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LEISURE BULLETIN

September 3-9
1 September, 2014 - 17:52
Ivan Honchar Museum. September 2-22. EXPOSITION OF UKRAINIAN RUSHNYK EMBROIDERED TOWELS. PART OF A RUSHNYK / Photo courtesy of the Ivan Honchar Museum

Curtain at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted

Theater

Ivan Franko National Drama Theater
(pl. Franka 3, tel. 279-5921)

3 – Edith Piaf. Life on Credit
by Rybchynsky and Vasalatii
4 – Marriage by Hohol
5 – The Taming of the Shrew
by Shakespeare
6 –  Premiere. Rhinoceros by Ionesco
7 (at noon) – Shelmenko, the Orderly by Kvitka-Osnovianenko
7 – A Wife Is a Wife (based on Chekhov’s stories)
9 – Thistle Flower by Vorozhbyt

Lesia Ukrainka National Russian Drama Theater
(vul. Khmelnytskoho 5, tel. 234-4223)

5-9 – The Third International
Drama Project. Premiere. Fruehlings Erwachen (Spring
Awakening) by Wedekind

Drama and Comedy Academic Theater on the Left Bank
(Brovarsky prosp. 25, tel. 517-8980)

6 (at 3 p.m.) – Season opening. A Little Wine, or 70 Turns by Pirandello
6 – Premiere. Don’t Let Love Soften You (based on Jean Kerr’s play Touch-and-Go)
7 (at 3 p.m.) – Small stage. Two Little Ladies Head North by Notte
7 – Lying the Truth by Berger
9 – An Ideal Couple by Camoletti

Music

National House of Organ and Chamber Music of Ukraine
(vul. Velyka Vasylkivska 75, tel. 528-3186)
(Curtain at 7:30 p.m.)
6 – Season opening. Organists’ Parade. Iryna Kalynovska, Volodymyr Koshuba, Valeria Balakhovska, Hanna Bubnova, Iryna Kharechko, Maksym Sydorenko
9 – Kyiv Brass Chamber Ensemble, Andrii Ilkiv (trumpet), Valeria
Balakhovska (organ)

Museums

Kyiv Pechersk National Historical and Cultural Preserve
(vul. Lavrska 9)

2-15 – Artist Ivan Yizhakevych: “I want to be useful to the Lavra Monastery” (in commemoration of the
150th anniversary of the artist’s birth)
Open 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Kyiv Pechersk Lavra History Museum
(vul. Lavrska 9, bld.3)

Open 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Kyiv Sophia National Museum
(vul. Volodymyrska 24)

2-30 – “The Truth about the Crimea” (paintings and prints)
Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Wed.

National Museum of Ukrainian History
(vul. Volodymyrska 2)

Sep.2-Nov.17 – 1,000th Anniversary of the Ukrainian Seal (international museum project)
Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Wed.

Chornobyl National Museum
(provulok Khoryva 1)

Sep.2-Oct.1 – First time in Ukraine. A Prayer for Fukushima: Two Years
after the Disaster (photos and
artifacts from Japan)
Sep.2-Oct.1 – Kateryna Pyrozhkova (photos)
Sep.2-Oct.1 – “Unexpected Preserve: Chornobyl Exclusion Zone through a Taxidermist’s Eyes” (photos and
taxidermic items on display)
Open 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on Sat., Sun.

National Art Museum
(vul. Hrushevskoho 6)

2-21 – Anatolii Sumar (paintings)
Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; noon-8 p.m.
on Fri.; 11 a.m.-7 p.m. on Sat.
Closed Mon., Tues.

Memorial Museums

Taras Shevchenko Literary and Memorial Museum
(provulok T. Shevchenka 8a)

Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Fri.

Lesia Ukrainka Literary and Memorial Museum
(vul. Saksahanskoho 97)

Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Tues.

Mykola Lysenko Memorial Museum
(vul. Saksahanskoho 95)

Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Mon.

Mykhailo Starytsky Memorial House Museum
(vul. Saksahanskoho 93)

Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Mon.

Maksym Rylsky Literary and Memorial Museum
(vul. Rylskoho 7)

Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Closed Fri.

Pavlo Tychyna Literary and Memorial Museum
(vul. Tereshchenkivska 5)

Open 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

Ivan Honchar Museum
(vul. Ivana Mazepy 29)

2-22 – Exposition of Ukrainian
rushnyk embroidered towels
2-29 – “The Warrior” (folk paintings and icons)
Open 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Closed Mon.

House in Priorka
(vul. Vyshhorodska 5)

Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Closed Sun., Mon.

Galleries

AVS-Art
(vul. Vozdvyzhenska 10b)

2-6 – Mykhailo Demtsiu (paintings)
Open 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
Closed Sun., Mon.

Hapchynska
(vul. Mykhailivska 16)

Standing exhibit of Yevhenia Hapchynska’s paintings
Open 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; noon-6 p.m.
on Sat., Sun.

Vysotsky Gallery
(vul. Vozdvyzhenska 40)

Sep.2-Dec.31 – “Vladimir Vysotsky. Rare Photos by Arkadii Gershman”
Open 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Closed Mon.

Ya Gallery
(vul. Khoryva 49b)

2-15 – Oleh Hryshchenko (author technique)
Open 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
In commemoration
of the Ukrainian
Independence Day

Mystetsky Arsenal
(vul. Lavrska 12)

2-7 – Social Art Project in Support of Wounded ATO Combatants. “Ukrainian Landscape. On the Other Side of Despair…” (photos, paintings, and prints)
Open 11 a.m.-8 p.m.

Parsuna
(vul. Khoryva 43)

2-15 – “Angels of Hope” (original dolls, textile quilts)
Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sat. Closed Sun.
Spivoche Pole [Singing Field]
(Pechersk Landscape Park)
2-21 – 59th annual floral exhibit
“United Ukraine”
Open 9 a.m.-9 p.m.

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