Activities

  The village of Khokhytva recreated a local Midsummer tradition of Kupala that dates back several hundred years. It happened as part of the event ‘Ethnography. Ethnology. ICH’ by the ’Around Us. UA’ NGO, and brought together a hundred leading ethnologists, folklorists, and well-known researchers of intangible cultural heritage in Bohuslavshchyna. Marharyta Skazhenyk, a senior

  We are still in awe after our Round-table & Networking event: ‘Ethnography. Ethnology. ICH (Intangible Cultural Heritage)’. Emotions are overwhelming both for us and for the participants. We would like to recap what happened from July 19 to 21 in Bohuslav. DAY ONE On the first day, we held a roundtable discussion ‘Ethnography, Ethnology,

  Our photography studio has started digitising the “Clothes” and “Photographs” collections of the Museum of the History of Bohuslav Region, as well as items of clothing collected during our expeditions to the villages of Bohuslavshchyna. The shootings are being carried out by photographer Andriy Yarovyi, who plans to make several three-dimensional models of costumes

  The team of the “Around Us. UA” NGO visited Lviv to attend the presentation of the project “Crisis Inventory and Leap to Digitalisation of Museum Accounting” by HeMo: Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Lab. In the immediate future, we plan to plunge into the digitisation of elements of our cultural heritage, and we have to do it

  On Saturday, 6 April, on the 105th anniversary of the Medvyn anti-bolshevik uprising, the Bohuslav Public Library hosted a presentation of the brochure “Brazhnyky – Masters of Ukrainian Clothing”. The guests who attended the presentation were told about the legendary Ukrainian costume designers by researcher Maryna Hohulia and project coordinator of the “Around Us. UA” NGO

We keep on introducing the Kyiv region to the heritage of the couple Fedir and Oleksandra Brazhnyk, well-known costume designers in the United States who created Ukrainian national costumes for choral, dance, and theatre companies of Ukrainian immigrants. Today, the residents of Bila Tserkva can view our banner exhibition “Brazhnyky – Masters of Ukrainian Clothing”.

  On 21 February, on the 136th birthday of the costume designer, actor, and artist Fedir Brazhnyk, the  “Around Us. UA” NGO and the educational initiative “Centenary of the Medvyn Anti-Bolshevik Uprising” unveiled an exhibition “Brazhnyky – Masters of Ukrainian Clothing” and presented a similarly named booklet. The event took place in the Medvyn Public