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Ukrainians from Kharkiv, Donetsk, Crimea, Kherson, Luhansk, and, of course, Lviv Oblast will share a piece of their home with each other in Lviv’s Lem Station art space on October 1. Event participants will cook and taste Mariupol’s shumush pie, discuss traditional costumes, paint a Crimean Tatar ornament, and listen to the sounds of the sea and a performance by the Luhansk Philharmonic.

Visiting the Countrymen, a free event organized by Lviv’s Tourism Office, aims at familiarizing Ukrainians with their native land at a local level and celebrating World Tourism Day.

• culture
• Lviv

The family of Kostiantyn and Vlada Liberov used to take photos depicting love, but after February 24, they decided to photograph war. Kostiantyn’s photo, in which a Ukrainian defender is holding a watermelon in his hands against the background of a multiple rocket launcher system, has become very popular. The man admits that he got too close while working, and he was hit by stones and even bruised.

The couple photographs the war in hot cities of the country. Since the start of war, they have taken hundreds of photos, which can be seen on their social network pages and even on the covers of world media.

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• military

Painter Kos Podol brought together a group of people with vision impairment, and they spent the whole summer presenting their inner world in paintings. These paintings will be exhibited at the Abstraction from the Darkness to be held in Kyiv on September 24 to 30.

• culture
• Kyiv

Kalush Orchestra received a new trophy as the winners of the Eurovision Song Contest. A member of the band called KylymMen is going on a tour of Ukrainian cities so that everyone could take a picture with the glass microphone. In the near future, he will visit Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Kalush, Chernivtsi and Vinnytsia (tour details will be published on the band’s website). The members of the band will also think about benefits that the new trophy can bring to the country.

As reported, Kalush Orchestra sold their Eurovision trophy at a charity auction for USD 900,000 to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

• culture

A municipal bookstore in Kyiv has collected almost 25 tonnes of russian books and sent them for recycling. Recycling the books brought organizers UAH 98,000 to be spent on buying a car for soldiers fighting at the front line. The campaign to collect russian books for recycling is ongoing; each participant will get a 10% discount for new books.

• culture
• Kyiv

The photographer Roman Pashkovskyi has already carried out two Portrait for a Donation campaigns. He made portraits of about 450 people, raising UAH 220,000 in the process. He contributed the funds to charities providing humanitarian aid and restoring the homes of the Ukrainian victims of the war.

The photographer plans his next performance in Kyiv in late September. He is also going to expand the project to other cities.

Roman Pashkovskyi lives and works in Kyiv. He owns a photography school; he participated in group and one-man exhibitions in Ukraine and Switzerland.

• culture
• volunteers
• Kyiv

Ukraine as Eldorado of the Future, a ceramic panel, will be the main object of art to be created by the children. The ceramic panel will consist of individual fragments in national colors. Young potters will make it together with Pascal Woestelandt.

It is just one of the entire set of master classes the artist offers. These events are organized to support Ukraine during the difficult time of the war. The idea is to bring together children of the whole world.

• children
• culture

In Odesa, the discussions are raging regarding the demolition of the monument to the russian empress Catherine II, who destroyed the Ukrainian military-political entity Zaporozhian Sich and implemented the russification of Ukrainians. Many citizens and activists support the demolition of the monument, but the Odesa City Council slows down the process and refuses to issue a corresponding order. The leadership of the region has already spoken out in favor of dismantling the monument, and even the President of Ukraine reacted to the corresponding petition.

In 2015, Ukraine launched decommunization, the process of getting rid of the remains of communist ideology. Now, in the midst of russia’s all-out war against Ukraine, there is a debate going on in Ukrainian cities about how to get rid of other remains of russian occupation, albeit from the days of the russian empire.

• culture
• Odesa

The Ministry of Culture of Ukraine created a special account to collect funds for the restoration of cultural heritage objects destroyed by the russians. A special section with a list of objects in need of restoration was added to the Ministry’s website. In particular, these objects include the Central House of Culture of the city of Irpin, Chernihiv Central City Library, Dnipro House of Organ and Chamber Music and Korolenko State Scientific Library in Kharkiv. According to the Ministry, russia has already destroyed a total of 492 objects of Ukraine’s cultural heritage.

• culture
• reconstruction
• russian crimes

Musicians of Kalush Orchestra announced a fundraising campaign on the occasion of Ukraine’s Independence Day. The funds will be spent on rehabilitating defenders of Mariupol and Azovstal. On August 24, the musicians will raise UAH 24 donations during 24 hours. They promise to publish details of a special charity account on August 24 at 00:01 AM.

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• military