Editor’s Note: Ukraine remains under adaptive quarantine, as the number of COVID-19 cases has been growing recently. However, after the country lifted some of the restrictions, the entertainment industry has been getting back to operations under new measures that include social distancing and limited number of attendees. To let us know about the upcoming shows, exhibitions, concerts, movie screenings, festivals, and parties, please send an e-mail to [email protected].
Outside festival
For one day and night, the site of the hottest music parties in Kyiv will hold a festival outdoors, in the courtyard of a former ribbon factory. With its first big event since the COVID-19 lockdown, the Outside festival will have the best of what its venues have to offer: electronic music, jazz, dance performances, a flea market, lectures and workshops. The DJ line-up highlights are the Seven Sister duo from Germany, followed by Ukrainian DJs Poly Chain, Sasha Zlykh, Jana Woodstock and many others. The jazz scene will be led by Ukraine’s Dennis Adu, KK4tet, New Brain Trio and Latin Legacy. The place “will turn into an urban oasis, where everything that represents the creative community of our city will collide for one day,” the organizers say. They advise to wear a face mask and keep social distance, and there will be temperature screening at the entrance during the event.
Outside festival. 31 Nyzhnoiurkivska St. Aug. 15. 12 p.m. Hr 300-500
Krut’ band is an indie soul project by Maryna Krut, who plays bandura, a Ukrainian traditional string instrument. (KRUTЬ/Facebook)
Krut’
The breakout star of Ukraine’s national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest this year, Maryna Krut will perform with her band on the terrace of the Vsi Svoi D12 venue. Krut’, a modern indie soul project with folk motifs, benefits from Maryna’s moving vocals and lyrics, but most of all from her bandura – Ukraine’s traditional string instrument. Krut’ is on a mission to show how creatively a bandura can be used in modern music with elements of jazz and soul, and the project seems to be succeeding.
Krut’. Vsi Svoi D12 (12 Desiatynna St.) Aug. 19. 7 p.m. Hr 280-590
Short Films About Adventure features 10 short films about traveling to some of the world’s most interesting places. (Courtesy)
Short Films About Adventures
Either to remind its viewers how wonderful traveling can be or to inspire future travels, Short Films About Adventures, a compilation of 10 short films, will run at Kyiv’s historic Zhovten cinema. Ranging in genre from documentaries to comedy-dramas, all of these short films show the beauty of traveling. From city life in Paris and Berlin to glacier camps in Antarctica, from biking and hiking in the Alps to kitesurfing on the coast of Madagascar – these stories will take the viewers to the Earth’s brightest corners. The films will be screened in their original languages (mostly English) and with Ukrainian subtitles.
Short Films About Adventures. Zhovten Cinema (26 Kostiantynivska St.) Aug. 13-14 6:05 p.m.; Aug. 15-16 10:40 a.m., 6:10 p.m.; Aug. 17-19 12:50 p.m., 6:05 p.m. Hr 55-105
100 Days of Solitude exhibition explores what people feel under the COVID-19 lockdown. (Port.Agency/Facebook)
100 Days of Solitude
A brand new art gallery inside the Kooperativ co-working workplace is opening up with its first exhibition called 100 Days of Solitude, which explores what people experience under the COVID-19 lockdown. Through their artwork created during the lockdown, 14 Ukrainian artists such as Anton Logov, Olia Fedorova and Masha Reva, try to convey their feelings about isolation and the new reality as a result of the pandemic. “The project is dedicated to a person who is left in the privacy of their own mind, with their own fears and dreams, disappointments and expectations during the pandemic,” the organizers say. The exhibition is open for visitors Friday through Sunday with prior registration.
100 Days of Solitude. Kooperativ (23A Sichovykh Striltsiv St.) July 3 – Aug. 31. Fri 4-6 p.m. Sat-Sun 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Register at https://forms.gle/NhgAwH4WoH5m1jPk9 or +38097 1006 070
