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Gogolfest Returns with La Fura dels Baus
This year Gogolfest will host a performance from the cutting edge Spanish theatre company
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| Kyiv Kino |
Mammoth (in English)
Directed by Lukas Moodysson
Drama, Comedy USA 2009
Starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Michelle Williams, Marife Necesito
Leo and Ellen are a successful New York couple, totally immersed in their work. Leo is the creator of a booming website, and has stumbled into a world of money and big decisions. Ellen is a dedicated emergency surgeon who devotes her long shifts to saving lives.
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Casanova of the Cigar World
 Stumbling across a rather debonair figure in the Kyiv business community, What’s On sat down with Konstyantyn Loskutnikov – better known as Baron von Bossner. Famous the world over as an incredible cigar manufacturer, this Russian expat is now living in Germany, and coming to Kyiv for the Cigar Club’s Summer Big Smoke, that’s exactly where we found him.
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| This Week | |
The Best Kind of Soccer
 Iowa Super Soccer (Poland), Singleton (indie), Art Club 44 (Khreshchatyk 44b), 5 September at 21.00
While soccer itself can be quite gripping, this group from Poland won’t be tossing any balls around. Instead, Iowa Super Soccer will be mixing up your evening with some good old fashioned acoustic guitar, some driving electronic percussion, and adding vocals by some pretty beautiful women, they seem to have their sport down pat.
Unplugged with Borys
Borys Grebenshikov (Russia, rock), Docker Pub (Bohatyrska 25), 9 September at 21.00
Georgian Pride in Kyiv
Paata Burchuladze in concert, National Philharmonic of Ukraine (Volodymyrska Uzviz 2), 8 September at 19.00
Slow Down and Listen
Chamber Music Session by the Kyiv Camerata, National Philharmonic of Ukraine (Volodymyrska Uzviz 2), 7 September at 19.00
On your Marks!
Ostrich Races, Yasnogorodskya Ostrich Farm (Podlesnaya 32, Yasnohorodska - 30km outside of Kyiv), 4 – 26 September (Saturdays and Sundays only) from 10.00
They’re Back!
World of Dinosaurs, Pechersk Landscape Park (Spivach Pole), 4 September – 31 October from 10.00 – 20.00
Waiting for Snow
Exhibition of paintings by Constantine Kalynovych, Tryptikh Gallery (Andriivskiy Uzviz 34), 3 – 15 September
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Stay Up All Night with Via Gra!
 Via Gra (pop), Palace Ukraine (Chervonoarmiyska 103), 6 November at 19.00
It’s been 10 years since the musical makings of the pop band Via Gra first tickled our fancies, and while it’s true that the provoking Russian/Ukrainian project has had its fair share of members, their continual renewal of hotties at the helm is what has made them great.
The Prism of Time
Exhibition by Oleksiy Shovkunenko and his students, Art Capital (Borychev Tik 30), 15 – 25 October
She Doesn’t Need Much
Zemfira (Russia, Russian rock), Crystal Hall (Dniprovskiy Spusk 1), 11 September at 20.00
Good Meds for Ukraine
Placebo (alternative rock), International Exhibition Centre (Brovarsky Pr. 15), 18 September at 19.00
Bravoing the Best
The Best Baritones of Russia, Tchaikovsky Music Academy (Arkhitektora Horodetskoho 1-3/11), 17 October at 19.00
They’re Back!
World of Dinosaurs, Pechersk Landscape Park (Spivach Pole), 4 September – 31 October from 10.00 – 20.00
Sing Your Heart Out
Jose Carreras in concert, Palace Ukraine (Chervonoarmiyska 103), 13 October at 19.00
Beautiful Africa
Exhibition of photographs by Michael Poliza, Brucie Collections (Artema 55b), 12 October – 21 November
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| Take Me Out! | |
Funky Food with a Funky Façade
 Men have to eat, even when there are not women there to cook for them (awaiting letters from FEMEN and trying to encourage one of their oh-so-feminist nude protests outside our offices), so last weekend, with both our ladies out of the country, my good friend Colin and I had to fend for ourselves. Which, of course, means eating out. I’d heard of a new place called Barsuk that apparently served up manly food, so we decided to give it a go.
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Yanukovych Sweats over Press Freedoms Grilling
 President Yanukovych went off to Berlin on Monday for a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel. He had hoped to focus on economic issues, but before he went he faced a tough grilling from the German media on the deterioration of press freedoms in Ukraine. In an interview with Deutsche Welle and other German Media, he was asked some very pertinent questions, none of which he could answer effectively. We hope that Angela Merkel grilled him in the same fashion, which is likely after Nico Lang, the Director of the Konrad-Adenauer political foundation was denied entry to Ukraine and detained at Boryspil Airport for several hours.
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What’s On: Read All Over the World (#32)
 The great thing about looking through the entries for this wonderful competition is that you find out about landmarks you didn’t know existed! Take this photo above sent to us by Diana Carbane of Diamond Rock just south of Fort de France on the Caribbean island of Martinique. We’d never heard of it before, but now we know. Thanks Diane. Our second entry this week is from Steve Smith and is of a very well known landmark - Table Mountin in Cape Town! Great stuff!
Every month we will be giving away a pair of tickets to any scheduled Ukraine International Airlines destination absolutely free! And these excellent photos from Diana and Steve are now in the running. But do you think you can do better?
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Get Out and Go Gogoling
As one of Ukraine’s biggest and best festivals showcasing all that is great about the artistic world, the fourth annual Gogolfest is back with increasing depth and intensity. In remembrance to the writer, playwright and carrier of that very name, Gogol’s influence as a creative force is recognised every September. And with the event’s old venue (Mystetskiy Arsenal) overshadowed by our country’s illustrious Dovzhenko Studios, that commemoration has certainly got bigger and better this year.
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Book ‘Em Danylo
With more and more internationals making paths across Ukraine’s border, Kyiv’s police force has been getting out and cleaning up the city’s streets. And while this would typically be a welcome respite to the complete lack of attention residents often receive from City Administration, our boys in blue seem to be focusing in on all the wrong people. To find out just what’s been going on, the What’s On team have put on our night vision goggles and dusted off our super hearing enhancement devices and gone on a mission…
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