On October 27 Chernivtsi residents could see The Day’s photo exhibit for the second time. Last time, in 2007, a hundred photos were displayed in the halls of the Chernivtsi Art Museum, next to icons and decorative textile. This time around, owing to The Day and the Yurii Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, a total of 150 artistic photos — half of all pictures selected by the editorial jury — were showcased in the Marble and Blue halls of the higher educational establishment. The word “artistic” is used not by accident, because the specially made easels gave a particularly artistic character to the exhibit.
The Day came to Chernivtsi with a brand-new addition to its Library, which already includes ten titles, Extract +200. As the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Larysa Ivshyna pointed out, history should be learned correctly and in high doses.
By the way, the Marble and Blue halls of the Chernivtsi National University, where the opening of the exhibit and the book conference were held, are historical places fitting for such an event. In the 19th century Chernivtsi was the capital of the Bukovyna Orthodox Metropolitanate, and the current building of the university was the metropolitan’s residence. The Marble and Blue halls once accommodated guest halls of the library and synod. The room of metropolitan was not far from it and sittings of synod were held there. The neighborhood where the university is located is still called architectural, obviously because of splendid buildings in which priests lived in the 19th century.
The very atmosphere of the former metropolitan residence make students of the Chernivtsi National University and city residents aspire to high intellectual and spiritual standards. Therefore, as the rector of the higher educational establishment Stepan Melnychuk singled out, the university is especially thankful to The Day and its editor-in-chief Larysa Ivshyna for finding a possibility to bring the knowledge about the country in new intellectual forms to their university.
The Day, in its turn, is always ready to meet the efforts and attention of others. “The fact that our audience and ourselves like the photo exhibit for many years means we are on the right path. And this path is very simple — one just needs to love one’s country and people, think and understand what you see around yourself,” Larysa Ivshyna pointed out. Chernivtsi residents will be able to have a pensive look at the country, as seen and understood by the participants of the photo exhibit, for two more weeks.
By the way, The Day came to Chernivtsi with awards and gifts. Diana Kulyk, a laureate of this year’s photo competition in the nomination “The World as Seen by Children” for the work Conversation, lives in this city. However, as it turned out, Chernivtsi residents not only know about The Day’s photo exhibition and read the daily newspaper, but also follow our activities. Owing to local entrepreneurs Ivan Ryzhuk, Dmytro Berezovsky and Alla Ishchenko, three Chernivtsi schools got an annual subscription to the newspaper in two languages and a set of books from The Day’s Library series. The local organization of the political force Front of Changes and its leader Arsenii Yatseniuk took an especially active part in the project “A Gift for My School.” Thanks to their efforts, all 28 libraries of the city got an annual subscription to The Day, the Trade Economic Institute and the Teachers’ College at the Chernivtsi National University got two subscriptions in Ukrainian and English for 2011. Yatseniuk bought the complete set of books from The Day’s Library and an annual subscription to the newspaper in two languages for gymnasium No. 4 and the Chernivtsi National University, of which he is an alumni.
“We can and must intensify the cultural sphere around us ourselves. The main thing is to give credence to the intellect in ourselves and the country,” Larysa Ivshyna summarized. After the opening of the photo exhibit, surrounded by pictures brought by The Day, a book conference began. Students, teachers and guests of the university continued socializing and discussing about how to believe in your intellect, about the books of The Day’s Library, our history and the present day. The most interesting questions to The Day’s editor-in-chief and answers to them will be published soon, as will commentaries of the first visitors of the exhibit.
