Highlights of Gogolfest 2017

Highlights of Gogolfest 2017

GOGOLFEST is a multi-disciplinary contemporary art festival held annually in Kyiv. It’s named after Ukrainian-born writer Nikolai Gogol and is one of the city’s most spectacular art events of the year. The festival features various sections: theater, music, cinema, education, visual art, dance art, performance, literature and fashion art.


Read: Autumn Art Exhibitions in Kyiv 2017
In 2017 festival consists of Green and Red programs. All Green program events can be attended via Festival all-days pass while Red program events are to be paid separately.

Key Green program events include:
- new Vlad Troitskyi ‘TseSho’ (‘Wazzat’) project, where trash world of apocalyptic information which charges on us and in which we all live is skillfully shown as a concert-play (7th of September, Dovzhenko center).
- building of a huge 4-floor house-high Ark by festival participants under supervision of architect-artist (9th September, VDNH)
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- grand “Dreams OFF”music show by DakhaBrakha band during which the previously spectator-built Ark will sail (9th of September, VDNH)
- new uTopia program premiere by Dakh Daughters freak-cabaret: theatre performance with additional reality elements, new songs and well-known hits (10 of September, VDNH)
- unique GogolFest ArkSquat project placed on Dovzhenko center site, 4-floor building where Ukrainian and European artists’ installations will be created and art labs will be as well as various visual events and a theatre program in still-functioning bomb shelter.
- ArkSquat will work 24/7 for the duration of GogolFest and will be demolished together with all installations (whole festival, Dovzhenko center).
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- Music program presented by Old Fashioned Radio with authentic Ukrainian bands which are not represented on radio (9th-10th of September, VDNH). Program’s special guests are renown French accordionists Marcel Loeffler - Domi Emorine (10th of September, VDNH)
- There will be diverse children program on the first weekend. It will include a workshop of British puppeteer Andrew *, where children will be tutored to make puppets under master’s supervision and then will lead their creations onto parade (9th of September, VDNH)
- contemporary choreographic shows under aegis of Totem Dance formation and international collaboration projects of the field
- ‘DOBA’ (‘AGE’) project — 24 hours of Ukrainian electronic music in GogolFest ArkSquat (16th-17th of September, Dovzhenko center)
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- lectures by Museum of Cinema and evening program by Andrii Alfiorov: 16 movies, 8 meeting with famous cinematographers, workshops, festival hits and avant-garde masterpieces from Centre’s film archives (during the whole festival, Dovzhenko center)
- ‘Culturefilm: Erosphere’ will present three renown Ukrainian movies of 90-s along with professional-led discussion with critics and cinema researchers (during the whole festival, Dovzhenko center)
- educational program with a workshop by Creative Europe about joining scholarship programs being its core as well as new ‘Cultural Capital of Europe’ project presentation with expert from Lithuania participation, experience exchange between Ukrainian and European theatre performers and institutions (during the whole festival, Dovzhenko center).

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Apart from exclusive events that require a separate ticket, most of the festival events will be accessible using standard entrance tickets. Ticket for a separate festival event allows you a free entry to the festival on the day of the event. Green Program ticket for all days of the festival costs UAH 420. Red Program events’ tickets cost from UAH 190 to UAH 750 depending on the event. Check out all the details information on tickets and prices here. Read: Most Expensive World Artists
Image Source: gogolfest.org.ua

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