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Brave! Factory Festival
A Kyiv train factory will host the electronic music festival Brave! Factory for the third time. Launched in 2017 by the team behind Closer, one of Kyiv’s most popular nightclubs, Brave is among Ukraine’s youngest music festivals, but it’s already on track to be one of the most popular. In early July 2019, influential electronic music magazine Resident Advisor included Brave on its list of the top 10 music festivals taking place in August this year. This 36-hour-long event offers a variety of music shows, electronic DJ sets, techno and house parties and some contemporary art is also exhibited at the industrial site. Its lineup includes over 70 acts, such as the U.S. electronic music artists Detroit in Effect, Dubfire, Solar, and Model 500, Ukrainian hip-hop star Alina Pash and many more. The festival will kick off on Saturday at 8 p. m., running non-stop till the late hours of Aug. 25.
Brave! Factory Festival. Kyivmetrobud Factory (2/25 Svitlohorska St.) Aug. 24-25. 12 a.m. Hr 1,300-2,100
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‘Matthew Bourne: Swan Lake’
Matthew Bourne’s version of the ballet classic completely reimagines the story of the tragic relationship between the swan and the prince. The British playwright completely changed the plot, reshuffled the music and some of the characters. But his boldest move was casting the herd of swans as all-male actors, adding a new homoerotic framing to the story originally composed by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, who had to hide his homosexuality in imperial Russia. Bourne’s production remains the longest-running ballet in London’s West End theater and Broadway, and its recording will be screened at Multiplex cinema.
Matthew Bourne: Swan Lake. Multiplex (Lavina Mall, 6D Berkovetska St.) Aug. 24. 3 p.m. Hr 190-240
Photo by Alex Kuzmin.
‘New York – Ilovaisk: A Choice’
American millionaire Markiyan Paslawsky left everything behind at 55 to fight for Ukraine, his parent’s country, first side by side with EuroMaidan protesters in Kyiv and then at the frontline of Russia’s war against Ukraine. He died under mortar shelling in the battle for Ilovaisk as a Ukrainian hero. Paslawsky’s story is told at this exhibition in the Museum of the Ukrainian Diaspora through his family’s archive photos and documents, artifacts from the Museum of the Revolution of Dignity. “New York – Ilovaisk: A Choice” will continue until Oct. 20 and will include excursions, screenings and discussions. At one of the exhibition’s events, a book called “The Call to Action” will be presented – a collection of Paslawsky’s essays on how to change Ukraine for the better.
New York – Ilovaisk: A Choice. Museum of the Ukrainian Diaspora (40B Moskovska St.) Aug. 18 – Oct. 20. 4 p.m. – 7 p.m. Hr 50, Hr 25 for pupils, students and retirees. Free for people with disabilities of the 1st, 2nd group, veterans and any museum employee
Photo by Kostyantyn Chernichkin.
Shpylyasti Kobzari
Shpylyasti Kobzari, a Kyiv-based band playing traditional Ukrainian string instruments, banduras, proves that Ukrainian folk music has a place in modern show business. The band was founded in 2011 and quickly became famous thanks to the TV show “Ukraine’s Got Talent.” Now, Shpylyasti Kobzari are known for combining folk songs with modern music and promoting Ukrainian culture worldwide. For those willing to hear some world-famous hits performed on banduras, as well as the band’s original music, Shpylyasti Kobzari will hit the stage of Kyiv’s Caribbean Club on Aug. 17.
Shpylyasti Kobzari. Caribbean Club (4 Symona Petliury St.) Aug. 17. 7 p.m. Hr 190-790
