Editor's Note: Every week, the Kyiv Post picks the most interesting of upcoming entertainments and presents them in this special feature.
Fontaliza
Fontaliza is a young Ukrainian rock band from Horlivka in Donetsk Oblast. It’s warm up for Okean Elzy at Kyiv’s Olympyskyi Stadium increased the band’s popularity. This concert’s program promises to include songs from Fontaliza’s new album “Under the Floor.”
Fontaliza. July 26. 8 p.m. Green Theater (4 Parkova Road). Hr 60 – 120
Color Fest Holi Ukraine
The amusement is inspired by the Indian spring festival called Holi. This holiday traditionally consists of festivities, stewing with colored powders (made of herbs and natural pigments) and dousing with water. Apart from this, Color Fest Holi in Kyiv promises to have body-art and entertainment for children, mehndi (temporary tattoos) and Indian dance master-classes, gigantic soap bubbles, DJs, musical performances, souvenirs and many more. Dry powders are included in the ticket price.
Color Fest Holi. Aug. 9.1 p.m. Ledovyi Stadium (9 Academika Hlushkova Av.). Hr 180
Zahid Fest
Zahid Fest is an annual musical festival started in 2009. Since then it actively works for development of the festival movement in Ukraine. This year’s headliners are the US’s Anti-Flag, Clawfinger from Sweden, Ukrainian Braty Gadukiny band and legendary Belarus band Lyapis Trubetskoy. Among others one can find Ukraine’s Scryabin and Tartak bands and Russia’s Noize MC and Lumen. Two tent camps are available on the festival’s territory.
Zahid Fest. Aug. 8-10. Rodatychy (Lviv Oblast). Hr 400 – 550
Intim Fest
Intim Fest is Ukraine’s delves into sexology and psychology. The festival is aimed at those interested in relations between the sexes, widening knowledge about themselves and improving relationships with partners. The guests will hear from leading Ukrainian and foreign specialists on the development of sexual, physical and psychological health and finding harmony. The program includes master classes, lectures, music and dance performances.
Intim Fest. July 19-20. 9 a.m. Truhanov Island (Kyiv). Hr 800 – 1,800
Bustles and crinolines
Bustles and crinolines is an exposition on history of fashion in Manufactura Art Center. It brings together an ancient collection of elegant clothes and accessories, the only one of the kind on post-Soviet territory. The collection consists of almost one thousand exhibits, the oldest dates back to 1800. All the luxurious ballroom dresses, capes, toilettes for visits, wedding and everyday dresses belonged to the European ladies of the 19th.
Turniury ta Krynoliny. July 20 – Aug. 5. 11 a.m. – 9 p.m. Manufactura (Khodosiivka, 2 Obukhiv Highway). Hr 15 – 30
Maidan
Maidan is a new documentary by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa. Earlier presented at the 67th annual Cannes Film Festival and the Odessa International Film Festival, it is going to the big screens of Ukrainian movie theatres. The film shows Ukrainians rediscovering their national identity in the 90-day revolution and includes chronicles of the events that took place at Kyiv’s Independence Square in November 2013- February 2014.
Maidan. July 24. Kyiv (19 Chervonoarmiyska St.). For more information visit http:// www.kievkino.com.ua/
Roni Ben-Hur Trio
Roni Ben-Hur stands out as one of the elite players in modern jazz. For now he works in trio with Duduka da Fonesca (percussion) and Ark Ovrutsk (contrabass, bass guitar). An International Jazz Subscribe introduces this project to support the jazz festival Ukraine Jazz Summer 2014 under the patronage of the embassy of Israel in Ukraine. The trio is international as all musicians belong to different countries – USA, Brazil, Israel.
Roni Ben-Hur Trio. July 22. 7:30 p.m. Caribbean Club (4 Symona Petliury St.). Hr 80 – 250
