Koktebel Jazz Festival is Ukraine’s largest open air jazz festival. Prior to the Russian occupation of the Crimea every year it was held in the small village Koktebel on the Black Sea coast, at the foot of Karadag Mountain. The year before, the organizers moved it to Zatoka (Odessa region). And in 2016 the festival will be first held in Chernomorsk near Odessa.
History
The festival Jazz Koktebel was held in the Crimea in 2003 on the initiative of the ideologist and founder Dmitry Kiselev (Russia) and the permanent head of the organizing committee Lilies Mlinarich (Ukraine) “in contrast to the dominance of bad musical taste rushing at us from television screens and newspaper pages”. Last year, the organizers of the “Jazz Koktebel” presented its new project – a festival of contemporary art – ARTISHOCK. It has affected all types and genres of contemporary art from the land art and light art to literature and independent cinema.
What to expect this year?
The organizers are confident that the festival will be the marker for the growth of freedom, rebirth and happiness of Ukrainian cities. This year the festival will take place in the city with an updated story and name, which was formerly known as Ilyichevsk, and now has the name of Chernomorsk.
In 2016 the festival Jazz Koktebel will be held from 25 to 28 August. It will be 4 days of freedom, inspiration, creativity, new ideas and perfect sense. Among the participants in 2016, the festival will host: Submotion Orchestra, Kadebostany, Max the Sax, The Bad Plus, Blue Foundation, Garden City Movement, Sergei Babkin, The Erised, Boom Pam, Tonbruket, Beissoul & Einius, Panivalkova and others.
Tickets
Subscription – 800 UAH
It gives the right of unlimited entrance to the main stage (Nu Jazz Stage) during all 4 days of the festival (25-28 August). Owner of the festival subscription package ticket also gets a free entry into the territory of Night Special Stage scene.
One-day ticket – 300 UAH
It gives the right to a one-time entrance to the festival main stage (Nu Jazz Stage). Tickets for individual days of the festival can be purchased in pre-sale, and on the location – at the entrance of the main stage (Nu Jazz Stage).
Voucher in the tent camp (4 days) – 250 UAH
The tent camp will run from 25 August (12:00) until 29 August (12:00). Voucher is valid for 1 person and is not a ticket (subscription) to the festival. Voucher to the tent city is only valid if you have a 1-day ticket or 4-day ticket to the festival Jazz Koktebel. Fenced guarded zone of the tent city includes free sanitary zone (toilets and showers), charging for electronic devices. The value of the voucher does not include the rent of the tents. A storage room will operate in the tent city (for an additional fee).
Gogolfest is an international festival of contemporary art of modern Ukrainian and world artists. A multidisciplinary international festival “GogolFest”- it is a representation in Ukraine of the best examples of modern Ukrainian and world art, the accumulation of powerful, creative and intellectual resources, the formation of a creative environment where a new generation of artists of world importance emerges.
The festival was created in 2007 by Vlad Troitsky, a founder of the Center for Contemporary Art “Roof”. The festival represents the outstanding achievements of the Ukrainian and foreign contemporary art. Over its history, the festival was attended by over 1000 participants from 40 countries, including Spain, France, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, the USA, Israel, Germany, Switzerland and others.
This year, the festival of contemporary art Gogolfest will be held in Kiev in a new place – the art factory “Platforma”. While the exact date are unknown yet, but most likely, it will be traditionally held in September around from 2 till 25. At this time, the main focus of the activities of Gogolfest will be on collaborative projects with international partners. In addition to collaborating with invited directors, composers and artists the festival plans to establish relations with foreign institutions for the promotion of Ukrainian cultural product on the external market.
The festival will be a large-scale art research, which will examine the myth of Babylon with new, unexpected point of view. Like every year, you are expected to see the most relevant and interesting art projects in the areas of theater, dance, academic and alternative music, performance, fashion, film, literature, visual arts, and children’s program.
From now on, Gogolfest will be held within a month only on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Thus, the event will cover four weekends that is 12 days. Weekdays between the presentation periods will be a “working area”, when the festival will become an internal residence for professionals. Also, workshops, master classes will be held these days.
Areas that are presented at GogolFest: theater, performance art, architecture with the support of the festival CANactions, visual program, animation of the festival, literature, choreography and mime, art-management, children’s program, cinema and documentary school, eco-program, clothing design, voluntary school.
Tickets: in the past year 1 day ticket cost 50 UAH, and on special events – from 60 to 150 UAH. Tickets can be bought directly on the place, in the cashier.
Watch an opening performance of Gogolfest 2015! It was incredible.
One more bright performance and one more silver medal for Ukraine at Rio 2016 Olympic Games!
Yesterday, the 10th of August, Ukrainian gymnast Oleg Verniaiev performed at the Rio Olympic Arena. The result is impressive: our sportsman was really close to getting a gold medal, but the final scoreboard showed that Uchimura is beating Verniaiev by just 0.099 points.
Verniaiev had done his best in case that he was competing with Kohei Uchimura – gymnast, considered by many to be the greatest gymnast of all time. He is a seven-time Olympic medalist in all-around, team, and floor exercise, a 19-time World medalist (all-around, team, floor, high bar, and parallel bars) and he had won three golds and four silvers.
At the stage of Rio Olympic Arena was hot competitive atmosphere: Verniaiev led from the second rotation on, answering every time it seemed Uchimura was ready to take over. When Uchimura drilled a 15.566 on vault, Verniaiev got the result 15.5. Uchimura ended a high-flying set with a result 15.8, and Oleg Verniaiev needed a 14.9 to win Ukraine`s first all-around Olympic title and bring a gold medal to the Motherland. But instead he got 14.8. The total result for Uchimura is 92.365, and our Ukrainian sportsman got the second place in the competition with the total result 92.266 – there is a tiny gap, 0.1 gap.
Anyway, Japanese and Ukrainian gymnasts made an amazing show and as Oleg Verniaiev said, Uchimura really deserved the gold. However, Uchimura said, that he really had no confidence that he would be able to beat Oleg in the future. “I’m quite happy I managed to make Kohei nervous,” Verniaiev said with a laugh. And not only sportsmen were nervous. Beinside team supports Ukraine at Rio 2016 Olympic Games and we are proud about such a great results of Ukraine Team!
This article is going to be about the best events of this summer. Some of them have already started but you are still on time to catch them. Other events are just about to start, so don’t waste your time and be in a hurry to buy tickets!
SEA FREEDOM FESTIVAL 22ND OF JULY TILL 14TH OF AUGUST!
It will be a paradise for sport and party lovers. 22 days of performances of the best Ukrainian and foreign DJs. Check more about the event here.
RESPUBLICA FESTIVAL 2016 1-4 OF SEPTEMBER!
The idea of this event is very unusual because it promotes city culture. Organizers want to popularize social activism and transform depressive regions of Ukraine into a hotbed of territorial art. More information can be found on our official website.
ZAXIDFEST 2016 19-21 OF AUGUST!
Zaxidfest is something incredible in Ukrainian art industry. Thousands of people gather in one place and enjoy the summer with the best music bands and performances. This is a place to feel free and relaxed, this is an atmosphere of reunification. Check more about Zaxidfest here.
Z-GAMES FESTIVAL 2016 4-7 OF AUGUST
Although the festival has already started, anyways you are welcome to visit it any day. Z-games is a world of all day/all night parties, sea beaches and joyful people. Immerse into the world of this paradise and catch a moment in Odessa! More information is represented here.
Beinside will gladly help you organize any trip to any festival. Just let us know what kind of help you need and we will do our best in order to give you a lot of fun and happiness!
Secret places are always the most inspiring and interesting. Sometimes one inconspicuous door can hide incredible mysteries and lead to an unexpected place where you can listen to medieval music, where local intellectuals discuss important cultural and social projects, where you can find modern Ukrainian cuisine and the first 100% Ukrainian bar. It’s all about Ukrainian restaurant Last Barricade (Ostannya Barricada).
In fact, long ago «Ostannya Barricada» was the first Ukrainian art-club, created by Oles Dony. Modern «Ostannya Barricada», created by famous restaurateur Dmitro Borisov, follows the same principles – it’s devoted to the development of Ukrainian culture and exploration of Ukrainian history. It is an art and gastronomic space and a museum dedicated to 3 Ukrainian revolutions – Revolution on the Granite, Orange Revolution and Euromaidan (Revolution of dignity).
It is not easy to get here, but watchful guest will find tips and the entrance. Just remember – Lyadsky gate is a point to start. At the entrance you will see a small coffee place and nothing more. Don’t make a mistake, don’t stop – it is only the beginning. If you give the word door will open and you get further: you’d overcome the “iron curtain” and finally get to the cozy rooms and see the walls with plenty of artifacts dedicated to key moments of the modern history of Ukraine.
A small stage is a place where poets and musical groups perform. It’s maybe one of the best places to listen to authentic Ukrainian music.
What can you taste here?
Of course, it’s a place to taste Ukrainian food. If you think that Ukrainian cuisine is all about varenyky (a kind of ravioli with different fillings) and borscht (red beetroot soup), you are mistaken. Of course, you can order here tasty borscht and varenyky (with duck, potatoes and goose liver, with stewed kid, with cherry and even with halva), but that’s not all. For example, you can taste Ukrainian oysters and Ukrainian Black caviar, fried veal brains and bull testicles (“mountain oysters”) with cranberries, steaks, Chicken Kiev, fish soup, Kyiv cake and more. Prices are very reasonable. For example, if you order Ukrainian oysters + potato salad with trout + Chicken Kiev + dumplings with cherries, you pay a little over $ 10.
Also pay attention to the huge collection of Ukrainian cheeses, meat specialties, and 8-10 kinds of bread, which is baked right here.
Ukrainian Bar is also worth your attention – you can taste Ukrainian liqueurs, whiskey or Ukrainian version of calvados and special cocktails made of Ukrainian alcoholic beverages.
Also there is a shop where you can buy Ukrainian pottery, vyshyvanka, books, Ukrainian ethnic jewelry and works by contemporary artists.
It’s a place full of emotions and symbols. Beinside highly recommends!
The first Z-games festival started in summer 2010 at the VIP-area of Kazantip in Crimea. The program has submitted wakeboarding competition, kite surfing, Jet Ski, Frisbee, break-dance and hip-hop, dirt jumping, skim boarding. The project format allows everyone to take part in these competitions, even for those who have never done that during their lives. There was a separate part – women camp with master class only for the female who used to take part in the festival.
A concert program has always been the strength of the Z-games. At different times the festival stage hosted Xzibit, Tesla Boy, Vagonovozhatye, Max Korzh, Lapis Troubetzkoy, Hardkiss, O.Torvald, TNMK, Pianoboy, Gorchitza, Tomato Jaws and many others.
In 2014, due to the annexation of the Crimea, where this festival had been always held, the event was canceled. In 2015, Z-GAMES revived in a new place in Odessa, in Zatoka district on the Black Sea. In 2016 the festival keeps on running and promises to be the brightest and most ambitious event of this summer!
This year the festival is going to be much more enormous and great. Official dates are stated from the 4th until 7th of August. The program includes extreme sports, live performances of Ukrainian and world-renowned artists, unforgettable beach parties and much more.
So you have to be in a hurry in order to catch a ticket as most of them are already sold out. In case you need additional help in organizing your time before, after and during the festival, you can always contact BeInside team.
The ticket to the Z-games 2016 is called ‘Visa’, that’s because this name creates more spiritual atmosphere to this show. In addition to Visa you have to purchase a place to stay during these 4 days. There is also a full package available with Visa and accommodation included. Now let’s find out more about ticket variations.
Terms: Visa (permission to enter the territory of the festival during 4-7 August) + participation in all sports events + live concerts + beach parties.
Terms: Accommodation during 4-7 August + additional showers + storage + separate fence area.
So don’t waste your time and follow the news of Z-games 2016 in order to have an unforgettable summer.
History: from past until modern times
The idea of organizing and holding the powerful extreme music festival Carpathian Alliance Metal Festival on the slopes of the Carpathians was born quite a long time ago, but only in 2011 organizers had been able to hold a number of activities and negotiations for its implementation.
The project covers such music areas as FOLK/PAGAN/VIKING/BLACK METAL and others. And in 2011 it was held not in the valley or forest, but directly on one of the most amazing peaks of the Ukrainian Carpathians – a mountain called ‘Vysoky Verkh’, at an altitude of more than 1000 meters above sea level, among the gray virgin forests, mist and heavy clouds.
In 2015 the festival moved to the city of Lviv, and was held at the recreation center “Lviv Switzerland”.
Starting from 2016 festival will be held in the capital city of Ukraine – Kiev in the ‘Druzhby narodiv’ park. Much more musical styles will be added this year, thus it will expand the audience and scale of the festival. Knights’ tournament will be held during the Carpathian Alliance Metal Festival, so it’s a good possibility to see a medieval battle. Additionally, visitors can relax on the beach, which will be located on the territory of the festival, or swim in the river. Official dates are 29-31 July.
Here is a promo video of the upcoming event, watch it and make a right decision!
The program includes:
– Full-contact fighting in the shield/sword nominations
– Street theater
– Vintage Dance (demonstrations and workshops for everyone)
– Authentic masters’ fair
– Contests, games and entertainment for children and adults
– Archery and crossbow
– Performances of folk groups
– Fire show
Tickets
Ticket price starts from 300 UAH (10 passes for 3 days) up to 666 UAH if you purchase it in festival ticket window. For now all the tickets in a price range from 300 to 550 UAH are already sold out, so there is only an option to buy for 600 UAH and higher.
If you don’t like to buy a package for 3 days, there are one-day tickets available. Price starts from 450 UAH.
More information about the bands, schedule, rules, accommodation and tickets can be foundon the official website of the event.
And of course, as usual, don’t forget that BeInside is always welcome to make your trip more comfortable by organizing everything for you. No need to worry about tickets and accommodation issues, just convey them to our staff!
Eurovision Song Contest started 60 years ago as an ambitious project that was supposed to be broadcasted in more than 20 European countries. It goal was to share works of musicians and singers from a various cultural background and to have a broadcasting unit that would unite people living in different parts of Europe.
The idea seems to work well. Since the day of its first broadcasting, there was not a single year, when Eurovision Song Contest didn’t show up. It is the longest-running TV program in the world, which involves nearly 50 participating countries and is broadcasting on four continents. In 2015 in addition to all European countries, Australia also joined the contest. Ukraine started its participation in Eurovision in 2003, and right the next year the country won the first prize. Ruslana with her energetic ‘Wild dances’ based on Ukrainian folk motives literally shook the whole contest and obviously won the prize.
In 2005 Kyiv hosted the 50th Eurovision Contest. After Ruslana’s great success many other participants brought energetic folk motives in their shows which made Kyiv’s contest special.
On the 60th Contest in Stockholm this year Ukraine was first again, with Jamala’s song ‘1944’. The song tells the story of downtrodden Crimean Tatar people, who were deported from their home places by Stalin’s regime.
Despite all the claims, prior to the day of the contest, that ‘1944’ is ‘too sad’, ‘too slow’ and ‘too political’ to win the contest, Jamala showed an absolute opposite of that, bringing Eurovision to Ukraine again.
Today six Ukrainian cities are competing for the right to host next year’s show. They are Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Kherson. The voting is open now, and on 20th of July, Ukrainian National TV and radio will broadcast a ‘City Battle’ program, City Battle where each of the six mentioned cities’ delegates will show their proposal to the audience. Surely with any of them winning, the 2017 contest will be an awesome event both for Ukraine and whole Europe.
There is something that unites Kyiv, Perth, Mexico, Detroit, Sicily and many other places all over the world. A touch left there by famous Ukrainian artistic duo ‘Interesni Kazky’. AEC and Waone (in their previous life Aleksei and Vladimir) started their street-art ‘career’ with style writings on Kyiv’s walls in a bunch of Ukrainian creative painters Ingenious Kids. Some of their works might have being considered as a vandalism, however, this was an integral experience for AEC and Waone.
When started as an independent duo, two painters switched from traditional graffiti to beautiful and meaningful images. They call their own works ‘paranoias’ and characters they paint ‘strokes’. To make the very first works of ‘Interesni kazki’ (Interesting Fairy tales, Ukrainian), AEC and Waone worked as interior designers to earn some money to buy the paint.
Now artists are strongly desirable all around the world. Their works are not only about technique, incredible colors and funny noticeable details. Painters dig into each country’s culture essence; point all the valuable (sometimes shameful and painful) parts in a satiric manner, to help the society SEE.
Whether it’s the story of aborigines in Australia or a manifesto to Ukrainian revolution, the works of AEC and Waone will surely remain in your memory straight after you see them.
Almost everyone has probably heard about the most successful game of recent times – Pokemon Go!
What is it?
This is a multiplayer game developed by American programmers and released on the 6th of July 2016. A feature of Pokémon Go is the imposition of virtual images on real-world images. The game encourages travelling the streets to search and hunt for Pokemon, go out and chat with other players. Thereby such common problems of youth as a sedentary lifestyle and being unsocial in the real world are overcoming in this way.
This mainstream didn’t omit Kiev as a city of new trends and activities. Nowadays the streets are full of crazy people walking with their cellphones and trying to catch a Pokemon. A lot of bloggers make videos about this game and show their proficiency. There is even a possibility to employ using a good knowledge of Pokemon Go. For example, if you have expertise in the game and appropriate experience in digital marketing, you can apply for a vacancy as a Pokemon Go expert for a 1 000$ salary.
A popularity of the game
Within a week the game became popular and gained a huge number of downloads. The number of installations in Google Play was more than 10 million, but the total number was greater because some users install specially hacked version.
According to the data of Sensor Tower company at the end of the week, the average time of daily use of Pokémon Go was more than 33 minutes. This is more than the average daily use of Facebook (22 minutes per day), Snapchat (18 minutes) and Twitter (17 minutes).
PokemonGo in Kiev!
All the newspapers and online magazines in Kiev write about the game, best gamblers and new records. But Beinside decided to describe Pokemon Go in a new style. Forget about Pokemons and transform your imagination to more cultural prospects. Just imagine: you follow the route on your cell phone and instead of Pokemon you see Richard the Lionheart suddenly appears on Adriivsky descent. Is it a good idea?
Or for example, you are currently on Sophiyska square near Bogdan Khmelnytskiy monument and after a while you see him appearing in front of the monument.
Will you be surprised with these unexpected postures? Let’s say this kind of game is going to be much more interesting and useful for sure in terms to be enriched and more educated. And this is what Beinside actually wants to bring you: help you transfer into the events of past times and immerse into the atmosphere of Kiev history. If you find it useful and curious, don’t hesitate to contact us and book a tour!
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In 2016 the festival Jazz Koktebel will be held from 25 to 28 August. It will be 4 days of freedom, inspiration, creativity, new ideas and perfect sense. Among the participants in 2016, the festival will host: Submotion Orchestra, Kadebostany, Max the Sax, The Bad Plus, Blue Foundation, Garden City Movement, Sergei Babkin, The Erised, Boom Pam, Tonbruket, Beissoul & Einius, Panivalkova and others.
Also pay attention to the huge collection of Ukrainian cheeses, meat specialties, and 8-10 kinds of bread, which is baked right here.
