Lviv - capital of festivals
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“The Great Hayivka” Feast
Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life annually hosts the ethnographic festival “The Great Hayivka”.
Weekend, 1-18 April, Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life (1, Chernecha Hora Street)Lviv - capital of festivals
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Christmas Holidays in Lviv
The city of Lviv has always been preserving authentic Ukrainian traditions. That is why Christmas celebration is full of a special charm here.
6-21 January, Lviv centreLviv - capital of festivals
Christmas Star Shine” Festival
The Festival revives the tradition of creating large Christmas stars (1, 5- 2, 0 m), the main symbols of Christmas.
7-8 January, 1, Chernecha HoraLviv - capital of festivals
The 11-th Christmas Festival “Velyka Koliada” - “The Great Christmas Carol”
Festival “Velyka Koliada” (“The Great Christmas Carol”) is undoubtedly a special, full of Holy Spirit event.
Weekend, 7-31 January, St. Eucharist Church (The Holy Communion Church) 3, Museum PlaceLviv - capital of festivals
The 3rd Pampukh’s Holiday
Small fried balls powdered with sugar are the sweet symbols of Christmas. Ukrainian “pampukhy” and “pampushky”, Polish “ponczki”, Russian “ponchiki”, Jewish “sufganiyots”, American “doughnuts” …they are so similar and yet so different from each other.
Weekend, 8-10 January, Rynok Square, 1 (City Hall Courtyard)Lviv - capital of festivals
Ethno Disco Festival
“Let’s jump up and down dancing in Ethno-Disco style!”- the initiator of “Land of Dreams Festival” Oleh Skrypka sings.
13 January, Sports Palace “Ukraine“(18, Melnyka Street)Lviv - capital of festivals
The 3rd Chocolate Day
For many centuries Lviv has been rejoicing citizens and guests with the unique aura made up by coffee and chocolate aromas felt everywhere in Lviv.
Weekend, 6-8 March, Palace of Art, square near OperaLviv - capital of festivals
Great Ukrainian Poet T. Shevchenko Commemorative Days
The tradition of commemorating Taras Shevchenko during the month of March has a long history in Lviv.
9-10 March, City centre, museums and concert hallsLviv - capital of festivals
Easter in Lviv
Easter is a family holiday in Ukraine and Lviv is the best place to feel this atmosphere.
Weekend, 13 March - 30 April, Central part of the cityLviv - capital of festivals
“The Great Hayivka” Feast
Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life annually hosts the ethnographic festival “The Great Hayivka”.
Weekend, 4-6 April, Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life (1, Chernecha Hora Street)Lviv - capital of festivals
Children Readings Festival -“Publishers’ Forum for Children”
Children Readings Festival is one of few in the Central and Eastern Europe.
Weekend, 29 April - 1 May, Lviv Palace of the ArtsLviv - capital of festivals
The 3rd City Holiday “The Batyar’s Day”
You’ll get a unique opportunity to dive into stylistics and atmosphere of the authentic Lviv phenomenon – the Batyars’ World. That is a world with its own street language and city folklore of the beginning of the XX century. Lviv Batyar is a freedom – loving, witty, gallant and romantic idler.
Weekend, 1-2 May, Rynok sq., Mytna sq.Lviv - capital of festivals
“Flugery L’vova” (“Weather-Vanes of Lviv”) - the 8th International Jazz Festival
Ethno-Jazz Festival “Flugery L’vova” in the City Hall Courtyard becomes one of the top popular actions of Lviv City
Weekend, 1-4 May, Rynok Square (City Hall Courtyard)Lviv - capital of festivals
“Friends’ World” International Children’s Art Festival
Annual International Children’s Art Festival “Friends’ World” is a special point of the Mother’s Day programme.
6-10 May, Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life (1, Chernecha Hora)Lviv - capital of festivals
“Lviv – the Capital of Handicrafts” Festival
Lviv has always been famous for its craftsmen in Europe.
Weekend, 7-9 May, Rynok (Market) Square, Arsenalna Square, Pidvalna Street (“Mystets’ka (Artistic) Fosa”)Lviv - capital of festivals
Lviv City Day 2010
“Where else can you feel as fine as here?” Annually this question gets the same answer: “Only in Lviv”, at the time of the City Day celebrations.
Weekend, 8-10 May, Central part of the cityLviv - capital of festivals
The Mother’s Day
The Mother’s Day in Ukrainian Galicia is being celebrated on the second Sunday of May.
Weekend, 9 May, Rynok (Market) SquareLviv - capital of festivals
The 29th International Musical Festival “Virtuosi”
The “Virtuosi” (“Virtuosos”) festival is a popular three-week summer season of daily classical music concerts.
Weekend, 14 May - 6 June, Lviv PhilharmonicLviv - capital of festivals
“Field of Songs” Festival
Traditional Lviv Ukrainian Song Festival is an important event in Ukrainian culture and social life.
Weekend, 16 May, Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life (1, Chernecha Hora Street)Lviv - capital of festivals
Museums Night
Visit Lviv when all the museums are open from the early morning till the midnight and special exhibitions and actions are organized for the visitors.
17-18 May, Lviv museumsLviv - capital of festivals
The 3rd“Wiz-Art” International festival
That is a festival of short films produced during the last year: fiction films and animations, video art, experimental movies and video artists’ presentations.
Weekend, 20-23 May, Lviv Palace of the ArtsLviv - capital of festivals
Lviv Fashion Week autumn-winter 2010-2011
Lviv Fashion Weeks are traditionally held in spring and autumn.
Weekend, 20-23 May, Central part of the cityLviv - capital of festivals
"Ancient Lviv" Medieval Culture Festival
Imagine a totally electrifying, full day out in a medieval city!
Weekend, 29-30 May, Museum of National Folk Architecture and Rural Life «Shevchenkivsky Hay» (Shevchenko Park)Lviv - capital of festivals
“Young Talents in Ward of King Danylo” – Festival of young painters
On the 1st of June, on the occasion of the International Child Protection Day the festival “Young Talents in Ward of King Danylo” is held.
1 June - 1 September, Lviv Palace of Arts (17, Copernicus Street)Lviv - capital of festivals
“Fairy-Tale in the Groove” - The 7th theatre festival for children
In front of the old village cottages and on the picturesque lawns the heroes of the fairy tales revive.
Weekend, 5-6 June, Museum of National Folk Architecture and Rural Life «Shevchenkivsky Hay» (Shevchenko Park)Lviv - capital of festivals
Beer Feast
Beer Feast is canceled.
Weekend, 11-13 June, Central part of the cityLviv - capital of festivals
Diapason
The longest organ music festival in Ukraine is a qualitatively new phenomenon in the musical space of Lviv and Ukraine.
Weekend, 27 June - 13 July, 8 Bandera str.Lviv - capital of festivals
“Summer on the Rynok Square” Art Festival
Summer in Lviv Medieval Centre is full of life and music and entertainment during all three months.
Weekend, 3 July - 29 August, Rynok (Market) sq.Lviv - capital of festivals
Krayina mriy (Dreamland)
The International Ethnic Festival was founded over five years ago.
Weekend, 17-18 July, Museum of National Folk Architecture and Rural Life «Shevchenkivsky Hay» (Shevchenko Park)Lviv - capital of festivals
The 2 nd «LvivKlezFest»
Klezmer Feast in Lviv («LvivKlezFest») is an international festival of Jewish music, song and dance.
Weekend, 23-25 July, Square behind the City Arsenal (Former Jewish Quarter)Lviv - capital of festivals
Festyny Diany (Diana’s Feast)
The hunting goddess Diana, the patroness of wild animals and woodlands invites all, who love nature, dogs and hunting to celebrate the International Hunters Day in Lviv.
Weekend, 7 August, starts at 10:00, Museum of National Folk Architecture and Rural Life «Shevchenkivsky Hay» (Shevchenko Park)Lviv - capital of festivals
Ethnovyr
This particular event stands out by being a dance festival – and our familiarity with this art of plastique, movement, and harmony is so limited.
20-24 August, Rynok sq.Lviv - capital of festivalsIndependence Day
The 3rd Week of Contemporary Art
“Week of Contemporary Art” lights up the problems of the modern art, demonstrating its ways of development and new artistic language of communication with the society.
Weekend, 20-29 August, LvivLviv - capital of festivals
The 5th International Independent Film Festival “KinoLev - 2010”
The main criterion of the film selection for the festival is the young film makers’ independent view upon the world problems.
Weekend, 21-24 August, Muzey Idey (Museum of Ideas)Lviv - capital of festivalsIndependence Day
Bread Day
Lviv citizens and guests love to visit the Open Air Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life at the time of the Bread Day.
Weekend, 22 August, Museum of National Folk Architecture and Rural Life «Shevchenkivsky Hay» (Shevchenko Park)Lviv - capital of festivals
The 17th Lviv International Book Fair
Lviv International Book Fair (“Lviv Publisher’s Forum”), the biggest in Ukraine is included into the Frankfurt Calendar of the World Largest International Book Fairs.
Weekend, 15-19 September, Lviv Palace of the ArtsLviv - capital of festivals
MediaDepo
MediaDepo is a project that covers contemporary art and digital technologies.
Weekend, 19-26 September, 6, Bohomoltsya StreetLviv - capital of festivals
The 4th City Holiday “Have a Cup of Coffee in Lviv”
Lviv has always been famous for its coffee. In 1683 Yuriy Kulchytskyi, Cossack from Lviv Region, founded the first coffee-house in Vienna "Hof zur Blauen Flasche", which was one of the few at that time in Europe.
Weekend, 24-26 September, Rynok (Market) SquareLviv - capital of festivals
The 16th International Avant-Garde Music Festival "Contrasts"
International Avant-Garde Music Festival «Contrasts» was founded in 1995.
Weekend, 25 September - 5 October, Lviv PhilharmonicLviv - capital of festivals
“Vereteno” (“Spindel”) Authentic Art festival
“Vereteno” festival is gathering authentic groups from all regions of the Western Ukraine.
Weekend, 26 September, Museum of National Folk Architecture and Rural Life «Shevchenkivsky Hay» (Shevchenko Park)Lviv - capital of festivals
The 8th Festival of the Ancient Music
This festival is the only professional music event in Ukraine of its kind.
1-12 October, Lviv Organ and Chamber Music Hall (8, S.Bandera Street)Lviv - capital of festivals
“Golden Lion” International Theatre Festival
“Golden Lion” Theatre Festival is very popular not only in Lviv, but in the whole Eastern Europe.
1-7 October, central part of the cityLviv - capital of festivals
The 4th Blacksmith Art Festival “Zaliznyy Lev” (“The Iron Lion”)
“Zaliznyy Lev” Blacksmith Art Festival gathers masters from the whole Ukraine in Lviv. Using forge, hammer and sledge hammer they demonstrate the basics of blacksmith’s work as it looked hundreds of years ago.
Weekend, 15-17 October, Arsenalna squLviv - capital of festivals
Lviv Fashion Week spring-summer 2011
Lviv Fashion Weeks are traditionally held in spring and autumn.
Weekend, 28-31 October, Central part of the cityLviv - capital of festivals
The 2nd Tourist Conference “Win with Lion!”
“Win with Lion” International Tourist conference will be held in Lviv for the second time.
15-17 November, LvivLviv - capital of festivals
The 6th Festival “Drabyna” (“The Ladder”)
“Drabyna” is an International festival of the experimental, alternative, independent European theatre.
Weekend, 25-28 November, Lviv theatresLviv - capital of festivals
St. Nicolas’s Day
Traditional St. Nicolas’s Day is one of the most popular holidays in Lviv.
Weekend, 19 December, LvivLviv - capital of festivals
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