Public Events

  Last week, the “Cultural Space” of the “Around Us.UA” NGO hosted a meeting of activists from Bohuslavshchyna to discuss the Community’s Development Strategy. This was the first public event held in our new “Cultural Space,” and we were thrilled by the vibrant and timely dialogue among representatives of government, business, and civil society. Developing […]

  Bohuslav hosted a lively Dosvitky (or Daypeep) gathering. During the event, organised by the “Around Us.UA” NGO, local artisans conducted five master classes to teach residents and visitors traditional crafts that have been practiced in the region for centuries. The event was dedicated to the International Day of Intangible Cultural Heritage.  Master craftswoman Kateryna

  Oksana Humeniuk, Head of the non-governmental organization “Around Us. UA” participated in the scientific conference “Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Military Activities”, held in Wrocław, Poland. The conference, dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Poland’s accession to NATO, was organized by the International Centre for Training and Research on Cultural Heritage in Danger.

  The team from the Association of Masters of Bohuslavshchyna, dedicated to creating traditional Ukrainian attire under the public organization “Around Us. UA,” secured 2nd place in the competition for “Best Reproduced Traditional Authentic Costume” held in honour of the Day of Traditional Ukrainian Costume. The competition was founded and organized by the public organization

  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”.