, it all started with a handwritten notice seeking musicians.
The actress officially became Margot Ackerley after nearly ten years of marriage, but will remain Robbie on movie posters. This is a common Hollywood practice — separating personal name and brand.
The Irish band releases its first full-length album of new material in ten years on November 13 — and deliberately moves away from the heavy political themes of previous releases toward a "carnival" atmosphere.
An auction in Paris is selling personal belongings of Brigitte Bardot starting at 100 euros — and this demonstrates how the legacy of a 20th-century star works toward a specific purpose even after her death.
Nicole Kidman has embarked on a lighthearted romance with businessman Michael Reinstein, but true therapy following her separation from Keith Urban for her has been filming and launching on TikTok.
HBO Max has embarked on a decade-long project of seven seasons based on Rowling's books, and the main intrigue lies not in the casting, but in whether the industry can sustain such a lengthy production cycle.
In Odesa, protective sandbags were removed from the monument to Duke — a symbol of the city that had been concealed from shrapnel since 2022. The initial inspection revealed no damage, but a practical question arises: how to protect the monument further if the threat of shelling shows no signs of diminishing.
Nolan surpassed his own Batman films within a month of "Odyssey" screening, but behind the dry figure of a billion dollars lies not so much a boom in viewer interest as the price of tickets in premium formats.
Vincent Pastorone, a star of "The Sopranos," has died at 80. He was found dead after neighbors were unable to reach him for several days. His story demonstrates how a late career start and a supporting role can become iconic.
Christopher Nolan's new film set a box office opening record for the director himself and confirmed that audiences are willing to pay for a theatrical experience if they have something worthwhile to watch.
July 21 is the day when the Orthodox Church honors a prophet who saw God among the exiles, while American food industry inadvertently legitimized an annual ritual of diet abandonment.
Greece has been attempting to obtain UNESCO status for Mount Olympus for over a decade. This time, the project agenda for the meeting in Busan provides for the return of the application for clarification — for the second time.
The sector commemorated on this day produced 7% less steel in the first half of 2025 compared to the same period last year. Yet it continues to operate.
# The Rome Statute of the ICC, MH17 Disaster, Emoji Day and Ukrainian Ethnographers — July 17 Carries a Contradiction Between Remembering Crimes and Questions of Whether Justice Catches Up With Them.
Washoku is not just a collection of recipes, but a system of food perception that has convinced the world to recognize a taste that for millennia was considered incomprehensible. In 2013, UNESCO included Japanese culinary tradition in the list of intangible cultural heritage — but the real revolution took place in the laboratory, not in the kitchen.
On July 15, Zelensky signed decree No. 604: among more than 100 honorees is the Boombox soloist who, following a viral 2022 video, joined a territorial defense unit, sustained injuries, and currently commands attack drones on the Eastern front.
Debbie McWilliams, who cast 14 Bond films, is convinced that 007 must remain a white man — because that's what Fleming wrote. The problem is, she has never actually read Fleming herself.
Two holidays on July 15 — Day of Ukrainian Statehood and World Youth Skills Day — turn out to be connected by a single question: who and how equips the next generation with the knowledge that determines the future.
# Translation A Ukrainian installation opened at UNESCO headquarters in Paris that transforms a school desk into a testament to war. Behind it are 4,163 damaged and destroyed educational institutions and the question of whether international law protects education better than cultural monuments.
On Shark Awareness Day, statistics turn conventional logic on its head: humans kill sharks 10 million times more often than sharks attack humans. This is both about sharks and about how public fear works.
# Kyiv Customs Officials Seize Rare 19th-Century Embroidered Icon from International Parcel Kyiv customs officers have confiscated an embroidered icon of "Mother of God of the Sign" from the first half of the 19th century from an international postal shipment — one of the rarest types of religious art that has barely survived to the present day. The sender did not possess any necessary permits or documentation.
Anthony the Caver founded a monastery on the slopes above the Dnipro River, which became a spiritual center of Ukraine. Nikola Tesla was born on the same day 873 years later — and rewrote the physics of electricity that powers the entire world.
The Culture Ministry has included a feathered wedding wreath from Velykyi Kliuchiv in the National Register of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The problem is that only a few craftswomen remain who know how to make it.
# Kebab, baklava and dolma are dishes that Turkey considers its own, but Kurds, Greeks and Persians think otherwise. This is why the question of Turkish cuisine's origins remains unresolved.
Ten events for the first weekend of July — including a festival inspired by a single-celled organism without a brain that became a muse for urban planners, and a concert where the audience decides which song plays next.
The Ministry of Culture has added Sokal ceramics to the National Register of Intangible Cultural Heritage. This is already the 12th element from Lviv region — but behind this number stands a craft that literally disappeared at the beginning of the 20th century and is being revived to this day.
Cherkasy is not just a transit city on the way to Uman or Kanev. It is home to Europe's largest Buddhist temple, a greenhouse with an iguana named Chigievara, and a park that was recognized as one of the best in Ukraine in 2018.
On July 1 in Stryzhavka near Vinnytsia, People's Artist of Ukraine Mykola Yanchenko tragically died — a composer whose songs were performed by Iryna Fedyshyn and whose music accompanied weddings throughout Podillia. He was 66 years old.
CBC/Radio-Canada has obtained full membership status in the EBU — and this has opened the doors to Sofia. But is Canada itself ready for a contest it has observed from the sidelines for decades?
A foundation stone was laid at Kyiv's open-air museum for the future "Crimean Tatar Homestead" — nine buildings will be constructed gradually, with a tenth building planned only after Crimea's return. The state is not providing funding: the project relies on the community and partners.