Den is already preparing its Christmas and New Year gifts for residents and guests of Kyiv. Everyone who did not have the time or opportunity to visit Den’s Photo Exhibit-2014, held from October 18 through 26 at the Lavra Gallery, can catch up with it now by visiting the charming city of Odesa, where the local literary museum will host it until December 23, or just come to the National Parliamentary Library of Ukraine (NPLU).
The NPLU’s art gallery, located at 1 Hrushevskoho Street, hosted not one, but two cultural and artistic events on that day: the opening of the best photos display of the 16th International Den’s Photo Contest and presentation of new books we published in our series Den’s Library: Ukraine Incognita. TOP 25, new edition of Klara Gudzyk’s Apocrypha, and photo album People of the Maidan. A Chronicle. The meeting was moderated by editor of this newspaper’s “History and I” section Ihor Siundiukov. According to the library sources, invitees of the event also included Eduard Stranadko, who serves as chairman of the National Union of Photographers of Ukraine; photographer Oleksandr Chaptsev; and author Oleksandr Bakumenko, who is chairman of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine’s Kyiv branch. Winner of the Grand Prix at Den’s Photo Contest-2014, our photographer Mykola Tymchenko was the guest of honor at the opening ceremony.
“We are grateful to Den for answering our invitation and allowing us to place these incredibly impressive pictures in the parliamentary library,” head of the NPLU’s socio-cultural activities Olena Pohonets told us. “We want to remind the widest possible circle of readers about events that country experienced during the year. They are presented professionally, accurately, and elegantly in the works displayed at Den’s exhibition. I know it because I was to the exhibition held at the Lavra Gallery and am still impressed by the photos. It so happened that our library was in the epicenter of the events last year. It is in the lobby of the library that the emergency care facility was established. Therefore, we want to once again draw attention to what really happened and who were the heroes of these events now, as we celebrate the anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity.”
According to Pohonets, the library’s art gallery, located in its central building at 1 Hrushevskoho Street, is conveniently situated between the reading rooms, so it always attracts the attention of all readers and visitors to the institution, despite being somewhat small in scale. “However, the central building is not the only location for our exhibition, as some photos will be put on display in Podil district, in the conference room of the library at 1 Naberezhno-Khreshchatytska Street, where our readers will be offered an opportunity to see 30 more works.”
