Festival Venues

28 March - 1 April. Telefilm festival Pilihrym (Pilgrim) (Zhytomyr, the oblast TV centre). This festival is dedicated to various kinds of tourism: cultural, spiritual, ethnic, and extreme, and includes meetings with travellers and extreme athletes, and master classes. The participants will present reports on their travels in the format of short films and photographs.

29 April - 2 May. Mediaeval Khotyn. (The Khotyn Fortress, Chernivtsi oblast).This is an islet where the Middle Ages come back to life in all manifestations imaginable: dressage, tournaments, mediaeval music, archery contests, fire shows, and many other attractions. This festival reminds you that fairy tales and legends are much closer at hand than you might think, and nothing disappears without a trace.

10-13 May. Fenrir Scottish Fest. (Suburbs of Kyiv)The four days dedicated to Scottish culture will bring guests closer to the customs and traditions of Scots. Music, dances, military exercises, everyday life, entertainments, and cuisine - all these aspects will be presented in their full flavour. The guests are kindly requested to wear traditional Scottish dress.

1-3 June. Alfa Jazz Festival (Lviv, Rynok Square; Bohdan Khmelnytsky Park; Valova Street). This is the second time that Lviv has assembled amateurs of jazz music. The concert programmes (which will last until late at night) are meant to let listeners wander from stage to stage to hear all the performers.

1-3 June. Forpost (The Outpost) (Kamianets-Podilsky, Khmelnytsk oblast). This is one of the most remarkable mediaeval culture festivals, held on the territory of the ancient fortress, with the participation of domestic and foreign folk bands: Spiritual Seasons (Ukraine), Kings;Beggars (Ukraine), Stary Olsa (Belarus), Irdorath (Belarus), Mystterra (Russia), Svarun (Serbia), et al.

12-16 July. Art-Pole (Art Field) (Unizh, Ivano-Frankivsk oblast) You will meet the traditional participants of this fest, the bands DakhaBrakha, Perkalaba, and Burdon. Also on the programme: Uliana Horbachevska`s music performance involving renowned European artists, guests from Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, France, Great Britain, and the USA, as well as master classes in pottery, blacksmithing, paper clipping, authentic dance and singing.

30 June-1 July. Trypilske Kolo (The Trypillian Ring) (Rzhyshchiv, Kyiv oblast)This year`s festival`s theme is the harmony of elements (as a reminder, each of the previous events was dedicated to one distinct element). The 15-hectare festival grounds will become a stage for concerts and improvisations of well-known bands, performances, dances, master classes, and a fair. Traditionally, festival grounds are drug, alcohol, and smoke free.

4-18 August. Kazantip Z-20 (Crimea, Yevpatoria; beach outside Popivka). This is a universe on the Black Sea coast, dominated by lively music, dances, rhythm and drive. As soon as you get to the Republic of Kazantip, you need to get a multipassport and a yellow suitcase - the traditional attributes of any Kazantip citizen.

4-9 September. Meridian Czernowitz (Chernivtsi; Khotyn; Kamianets-Podilsky).The Chernivtsi-born international poetry festival will expand beyond one city`s limits this year. Poets and prose writers from Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Romania, Ukraine, the USA, Great Britain, and other countries will present their works at community centres, churches, and pubs. Also, there will be a book exhibition open.

7-23 September. GogolFest (Kyiv). The festival of modern art represents a panorama of cultural space in all its colours and manifestations. Music, dance, experimental theatre, painting, film, audiovisual art - this atmosphere is now familiar to Kyivans. Anyone who has been to GogolFest once, dreams of coming back every year.