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A Plethora of Pancakes!
Maslynitsa is coming and that means pancakes, pancakes, and more pancakes
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Getting Feisty Over Football
Playing, watching or even just listening to it, football of any sort has the ability to get people’s blood boiling. It’s both a competition for bragging rights to My Team Is Better Than Yours and a sport we can’t help but love. But with America’s Super Bowl Sunday coming up, the old debate returns: which football is better? We asked a few ex-pats their opinion on the matter and got things close to the boiling point pretty fast.
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Movie in English
Valentine’s Day
Directed by Garry Marshall.
Comedy, Romance USA 2010
Starring Jessica Alba, Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Biel
Directed by Hollywood veteran Garry Marshall, Valentine’s Day explores love in all its facets on the one day a year dedicated to the art of expressing it. “The film follows seven intertwining love stories that take place during the course of one day in Los Angeles,” Marshall describes during a break from filming.
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An Authority on Fashion and Mother of Two
 Aside from the dates and pics with celebs, the MOA calendar is one that includes the fashion line of one of Ukraine’s most notable designers. And lucky enough to have a husband in television where such threads can be seen on his M1channel, Maryna Asaulyuk seems to be quite in love with Ukraine and all of the history that she sees as instrumental to her designs. At least that’s what she tells me when we meet for a chat in her studio in Podil.
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Listening to the Universe
 
Depeche Mode (electro-rock), Palace Sport (Sportyvna Pl. 1), 8 February at 19.00
British band Depeche Mode is famous all over the world, but they’ve never been to Ukraine! So fortunately for Kyiv, they’re coming at last! While there have been a few bumpy patches over the course of their career, these three guys have been able to stick it out through thick and thin, and so songs spanning nearly three decades will most certainly be on the line-up. Their latest album, which came out only last spring, was hailed as one of their best to date by the pundits, so this is something you really should go and see. Reach out and touch them at Palace Sport!
The Road to Hell and then Back to Kyiv
Chris Rea (pop-rock), Palace Ukraine (Chervonoarmiyska 103), 8 February at 19.00
Bringing Stars to the Stage
Stars of World Modern, Centre of Culture and Arts SBU (Iryninskaya 6), 5 February at 19.00
Masses from Moldova
The National Song and Dance Ensemble of Moldova - Lautarii, Palace of Ukraine (Chervonoarmiyska 103), 7 February at 19.00
Art from Uzhhorod
Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures by Ukrainian Artists, Mystetska Zbirka Gallery (Tereshchenkivska 13), 5 – 28 February
Drawing a Difference
Children of the World – Join Hands, Drawing Competition brought to you by the United Nations, 20 January – 3 May
Getting Low with Morris
Mo Morris of A Mountain of One (UK), Xlib Club (Frunze 12), 6 February at 23.00
Creative Dummy
The Maneken, Koroli I Kapusta (Vasylkivska 18), 11 February at 23.00 |
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The Theatre and all its Quirks
 Exercise Done Beautifully, Kyiv Operetta (Chervonarmiyska 53/3), 11 March at 19.00
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. There is an epigraph of Shakespeare’s somewhere that could fit this maxim which is something that he, along with the characters in this play, would both have had in common. But sometimes lives and characters intertwine to a point where they are no longer indivisible.
Belgian Beauty Headed to Kyiv
Lara Fabian in Concert (pop), Palace Ukraine (Chervonoarmiyska 103), 23 February at 19.00
Heading to the Sea
Odesa, a City Spellbound, by the Rizhskiy Russian Theatre, October Palace (Institutska 1), 7 March at 19.00
Depressingly Good Russian Rock
Splean (Russian rock), Bingo Club (Peremohy Pr. 112), 27 March at 18.00
Genofond in General
Exhibition of Paintings and Graphics by Volodymyr Stetskovych and Sadan, Ya Gallery (Khoryva 49 B), 12 February – 9 March
Hearteaters Gatecrash Heaven
Hearteaters Party, Heaven Club (Hrinchenka 7), 14 February at 23.00
Beyond Expectation
Above & Beyond, International Exhibition Centre (Brovarsky 15), 19 February at 21.00
Me and My Friend… The Truck
Ya I Drug Moi Gruzovik (rock, jazz, pop), Art Club 44 (Khreshchatyk 44), 20 February at 22.00
Long Things
Exhibition of dolls and paintings by Ihor and Iryna Eleseyev, Parsuna Gallery (Khoryva 43), 25 April – 10 May
Journey to the Moon
DJ Ferry Corsten, International Exhibition Centre: 1st Pavilion (Brovarskiy Prospect 15), 7 March at 21.00
Life’s Truths in Lyrics
Guf (rap), Bingo Club (Peremohy Pr. 112), 12 February at 20.00
Warming Up
Evolution by Fire of Anatolia, Palace of Ukraine (Chervonoarmiyska 103), 9 March at 19.30
Get Acquainted
Three Hundred Years of British Music – III Series, Collegium Kyiv, Masterclass Cultural Centre(Ivana Mazepy 34), 17 February at 19.30
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Celebrating Maslyanytsya
 As far back as anyone can remember Maslyanitsa has been a holiday that Ukrainians love to celebrate. Associated with fun and happiness, Maslyanitsa is meant to represent the return of the sun. Cold and tired of winter, Ukrainians use this holiday as one last hurrah before the trials (including fasting) that marks the Lenten period. So, like bears fattening up before their winter hibernation, pancake preparations always involve a bit of overindulging.
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Count on More Street Protests
 It will be nothing like the Orange Revolution because the people who headed that have been nothing but a dismal let down to the people who risked their lives for them, but the way things are stacking up, the result of the second round of the presidential elections is not going to be accepted by either side if they lose, and the result is going to be huge crowds on the streets once again.
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What’s On: Read All Over the World (#4)
 It might not be the world’s most famous landmark, but it’s an original one, and very beautiful too. The photo above, sent to us by Bhanu Sahni, is from Gstaad (would you have guessed) in Swtzerland. From an unusual one, this week we also have an old faithful - the Palace of Versaille In Paris, this time sent to us by Andrei Sklyar. What’s On Kyiv, was very popular with the French Monarchs, and was widely read during the revolution when they lost their heads.
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Helping Children Follow Their Dreams
The annual Follow Your Dreams charity children’s festival has helped dozens of orphans achieve a greater sense of self-fulfilment and given them a new lease on life. Over the past three years this one-of-a-kind festival brings together 2,000 Ukrainian orphans from nine Ukrainian cities for a celebration of the talents they’ve developed thanks to the generous support of the Follow Your Dream charity and its growing list of sponsors.
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| Kyiv Culture |
Kyiv pubs, bars and nightclubs are bursting with bands these days and with such a variety of styles to choose from, you could pretty much schedule an entire month listening to live music without repeating your evening once.
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