Get out your Tommy gun as Prohibition is rekindled Sept. 12... or get out the beachwear one last time and head to Hydropark Saturday for the Ukrainian Open Wakeboarding Championships... and for clubbers DJ Gordon Edge plays Tusetye Saturday night.
pro this Saturday, as the best Ukrainian practitioners of this extreme sport join Russian and other colleagues to show Kyivans how it’s done. Watch as the helmeted freaks, towed behind motorboats at high speeds, leap, spin, splash and even get upside-down. Should be quite a late-summer show.
Opium Beach Club (Hydropark, 205-2945).
11 a.m. till 6 p.m. Please call for more information.
SATURDAY 11
CLUB PARTY
DJ Gordon Edge.
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Deejay and trumpeter Gordon Edge, of London, is set to open the new club season at Tusetye. Lately Edge has been living the sweet life in Ibiza, and is noted for combining house and live instruments. The upcoming party will also involve video by eccentric director Oleksandr Shapiro. Sure to be lively.
Tusetye (3 Leontovycha, 234-7494).
10 p.m. Tickets Hr 75 for men, free for women.
SUNDAY 12
COSTUME PARTY
Once Upon a Time in America.
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No, it’s not Sergio Leone’s mournful gangland epic. It’s rather a party celebrating the end of Prohibition in the United States, with an America-in-the-1930s theme: mobsters, booze, jazz, machine-guns, cabaret, cigars, and more mobsters still. Guests get cigars and whiskey; the entertainment consists of live music and dancing. Guests in 1930s-style clothes are eligible for awards. Dig out your fedora, your sharpest suit, and your Tommy gun.
Soho (82 Artema, 244-7351).
7 p.m. Please call for more information.
TUESDAY 14
ART EXHIBITION
Yuriy Lutskevich.
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Yuriy Lutskevich, born in 1934, is an eminent Ukrainian artist indeed – he’s one of the few Soviet artists who successfully navigated the strictures of Socialist Realism to create interesting work. His “Neo-Baroque” paintings throb with color, light and life, and betray a man besotted with the female form. Rubens, Velasquez, Renoir and the pre-Raphaelites are some of the artists his pictures recall.
National Museum of Art (6 Hrushevskoho, 228-7454). 10 a.m. till 6 p.m., Fridays 11 a.m. until 7 p.m.; closed Mondays. Until Oct. 3.
