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The grand opening of the exhibition of Pavlo Ponomarenko’s paintings and graphics will take place in HotArtHall gallery on July 14 at 6:00 PM. He lived and painted in Mariupol till March 2022. The artist had to leave his native city due to the war.

His exhibition titled Reflections offers an artist’s glance at the events in his native city, country, and the world as a whole. Using a limited range of geometrical shapes and a contained range of colors, the artist offers an opportunity to look into feelings and situations that he and his loved ones had faced.

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• Lviv

Nariman Aliev is a Ukrainian movie director of Crimean Tatar origin. He is the author of Dodomu (Getting Back Home), a film about the russo-Ukrainian war and the return to Crimea, which is famous in Ukraine. The author auctioned off the script for his motion picture that had never been published before to raise money for Ukraine’s Armed Forces. The auction ended on July 11 by selling the script for UAH 90,000.

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In Ukraine, “Letters of Love” project was launched to support people in the temporarily occupied territories. The goal of the project is to make sure that relatives who remained in the occupation remain in contact with their kin, or to support ordinary people. The plan is to collect about 10,000 letters during the rally. Letters can be written at the project website. The organizers promise to print out the letters and send them to the addressees.

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Borscht is now inscribed in UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage List. So now, the Ukrainian borscht is officially protected by UNESCO. Yevhen Klopotenko, a chef who worked on popularizing Ukrainian cuisine worldwide, played a big role in achieving this. For instance, he authored a book, Borscht and With Borscht, containing many different recipes for this traditional Ukrainian food.

By way of background information: russia attempted to present borscht as its own national food. For this reason, Ukraine officially applied for inscribing borscht on the UNESCO heritage list in March 2021.

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Before the war, Vyacheslav Khabarov was a virtuoso guitar player who played with rock legends, such as John Lawton (Uriah Heep), Graham Bonnet (Rainbow), Dan McCafferty (Nazareth), and Tim “Ripper” Owens (Judas Priest). After russia’s invasion, Slava Khabarov joined the army, where he got the callsign “Maestro.” Unfortunately, the musician was wounded; a serious injury to his left hand can put an end to the career of a top-grade musician. However, Slava remains calm, keeps rehabilitating and rehearsing, and even restringed his guitar to play with his healthy hand.

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In May 2022, actors and directors of Mariupol Drama Theater found refuge in Zakarpattia Music and Drama Theater. They are currently working on the first full-fledged production in the evacuation, a play about the life of Ukrainian writer Vasyl Stus.

Employees of the Mariupol Theater were provided with housing in a dormitory in Uzhhorod.

By way of background information: on March 16, 2022, the russians launched an air strike on the building of Mariupol Drama Theater, which civilians were using as a bomb shelter. Several hundred Mariupol residents were killed in the air strike. After capturing the city, the russian invaders cleared the rubble of the theater, and the dead were buried in a mass grave marked with numbers instead of names.

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• russian crimes
• Uzhhorod

The famous Georgian singer Nino Katamadze will visit Media Center Ukraine on June 17. The celebrity will take part in a charity concert in Lviv National Philharmonic Society together with the INSO-Lviv symphony orchestra and Nikoloz Rachveli, a Georgian composer and conductor, that will take place on the same day. All proceeds from ticket sales will be channeled to support Ukraine’s Armed Forces.

Earlier, the singer visited patients of a hospital in Lviv who had been wounded in the course of the russo-Ukrainian war. Also, Katamadze paid a visit to Bucha and Irpin. The celebrity singer gave a concert in a metro station in Kyiv.

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• Lviv

Olha Honchar, Director of the Territory of Terror museum of totalitarian regimes in Lviv, is convinced that it is important to rescue not only museum exhibits during the war but also the museum staff. These people dedicated themselves to preserving culture and history. This is why she established a Museum Crisis Center. She and other museum workers and art historians in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Uzhhorod, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Chernihiv Oblast, and abroad help their colleagues with medicines and humanitarian aid. They also contribute to disseminating their work by reporting information about them to UNESCO, international partners, and donors.

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“We will offer ten paintings by modern Ukrainian painters at this auction. The list of authors is quite prominent,” Serhiy Prytula said.

According to the acclaimed volunteer and TV host, Serhiy Prytula’s Foundation cooperates closely with colleagues from the Army SOS Foundation, also known as developers of Valkyrie drones. Plans call for procuring 50 UAVs and training 50 drone operators.

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Hands for a Mom, a final exhibition auction organized by a charity project of Ukrainian artists abroad, will take place in Lviv on June 16.

Generally, this project presents exhibitions by Ukrainian artists in various countries of Europe. Exhibitions were already opened in Berlin and Vienna, as well as in other cities. The proceeds from sales of the works of art will be spent on providing prosthetics to women who lost their limbs due to shelling.

On June 17, the organizer of the charity art project, representatives of the business community, and the government will talk in more detail about the initiative and achievements at a briefing at Media Center Ukraine.

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• Lviv