Editor’s Note: Kyiv public relations specialist Zhanna Kobylinska’s “Good News Ukraine” blog sticks to uplifting news and steers clear of controvers.
Kyiv’s TOP-5 festivals to magnet thousands of tourists
Art, literature, gastronomy, music – the festival movement in Kyiv is gaining momentum. Various platforms (indoors and outdoors) alternately or simultaneously gather thousands of visitors. With the number of visitors increasing, the geography of guests is also expanding: Ukraine, Europe, the USA.
We offer you to pay special attention to TOP-5 large-scale festivals gathering thousands of visitors:
Atlas Weekend Music Festival was founded in 2015. Its main goal is development of festival culture in the country, attraction of foreign tourists to Ukraine and popularization of Ukrainian music in the world. Atlas Weekend 2017 has gathered more than 300,000 visitors within 5 days.
Venue: National Complex ‘Expocenter of Ukraine’.
More:http://ukrainegoodnews.com/kyivs-top-5-festivals-to-magnet-thousands-of-tourists.html
Made by Ukrainians: FB-app to listen to the music
Ukrainian developers from StepInMobile company have created FB-MuzekBox application allowing to listen to the music.
The application is available for Chrome and Opera browsers, and Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer in a beta version.
The app allows you to search for music on Facebook, add it to your playlist and share it with your friends.
For installing, please go to the link and follow a step-by-step instruction.
The app installed you will see the music player panel on Facebook interface.
http://ukrainegoodnews.com/thanks-to-the-ukrainian-music-you-can-already-listen-to-facebook.html
Flowering woman-spring look created by Dnipro designer wins in Singapore
Tetiana Boiarska from Dnipro who is living in Singapore won the International Mangosteen Fashion Contest held in Singapore.
The girl created the seductive image of the flowering woman-spring. The look brought Tetiana the biggest number of ‘likes’ during online voting.
http://ukrainegoodnews.com/flowering-woman-spring-look-created-by-dnipro-designer-wins-in-singapore.html
Ukrainian Deruny Festival in the Netherlands
Ukrainians in the Netherlands invite to Ukrainian Deruny Festival to be held at the Embassy Festival in The Hague on Sept. 2.
The menu offers the true, unequalled flavors of Ukrainian cuisine: varenyky (dumplings), holubtsi (stuffed cabbage rolls), sweet and savory blintzes, traditional Ukrainian pastries – a variety of cheesecakes and doughnuts.
However, this year’s favorite food is deruny, Ukrainian potato pancakes based on grated potato, salt, ground pepper and flour, and served with sour cream, mushroom sauce or simply with onions sautéed in oil.
In addition, a selection ‘Made in Ukraine’ products will also be presented: delicious sausages and meats from various Ukrainian producers, honey, sweets and cakes, beer etc.
An array of Ukrainian souvenirs will be on offer, along with master classes in deruny making, pottery painting and more – all accompanied by Ukrainian accordion music.
http://ukrainegoodnews.com/ukrainian-deruny-festival-in-the-netherlands.html
Englishman in Kyiv!
After sold-out concerts in North America, Europe, South America and Mexico, the world-famous singer and musician Sting will give a concert in Kyiv under his rock tour ‘Sting’s 57th & 9th’. The concert will take place at the Sports Palace on Oct. 6.
During the concert, the singer will present a new album ’57th & 9th’, the name given by the intersection of two streets Sting was walking while heading to the studio to work on new songs.
In addition to the songs from the album ’57th & 9th’ the setlist will also includes popular songs (for example, ‘Shape Of My Heart’, ‘Fields Of Gold’, ‘Englishman In New York’) as well as classic songs of The Police, the rock band that brought Sting the worldwide fame (‘Message In The Bottle’, ‘Every Breath You Take’ and, of course, ‘Roxanne’).
http://ukrainegoodnews.com/englishman-in-kyiv!.html
